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by Yung Pueblo (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated author of Inward comes the second in series, a collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past th...

Help Me Die Well: A Queer Prisoner's Poetry Anthology, Vol. 3 - Paperback

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by A B O Comix (Editor), Oliver Mills (Editor)Our third annual poetry anthology features original work from over two dozen queer and trans incarcerated poets. Proceeds from this anthology support the poets' continued survival, subsidizing everything from commissary packages to legal fees to medical copays. From anthology editor Ollie Mills: "HELP ME DIE WELL is a plea to loved ones, to circumstance - really, to everything - to make one's life worth living." A.B.O. Comix is a collective of cre...

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by Rose Miller (Author), Sharon Hildebrand (Illustrator), Joshua P. Miller (Designed by)Every Trail Leads Home is an essential book for any West Virginia enthusiast, ideal for both children and the young-at-heart. Unique trails from each region of the state are thoughtfully described in verse while stunning watercolor illustrations feature characters enjoying the wide variety of outdoor activities that make West Virginia famous. The characters' stories will invoke sweet memories for West Virg...

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by Melissa Green (Author)Renowned poet Melissa Green returns to the literary stage with her new and selected poems, Magpiety, a profound and evocative exploration of memory, nature, and the nuances of human emotion. Created to captivate both longtime admirers and new readers alike, this collection showcases Green's unparalleled talent for weaving together the spiritual and the earthly with a voice that is both tender and fierce. Green's poems traverse landscapes both external and internal, un...

Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry - Paperback

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by Martha Amore (Editor), Lucian Childs (Editor)Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventures o...

Basement Sentiment: Poetry from the Dark - Paperback

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by Kate Phillips (Author) Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 13, 2024

Amor Entre Aguaceros/Love Between Downpours - Paperback

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by Jean-Pierre Rueda (Author)Amor Entre Aguaceros/Love between downpours is a bilingual poetry collection dedicated to all those who use their imagination to return to their countries of origin when migratory circumstances prohibit them from doing so. Nostalgia, homesickness, immigration, family friendships, and the deep appreciation for what and who becomes a memory. My newest collection speaks through and about such topics in Spanish and English. EARLY PRAISE FOR AMOR ENTRE AGUACEROS/LOVE B...

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by Sarah Marchant (Author)This collection is about toxic female friendship, how everyone and no one is to blame, and how the memories reverberate through the rest of your life. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 13, 2024

Voces equidistantes: Antología de poetas latinoamericanos en Reino Unido - Paperback

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by Juana Adcock (Author), Leonardo Boix (Author), María Bravo Calderara (Author)En el Reino Unido (y más específicamente en su capital, Londres, una de las ciudades más multiculturales del mundo) residen una gran cantidad de autores latinoamericanos de poesía, cuya obra va quedando a menudo en una suerte de "tierra de nadie", debido a la pérdida de la relación cotidiana con su contexto original, y la dificultad de integración a un campo literario dominado por una lengua y unos códigos diferen...

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by Anne Carson (Author)Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style in Glass, Irony and God. This collection includes: The Glass Essay, a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Brontë sisters; Book of Isaiah, a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and The Fall of Rome, about her trip to find Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible ali...

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by New Directions (Author), Tynan Kogane (Editor)Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors; cats cast a mirror on their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotize, frustrate and delight. And to poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses (Charles Baudelaire: "the sole source of amusement in one's lodgings") as they go about purring, prowling, hunting, play...

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition - Paperback

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by Dylan Thomas (Author), Paul Muldoon (Introduction by)The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. (A piece of New Directions history: it was our founder James Laughlin who identified Thomas' body at the morgue of St. Vincent's Hospital.) Since its initial publication in 1953, this book has become the definitive edition of the ...

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by Dante Alighieri (Author), John Ciardi (Translator), John Freccero (Introduction by)In The Paradiso, Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of truth is a work of mystical intensity? an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and Love.Author BiographyJohn Ciardi was a distinguished poet and professor, having taught at Harvard and Rutgers universities, and a poetr...

The Devotional Qur'an: Beloved Surahs and Verses - Hardcover

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by Shawkat M. Toorawa (Translator)A beautifully curated and translated collection of the Qur'anic surahs and verses that are most cherished and memorized by Muslims the world over Muslim devotional practices vary greatly over time and across regions, communities, and denominations, but they share core Qur'anic surahs (chapters) and verses rooted in the practice of earlier figures--the Prophet Muhammad, his closest Companions, the Shiite Imams, saintly figures, learned scholars, Sufi masters,...

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by Robert Browning (Author), Adam Roberts (Editor), Daniel Karllin (Introduction by)Robert Browning's poetic scope was broad, ranging from the beguiling magic of The Pied Piper of Hamelin to the epic book-length poem The Ring and the Book. This comprehensive selection includes over eighty of his shorter poems, amongst them his most famous and best-loved dramatic monologues, as well as the complete text of many of his longer poems. It contains three books from The Ring and the Book and Brownin...

Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange - Hardcover

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by Ntozake Shange (Author), Imani Perry (Editor), Tarana Burke (Foreword by)GMA's 15 Spectacular New Books to Read in September Ms. Magazine's September 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us The Millions "Most Anticipated" Books of 2023 LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays, plays, and poems from the archives of the seminal Black feminist writer who stands alongside giants like Toni Morriso...

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by Mary Oliver (Author)Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, Red Bird comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog Percy, Red Bird is a quintessential collection of Oliver's finest lyrics.Author BiographyA private person by nature, Mary Oliver (1935-2019) gave very few interviews over ...

Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry - Paperback

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by Cmarie Fuhrman (Editor), Elizabeth Bradfield (Editor), Derek Sheffield (Editor)Have you ever been so filled up with the wonder of a place that it wants to spill out as a song? Well, here is the songbook. I imagine walking through a forest and pausing to read these illuminating pages aloud to a listening cedar or a dipper. There are field guides that help us to see, and to name, and to know; Cascadia Field Guide does all of that and more. This is a guide to relationship, a gift in reciproci...

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by Maggie Nelson (Author)Part elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her last hours. Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane's murd...

Enough Rope: A Book of Light Verse - Paperback

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by Dorothy Parker (Author)Now available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist's debut collection--a runaway bestseller in 1926--ranges from lighthearted self-deprecation to acid-tongued satire, all the while gleefully puncturing sentimental clichés about relations between men and women. Known as the wittiest woman in America and a founder of the fabled Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was also one of the Jazz Age's most beloved poets. Her verbal dexterity and cynical humor were o...

The Opposite of Cruelty: Poems - Paperback

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by Steven Leyva (Author)Steven Leyva's second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man's lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.In The Opposite of Cruelty, Steven Leyva's poems ask readers to see and remember beauty when the world seems to be in ruins, to notice and praise "the industrious cherry // trees budding despite a summer / full of bullets to come." For Leyva, beauty can be found in lineage and memory, in the heroe...

All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective - Paperback

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by Lenard D. Moore (Editor), Jaki Shelton Green (Introduction by)An anthology celebrating twenty-five years of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective edited by founder Lenard D. Moore.Author BiographyLenard D. Moore is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His literary works have been published in more than fifteen countries and translated into more than a dozen languages. He is a U.S. Army Veteran. Moore is the author of The Geography of Jazz, A Temple Looming, Desert...

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by Maggie Nelson (Author)Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New Yo...

Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology - Paperback

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by Michael Walsh (Editor)An anthology of queer nature poetry spanning three centuries. This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Queer Nature offers a new context for and expands upon the canon of nature poetry while also offering new lenses through which to view queerness and the natural world. In the introduction, editor Mich...

Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition: Pocket Poets Series No. 27 - Hardcover

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by Diane Di Prima (Author)Expanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals on the one-year anniversary of her passing.By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today as it was fifty years ago. In 1968, visionary poet Diane di Prim...

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems - Paperback

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by Warsan Shire (Author)Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire "The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts."--Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "Shire is the real thing--fresh, cutting, indisputably alive."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fa...

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by Cindy Juyoung Ok (Author), Rae Armantrout (Foreword by)Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation "Ok's métier in this lovely debut is an elegantly discursive, analytical style studded with ironies."--David Woo, Literary Hub "There are places," Cindy Juyoung Ok writes, "where shaking is expected, loss is / assumed." In the 118th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Ok moves assuredly between spaces--from the psych ward to a prison ce...

The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

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by Homer (Author), Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has perf...

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by Ada Lim?n (Author), Ada Lim?n (Introduction by)The poems in Lucky Wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television, road trips ending in traffic accidents, and homes that become sites of infestation, Ada Lim n finds threads of hope amid an array of small tragedies and significant setbacks. Open, honest, and grounded, the poems in this collection seek answers to familiar questions and teach us ...

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by Frederick McDonald (Author)From poet and visual artist Frederick McDonald, an illuminating collection that explores the intricacies of existing within two worlds. Daydreams turn into night dreams that carry the author on a journey of self-awareness and personal discovery while living and travelling in two worlds: that of his reality as a member of the Fort McKay First Nation and existing as part of North American culture within its mainstream paradigm of savage stereotypes and ancient arch...

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by Jane Munro (Author)In this new and masterful collection, Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jane Munro balances her signature themes--dream life, the visual arts, the mysteries of the natural world--with an urgent, more directly political voice. False Creek, Munro's eighth collection of poetry, responds to the discovery of sodded-over graves around residential schools and the elimination of Sən̓aʔqʷ, home to fifteen thousand Sḵwx̱wú7mesh before the deaths caused by European diseases. Poems ask W...

A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century - Paperback

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by Jerome Charyn (Author)PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography LonglistO, The Oprah Magazine "Best Books of Summer" selection "Magnetic nonfiction." --O, The Oprah Magazine "Remarkable insight . . . [a] unique meditation/investigation. . . . Jerome Charyn the unpredictable, elusive, and enigmatic is a natural match for Emily Dickinson, the quintessence of these." --Joyce Carol Oates, author of Wild Nights! and The Lost Landscape We think we know Emily Dickinson: the Belle of Amherst...