Author: Mathias Svalina
Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Keywords: poetry, new, myth, destruction
Number of Pages: 83
Published: 2009-11-20
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1880834871
ISBN-13: 9781880834879

Expanding the palette of contremporary surrealism while harkening back to the stories and prayers at the origin of poetry, Destruction Myth is a series of abusrdists myths of creation and destruction that are at times both inventively silly and surprisingly emotionally direct. This book attemps the world again and again, only to find that even the most ridiculous of creations contains the seeds of its own destruction.

Author: Nin Andrews
Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Keywords: series, imagination, orgasms, book
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2000-12-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1880834480
ISBN-13: 9781880834480

A series of wry meditations on the relationship between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the human and the divine, everyday experience and the limits of bliss, The Book of Orgasms maps the imaginary terrain of the upper realm, the place where euphoria endures. In Nin Andrews’ highly original conception, orgasms represent peak moments that take the form of invisible creatures waiting to lift us up into the air, out of the ordinary and into a place just above our heads, just beyond our fingertips. And yet -- curse or blessing -- the gravity of our own desire, the weight of out humanness

Author: Claudia Keelan
Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Keywords: series, poetry, refinery
Number of Pages: 59
Published: 1994-03-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 1880834081
ISBN-13: 9781880834084

The poems in Refinery, her first major collection, everywhere attest to Keelan’s search for the true burried under the often deceptive surfaces of the real. These are poems of generosity, clarity, and moral sublety. A luminous debut. --Ann Lauterbach

Author: Red Hawk
Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Keywords: poetry, series, csu, weh, dance, shunk, sioux
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 1991-09
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0914946900
ISBN-13: 9780914946908

Author: Marilyn Krysl
Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Keywords: series, poetry, csu, lovers, warscape
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 1997-10-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 1880834286
ISBN-13: 9781880834282

CSU Poetry Center Prize Winner, 1996. Marilyn Krysl has found balance in places shaken by deprivation and injury. This is a beautiful book of poetry, not because it is lyrical (though it is), but because it treats suffering with love. It embraces what devours us. (Marvin Bell)

Author: Sarah Provost
Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Keywords: poetry, series, csu, waves, thinking, inland
Number of Pages: 70
Published: 1991-06
List price: $8.00
ISBN-10: 0914946811
ISBN-13: 9780914946816

Author: Jayson Iwen
Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Keywords: jokebook, momentary
Number of Pages: 70
Published: 2008-02-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1880834766
ISBN-13: 9781880834763

In the tradition of such classics as Nabokov’s Pale Fire comes an absurdist literary puzzle, a distinctly 21st century fiction that manages to be both a metafictional romp through Ceausescu’s Romania, and a lyric meditation on brutality, desire and the search for redemption. Jayson Iwen’s A Momentary Jokebook is an exercise in contemporary myth-making, at once strange, comic, and terrifying.