By Joe Survant
View from the Stork Building:
Chinese Variations
“These English “variations” are very different from the Chinese originals, but they retain the insight and strong imagery of Classical Chinese poetry. The picture generated in the mind has a similar beauty and grace.” – Tian Xiaolin
By Joe Survant
The Land We Dreamed: Poems
University Press of Kentucky
“The poems in The Land We Dreamed are visions of a place, Kentucky, through deep time, all those years of beauty and blood. They give us not just how it was, but how it felt. They’re a true gift.” – Kim Stanley Robinson
By Joe Survant
Rafting Rise
University Press of Florida
“Rafting Rise is a terrific book, the richly detailed evocation of an entire world, and an important contribution to the literature of the rural South.” –Ted Kooser
By Joe Survant
The Presence of Snow in the Tropics
Singapore, Landmark Books.
“With lean lines and a keen eye for the apt metaphor, Joe Survant uncovers in his poems beauty, potency and ambiguity in the Malaysian landscape.” – Chin Woon Ping
Out of Print
By Joe Survant
Anne & Alpheus 1842-1882
University of Arkansas Press
(Arkansas Poetry Prize)
“Anne & Alpheus is a triumphant look at life one hundred years ago, yes, but it is also a hymn to what is best and lasting in the human spirit.” – Lola Haskins
By Joe Survant
We Will All Be Changed
State Street Press
Out of Print
Contact Joe
joe.survant@wku.edu