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Muse Susan Aizenberg Lizzie Borden in Love: Poems in Women’s Voices Julianna Baggott This Country of Mothers Julianna Baggott The Black Ocean Brian Barker The Sphere of Birds Ciaran Berry White Summer Joelle Biele Rookery Traci Brimhall In Search of the Great Dead Richard Cecil Twenty First Century Blues Richard Cecil Circle Victoria Chang Consolation Miracle Chad Davidson The Last Predicta Chad Davidson Furious Lullaby Oliver de la Paz Names above Houses Oliver de la Paz The Star-Spangled Banner Denise Duhamel Smith Blue Camille T. Dungy Seam Tarfia Faizullah Beautiful Trouble Amy Fleury Sympathetic Magic Amy Fleury Soluble Fish Mary Jo Firth Gillett Pelican Tracks Elton Glaser Winter Amnesties Elton Glaser Strange Land Todd Hearon Always Danger David Hernandez Heavenly Bodies Cynthia Huntington Red Clay Suite Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Fabulae Joy Katz Cinema Muto Jesse Lee Kercheval Train to Agra Vandana Khanna If No Moon Moira Linehan For Dust Thou Art Timothy Liu Strange Valentine A. Loudermilk Dark Alphabet Jennifer Maier Lacemakers Claire McQuerry Tongue Lyre Tyler Mills Oblivio Gate Sean Nevin Holding Everything Down William Notter American Flamingo Greg Pape Crossroads and Unholy Water Marilene Phipps Birthmark Jon Pineda Threshold Jennifer Richter On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year Lee Ann Roripaugh Year of the Snake Lee Ann Roripaugh Misery Prefigured J. Allyn Rosser In the Absence of Clocks Jacob Shores-Arguello Glaciology Jeffrey Skinner Roam Susan B. A. SomersWillett The Laughter of Adam and Eve Jason Sommer Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love Wally Swist Persephone in America Alison Townsend Becoming Ebony Patricia Jabbeh Wesley Abide Jake Adam York A Murmuration of Starlings Jake Adam York Persons Unknown Jake Adam York Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry POETRY “Italy is the origin of so much that we take for granted in our art, architecture, cuisine, literature, politics, religion, history, language. In From the Fire Hills—part pop-cultural Virgilian Guide Book, part twenty-first-century Grand Tour Baedeker—Davidson traverses this storied, incendiary terrain with what he has elsewhere called his signature ‘Bigfoot Poetics,’ as comfortable among the supper talk of cryptozoologists as it is among the pages of supermarket tabloids.”—Lisa Russ Spaar, author of Vanitas, Rough: Poems and The Hideand -Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry “These lovely, complex poems are the notebooks of a cultural commuter, written during his journeys back and forth across the Gothic Lines that divide present from past, memory from experience, private from public. They are bravura performances, full of the nimbleness of mind and form that I have long admired in Davidson’s work.”—Geoffrey Brock, author of Weighing Light “Davidson’s powerful From the Fire Hills is a love song to California and Italy, which is to say it’s a love song to history and language: ‘Even in Italy,/I watched too much TV, conversing not with people/but with language itself,’ Davidson wryly observes. From the Fire Hills is like the beautiful old churches in Italy: ‘Like damaged clocks/they possess and are possessed by history.’ And damage, beauty, and history sing in precise and heartbreaking harmony throughout the book.”—Andrew Hudgins, author of After the Lost War and American Rendering: New and Selected Poems Chad Davidson is a professor of English at the University of West Georgia (Carrollton). He has published two other volumes of poetry with SIU Press— Consolation Miracle and The Last Predicta. With Gregory Fraser, he has also coauthored two textbooks: Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches (2009) and Analyze Anything: A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing (2012). His poems, reviews, translations, and essays have appeared in a number of journals, including AGNI, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, and theWriter’s Chronicle. CRAB ORCHARD SERIES IN POETRY—EDITOR’S SELECTION Printed in the United States of America cover design: Erin Kirk New cover illustration: World War II–era B-17 bomber dropping water on wildfire in southern California. iStockphoto LP southern illinois university press www.siupress.com steven broome ...

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