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Report copyright infringementby Brad Richard (Author)Turned Earth, the fifth collection of poems by Brad Richard, offers a portrait of the artist as a grieving son who is also a husband, teacher, gardener, and attentive witness to our precarious world. Navigating life after his mother's death, the speaker uses memory and imagination to understand, as one poem's title declares, "How I Came to This." Tender and trenchant, elegiac yet often livened by humor, Richard's poems affirm the sustaining...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Tandon (Author)Jason Tandon is a minimalist, a poet who manages stunning effects using the fewest possible elements of his medium. I am reminded of Uta Barth, who says her photographs "talk about the passage of time while looking at things that don't change that much at all." That moment of change is what shines in these poems, focused, refined, and magnified as it is by a lens of Tandon's flawless language. The intelligence in these poems is razor-sharp,...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Brown (Author)"With heartbreaking insight, Sarah McKinstry-Brown tells of Demeter and Persephone as the story of a mother who has lost her daughter to male violence. These plainspoken, elegant poems give voice to tomboys, girls coming into their sexual power, their mothers and grandmothers, newscasters unspooling the latest version of the 'gone girl' narrative, pregnant women, mothers who miscarry, and flowers who give advice. In crystalline verse, McKins...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura McCullough (Author)If you, like the speaker in Laura McCullough's poem, "Almost Nothing Something [stars / plates / cells]" have grown "tired & suspicious of poetry" Women & Other Hostages will absolutely revitalize you. These are riveting, wholly moving narratives of a life lived. Out of sorrow McCullough invokes a stunning grace where "What is stripped from you" becomes a gift because "what's left behind is all your own." Women of all circumstan...

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Boulware Sutton (Author)In SAVAGE FLOWER, winner of the 2019 St. Lawrence Book Award, Anna B. Sutton explores female oppression and agency in the Bible Belt South. The intertwined landscapes of Tennessee and North Carolina are the backdrop for Sutton's beautiful, warring marriage of religion, family, the body, sex and reproductive rights, and the inevitable cycle of destruction and rebirth. In the tradition of the confessional poem, Sutton looks to her pas...

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Report copyright infringementby Hr Webster (Author)"What a lively, funny, lacerating book of poems from this "gutsy little zombie," H.R. Webster, who knows the world through direct, often brutal, experience, and ravishingly, through the senses. Here is a poet who knows "(t)he refrigerator warm with the animal smell / of butter," "the shy hysteria / of doves," "(h)unters storming through the gum trees like house cats / cut from their bells," and "the dick velvet of the apricot under a thumb," ...

Shadows & Verse: Classic Dark Poems with Celebrity Commentary

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Maberry (Editor), Edgar Allan Poe (Author)Shadows & Verse: Dark Poems with Celebrity Commentary is a very special collection of poems and song lyrics that explore 'darkness' in all its many forms -the supernatural, grief, PTSD, loss, the unknown, death, and even joy. Darkness itself is not always bad or negative. This volume collects poems about darkness by some of the greatest writers of all time -including Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Langston ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer a. Payne (Author)AN INTIMATE EXPLORATION OF LOVE, MEMORY, AND MEANINGKnown for her meditations and musings about our outside world, Connecticut writer Jen Payne takes readers inside this time...into the heart and mind of a poet, where memories wander, hearts break, and ghosts appear in dreams. Those ghosts - her lovers, soulmates, and muses - reveal themselves slowly, one at a time, in this wistfully reflective, time-traveling memoir. Numb...

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Report copyright infringementby Charlotte Jeane Pence (Author)At its center, CODE features a narrative sequence with three characters: a new father, a mother dying young from an inherited disease, and that mother's own DNA. In light of exciting new developments such as CRISPR that would allow us to alter genetics and eradicate certain diseases, this book approaches ethical questions from an angle that science cannot. Ultimately, CODE is a book about grief-specifically, how to accept it. These...

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Report copyright infringementby Janaka Stucky (Author), Pam Grossman (Introduction by)Ascend Ascend was written in and out of trance states secluded in a 100-year-old church tower. Equally Walt Whitman and Maggot Brain, this book documents the ecstatic destruction of the self through its union with the divine.Author BiographyJanaka Stucky is a mystic poet, performer, and founding editor of the award-winning press, Black Ocean. In 2015 Jack White's Third Man Records launched a new publishing i...

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Report copyright infringementby Elwin Michael Cotman (Author)THE WIZARD'S HOMECOMING is a sword-and-sorcery tale of heroes and villains on a cosmic and human scale. Paired with ten years of poetry, this is the next step in Cotman's hybrid bibliography."Elwin Cotman draws from a rich vein - subversive, blistering, playful, and always surprising. The world feels a little more vivid, a lot more haunted, every time I pick up one of his collections."-Kelly Link"In The Wizard's Homecoming, Elwin Co...

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Report copyright infringementby Osel Jessica Plante (Author)"The word 'lush' doesn't even begin to describe these poems. And boy, do we need lushness, especially these days. The world empties us out, and only poetry can fill us up again. In one poem, the speaker lies on a bench in a park and when a groundskeeper, mistaking her for a homeless person, asks her if there's something she needs, she says yes, yes, I need everything. Are you hungry, reader? Open this book, then. A feast awaits."-Dav...

Where You Want To Be: New and Selected Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Pilkington (Author)"This is a poet unafraid of being understood, who will not hide behind decorativeness or the oblique. Read these poems aloud and you will hear an authentic and quintessentially American voice not only writing but also speaking to you."-Thomas Lux"I take guilty pleasure in the poems of Kevin Pilkington, and consider him an essential voice in contemporary poetry."-Jay Parini"In this rich collection of tender poems, he celebrates the small...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeanann Verlee (Author)In her third book, PREY, Jeanann Verlee examines predatory relationships from childhood onward. Drawing parallels between human and non-human predators, the poems collected here strive to illuminate the trauma of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse-exploring what it is to become prey.Author BiographyJeanann Verlee is the author of three books of poetry: prey, Said the Manic to the Muse, and award-winning Racing Hummingbirds. She ha...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Hiton (Author)Arriving to the pastoral happens repeatedly and full of worry in THE CLEARING. For the pastoral stands for the fields of the Holocaust, of the imagination, of the Midwest, of the body, and even the empty field of the blank page. In the absence of knowing how to properly bury our inheritances of the 20th century, Hiton turns to fictive spectacle-to narrative invention, sensory desires, and malleable landscapes-as a last gesture toward hope. As...

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Report copyright infringementby Becca Klaver (Author)On December 22, 2018, the 40th anniversary of Bernadette Mayer's writing of Midwinter Day, 32 women poets typed into Google Docs titled Dreams, Morning, Noontime, Afternoon, Evening, and Night. Following the six-part structure of Mayer's book, they composed alongside each other all day, dozens of cursors blinking in a virtual happening. Midwinter Constellation is the result. Part patchwork quilt, part collective consciousness, the book hope...

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Report copyright infringementby Adam McOmber (Author)"Adam McOmber could be describing Fantasy Kit as a whole with these lines: "This is my house. The one I've been telling you about...You think: I know that house...But I can assure you you're wrong about that. You've never seen my house." In reading Fantasy Kit, I felt like a visitor to a strange theme park constructed of smoke and clay, lust and the uncanny, wickedness and tenderness. Here readers are ushered into mazes and caverns, paradi...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Biddinger (Author)Part post-punk ghost story, part Gen-X pastoral, Mary Biddinger's poetry collection Department of Elegy conjures dim nightclubs, churning lakes, and vacant Midwestern lots, meditating on moments of lost connection. With the afterlife looming like fringe around the edges of this book, Biddinger constructs a view of heaven as strange as the world left behind. These poems escort us from forest to dance floor, bathtub to breakwater, memory in...

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Report copyright infringementby Giovanni Pascoli (Author), Elena Borelli (Translator), James Ackhurst (Translator)Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912) is renowned as one of the founders of modern Italian poetry. Embodying the Zeitgeist of fin-de-siècle Italy, his works are inspired by French Symbolism and Decadentism. They also draw on the classical tradition so alive in Italian culture. His unique poetic voice is filled with traditional metrical forms, an uncanny use of onomatopoeic language, and a ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Olstein (Author)Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is a debut collection of poetry that explores multiple logics of perception, association, and interpretation. Navigating the edges where things begin to disappear, the poems inhabit border zones of transformation where memory slides into imagination, wakefulness meets sleep, and things possessed become lost. What seemed a mystery wasin fact a choice. Insert bird for sorrow.What ...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank O'Hara (Author), Bill Berkson (Introduction by), Don Allen (Editor)A reissue of this classic, essential companion to Frank O'Hara's Collected Poems, with a new introduction by Bill Berkson.Author BiographyFrank O'Hara, the son of Russell Joseph O'Hara and Katherine (née Broderick) was born on March 27, 1926, at Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore and grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts. He attended St. John's High School in Worcester. He grew up believing ...

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Report copyright infringementby Adele Elise Williams (Author)Wager, Adele Elise Williams's raucous debut, celebrates the fearlessness and determination that can be wrested from strife. Early on, Williams confronts multiple challenges, both personal and communal, including persistent childhood anxieties and stunning neighborhood tragedies ("Ray down the street hung / himself like just-bought bananas needing time"). In the working-class communities she moves among, the poet tangles with her per...

Parable and Paradox: Sonnets on the Sayings of Jesus and Other Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Malcolm Guite (Author)Since the publication of the bestselling Sounding the Seasons, Malcolm Guite has repeatedly been asked for more sonnets. This new collection offers a sequence of 50 sonnets that focus on many passages in the Gospels: the Beatitudes, parables and miracles, teachings on the Kingdom, and the 'hard sayings' - Jesus' challenging demands with which we wrestle. In addition this collection includes: - A sequence of five sonnets on 'The Wilderness'...

Love, Remember: 40 Poems of Loss, Lament and Hope

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Report copyright infringementby Malcolm Guite (Author)The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer. Some of the poems will be familiar, many will be new, but together they provide a sure companion for the journey across difficult terrain. Some of Malcolm's own poetry is included, written out of his work as a priest with the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick D. Coats (Author), John I. Payne (Foreword by)Reverend Patrick D. Coats is a generational man of faith whose life work is to spread the true and living word of God. His courage and unwavering belief in his purpose, paired with his extensive biblical knowledge, grants him unique indisputable abilities to motivate, counsel, encourage, pastor, and touch lives in a transformative way. I have come to know him as a master communicator, both verbally and nonve...

My Heart is a Pomegranate/ Mi Corazón es una Granada

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Helen Lopez (Author)This book is a collection of testimonial poems created as an act of confessionalism by the writer. It is not a pointed retribution, rather a gathering of words meant for survivalism and connection to those readers who are so inclined to participate in a type of personalized, haphazard piecemealed journey stitched by the author. It is sloppy at best, proudly unpolished, surreal to some extent and is a tapestry of truthful renditions w...

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Report copyright infringementby Corinne Hackett (Author)Growing up open feels like a endless loop of finding and losing yourself. This collection of poetry was written in times of both losing and finding, with the aim of trying to make sense of the weight that both carry. Through bittersweet honesty and light-hearted tone, may this collection tell a story that soothes the heaviness you hold. Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Dat...

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Report copyright infringementby Olivia Clare Friedman (Author)Olivia Clare Friedman's An Arm Fixed to a Wing seeks out the spiritual elements that haunt the everyday, the divine wing fastened to an earthly arm. Elegies and poems of nostalgia appear alongside pieces celebrating the speaker's present moment, with the underlying knowledge that such moments slip past too easily. Several poems explore the theme of motherhood--the excitement and novelty, the routine and translucent sleeplessness. A...

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Report copyright infringementby Oli Hazzard (Author)A brilliantly inventive book of poems from a fierce poetic voice, whose work John Ashbery called "exciting, necessary, and new."Sleepers Awake, Oli Hazzard's third collection, emerges from the daily disarray of care and work, nature and technology. Its ambitious, formally various poems extract "the ore / from boredom," as memory --personal, familial, social, historical--and the collective memory of poetry itself are wrenched out of shape by ...

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Report copyright infringementby Abraham Smith (Author)"Abraham Smith is one of my favorite living poets keeping the art form alive. He stokes the fires of imagination and his persistence keeps the cinders of inspiration smoldering. It is a joy to read his work and a thrill to hear him read it in person." - Margo Price"The mists that hover over a meadow first thing in the morning do not disappear; rather they sublime into the day or, as Thoreau once put it, they "conform to the fashions of ete...