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Houses Are Fields (2009) Taije Silverman

 

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Louisiana State University Press General Catalogue
 

2020
Romances, by Lisa Ampleman
The Cipher, by Molly Brodak
Dear Vulcan, by Laura Davenport
Left-Handed Wolf, by Adam Day
No More Time, by Greg Delanty
Goegraphic Tongue, by Rodney Gomez
Prospects, by Judith Hall
Mothers of Ireland, by Julie Kane
Refusal, by Jenny Molberg
Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems, by Jay Rogoff
Double Effect, by Martha Serpas
This Titled World Is Where I Live: New and Selected Poems, 1962 - 2020, by Henry Taylor

2019
Mouths Open to Name Her, by Katie Bickham
Words Wirtten Against the Walls of the City, by Bruce Bond
Larvae of the Nearest Stars, by Catherine Carter
As If It Were, by Fred Chappell
Observing the Invisible, by Kelly Cherry
In the Months of My Son?s Recovery, by Kate Daniels
Blood Weather, by Alice Friman
My Surly Heart, by David Huddle
dark // thing, by Ashley M. Jones
More Than This, by David Kirby
Memoria, by Orlando Ricardo Menes
My Lookalike at the Krishna Temple, by Jacqueline Osherow
The Imaginary Age, by Leanna Petronella
Still Life with Mother and Knife, by Chelsea Rathburn
The First Echo, by Shane Seely
Far West, by Floyd Skloot
The Grace of Distance, by Matthew Thorburn

2018
You Cannot Shoot a Poem, by Paula Closson Buck
Search & Rescue, by Michael Chitwood
Claude Before Time and Space, by Claudia Emerson
Guide to Greece, by George Kalogeris

2017
Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015, by Bruce Bond
Novena, by Jacques J. Rancourt
Promise, by Sally Van Doren

2015
The Belle Mar, by Katie Bickham
For the Lost Cathedral, by Bruce Bond
The Opposite House, by Claudia Emerson
Impossible Bottle, by Claudia Emerson
The Same-Different, by Hannah Sanghee Park

2014
Sylph, by Abigail Cloud
Put Your Hands In, by Chris Hosea
Venera, by Jay Rogoff
The Cabinetmaker's Window, by Steve Scafidi, Jr.

2013
Black Aperture, by Matt Rasmussen

2012
Eyes, Stones, by Elana Bell
The Visible, by Bruce Bond
Secure the Shadow, by Claudia Emerson
Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, by David Huddle
Faster Than Light: New and Selected 1996-2011, by Marilyn Nelson
Possessive, by Sally Van Doren

2011
Curses and Wishes, by Carl Adamschick
Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread, by Ava Leavell Haymon

2010
The Whole Nine Yards, by Daniel Hoffman
Heredities, by J. Michael Martinez
The Ninety-Third Name of God, by Anya Silver

2009
Houses Are Fields, by Taije Silverman
Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems 1960-2008, by Eleanor Ross Taylor
The Waker's Corridor, by Jonathon Thirkield

2008
Blind Rain, by Bruce Bond
Figure Studies, by Claudia Emerson
It Was a Terrible Cloud at Twilight, by Alessandra Lynch
Sex at Noon Taxes, by Sally Van Doren

2007
Floating City, by Anne Pierson Wiese

2006
The Piercing, by Christine Garren

2005
Resin, by Geri Doran
Late Wife, by Claudia Emerson
60 Cent Coffee and a Quarter to Dance, by Judy Jordan

2004
Backsass, by Fred Chappell
The Afflicted Girls, by Nicole Cooley
Last Exposures : a sequence of poems, by Cathryn Hankla
The Strict Economy of Fire, by Ava Leavell Haymon
The Strange Attractor : new and selected poems, by Robert Morgan
Powers and Boundaries, by Thomas Reiter
Brightwood, by R. T. Smith
The White Train, by John Spaulding
Double Life, by Daniel Tobin
Invisible Bride, by Tony Tost
Not Till We Are Lost, by William Wenthe
Joy in the Morning, by Claude Wilkinson

2003
The Muscled Truce, by Catharine Savage Brosman
Place Keepers, by Brendan Galvin
Autumn Grasses, by Margaret Gibson
Beyond Silence : selected shorter poems, 1948-2003, by Daniel Hoffman
Notes from the Divided Country, by Suji Kwock Kim
The Ha-Ha, by David Kirby
Such Was the Season, by Clarence Major
Crazy Love, by Tony Petrosky
Tenderness Shore, by Meredith Stricker
The Man Who Loves Cezanne, by Dabney Stuart

2002
Quartet for Three Voices, by James Applewhite
Out of the South, by Neal Bowers
Year of Morphines, by Betsy Brown
Catching Light, by Kathryn Stripling Byer
The Invisible World, by John Canaday
Rising Venus, by Kelly Cherry
Cussing Lesson, by Stephen Cushman
The Blind Stitch, by Greg Delanty
Pinion : an elegy, by Claudia Emerson
It's Time, by Reginald Gibbons
Poems for the Pardoned, by Cathryn Hankla
Darkening Water, by Daniel Hoffman
Naming the Afternoon, by Julia Johnson
The Powers of Heaven and Earth : new and selected poems, by John Frederick Nims
Surface Impressions, by Stephen Sandy
Celestial Bodies, by Sidney Wade

2001
Strangers to Their Courage, by Alice Derry
Sallies, by R. H. W. Dillard
Radio, Radio, by Ben Doller
The Shine Poems, by Calvin Forbes
Icon and Evidence, by Margaret Gibson
Fire Shadows, by Gwen Head
Useless Virtues, by T. R. Hummer
Anvil, Clock & Last, by Paulette Roeske
Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer, by Steve Scafidi, Jr.
Falling from Silence, by David Slavitt
Messenger, by R. T. Smith
Banyan, by Virgil Suarez
Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, by Robert Penn Warren

2000
Places in Mind, by Catharine Savage Brosman
Fire or Fire, by Rosanne Coggeshall
Texas School Book Depository, by Cathryn Hankla
Carolina Ghost Woods, by Judy Jordan
The House of Blue Light, by David Kirby
Sweet Confluence, by Susan Ludvigson
Topsoil Road, by Robert Morgan
Pearly Everlasting, by Thomas Reiter
The Wick of Memory : new and selected poems, 1974-2000, by Dave Smith
Transfigurations : collected poems, by Jay Wright

1999
The Strength of a Named Thing, by Brendan Galvin
Player Piano, by Conrad Hilberry
Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, by Jan Heller Levi
Beyond the Chandeleurs, by David Middleton
My Doomsday Sampler, by Sue Owen
Falling out of the Sky, by Deborah Pope
Passing Through Customs : new and selected poems, by Gibbons Ruark
Black Box, by Stephen Sandy
Settlers, by Dabney Stuart
Late Leisure, by Eleanor Ross Taylor

1998
From a Person Sitting in Darkness : new and selected poems, by Gerald Barrax
The Acquiescent Villa, by Paula Closson Buck
Black Shawl, by Kathryn Stripling Byer
Blue Pajamas, by Stephen Cushman
Four Testimonies, by Kate Daniels
Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments : new and old poems, 1957-1997, by George Garrett
On Long Mountain, by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
Dependencies, by Lisel Mueller
Bite Every Sorrow, by Barbara Ras
The Thread : new and selected poems, by Stephen Sandy
PS3569.L3, by David Slavitt
The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, by Robert Penn Warren

1997
Daytime and Starlight, by James Applewhite
Death and Transfiguration, by Kelly Cherry
Madonna Anno Domini, by Joshua Clover
The Monarchs : a poem sequence, by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Pharaoh, Pharaoh, by Claudia Emerson
Sparrow : new and selected poems, by Reginald Gibbons
Earth Elegy, by Margaret Gibson
Negative History, by Cathryn Hankla
The Fields of Praise : new and selected poems, by Marilyn Nelson
Open Field, Understory : new and selected poems, by James Seay

1996
Passages, by Catharine Savage Brosman
Resurrection, by Nicole Cooley
Sky and Island Light, by Brendan Galvin
Walt Whitman in Hell, by T. R. Hummer
Trinity, by Susan Ludvigson
Alive Together: new and selected poems, by Lisel Mueller
A Gift : the Life of da Ponte, by David Slavitt
Trespasser, by R. T. Smith
Long Gone, by Dabney Stuart
Understanding Fiction : poems, 1986-1996, by Henry Taylor
Brother to Dragons : a tale in verse and voices, by Robert Penn Warren

1995
Middens of the Tribe, by Daniel Hoffman
Mortal World, by Deborah Pope
Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything, by Jan Richman
Divine Attention, by Paulette Roeske
Fate's Kite, by Dave Smith

1994
Science and Other Poems, by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Just Here, Just Now, by R. H. W. Dillard
Magnificat, by Marilyn Nelson
Red and Yellow Boat, by Tony Petrosky
Crossroads, by David Slavitt
Light Years : new and selected poems, by Dabney Stuart
A Sum of Destructions, by Theodore Weiss

1993
A History of the River, by James Applewhite
God's Loud Hand, by Kelly Cherry
The Vigil : a poem in four voices, by Margaret Gibson
Everything Winged Must be Dreaming, by Susan Ludvigson
The Governor of Desire, by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
The Fire in all Things, by Stephen Yenser

1992
Wildwood Flower, by Kathryn Stripling Byer
Southward, by Greg Delanty
Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boat, by Brendan Galvin
Fanatic Heart, by Deborah Pope
The Path to Fairview : new and selected poems, by Julia Randall
The Horse Show at Midnight ; and, An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards : poems, by Henry Taylor

1991
Afterimages, by Cathryn Hankla
The Burning Fields, by David Middleton
The Deed, by Carole Simmons Oles
Rescue the Perishing, by Gibbons Ruark
Campo Santo, by Susan Wood

1990
Journeying from Canyon de Chelly, by Catharine Savage Brosman
The World Between the Eyes, by Fred Chappell
To Find the Gold, by Susan Ludvigson
The Homeplace, by Marilyn Nelson
Eight Longer Poems, by David Slavitt
Narcissus Dreaming, by Dabney Stuart

1989
Lessons in Soaring, by James Applewhite
Wampanoag Traveler : Being, in Letters, the Life and Times of Loranzo Newcomb, American and Natural Historian, by Brendan Galvin
Out in the Open, by Margaret Gibson
Waving from Shore, by Lisel Mueller
Out in the Open, by Cathal O Searcaigh
Equinox and other poems, by David Slavitt
Living on the Surface : new and selected poems, by Miller Williams

1988
Natural Theology, by Kelly Cherry
Hang-Gliding from Helicon : new and selected poems, 1948-1988, by Daniel Hoffman
Parties, by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan

1987
Flight and Pursuit, by Dick Allen
Moving in Memory, by Julia Randall
Don't Look Back, by Dabney Stuart

1986
Ode to the Chinaberry Tree and other poems, by James Applewhite
Memories of the Future : the Daybooks of Tina Modotti, by Margaret Gibson
The Beautiful Noon of No Shadow, by Susan Ludvigson
Second Language, by Lisel Mueller
The Language Student, by Bin Ramke
The Walls of Thebes, by David Slavitt
Imperfect Love, by Miller Williams

1985
Mama's Promises, by Marilyn Nelson
The Flying Change, by Henry Taylor

1984
Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic, by Dick Allen
The Swimmer, by Susan Ludvigson
Durations, by Herbert Scott

1983
Continuing Conclusions : new poems and translations, by Richard Lattimore
Jurgis Petraskas, by Tony Petrosky
Big Nose, by David Slavitt
The Boys on Their Bony Mules, by Miller Williams

1982
Long Walks in the Afternoon, by Margaret Gibson
One Long Poem, by William Harmon
The Angelic Orders, by T. R. Hummer
Common Ground, by Dabney Stuart
The Blues Don't Change : new and selected poems, by Al Young

1981
Northern Lights, by Susan Ludvigson
Dozens, by David Slavitt
Homage to Edgar Allan Poe, by Dave Smith
Distractions, by Miller Williams

1980
The Names You Gave It, by Wayne Dodd
The Public Hug, by Robert Hershon
The Need to Hold Still, by Lisel Mueller

1979
Uncertainties and Rest, by Timothy Steele

1978
Hymn for Drum, by Rosanne Coggeshall
For the Body, by Marilyn Nelson
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money, by Joyce Carol Oates
Rounding the Horn, by David Slavitt

1977
Relativity : a point of view, by Kelly Cherry
Round and Round : a triptych, by Dabney Stuart
Why God Permits Evil, by Miller Williams
Halfway from Hoxie : new & selected poems, by Miller Williams

1976
Keeping Time, by Judith Moffett
Land Diving, by Robert Morgan
The Private Life, by Lisel Mueller

1975
The Fabulous Beasts, by Joyce Carol Oates

1974
The Other Hand, by Dabney Stuart

1973
Angel Fire, by Joyce Carol Oates
Giraffe, by Stanley Plumly

1972
After Borges; a sequence of new poems, by R. H. W. Dillard
Child's Play, by David Slavitt

1970
In the Outer Dark, by Stanley Plumly

1969
Anonymous Sins, by Joyce Carol Oates

1966
The Horse Show at Midnight, by Henry Taylor

1964
A Circle of Stone, by Miller Williams

Louisiana State University Press's books have won the following awards:

2019
Winner of Library of Virginia Literary Award
Claude Before Time and Space, by Claudia Emerson
 
Winner of Library of Virginia Literary Award
Search & Rescue, by Michael Chitwood
 

2016
Winner of Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series
Novena, by Jacques J. Rancourt
 

2015
Winner of Library of Virginia Literary Award
The Cabinetmaker's Window, by Steve Scafidi, Jr.
 
Winner of Poets & Writers Debut Poets
The Same-Different, by Hannah Sanghee Park
 

2014
Winner of Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series
The Belle Mar, by Katie Bickham
 
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
The Same-Different, by Hannah Sanghee Park
 

2013
Winner of Poets & Writers Debut Poets
Black Aperture, by Matt Rasmussen
 
Winner of Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award
Faster Than Light: New and Selected 1996-2011, by Marilyn Nelson
 
Winner of PEN New England Awards
Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, by David Huddle
 
Winner of Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series
Sylph, by Abigail Cloud
 
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Put Your Hands In, by Chris Hosea
 

2012
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Black Aperture, by Matt Rasmussen
 
Winner of Oregon Book Awards
Curses and Wishes, by Carl Adamschick
 

2011
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Eyes, Stones, by Elana Bell
 

2010
Winner of William Carlos Williams Award
Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems 1960-2008, by Eleanor Ross Taylor
 
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Curses and Wishes, by Carl Adamschick
 
Winner of L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award
Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread, by Ava Leavell Haymon
 
Winner of Poets & Writers Debut Poets
Heredities, by J. Michael Martinez
 

2009
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Heredities, by J. Michael Martinez
 
Winner of Phillabaum Poetry Prize
The Whole Nine Yards, by Daniel Hoffman
 

2008
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
The Waker's Corridor, by Jonathon Thirkield
 
Winner of Poets & Writers Debut Poets
Sex at Noon Taxes, by Sally Van Doren
 

2007
Winner of Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series
It Was a Terrible Cloud at Twilight, by Alessandra Lynch
 
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Sex at Noon Taxes, by Sally Van Doren
 

2006
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Floating City, by Anne Pierson Wiese
 
Winner of Pulitzer Prize
Late Wife, by Claudia Emerson
 

2005
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Half Wild, by Mary Rose O'Reilley
 
Winner of Poets & Writers Debut Poets
Resin, by Geri Doran
 

2004
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Resin, by Geri Doran
 

2003
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Invisible Bride, by Tony Tost
 
Winner of National Poetry Series
The White Train, by John Spaulding
 

2002
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Notes from the Divided Country, by Suji Kwock Kim
 
Winner of National Poetry Series
Tenderness Shore, by Meredith Stricker
 
Winner of Library of Virginia Literary Award
Messenger, by R. T. Smith
 
Winner of Levis Reading Prize
Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer, by Steve Scafidi, Jr.
 

2001
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
The Invisible World, by John Canaday
 
Winner of National Poetry Series
Year of Morphines, by Betsy Brown
 

2000
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Radio, Radio, by Ben Doller
 
Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award
Carolina Ghost Woods, by Judy Jordan
 
Winner of Library of Virginia Literary Award
Late Leisure, by Eleanor Ross Taylor
 

1999
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Carolina Ghost Woods, by Judy Jordan
 

1998
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, by Jan Heller Levi
 

1997
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Bite Every Sorrow, by Barbara Ras
 
Winner of Pulitzer Prize
Alive Together: new and selected poems, by Lisel Mueller
 
Winner of Iowa Poetry Prize
Sky and Island Light, by Brendan Galvin
 

1996
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Madonna Anno Domini, by Joshua Clover
 

1995
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Resurrection, by Nicole Cooley
 

1994
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything, by Jan Richman
 

1993
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Science and Other Poems, by Alison Hawthorne Deming
 

1992
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
The Fire in all Things, by Stephen Yenser
 
Winner of James Laughlin Award
Wildwood Flower, by Kathryn Stripling Byer
 

1991
Winner of James Laughlin Award
Campo Santo, by Susan Wood
 

1986
Winner of Pulitzer Prize
The Flying Change, by Henry Taylor
 

1982
Winner of Walt Whitman Award
Jurgis Petraskas, by Tony Petrosky
 
Winner of James Laughlin Award
Long Walks in the Afternoon, by Margaret Gibson
 

1981
Winner of National Book Award
The Need to Hold Still, by Lisel Mueller