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Report copyright infringementby Jim Reese (Author)Everything about REALLY HAPPY, Jim Reese's third full-length collection of poetry, is ordinary-focused on life all around us. But out of this ordinary the humanity of each of his characters comes to life, each craftily spun by Reese in perfect Midwestern tone and tenor, making these saints and sinners feel like family members. This familiarity, this elevation that Reese creates, making the ordinary extraordinary, will leave the reader feeling ...

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Report copyright infringementby Shawnte Orion (Author)In his debut collection, THE EXISTENTIALIST COOKBOOK, Shawnte Orion sifts through the absurdity of modern living for scraps of philosophy, religion, and mathematics to blend into recipes for elegies and celebrations. From Kurosawa films to "Project Runway," writers to rock stars, influences are embraced and wrestled as Orion magnifies mortality through the prism of chronology and humor. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensi...

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Report copyright infringementby Emanuel Di Pasquale (Author)Emanuel di Pasquale's Self-portrait offers a collection of small but powerful poems that present a world where the poet, the poem and thus the reader wrestle with the human connection with nature-our forming mother. These poems explore inner passions and how such passions help us understand the nature of nature, the nature of things, and ultimately the nature of ourselves. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.2...

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Report copyright infringementby Rosie Jane Ingram (Author)"Ummm Ummph Umph Umph Umph - I've been right along there" is a collection of poetry and prose inspired by God. God gave Rosie Jane a unique gift to encourage her heart and soul to hold on as she travels down life's roads with all its pitfalls and struggles. You will also be inspired by the communication as the anointing rest upon you. Ummm ummph!!! How loving, how awe inspiring God is. It's humbling to know I live in this powerful stat...

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Report copyright infringementby Quinn Latimer (Author)Readers of new poetry have come to expect a certain amount of wonder in the work, a certain receptivity (here and there) to the non-rational, preternatural undercurrents which ordinarily reveal themselves to us with full force only every now and then. For some, poetry might even serve, in part, as a conservancy for that receptivity, a protected place for it to run free beyond the reach of all the paperwork and chatter. Rumored Animals is o...

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Rosenberg (Author)Dan Rosenberg drank all the great masters, took them inside, dead and alive, all alive. He explodes them and then he says: "I want the sun to be potent and kind." The sun listens. Or: "The heavens are bleached out with streetlights and we all feel larger." The reader's body reacts. Only the power of true poetry can make this happen. Here. In this book. - Toma alamun At once tranquil, blighted, and ravenous in a time all its own, The Crushi...

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Report copyright infringementby Ash Bowen (Author)In The Even Years of Marriage, Ash Bowen bravely explores the difficult mysteries of human relationships. In this powerful book, a new American voice, honest and forthright, probes without flinching the depths of love, hope, disappointment, failure, and regret. These sharply honed poems are like daggers in the heart. -David Bottoms Ash Bowen's debut poetry collection carries its readers from the bedroom to the heavens in order to define what i...

A Hunger Called Music: A Verse History of Black Music

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Report copyright infringementby Meredith Nnoka (Author)Borrowing from such sources as archival recordings and news stories, A Hunger Called Music documents the early history of African-American music beginning with work songs and ending with Motown-era soul. Using each genre's historical context and the music itself as inspiration, the poems in the chapbook take on a range of voices and stories from Robert Johnson to Nina Simone, and from a white 1950s record producer to a witness to police b...

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Vogt (Author)Afterimage moves from the southern to northern Plains and the eastern Midwest, where the natural world calls out through deep lakes and dark woods, and finally through transient moments framed by gardens: a butterfly nectaring on a coneflower, planting lavender with his future wife, or autumn leaves crashing against a morning window. In a rich array of forms and evocative imagery, the poems in Afterimage reach through prairie history until...

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Report copyright infringementby Paula Marie Coomer (Author)In Nurses Who Love English, Paula Marie Coomer chronicles the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to the emergence of war and a life wobbling under the impact of world events: the loss of livelihood, a year of unemployment, record gasoline prices and mega-inflation, and a return to hospital nursing after having been a contracted university instructor, with its accompanying strain on a 50-year-old body. In the shadows, events that should have been...

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Report copyright infringementby D. James Smith (Author) "Sounds The Living Make is a deeply satisfying collection of poems. D. James Smith combines the narrator's art with a lyric poet's intense and highly charged sense of setting and language. Whether exploring the labyrinth of memory or the mystery of 'the other, ' here are poems that have the edge and authority of fiercely honed truths." --Peter Everwine "D. James Smith's poems derive, or rather arrive, from the physical world--breaths and...

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Tyler (Author)The poems in A Hole in the Sun, Steve Tyler's first collection, are gathered across a lifetime of writing. They capture crucial moments of boy, youth and man, and what was lost along the way in language as sure as it is spare. Readers of poetry weary of cleverness and ironic detachment will find none of that here. Abstractions are few and concrete specifics are many. The poems undertake emotions elemental and raw, with grief and beauty the p...

Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine Barnett (Editor)In this unprecedented anthology, acclaimed poets from around the world select poems from their countries of origin to share with a wider audience. Readers will find eloquence, urgency, and idiosyncrasy, poems all in English but springing from drastically varied voices, geographies, and histories. Using an artist's rather than a scholar's approach, these poems - chosen out of love and admiration by practicing poets - show the vitality o...

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Munson (Author)Yes Thorn abides with mysteries--mortality, spirituality, sexuality, nature, divinity, love--and interrogates them without necessarily pressing toward or expecting explanation. Its diction is sometimes ornate, but language and images that dwell in more classically lyric places are often undercut or mixed with tougher, blunter elements. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Oct...

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Report copyright infringementby A. J. Spatz (Editor), Aaron Jacob Spatz (Editor), James Thomson (B V. ). (Author)James Thomson (1834-1882), who often signed his work with the pseudonym "B. V.," ranks among the greatest of the Victorian poets, and his magnum opus "The City of Dreadful Night" exerted a powerful impact on modern poetry of the Twentieth Century. For the first time in print, his entire body of work now appears as the poet left it upon his untimely death at the age of 47. The three...

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Cassady (Author)Jane Cassady's For the Comfort of Automated Phrases is a bottle of wine on a blanket in the park. It's a night on the couch with your girlfriend, your boyfriend... or both of them. It's making soup for a friend with a sick child. It's the beautiful unpretentious. At its heart, this is a book of love poems written starry-eyed to board games and geography, to pop culture and pop music, to nephews and cats and cities and singers. Cassady's ful...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Howard (Author)Poet Mary Howard grew up in Boston but spent summers living in a stone mill in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. There, her father taught her how to fish and throw a machete; her brother, how to climb trees; and her grandmother, how to write a poem every night before bed. Thus began a lifelong passion for the natural world and for poetry. Many walks in the woods and much travel in the world beyond inspired the images and feelings in this book...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Hittinger (Author)Matthew Hittinger's Skin Shift assembles a metamorphosis taxonomy in poems that spider spin, that nimbus twirl into Wonder Woman and leap with the Aboriginal kangaroo woman, that escape from a sub-trunk with Houdini and seduce like the Amazon's pink river dolphin man. Traditional forms morph into experimental narratives, lyrics and dramatic monologues that present an invitation to slip inside the skins of others and to experience the m...

Less Fortunate Pirates: Poems from the First Year Without My Father

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Report copyright infringementby Bryan Borland (Author)On December 20, 2009, Bryan Borland's father was killed when his vehicle left a one-lane bridge and plunged into a lake. These are poems from the year that followed. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 13, 2012

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Report copyright infringementby Brad Richard (Author)With a beauty purged of sweetness, the voices of Butcher's Sugar sing of the sublime in the debased, violence and desire, the truth of whatever is "rank with the carcass of mystery." Moving from childhood through adulthood, these poems re-inhabit and reclaim myths about the body and the self. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 16, 2012

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Klein (Author)Fire Island, Bette Davis, reincarnation, the movies, Henry James, the Russian baths, being lonely in public, following strangers, washing a corpse, the FDR Drive and the racetrack all figure predominantly in Michael Klein's The Talking Day - a talking book of poems that speak to the terrible beauty of the world we live in and the world we live without. "I'm dumb about the world. To me, it always looks haunted" is the first line of the firs...

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Report copyright infringementby Lana Hechtman Ayers (Editor), Jill McCabe Johnson (Author)Living on Orcas Island, Jill McCabe Johnson is a close neighbor to the sea. In her briny poems, she takes us even closer--letting us read the sea's diary. From sea ground to surface, we see the intimate, inside story. Careful observation, precise research, musical phrasing, and active imagining surge through these poems. Ninety-five percent of earth's oceans remain unexplored. What better metaphor for th...

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Report copyright infringementby Lana Hechtman Ayers (Editor), Marci Ameluxen (Author)In Lean House, Marci Ameluxen painstakingly reconstructs the shattered picture of a childhood pervaded by a mother's mental illness. Each poem a shard, fragmentary as shards are-voice and content meld creating a form that is all Ameluxen's own. These lyric poems are woven through with a subtle basting of narrative. Inquiring and without an ounce of self pity, Ameluxen's poems enact the ancient precept of livi...

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Report copyright infringementby Julie R. Enszer (Author)Julie R. Enszer's second collection mines the multiple meanings of sisterhood, exploring the burdens and joys of sisters, real and imagined. These poems ache with loss: of a sister, of friends from AIDS, of elder poets, of innocence, of exuberance and idealism in middle age. But at the same time, these poems affirm life: the desire of humans to live, to hold one another tightly, to build new ways of living amid fragile remains. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Hittinger (Author)The Erotic Postulate is arresting and subtle in its exploration of the complexities, histories, and realities of gay sexuality, aesthetics, and identity. Many of these poems reveal and revel in the erotics of sight and the written word. It is both a cerebral and visceral pleasure to read a poet who brings so much to the page. Anyone who cares about the present and future of poetry should read this brilliant, groundbreaking book. - Alic...

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Report copyright infringementby Brent Calderwood (Author)Mark Doty says of Brent Calderwood's debut collection of poetry, The God of Longing: The man who speaks in Brent Calderwood's poems longs for the affective, erotic and soulful bond between two men that we'd like love to be, yet he also understands that love occupies a fault zone, a territory of fracture and slippages. That's the rocky landscape of this book, but struggle is also a source of education, and Calderwood's poetic voice is in...

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Summer (Author)"I don't even know what to call Jane Summer's astounding Erebus-it's that gorgeous, that transcendent, except to say that with this love-letter/elegy/anti-elegy about a real friend in a world of counterfeits, she has invented a kind of poetry that is anxious and wild and completely unexpected. The book is hybrid in structure-with citations and photos and its scrap from a musical score-but it also represents the hybrid nature of our collectiv...

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Report copyright infringementby Don Thompson (Author)In Everything Barren will be Blessed the images are immediate and memorable, of hot Southern California valleys and desert populated with wild and civilized life-coyotes, hawks, egrets, pistachio and almond groves, humans: "Crows never make excuses, / unlike us-but like us / complain bitterly about their blessings." These poems remind us of the significance of water, the importance of our relationship with nature, and our mortality: "the wa...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Waldor (Author)One is bound to ask who Wu Xing was and what were the particulars of his life. Was he a mountain sage hailing from a distant time and far off place? Was his teacher Do Sa the prophet of a lost religion? Across the centuries, only the poetry has survived. Even the name Wu Xing was probably not his real name but a pen name taken to better reflect the spirit of the poetry. The name translates to "nothingness." Nothingness here means its very o...

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Report copyright infringementby Diane Vreuls (Author)"This is a poetry of deep spiritual longing and inquiry, quietly urgent-a lyricism that's intuitively right, a vision that's the steady but bemused gaze of intelligence. Diane Vreuls' saints might be Malcolm, adult (but other-oriented) who's directed by his mother's voice from the transistor radio in the basket of his giant trike, or Perpetua, who admits, like Vreuls, 'that only God can know / what is a cry of pain, / and what a song.' This...

The Pillow Book: English-Japanese Illustrated Edition &

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Report copyright infringementby Jee Leong Koh (Author), Mariko Hirasawa (Illustrator), Keisuke Tsubono (Translator)（英語に続き、日本語でのご案内があります）The critically acclaimed Pillow Book by Singapore poet Jee Leong Koh is now out in an illustrated dual Japanese and English edition. Inspired by Sei Shonagon, a Heian period Japanese court lady, Koh interweaves lists, anecdotes, tanka and haiku into witty, meditative essays. The Japanese translation by Keisuke Tsubono brings Koh's musings to a new audience. I...

Modus Tollens: Improvised Poetic Devices

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Report copyright infringementby Karina Tarnawsky (Photographer), Debra Di Blasi (Author), Yuriy Tarnawsky (Author)BLACK AND WHITE EDITION. In Modus Tollens Yuriy Tarnawsky fully develops the technique of Heuristic Poetry that relies on ambiguity, sketched out in some of his earlier collections, which forces the reader to create the poem for himself as he reads through the text, becoming in the process its co-author. In the end he discovers himself standing alone on the denuded earth beneath a...