Powerful and acutely relevant, Howie's verse grips the reader with accessible lines and unique metaphors while exploring psychological hunger in poems such as "Meditation on a Candle Flame" and "fragments of my ruin," and the vast realm of social pain in poems such as "Dead Peasants" and "August 6, 1945." From Red & Gold: "Things shine/as if we swindled/the sun/out of its gold..."

New from Right Hand Pointing, Howie Good's "Fugitive Pieces," a collection of collage poems. Proceeds from sales of this book will go to The Food Bank of the Hudson Valley 195 Hudson Street Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of eight poetry chapbooks, including Police and Questions (2008) from Right Hand Pointing, Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks, The Torturer's Horse (2009) from Recycled Karma Press, and Love Is a UFO (2009) from Pudding House. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology. Lovesick is his first full-length book of poetry.