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