American Fractal
by Green,Tim
College Of Letters,Arts & Sciences, MPW 2009
Red Hen Press  (2009)

Each portion forming a reduced-size copy of the whole, a fractal is forever fragmented, both chaotic and ordered, endlessly complex.Timothy Green´s American Fractal sees this pattern emerge from the fabric of modern culture, as it navigates the personal, the political, and the metaphysical, in a lyric dreamscape in which an eerie chaos lurks just behind the faÇade of order–where  what looks like / a river...could be a log,…as if accident were / the fundamental attribute of life.

Keeping the Word
by Heers, Nancy Baker Fate
USC Roski School of Fine Arts, 1960
Paupac Press  (2008)

Although the book has a reverence for rocks, it also writes upward to the galaxy and contemplates meditation and healing. It speaks of the winds of the spirit and understanding different tongues. It speaks of keeping the word through sculpture, poetry, and dance. It reaches down into the blue earth and up into the galaxy and feels the rhythm of the earth and the movement of dance.

Poems for the Utopian Nihilist
by Martin, Milo
College Of Letters,Arts & Sciences, MBW 2004
echoparkpress  (2008)

Profound, melancholy, political, violent, spiked and sharp, like licking honey off a thorn. That's what's meant by Utopian Nihilism, perhaps; the hot-headed, meditative impulse that inspires Milo Martin to keep making luminous words and pictures even amid the darkness at the end of the world.

The Power of the Mighty is Balance: A Poetic Philosophical Rendition
by Scott, Charles
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, MS 1968
Authorhouse  (2008)

Philosophical poetry is probably the simplest description that can be attached to this book. It contains an image of what the author considers the attributes of humankind. Segments of the image which consist of the Intellect, the Soul, the Physical, the Emotions, the Conscious, and the Body, have associative poetry as if each segment is speaking.