Contradictions begins with a commitment to the local environment as an imaginative habitat, then explores traditions of art-making and spiritual belief, and then turns to the living tradition of Taoism as a source of wisdom. History-familial, social, and cultural-is present at moments in the book, providing contexts in which spiritual and political questions interanimate and converge.

Unnamed Canyon is a book in two parts: first, a meditation on teaching and teachers; and second, a consequent exploration of the major themes of the author's formative years in higher education in the nineties. The questions he visits and revisits are of our moment-the relation of imagination and reality changes like the seasons, each poem a renewed response to the elemental forces that shape our lives.

Explores pressing political and spiritual questions and answers found in the natural world.

In this collection of poems, Brian Glaser offers a tribute to his father's life and work. Memory and elegy are present here, as well as a series of poems on fatherhood, and many meditations on the concern for social justice shared by father and son.

In Brian Glaser's third collection, meditations on spirituality and art continue to permeate his work. These poems are organized around the seasons, one cycle of the four seasons and microseasons within them. Difficult Joy focuses on how our ways of relating have changed in deep and perhaps lasting ways. At the center of this collection is a translation of Hölderlin's "Bread and Wine."