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Report copyright infringementby Robert Pinsky (Author)A new book of poems by the three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a writer "rarely equalled" (Louise Glück). Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in eight years. In this collection, the poet mines and maps limbal regions: those spaces between differences that can be at once creat...

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Report copyright infringementby Gary Lemons (Author)WINNER OF THE 2026 AMERICAN LEGACY AWARDThe Book of Spells is a collection of poems that believes the world around us is shaped and reshaped by language and that changing our language is a revolutionary act of political and social magic that can replace long-standing destructive agreements with the benignity of loving clarity.This collection of spells begins by following the tracks of a mythical creature composed of language and blood across...

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Report copyright infringementby L10 ! (Author)Poetry or word vomit, you decide. Either way art is art. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 14, 2025

Pulse of Becoming: The Path of Infinite Transformation

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Report copyright infringementby Barry C. Eneh (Author)Navigate Life's Tides with Poetry: A Companion for Transformation, Healing, and Self-Discovery. Seeds of Courage in Verses, Your Map to Resilience and Rebirth.Dive into the captivating essence of Pulse of Becoming The Path of Infinite Transformation. This is not just a collection of poems; it's a journey, a personal guide towards self-discovery, healing, and rebirth. Each verse is a seed, germinating courage and truth within your soul, gui...

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Report copyright infringementby R. H. Sin (Author)A soulful and cinematic poetry collection for women reclaiming their worth after heartbreak from New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin. In My Dear Wildflower, poet r.h. Sin returns with a poignant collection that speaks to the strength and vulnerability of women learning to let go of painful relationships and rediscover themselves. Ranging from minimalist verse to emotionally raw monologues, Sin's poems follow a woman as she transitions f...

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Report copyright infringementby Kendall Dunkelberg (Author)Tree Fall with Birdsong explores the natural world around the poet's home in Mississippi and delves into memories of the rural landscapes of Iowa where he was raised, Flanders, and other places he has traveled. These poems look to the natural life cycle as a corollary of loss and renewal, both in response to illness and death of family and friends and to the collective sense of grief in the wake of the recent pandemic. Often overlooke...

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Report copyright infringementby Danez Smith (Author)Winner, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, 2016Winner, John C Zacharis Award 2016 from PloughsharesWinner, Lambda Literary Award, Gay Poetry, 2015Finalist, Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of America, 2015Finalist, Debulitzer, 2015Chosen by Don Share for Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books, 2014Danez Smith's writing is not safe. How can one's writing be safe when their life is constantly in danger? In their debut poetry collection [insert...

North Shore: Poems of Mourning and Remembrance

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Report copyright infringementby David Caplan (Author)But isn't it always true of fathers and sons, I am I because you are you, even after the fatherdoes not recognize his son and the son realizeseverything in life is learned too late?With North Shore, David Caplan has written another collection of finely chiseled and luminous poems. Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 20, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Georgann Eubanks (Author)Georgann Eubanks is known for her guidebooks that invite readers to explore the literary, cultural, culinary, and ecological heritage of the South. With her first volume of poetry, Rural Astronomy, Eubanks invites new explorations. These poems shift between childhood memories and her contemporary observations of the ongoing clash between Nature and human entitlement. With incisive vision and an occasional poke at the patriarchy, this me...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Newell (Author)A poet considers the benefits of being invisible, her former life as a tree, the terrifying thrill of zip lining, what to say when a 100-foot cottonwood tree falls on your house, and how to respond to the many challenges of our time. Here is an eclectic mix of stories gathered from more than seven decades of living, told sometimes with outrage, often with dry humor, and always with clarity. Number of Pages: 92 Dim...

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Report copyright infringementby Gwyneth Lewis (Author)First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis's highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse through subsequent chronic ill health and towards a hard-won resurrection. These accounts of living in and emerging from the dark wrestle with the angel of language. Suffering does not preclude humour and may, in fact, require it, in poems written from the shadows but commi...

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Report copyright infringementby Bela Divine (Author), Jessica Nardo (Illustrator)Ever Upward is an intimate collection of poems by Bela Divine that takes the reader on a journey of extracting wisdom from the wound, guiding the reader through their own healing, and evoking raw, visceral emotion that illuminates the experience of life's all-encompassing dualistic nature. Shaped by her multidisciplinary approach and expertise as a healer and facilitator to a global community, Bela draws from her...

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Report copyright infringementby Ellen Austin-Li (Author)RUNNER-UP FOR THE 2023 ARTHUR SMITH POETRY PRIZEIncidental pollen refers to pollen that collects on bees as they forage for nectar-like the cumulative life experiences we cannot help but carry. The hive serves as a thematic thread in this collection that explores the space between past and present, shame and redemption, grief and resilience. Poetic forms lend meaning-like the villanelle that captures the grief-driven magical thinking of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Markiewitz (Author), Jon Wongrey (Foreword by), Jason Markiewitz (Photographer)"Sarajevo Roses" is a collection of poetry and photographs based upon the second Kosovo campaign in 2002-2003. Then-Captain (now-Colonel) Jason Markiewitz was forward deployed to the Balkans in 2003 at the end of the second Kosovo campaign, and with his NATO contingent experienced the harrowing after-effects of the war-torn region. Number of Pages: 86 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jill Michelle (Author)Underwater by Jill Michelle is an exploration in grief: two pregnancies lost at twenty weeks, a father consumed by Alzheimer's, a body assaulted, a marriage failing. This collection carries the reader on a tidal wave of emotions, making them fight for every breath. In this visceral collection we see survival and strength, even when the speaker feels only the undertow of emotions. Underwater will carry you along on its current and leave you...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Pankey (Author)In his eighteenth collection of poetry, Eric Pankey continues his forty-year investigation into how and what one can know in this world and beyond it. The poet, Jane Hirshfield, says about his poetry, "Eric Pankey is a poet of precise observation and startling particularities. His wisdom, sometimes sidelong, sometimes direct, both knows and feels. The soundcraft is superb, the modes of investigation by turns lyrical, surreal, meditative, al...

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Report copyright infringementby Tonee Mae Moll (Author)Winner of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House, You Cannot Save Here is a collection of poems about how we live when each day feels like the world is ending. The poems ask what we do with the small moments that matter when so much around us-climate disaster, gun violence, pandemics, wars-makes these days feel apocalyptic. The book is a bit speculative and a bit confessional. It's queer, punk, and wov...

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Report copyright infringementby Luisa Caycedo-Kimura (Author)Poetry. In poems of love and loss, Caycedo-Kimura explores memories of her childhood as an emigre from Colombia and her life in the two cultures, rich and violent, troubled and sweet. Says Robert Pinsky, "In these vivid, lyrical poems, the telling of loss is a form of celebration." Jennifer Franklin calls this "a powerful debut collection from a new voice in contemporary poetry. Spanning decades and continents, these intimate, fierc...

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Paridee Samuel (Author)Patrick Paridee Samuel's And Another Thing is an audacious, shape-shifting collection that moves through queer identity, pop culture, desire, and dislocation with sharp wit and restless energy. The poems are tactile and cinematic, layering surreal imagery with the raw textures of memory, lust, and self-interrogation. Tarot figures, cult film references, and intimate confessions collide in a voice that is both wryly detached and de...

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Murphy (Author)"Do not bother to smile/ for your photo ID / in Human Resources. / In Human Resources / no one has a face," Erin Murphy writes. Yet in this book of documentary poems exploring labor and employment issues, Murphy gives a face and a voice to those who have been marginalized by impersonal-even brutal-working conditions. With subjects ranging from migrant farmers in the Southwest United States to cell phone manufacturers in Shenzhen, China, thes...

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Report copyright infringementby Tayler Simon (Author)Tayler Simon is an activist and organizer who has been working in different social movements since she was 18. After obtaining her Master's in Social Work and working within the violence prevention and outreach world for five years, she decided to take those skills outside of institutions and back to organic community. Reflecting on the roles of power, joy, despair, anger, and hope within the liberation movement, Black Madonna invites reade...

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Report copyright infringementby Amber Tamblyn (Author)"With frank observations and blunt commentary, Tamblyn has created a smartly crafted collection, proving that she is a savvy and fierce woman and poet who knows that behind every spotlight is shadow." -- Booklist"Dark Sparkler is an elegy, a eulogy, a rhapsody, a rage. In these astonishing poems inspired by dead actresses, Tamblyn fiercely examines the spectacle of the actress as she lives and dies and how our hands and hearts linger on th...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Jones (Author)Beginning a new challenge can feel daunting. For one busy mother, a haiku poem begins in the minutes between day to day activities and the challenges they bring. An escape, a celebration, a memorial. She finds that pausing to write haiku, short three line poems, reminds her to be present in the moment, however mundane or imperfect, before it slips away. Turn the pages of "Haiku Human - Begin" where you'll find more than one gentle yet pierc...

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Report copyright infringementby Samiya Bashir (Author)Bending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime, Bashir's poems live as music and film, as memoir, observation, and critique, as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields.I Hope This Helps reflects on the excruciating metamorphosis of an artist, "a twinkle-textured disco-ball Jenga set" constrained and shaped by the limits of our reality: time, money, work, not to mention compounding global crises. Think of a river constrained b...

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Report copyright infringementby Florinda Ruiz (Author)Florinda Ruiz was an avid poet and award-winning photographer. After her cancer diagnosis, she dedicated herself to sharing her poetry and photos with the community of cancer patients around the world."Healing Dust is a work of poetic alchemy: transforming the anguish and grief of terminal illness into incandescent images and words. Florinda Ruiz's posthumous volume of poems and accompanying photographs is as much a testimonial to the auth...

Daffodils in December: Poems from an Unexpected Life

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Bingham Gorman (Author), Flora K. Schildknecht (Editor)In Daffodils in December: Poems from an Unexpected Life, Alice Bingham Gorman's beautifully crafted poems take readers from the poet's early childhood to her eighties. In the words of poet Richard Blanco, "A book for anyone who has ever asked the proverbial question of life's meaning."Spanning a lifetime, Alice Bingham Gorman's Daffodils in December traverses both loss and joy, clearly rendering both ...

From Here We Build: Queer Youth Write From Their Lives

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Rose Preminger (Editor), V. (Formerly Eve Ensler) (Foreword by), Celeste Lecesne (Introduction by)From Here We Build is a vibrant collection of poems written by LGBTQ+ teens and young adults at the start of their creative journeys. Featuring original work from participants of The Future Perfect Project's Writer's Room workshop, this collection is both a celebration of queer expression and a testament to the resilience of young artists carving out space for ...

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Report copyright infringementby David A. Dreibelbis (Author)Drip Line Poetry is a short collection built as a blueprint for inner endurance. The poems guide the reader away from repetitive emotional cycles and toward a philosophy of consistent, quiet action. By defining self-sufficiency as the core ethical mandate, the book challenges the reader to perfect their internal support system so that their eventual contribution to the world is not an exhausting sacrifice, but a reliable, natural ove...

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Report copyright infringementby John Milton (Author), John T. Shawcross (Editor)Front JacketThe first complete annotated edition of Milton's poetry available in a one-volume paperback. The text is established from original sources, with collations of all known manuscripts, chronology and verbal variants recorded. Works in Latin, Greek and Italian are included with new literal translations. Number of Pages: 672 Dimensions: 1.41 x 8.34 x 5.34 IN Publicatio...

Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man: Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Jose Hernandez Diaz (Author)"What joys, what celebrations, and what tributes await the reader of Jose Hernandez Diaz's Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man."--Iliana Rocha, author of The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez This collection consists of odes to the Mexican American, first-gen experience as well as surreal prose poems with cultural references and settings native to the Los Angeles area. The collection opens with odes to everyday images and symbols...

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Report copyright infringementby C. M. Palmer (Author)Those first two, tender years of motherhood are reflected upon in this little book of poetry. The messes, the mayhem, and the glory of raising children and being utterly transformed by the process. Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 23, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Yaffa As (Author)Sage is a poetry collection that acknowledges all transphobia is systemic but the pain of everyday interpersonal violence is still felt in our bones. A collection that highlights challenges and joy within interpersonal relationships from the perspective of a queer and trans Palestinian living at the margins of displacement, disability, immigration & ongoing genocide. Sage is a beacon of light, shedding light to wounds that have festered and...