Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Danez Smith (Author)Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection "[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy."--The New Yorker Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by polic...

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Ellen Kocher (Author) A surreal poetry collection considering memory and self-discovery through the character of the archon, the keeper of the mental archive. In Ruth Ellen Kocher's Archon / After, the archive is revealed as both a form of violence and of memory, of site and of event. As keeper of the archive, Kocher's archon determines what pieces of the past may be preserved, housed, documented, ordered, and reviewed. Through these poems, the archon div...

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Report copyright infringementby Jose-Luis Moctezuma (Author)Poems that follow systems of chance and divination to counter corrosive financial systems. Jose-Luis Moctezuma's Black Box Syndrome is a series of poems-or "black boxes"-based on black hexagrams in the I Ching, an ancient Chinese divination text. Following the aleatoric tradition popularized by the surrealists and extended by the work of John Cage and Jackson Maclow, these poems cast their lenses on the hazards of the incessant fina...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Bayani (Author)Life in a multicultural, multiethnic nation like the United States leads to complicated, sometimes fragmented experiences of our background and identity. In Locus, Jason Bayani's poetry explores the experience of identity that haunts Pilipinx-Americans in the wake of the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, a critical moment left out of most histories of Asian-American life in the United States. Bayani's poetry seeks to recuperate this silenc...

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Report copyright infringementby Maw Shein Win (Author) A collection of dreamlike poetry, accompanied by ink drawings, reflecting on the experiences of living in an aging body. With her latest collection, Maw Shein Win deftly braids together the pleasures, pains, and anxieties of living in an aging body, revealing how a mind can log thoughts and observations. Win employs new poetic forms to invite her readers into realms that are both deeply personal and universal, rendered with dreamlike ima...

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Report copyright infringementby Brody Parrish Craig (Author)A poetry collection that questions the current construction of psychiatric treatment while speaking through lived experience and advocating for disability justice. The poems of Brody Parrish Craig's new collection upends narratives around current psychiatric treatment models to focus on the lived experience of survivors and to speak toward liberation, abolition, and disability justice. Titled after the author's own medical records, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Karla Kelsey (Author)Lyrical poems that tell the story of a nameless woman navigating a technological dystopia. In the poems of On Certainty, an unnamed woman in a strangely familiar dystopia narrates a story of power and decline, where the Tyrant has gained ascendency and the Philosopher is dying. Here, the Tyrant rules over a decimated ecology filled with android deer, burnt towns, and exhausted individuals dependent on virtual reality augmentation. In choos...

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Ellen Kocher (Author)Poems that consider the human body as a meeting place of the infinite and the mortal. Starting with the idea that the human experience is the universe looking back at itself, godhouse takes the notion a few steps further by centering cosmology within a raced and gendered body. Ruth Ellen Kocher's poems envision this body as a union of god and soul that, within our material world, encompasses love and hate, joy and despair. The body is...

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Report copyright infringementby Lyn Hejinian (Author)The three works of poetry that constitute Tribunal were written in the current context of seemingly ubiquitous warfare and the specter of unabashed neo-fascism, ethno-nationalism, and-especially in the United States-reassertions of white supremacy. As renowned poet Lyn Hejinian recounts, the inspiration for Tribunal gradually took shape over the course of almost a decade in the collaborative work she has done to fight neoliberal policies th...

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Report copyright infringementby Kelly Weber (Author)Poems in a range of forms that consider the queer body, chronic illness, and love amid rural plains landscapes. Set against a rural plains landscape of gas stations, wind, and roadkill bones littering the highways, You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis is a love letter to the nonbinary body as a site of both queer platonic intimacy and chronic illness. Looking at art and friendship, Kelly Weber's poems imagine alternatives to x-rays, pathologizin...

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Santos Perez (Author)A collection of previously published poems by renowned National Book Award-winning Chamoru poet Craig Santos Perez. The seventh book from award-winning Chamoru author Craig Santos Perez, Call This Mutiny brings together poems that were originally published in journals and anthologies from 2008 to 2023. Throughout these selected poems, Perez offers critical explorations of native cultures, decolonial politics, colonial histories, and...

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Report copyright infringementby Homer (Author), Anthony Verity (Author), William Allan (Author)Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to claim Odysseus' wife Penelope, and his young son Telemachus is powerless to stop them. Meanwhile, Odysseus is driven beyond the limits of the known world, encountering countless divine and earthly challenge...

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Report copyright infringementby Allison Blevins (Author)Cataloguing Pain by Allison Blevins explores motherhood, sexuality, and queerness as it juxtaposes the author's diagnosis of MS with her partner's gender transition. As one body moves toward unfamiliarity, a state of chronic pain, a sense of being caged, the other is escaping pain, emerging into its true self, becoming free. Cataloguing Pain chronicles both trauma and hope through marriage, illness, and motherhood as the author learns ho...

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Report copyright infringementby Derrick Woodard (Author)May who I am and who I portray be two separate entities. May all hear my words though I've cloaked my identity. Drado Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 02, 2018

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Report copyright infringementby James A. Pearson (Author)These poems walk with you through seasons of heartbreak, rebirth, and homecoming.Drawing on the strength of the natural world to renew itself each spring, this debut collection from James A. Pearson doesn't flinch from the moments when life comes crashing down. But it's not stuck there, either.Each poem meets you with a gentle faith-that just like the trees and the ferns and the summer foxgloves, you carry within you an inextinguishable...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Oliver (Author)"The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming." --The Boston Globe Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver's poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraor...

Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances

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Report copyright infringementby Kwame Alexander (Author)This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with. In an intimate and non-traditional (or "new-fashioned") memoir, Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes us through stories of his parents: from being awkward newlyweds in the s...

Copper Canyon Classics: A Manual of Prosody

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Report copyright infringementby Alfred Corn (Author)An indispensable guide for poets, readers, students, and teachers. "The Poem's Heartbeat may well be the finest general book available on prosody."--Library Journal (starred review)"A provocative, definitive manual."--Publishers WeeklyFinally back in print, this slender, user-friendly guide to rhyme, rhythm, meter, and form sparks "intuitive and technical lightning-flashes" for poets and readers curious to know a poem's inner workings. Clear...

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Beckman (Author), Gerald Stern (Introduction by)The inaugural winner of the annual American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.36 x 9.01 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: September 01, 1998

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Report copyright infringementby Edgar Kunz (Author)A New York Times Editors' Choice book from the author of the award-winning Tap Out - "a gritty, insightful debut" (Washington Post) - Edgar Kunz's second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America. Temp jobs, conspiracy theories, squatters, talk therapy, urban gardening, the robot revolution: this collection fixes its eye on the strangeness of labor, through poems that are searching, keen, and...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Wan Dolling (Author)My China in Tang Poetry is a personal celebration of the genius of the Golden Age of Chinese poetry. Susan Wan Dolling, writer, teacher and storyteller provides a feast of new translations and readings of the poetry with consummate knowledge, understanding and an enthusiasm that is infectious. In her telling, these stories and poems are not archaic or hard, but engaging and alive.Volume Two, Floating on Clouds, gives us two men describ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sally Wilson (Author), Mark Kruger (Composer)'Have You Ever Stopped To Think, ' the first book in Sally Wilson's 'The LaLa Chronicles series', opens a world where whimsy and wisdom meld seamlessly in the lives of comical characters, including the Zimney, Sozit, Fink, and Moof.An adventure for the young and young at heart into the wild of our own vulnerabilities and strengths, this beautiful, playful poetry embraces the imaginative, messy, and magnificent journe...

Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words [With CD (Audio)]

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Rosen (Author)Can someone really be saved by a poem? In Kim Rosen's book, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" Poetry, the most ancient form of prayer, is a necessary medicine for our times: a companion through difficulty; a guide when we are lost; a salve when we are wounded; and a conduit to an inner source of joy, freedom, and insight. Whether you are a lover of poetry or have yet to discover its power, Rosen offers a new way to experience a poem. She encou...

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by Sam Taylor (Author)Powerful debut by poet who splits time teaching at UNM-Taos and caretaking snowbound wilderness refuge.Author BiographyA graduate of Swarthmore College and former Michener Fellow in the MFA Program at University of Texas, his poems have appeared in numerous publications, and received the Florida Review Editor's Poetry 2002 Poetry Prize. He splits his time teaching at UNM-Taos and caretaking for a snowbound wilderness refuge. Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8.62 x...

The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen

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Report copyright infringementby Rolf Jacobsen (Author), Robert Bly (Translator), Robert Hedin (Translator)Norway's Rolf Jacobsen is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers yet, as Robert Bly points out in his introduction: "This magnificent poet is so little known in the United States." This bilingual edition, which selects the best work from Jacobsen's ten volumes, will help remedy that situation.Three dedicated translators contribute to this book. Robert Bly's translations celebrate the radi...

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Landau (Author)"The poems of Landau's stunning second collection are dark, urgent, sexy, deeply sad, and, above all, powerful."--Publishers Weekly, starred review"Landau's intimate, lonely poems are profoundly engaged with the experience of the self in its starkest moments: when it is deprived, nocturnal, barely lingual...She creates a deeply erotic and resonant encounter between the lyric I and its solitude." --The Boston Review"She is both confession...

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Uyematsu (Author)Amy Uyematsu is an award-winning poet who by day switches from right to left brain to teach algebra and geometry in public high school. The result of her poetry-math life is a fascinating, far-flung but surprisingly connected book that interlinks mathematics, poetry, politics and spirit. Stone Bow Prayer is a remarkable journey in which--as one poem suggests--"Geometry Gets Mixed Up with God and the Alphabet," and the infinite and minute nu...

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Report copyright infringementby Ellen Bass (Author)"Poetry," writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, "is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray. It's the way I embody my love for the world." The Human Line, Bass' seventh book of poems, startles with its precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors. Bass brings attention to life's endearing absurdities, and many of the poems flash with a keen sense of humor. She also faces many of the crucial ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Bibbins (Author)"Delirious! Adventure stories in the shape of poems."--Laurie Anderson"Bibbins . . . has the courage to stop, to pin down the always irrational present moment, and the reader is eager to follow, to inhale its scathing or enticing perfume. . . . A brilliant young poet."--John Ashbery"Those who will feel themselves spoken for by these poems have been hungrily awaiting this book." --Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn his second collection, T...

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Alire Saenz (Author)"To write well about your life, you need to have a life worth writing about. On that score, Sáenz hits pay dirt." --Booklist"A former Catholic priest, this poet creates prayerful verse that is at once mystical and utterly human." --The Washington PostPoet, novelist, and popular YA writer Benjamin Alire Sáenz writes to the core truth of life's ever-shifting memories. Set along the Mexican border, the contrast between the desert's aus...

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Report copyright infringementby Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Author)BuzzFeed's Books Coming in 2019 That You'll Want To Keep On Your Radar NPR's 2019 Poetry Preview NBC's 8 Excellent Latino Poetry Books for National Poetry Month The Rumpus's Books To Read in 2019 Remezcla's 8 Books to Read this Year Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of 2019 Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books To Read For Spring 2019 "Through a range of forms--tercets, prose hybrids, lyric strophes, and more--the poems in Scente...

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Report copyright infringementby Marlene Fekete (Author)Proverbs 12:10 "The righteous regards the care of his animals" so shall it be in Heaven.Believing Christians have the authority to call themselves saints.Also, un-aware are angels on Earth among us.Wishing to have the given authority from God to claim myself as one unaware angel instead of Saint on Earth.I could do things needed invisible, unseen and still proclaim the Gospel told!If given the opportunity to live a little longer allowing ...