Minimal yet full of mystery, Althaus poems explore complexities and subtle moments of everyday experience.

A compelling visual journey augmented by Proust's own words.

Poetry. The poems in COLD STORAGE are revelations in the fullest sense, uncovering a world at once familiar and rendered new again in resplendent, transformative detail: a halo on the threshing floor, a drop of water on the skin, the nearing dark. Keith Althaus is a poet who walks by the shadow yet thrills with his illuminations, producing lanterns from yucca blossoms, a last breath, or "a plain hospital gown." Here, light is what surrounds a painting or frames a closed door, saturating both the landscape and the interior of the self until "even darkness glows." With spare language and a painter's eye, Althaus delivers poems that are intimate yet gorgeous, effortless yet intricate. This book marks the stunning return of one of America's pure voices in poetry--we are grateful for the light he's cast. "Cold Storage is filled with those enigmas so frequently found at the heart of the real. It possesses a shrewd, sad wonder at how and where we live, and a honed awareness that nothing is quite what it seems, people least of all. It is a book like no other at this crazed, ridiculous moment on our beautiful, sorrowing planet."--David Rivard

A long-awaited collection featuring new poems by Keith Althaus, as well as selections from his three previous collections. This long-awaited collection features new poems by Keith Althaus, as well as selections from his three previous collections, Rival Heavens, Ladder of Hours, and Cold Storage, winner of the 2016 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. Poet John Skoyles writes of this latest work: "Althaus's moral center, perfect ear and ability to summon the infinite from the everyday, are in full display here in poems that show the range and depth of his career. His NEW & SELECTED POEMS is a major literary event." "Althaus's moral center, perfect ear and ability to summon the infinite from the everyday, are in full display here in poems that show the range and depth of his career. His NEW & SELECTED POEMS is a major literary event."--John Skoyles Poetry.

Althaus has the kind of straightforward voice that commands attention: he makes a series of seemingly calm statements and wham!, you're hit by the fact that he's telling the truth, the beautiful truth of what it's like to be alive right now. --Alan Dugan. In this passionate work, memory is explored and illuminated with a Chekhovian tenderness. --John Skoyles.