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Report copyright infringementby Wendell Berry (Author), Wesley Bates (Author)In 1995, Wendell Berry's Roots to the Earth was published in portfolio form by West Meadow Press. The wood etchings of celebrated artist and wood engraver, Wesley Bates, were printed from the original wood blocks on handmade Japanese paper. In 2014, this work was reprinted at Larkspur Press, along with additional poems. It is now with great pleasure that Counterpoint reproduces this collaborative work for trade publi...

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Report copyright infringementby Courtney Peppernell (Author)Written for anyone who has known the touch of a cold nose on their hand, the bark of a best friend, or the joy of a walk accompanied by a wagging tail, All Dogs Are Good pays tribute to the special bond we share with our canine companions. Filled with heartfelt poems and prose on the love, dedication, and laughter our dogs bring, as well as the unique lessons they teach us along the way, bestselling author Courtney Peppernell's vigne...

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Report copyright infringementby Eve L. Ewing (Author), Eve L. Ewing (Narrated by)Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the fantastical, Ewing takes us from the streets of Chicago to an alien arrival in an unspecified future, deftly navigating boundaries of space, time, and reality with delight and flexibility.Author BiographyEve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, artist, and educat...

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Report copyright infringementby Camonghne Felix (Author)"Camonghne Felix is a brilliant writer, thinker, imaginer, builder--a young leader who shifts and opens the possibilities for a more just, better lit world, with each step, each word, each question." --Kathy Engel This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains. Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective ...

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic

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Report copyright infringementby Jamila Woods (Editor), Mahogany L. Browne (Editor), Idrissa Simmonds (Editor)A BreakBeat Poets anthology, Black Girl Magic celebrates and canonizes the words of Black women across the diaspora.Author BiographyPoet and vocalist Jamila Woods was raised in Chicago, IL and graduated from Brown University, where she earned a BA in Africana Studies and Theatre & Performance Studies. Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks, much of her writing explores ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Hamill (Translator), Basho (Author), Buson (Author)Quintessential classical Japanese haiku--selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators--now available in a pocket edition. In this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill has compiled the best from the tradition, spanning the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, with particular focus on the three great masters: Bashō, Buson, and Issa. Based on images from nature, the poems addre...

Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary

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Report copyright infringementby Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Anita Barrows (Translator), Joanna Macy (Translator)A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke's (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke's personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living urge an aspiring poet to look inward, while also offering sage wisdom on further ...

Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings

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Report copyright infringementby Matsuo Basho (Author), Sam Hamill (Translator)A masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature--part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritual awakening Bashō (1644-1694)--a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty--is renowned in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku recou...

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Daniels (Editor)While there have been countless books written about Detroit, none have captured its incredible musical history like this one. This collection of poems and lyrics covers numerous genres including jazz, blues, doo-wop, Motown, classic rock, punk, hip-hop, and techno. Detroit artists have forged the paths in many of these genres, producing waves of creative energy that continue to reverberate across the country and around the world. While docum...

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Hamill (Translator)A collection of classical Japanese haiku selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators. Haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world due to its brevity, emotion, and astounding ability to capture the unique experience of a single moment. This collection, beautifully translated by Sam Hamill, compiles over two hundred haiku from classic Japanese literature written by masters of the...

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Report copyright infringementby Marcus Aurelius (Author), George Long (Translator)Classic teachings on the art of living by the great Roman emperor, statesman, and general. The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius originally wrote the meditations collected here in the form of a personal journal during his military campaigns in the second century. In them, he reflects with great beauty and simplicity upon the Stoic virtues that lead to a happy life: self-mastery, moral strength, duty to oneself and o...

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Report copyright infringementby Willis Barnstone (Author)A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator. Sappho's lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place and continue to enchant readers today. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, the passionate elegance of her musings on life and death, loss and longing, desire, and nature speak v...

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Report copyright infringementby Zoe Tuck (Author)Consisting of lyric love letters to friends and musings on daily desire, nostalgia, and thirst for connection, Bedroom Vowel traces the development of an everyday philosophy formed in the social life of a creativeAuthor BiographyZoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Massachusetts. She is the author of Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light) and the chapbooks Vape Cloud of Unknowing (Belladonna*) and The Bo...

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Report copyright infringementby Sneha Madhavan-Reese (Author)FINALIST FOR THE 2024 OTTAWA BOOK AWARDPart family history, part scientific exploration, Elementary Particles examines the world through the lens of a daughter grieving the loss of her beloved father. Through keen, quiet observation, Sneha Madhavan-Reese's evocative new collection takes us from the wide expanse of rural India to the minute map of Michigan we carry on the palms of our hands. These poems contemplate ancestral language...

Cecco Bonanotte: La Divina Commedia (the Divine Comedy): Paradiso

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Report copyright infringementby Cecco Bonanotte (Author), Micol Forti (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Antonio Paolucci (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Bonanotte concludes his Divine Comedy series with gold-dappled illustrations of Dante entering ParadiseFor the final part of the Divine Comedy, Cecco Bonanotte (born 1942) shifts his color palette to ivory and gold: the colors of the heavens. Through the use of graphite, the artist explores a sublime range of transparencies, each infused with an illumi...

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Report copyright infringementby Said Shaiye (Author)This innovative Afrofuturist memoir returns in a second edition with a new introduction by Douglas Kearney. Said Shaiye's cross-genre debut Are You Borg Now? blends nonfiction and poetry in an experimental interview the author conducts with his younger self, rejecting the conventions of memoir and what is expected of who writes them, specifically when that writer is an immigrant. Are You Borg Now? cyphers with trauma through a poetics of ref...

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Report copyright infringementby Wilfred Owen (Author), C. Day Lewis (Editor), Edmund Blunden (Other)Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owen's papers in the British Museum and other archives.Back JacketThis definitive edition of Owen's poetry,...

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Report copyright infringementby Juliana Spahr (Author)Lyric meditations on writing poetry in a time of ecological crisis and right wing populismThe 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner in PoetryDuring the time of an increasingly powerful alt-right which was also the time when species extinction was ever increasing, Juliana Spahr sat down to read Brecht. She was looking for an answer to Brecht's question about the dark times, about whether there will also be singing during the dark times. The answer tha...

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Report copyright infringementby William Carlos Williams (Author), Charles Tomlinson (Editor)Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects the most up-to-date Williams scholarship. In addition to including many more pieces, Tomlinson has organized the whole in chronological order. "It isn't what he [the poet] says that counts as a work of art," Williams maintained, "it's what he makes, with such intensity of purpose that it lives with an int...

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by John Hollander (Editor)The splendid poems in this collection both represent and glorify the cultivating instinct, and each of them succeeds in "annihilating all that's made," as Andrew Marvell puts it in one of the most famous of all English poems, "to a green thought in a green shade." Contents include poems on Paradises, Gardens of Love, Gardens in the Mind, Gardens and Seasons, Flowers, Gardeners, The Work of the Garden, Gardens of the Wild, City Gardens, Public Gardens, Ruined Gardens,...

Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Belletto (Author)Black Surrealist. Poet. Collage artist. Jazz trumpeter. Painter. Member of the Beat Generation. Life-long wanderer. Pan-Africanist. Black Power agitator. Author of his own "poem-life." Ted Joans (1928-2003) was all of these things, and yet none of these labels adequately capture the beauty and complexity of his life and work. The proportions of Ted Joans's life are legendary. Born in Cairo, Illinois in 1928, as a young man he distinguis...

Land of Blue Shadows: Mountain Life in Verse & View

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Report copyright infringementby George Ellison (Author), Elizabeth Ellison (Author), Quintin Ellison (Author)This final posthumous publication from beloved regional poet, naturalist and writer George Ellison presents lovely poetry from an icon of the Smokies alongside gorgeous paintings and photography from Elizabeth Ellison and Quintin Ellison. As Western North Carolina rebuilds in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, these ruminations and scenes from life at the edge of the Smoky Mountains wi...

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Report copyright infringementby Erik Gray (Editor), Veronica Alfano (Editor)Back JacketThe first new anthology of its kind in twenty years, Victorian Poetry provides generous selections of poetry both by well-known Victorian poets (Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti) and by writers who have received less critical attention (Constance Naden, Toru Dutt, Grace Aguilar). Detailed annotations, substantial biographies, and an introduction outlining major literary and historical tr...

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by Mahmoud Darwish (Author), Catherine Cobham (Translator)This remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish's last volume to come out in Arabic. This River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony, resistance, and play. Darwish's musings on unrest and loss dwell on love and humanity; myth and dream are inseparable from truth. Throughout this personal collection, Darwish returns frequently to his ongoing and of...

Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet in the Twenty-First Century

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Report copyright infringementby Derek Beaulieu (Author)A radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetry Do It Wrong is a short, snappy series of provocations and suggestions designed to help poets think outside the box and foster creativity. It's a permission slip to take a path others reject, to do the counter-intuitive thing, to embrace the weird. It's a guidebook designed to bring poets together, to question our assumptions, and to move past ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)The Poems Shakespeare's greatest achievement in nondramatic verse was his collection of 154 magnificent sonnets that portray a tumultuous world of love, rivalry, and conflict among a poet, an aristocratic young man, a rival poet, and a mysterious "dark lady." More profound than other Elizabethan sonnet sequences and never surpassed as archetypes of the form, these poems explore almost every imaginable emotional complexity related to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alina Stefanescu (Author)Behold My Heresies: the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, belief, longing, and grief, the poems of My Heresies catalog a personal and familial history originating in Bucharest, Romania and landing in Birmingham, Alabama. Whether through sardonic takes on old Bible myths or homage paid to French-Romanian poet Paul Celan, Stefanescu's poems are laden...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Rodefer (Author), Geoffrey Young (Introduction by)Originally published in the 1980s and out of print until now, Rodefer's four long poems are milestones in American avant-garde poetry. Stephen Rodefer was an innovative, singular American writer--a student of Charles Olson's often associated with the Language poets but whose eclectic, energetic verse defies categorization and embraces a worldly lyricism all Rodefer's own. Four Lectures--first published i...

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Report copyright infringementby Nezami Ganjavi (Author), Dick Davis (Translator), Dick Davis (Introduction by)A tragic epic love story before Romeo and Juliet, by one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, in a modern-verse English translation by Dick Davis A Penguin Classic Based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court and written 850 years ago, the narrative poem about Khosrow and Shirin shares a shelf with the most intensely romantic classic stories readers l...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Strasser (Author)Mystics Recourse: A Poetic Journey is a profound collection of verse that navigates the personal and spiritual landscape of life-altering challenges. Dedicated to cancer survivors and those lost to the disease, this book offers a raw yet hopeful exploration of survival, compassion, and the fundamental changes that come with confronting one's mortality.Drawing on the author's deep connection to wild places and natural processes, the poems...

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Report copyright infringementby Virgil (Author), Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead ...

Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures - Paperback

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by Mary Ruefle (Author)This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act--the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle's work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play...