1996 Winner of the Western States Book Award for Poetry

Poems

GARY SHORT

"Gary Short's poems live dangerously. They look hard at love and life and give us, finally, the gifts of beauty, honesty,and wisdom...Reading this tender and powerful book, we are ourselves made more human, and more humane. We are gently and peruasively blessed." paperback, 0-874417-285-3,80 pages, $10.00

Selected and New Poems 1969-1995

KIRK ROBERTSON

Forward by William Kittredge Kirk Robertson is one of the best-known poets, and rightly so, because his lean verses powerfully express the realities of life in the modern West--its irony, disconnection, sadness, and a relentless quest for meaning and a sense of place. paperback,0-87417-5,336 pages, $16.00

Collected Poems

A. WILBUR STEVENS

Forward by X.J.Kennedy In this masterful collection of poems, Stevens explores the complex connections between place and experience;life and death; the world of books and the quotidian of world of work, pain and loss. paperback,0-87417-1,144 pages, $13.00

An Anthology of Nevada Poets

Edited by Shaun Griffin "Desert Wood proves that although the state of Nevada enfolds some of the most desolate and bleak terrain this side of the moon, it's anything but the cultural desert many poetry lovers assume it to be".--The Bloomsbury Review cloth, 0-87417-175-x,256 pages, $29.95 paperback,0-87417-181-4, 256 pages, $16.95