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Report copyright infringementby Richard Scott (Author)Reverberating with risk, this collection negotiates the darkness of injury, the potency and pain of revelation, and agency as song. Trauma and vulnerability - violation and its aftershock - are explored within a framework of self-determination and radical queerness in Richard Scott's second collection. In three distinct yet interlocking parts, he documents what it is to have survived 'seismic assaults, the buried silences'. This is first p...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Santiago (Author)"Small Wars Manual is a masterpiece, one of those books I read and know at once I'll be coming back to the rest of my life."--Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!A Literary Hub Notable Book of the YearFrom award-winning poet Chris Santiago, a far-reaching collection of erasures and original poems examining the long shadow of American militarism and imperialism.Stemming in part from a disturbingly mundane military document of the same name, Smal...

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Report copyright infringementby April Ossmann (Author)We takes an unapologetically spiritual stance in bridging politicized divides, exploring conscious and unconscious prejudices with lyricism, warmth, and self-implicating humor, how we are shaped by and create our nation by how we see ourselves and others. The poems investigate what unites us; how the personal is political, and the political is personal; changing our perceptions to heal families, friendships, and country of incivility and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Brit Washburn (Author)"Part daybook on living a meaningful life, part phenomenological treatise, What Is Given is a field guide to the interior. Again and again, we are brought to places and difficulties and moments of grace, and each time, a wise guide directs our eye, shows us what lies underneath, and offers a way forward."-Sebastian Matthews, author of In My Father's Footsteps"In poems acutely aware of loss, Washburn comes back to the redeeming beauty of th...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Maier (Author)The Occupant is a collection of persona and prose poems that explores the "inner lives" of common household objects, along with that of "The Occupant" of the house, their human keeper. Taken together, their shifting perspectives engage questions of time, mortality, and the nature of consciousness itself, reminding readers of the beauty and strangeness that lurk under the surface of ordinary thought--the "other world" that, as Paul Éluard ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dina Greenberg (Author)A Brave and Moving Collection of Poems and Stories on Grief and ResiliencePrayers for the Lost & for the Living by Dina Greenberg is a powerful and emotionally rich collection that explores grief, memory, love, and the human need for connection. Blending poetry and prose, these pieces confront loss - from personal bereavement and family death to war trauma and spiritual seeking - with honesty, tenderness, and hope.Greenberg's masterfu...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Green (Author)Sarah Green's The Deletions is a spiritual and psychological reckoning with ecological grief, infertility grief, and the loss of a marriage. These poems live at the intersection of ode and elegy, simultaneously observing and reflecting upon multiple kinds of love (friendship, romance, family). With a tone that ranges from poignant to stoic and from playful to irreverent, the speaker sifts through generational layers of divorce, revisiting th...

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Report copyright infringementby Kiyoko Reidy (Author)In Kiyoko Reidy's Black Holes and Their Feeding Habits, the poet illuminates worlds that are exquisite, shimmering, made tender by awe and grief. The poems breathe portals into familial care, inherited violence, intergenerational loss, and the natural landscapes within and around us. We encounter "monarch wings resplendent as church windows"; an obaasan laying flowers at a cemetery; oranges "like fist-sized fires alight / in the branches," ...

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Report copyright infringementby Amberly Garcia (Author)In these poems, you will find yourself in the flicker of stardust and the flow of rivers, in the warmth of sun and the stillness of the void. The symbols and metaphors woven throughout the pages are not merely artistic flourishes but a way of transcending the ordinary, inviting you to dive into the depths of the unseen, to touch the magic that lies within us all. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8 x 5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ayelet Amittay (Author)The Eating Knife is an exploration of personal and intergenerational trauma through the lens of the Akedah, the story of the sacrifice of Isaac. Like Abraham, the speaker's father heard voices and directives that led to an impossible bind. The poems in this collection deconstruct and reconstitute the story of Isaac and Abraham, textually and metaphorically, as a means of stitching together meaning after violence and loss. Beyond the unspe...

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Report copyright infringementby Gustaf Sobin (Author), Esther Sobin (Editor), Andrew Joron (Editor)Gustaf Sobin's Uncollected Poems brings under one set of covers some fugitive pieces that did not make it into his official posthumous Collected Poems (2010), together with some occasional works and two full-length volumes that stood outside the normal trajectory of his poetry: Articles of Light and Elation and Sicilian Miniatures, the former published in a bibliophile edition and the latter nev...

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Report copyright infringementby Stanley Kunitz (Author)The early poems, long unavailable in any edition, sound themes that have always engaged Kunitz: life's meaning, the relation of time to eternity, kinship with nature, and loss, most poignantly that of his father. But despite the power of his poems about loss, Kunitz remains ardent in celebrating life. He fully lives up to his own advice to younger poets "to persevere, then explore. Be explorers all your life." Number of Pages...

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Report copyright infringementby Max McDonough (Author)Set on the marshlands of working-class southern New Jersey, Python with a Dog Inside It, the debut collection by poet Max McDonough, traces the tangled story of two gay brothers as they endeavor to survive their mother's erratic and escalating violence. They retreat to the privacy of suburban woods and swamps, a world of their own glimmering with ruin and possibility: abandoned furniture, mud-caked jewelry, a time machine. The poems in thi...

The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Motion (Editor), Stephen Regan (Editor), Andrew Motion (Introduction by)The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning, and consolation through poetry A Penguin Classic Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practiced by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of the Renaissance, and continuing down to the present day, it speaks eloquently and affectingly of the experience of loss and the year...

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Report copyright infringementby Nida Sophasarun (Author), Wyatt Prunty (Editor), Leigh Anne Couch (Editor)How close can a person come to home when their family has deserted it? Guided by this question, the poems in Nida Sophasarun's Novice traverse natural, animal, and dream worlds, seeking intimacy in a snake coming in from the rain, a mother's body imagined as a house, and the moon serving as both the missing piece and the linchpin in a night sky. Organized by tropical seasons and unfolding...

Exalted Ground: Poems of Praise and Lament for the Living

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly Phinney (Author), Tanner Olson (Foreword by)"Kimberly Phinney's poetry does what poetry is meant to do: it sings, it dances, it cries, it praises, it searches, it laments. It shows us what it means to be creatures of language and words-and what the power of words can do..." -Dr. Karen Swallow Prior, professor, speaker, and author of The Evangelical Imagination"Exalted Ground guides you through the wilderness of yourself, showing you all the raw and rag...

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Report copyright infringementby Kellogg-Hubbard Library (Compiled by), Bianca Stone (Introduction by)With an introduction by Vermont Poet Laureate Bianca Stone, PoemCity Anthology 2025 is a collection of poems featured in PoemCity, the Kellogg-Hubbard Library's annual celebration of National Poetry Month during the month of April. These original poems by hundreds of Vermonters of all ages are part of the walkable display showcased in the windows of businesses in downtown Montpelier, Vermont. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jen DeGregorio (Author)What to Wear Out is a poetry collection that offers a portrait of a mind corseted by the pathological norms of patriarchy, white femininity, and the neoliberal notion of happiness as a project of capitalist consumption. Through lyrics and docupoetry-which remixes language from government records, testimony, and other found texts-readers observe the speaker of these poems in the process of emerging from her own predicament. Understanding h...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Ballou (Author)In Other Times, Midnight, her debut collection, Andrea Ballou explores the aftermath of loss--death, divorce, and departures--and asks the toughest questions: how do we contend with grief and remorse, and where does the spirit go to wait out trauma? Ballou's poems fight an "impulse to not speak," aware that naming, and speech itself, are a matter of life and death. Their startling and often humorous images (rooted in the fields, forests, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Meghan A. Patricia Wentworth (Author)Stay until Tomorrow by Meghan A. Patricia Wentworth is a debut collection of autobiographical poems shedding light on trauma, heartache, love, loss, and the poet's self-healing journey. These poems are skeletons that can no longer be kept in the closet; they are secrets come to life; they are a bright light shining in the face of the abuser. They are about breaking down to come back anew; about reconciling the dark past with...

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Report copyright infringementby Ethel Rackin (Author)Poetry. Poems of grief and discovery, of connection and the strange time travel that is the life we each lead: Rackin is back with her inimitable meld of mystery and simplicity.Says John Gallher: "In her fourth book of poetry, In Time, Ethel Rackin continues and deepens the prismatic approach of her previous books. From ordinary time-'Thanks // for your call, ' an early poem opens-to the wide sweep of geological time, Rackin investigates me...

Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems 1984-2024

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory Djanikian (Author)Gregory Djanikian's Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems, written over several decades, takes for its many subjects romantic love and its difficulties, the horrors of the Armenian genocide of 1915, the é migré experience and the joys and struggles of acculturation, the allure of landscapes and vast distances, the polarity of our material life on earth and our longing for what is ethereal and elusive, all in tones that are h...

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Report copyright infringementby Therí Alyce Pickens (Author)In her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Therí Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing topics ranging from Black life, popular culture, and history to individual encounters with emotion, love, and chronic disability, Pickens crafts and questions the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we want to be. Throughout, Pickens mines the formal structures and the play of...

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Report copyright infringementby Marc Harshman (Author)Dispatch from the Mountain State encompasses the trademark themes of a mature poet-death, despair, dread, and the seeming randomness with which all of these come into life. The dispatches provide, if sometimes obliquely, a keen awareness of the troubled times within which we live, whether the flashpoint be race, the recent pandemic, or the reckless onslaught of the Appalachian mining industry, which is masterfully addressed in the long poe...

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Report copyright infringementby Chaun Ballard (Author), Matthew Shenoda (Foreword by)Winner of the 23rd annual PoulinPrize Chaun Ballard's gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory thatcelebrates the landscape of Black America, both rural and urban. Riddled with the ghostly voices of family andfriends, Second Nature is fearless inits wrestling with America's fractured past and troubled present. In thesepoems,...

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Report copyright infringementby John Liles (Author), Rae Armantrout (Foreword by)The 119th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize places science at the heart of his powerful poems For John Liles, science and the natural world form a route into the workings of love, of grief, and of joy in the thrum of life. Judge Rae Armantrout calls his poems "dense, sonically gorgeous studies of various natural things and creatures, including light, bees, minerals, shellfish and crabs, insects, a...

my husband holds my hand because i may drift away & be lost forever in the vortex of a crowded store

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Report copyright infringementby John Compton (Author)my husband holds my hand because i may drift away & be lost forever in the vortex of a crowded store, by john compton is, among other things, a clear-eyed examination of the body, its hungers, desires, shames, and pains. It's a book of desires fulfilled, thwarted, and manipulated. The poems explore "my body," "his body," "your body," and "her stone body." Bodies that are "mercy," "burning," "rakish," and "dampened." They are manuscripts...

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Report copyright infringementby Courtney LeBlanc (Author)Part elegy to a friend who died by suicide, part love poem to a friend who continues to survive, Her Dark Everything is a collection that will pull you through the darkest depths until you feel the light against your skin. It will make you grieve for those who have lost the battle against the beast that is depression while simultaneously making you grateful for those who stay and fight. In equal measures dark and light, soft and sharp, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Wayne Miller (Author)"These poems achieve the beautiful, uncanny fusing that Miller defines as poetry itself."--Rick Barot, author of Moving the BonesA tender and provocative collection of poems interrogating the troubles and wonders of both childhood and parenthood against the backdrop of global violence.From accomplished poet Wayne Miller comes a collection examining how an individual's story both hews to and defies larger socio-political narratives and the s...

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Report copyright infringementby Bryan Byrdlong (Author)Bryan Byrdlong's debut Strange Flowers fashions a kind of suit, an armor, a disguise out of the folk and pop cultural creation of the zombie. In response to historical prejudice, but more specifically in response to fear of Black people in America, the poetry in this collection uses the idea of the zombie to offer an unbiased view of Black struggle, the zombie being a suit sometimes forced upon Black people and sometimes worn willingly.Br...

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Report copyright infringementby Keana Aguila Labra (Author)The Language of Unbreaking by Keana Aguila Labra is her fourth poetry collection, offering a deeply personal exploration of the author's memories, ranging from reflections on family and self to broader themes of connection. Through the seamless blend of Cebuano and Tagalog, Labra crafts poems that weave together vibrant, delicate recollections, sometimes anchoring them in physical artifacts that hold profound emotional weight. The wor...

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Report copyright infringementby Len Pennie (Author)From Len Pennie, the performance poet sensation, comes an electric debut collection about loving, learning, surviving, growing and giving - an instant Sunday Times bestseller THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SUNDAY POST AND iPAPER BESTSELLER And I have done more than just simply get bySo much more than escape or surviveThrough the galvanisation of love, time and patienceI'll take hold of my story and thrive.After life that was seldom wha...