Title: The Staggering Sum (Poetry)Author: James LillieforsISBN: 979-8-9896607-9-7Publisher: River Paw PressPage Count: 40Language: EnglishPrice: $17.99 SPECIAL PRE-SALE OFFER — DETAILS BELOW “James Li...

“I Wanted You to See This” and “Immigrants from a Shared Country” by James Lilliefors are two deeply nostalgic, confessional poems exploring memory, estrangement, and the uneasy distance between peopl...

"It was never an act / of treason or dissension, / only loyalty / to something deeper..." poems by James Lilliefors.

In Killing Spree, the poet Jorie Graham pursues an essentially ethical impulse to find a true language for the evil in the world.

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James Lilliefors is a poet and journalist whose writing has appeared in Ploughshares, the Comstock Review, Door Is A Jar, and Third Wednesday.

One bridge and then another over the fisherman’s net / of steel water and high, secreting grasses.

how the will to survive outlasts the will to destroy.

A poem by Wendell Berry.

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Some Rooms are PrayersThe times they wanted me to think their thoughtsand I went on thinking mine. The times they expected meto hear, to see, to remember a certain way, and I tried, but couldn’t.Th…

“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”