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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Maluka (Author)Unwashed is a deeply personal collection of poetry, centering on themes of growing up, loss of innocence, love, the immigrant experience, and alienation. The title of the collection is a reference to the urgency of the work. These are not romantic or quiet poems; they are loud and in-your-face. They speak directly to the collective anxieties of urban life and reflect the author's experience as an immigrant in Canada and a family man in the...

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Report copyright infringementby Colm Tóibín (Author)A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelists In this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tolu Oloruntoba (Author)Personal, primordial, and pulsing with syncopated language, Tolu Oloruntoba's poetic debut, The Junta of Happenstance, is a compendium of dis-ease. This includes disease in the traditional sense, as informed by the poet's time as a physician, and dis-ease as a primer for family dysfunction, the (im)migrant experience, and urban / corporate anxiety. In the face of struggles against social injustice, Oloruntoba navigates the contemporary m...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Gordon (Author)Author BiographySarah Gordon is the author of widely published poems and two previous collections of poetry: DISTANCES and THE LOST THING as well as FLANNERY O'CONNOR: THE OBEDIENT IMAGINATION and A LITERARY GUIDE TO FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S GEORGIA. Gordon is professor emerita of English at Georgia College & State University where she chaired five O'Connor symposia and was named Distinguished Professor. She is a recipient of The Governor's ...

Return to a Certain Region of Consciousness: New & Selected Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Cathryn Hankla (Author)Author BiographyCathryn Hankla is the author of multiple works in several genres and a visual artist who grew up in Southwest Virginia. Recent publications include IMMORTAL STUFF: PROSE POEMS, NOT XANADU: POEMS, and LOST PLACES: ON LOSING AND FINDING HOME. Hollins University professor emerita of English & Creative Writing, Hankla lives in Roanoke, Virginia. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.72 x 8.94 x 6.14 ...

Phantom Number: An Abecedarium for April

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Report copyright infringementby Spring Ulmer (Author)Poems that ask an urgent question: how might a white friend write in protest of intimate Black death without becoming complicit in the commodification of Black trauma? Phantom Number listens for an absent voice. To survive and answer to her best friend and fellow poet April Freely's death, Spring Ulmer rips meaning apart in her poems, then repairs it, only to rip it up again. Words bend, meaning shifts--abstraction a tool Ulmer wields to b...

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie Burton (Author)***2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Winner*** This semi-autobiographical collection of poetry offers an historical snapshot of domestic life that views women's labour, relationships, and sexuality through a feminist lens. Chores is about families and the domestic work of settler women on the island of Newfoundland. A comedy and a tragedy in equal parts, Chores explores everyday life with all its pleasures and suffering. The ...

Selected Poems of Philip Lamantia, 1943-1966: Pocket Poets No. 20

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Lamantia (Author), Garrett Caples (Editor)The original American surrealist returns in a new edition of the 1967 classic."I am eager to do a book of yours," Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote to Philip Lamantia in Nerja, Spain in 1966. "What about SELECTED POEMS OF PHILIP LAMANTIA?" The missive came at the right time, as Lamantia had recently reembraced the surrealism of his youth and sought to publish his current work alongside his key poems of the 1940s, when ...

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Report copyright infringementby Connie Braun (Author)This searching debut collection moves deeply in all directions, coming home to memories inherited and held in the land. Following images like guideposts--a grandmother's floral dress, sour cherry trees, milk teeth, a storm over the lake--Connie Braun explores the ways grief, motherhood, love, and desire uproot and transplant a life. Moving through birthing rooms and forest fires, Moonroads is a lyrical and intimate negotiation between lost ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mimi Khalvati (Author)King's Gold Medal for Poetry Winner of the Jhalak Poetry Prize 2025 A Guardian Book of the Year 2024 A London Review Bookshop Book of the Year 2024 Mimi Khalvati, one of our best-loved poets, was born in Tehran, Iran, and sent away to boarding school on the Isle of Wight at the age of six, only returning to her family in Iran when she was seventeen. The loss of her native country, culture and mother tongue formed the bedrock of her adop...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Wilkins (Author)Joe Wilkins' Pastoral, 1994 calls compellingly into the lyric quietness, labor, and rituals of the rural West and its communities, bringing readers close to the earth, to the ditches, to the "flowery stink of alfalfa / hot breath of wheat." Enfolding its reader in a living, breathing landscape, this collection tenderly approaches the lives--of humans, of sheep, of cottonwood, and barn owl--that collide and entangle with each other. With a ge...

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Report copyright infringementby Garry Gottfriedson (Author)The Secwé pemc term le estcwicwe y? (the missing) was given by Secwé pemc elders who dedicated their knowledge and time to guide the community through the hell they were forced to endure in May 2021. Garry Gottfriedson's The Flesh of Ice picks up the thread of his 2021 collection, Bent Back Tongue, describing the history and relationship of Indigenous people in Canada with the Canadian government and the Catholic church. Here is the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Yael Valencia Aldana (Author)In Black Mestiza, Yael Valencia Aldana reckons with her identity as a Caribbean Afro-Latinx/e woman with Indigenous, Black, and white roots and pays homage to the legacy, resilience, and fortitude of her ancestors. These stunning poems paint a vivid picture of everyday life and Aldana's experiences as a mixed-race woman, daughter, and mother. The Pushcart Prize-winning poem "Black Person Head Bob" addresses how Black people silently...

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Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Khadijah Queen (Author)Literature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers and theorists, poet and professor Khadijah Queen observes questions of life and literature, human feeling and behavior, and explores language-based solutions to common cultural conflicts that are often rooted in harmful assumptions. Instead o...

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Gross (Author)In this edgy homage to Estonia, the country of his refugee father's birth, T S Eliot Prizewinner Philip Gross continues to develop the subtle conversation between words and silence that is at the core of his poetry.At this collection's heart, the shapeshifting prose-poem monologues of this book's central sequence, Evi And The Devil, weave a haunted landscape out of folktale, dark humour, the routine atrocities of history and a vividly prese...

What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Dower (Author)"A witty, sultry, and thoughtful new collection."-Ron Charles, Washington PostObsessive love has never been so much fun! What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria is a powerful tribute to the intensity of obsessive love, told through the trademark humor and heartbreak of bestselling poet Kim Dower.Following the commercial and literary success of her bestselling poetry collection, I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom: Poems ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ger Reidy (Author)Ger Reidy's poetry resounds in its meaty precision, in its hard stare at the terrible face of nature ? the windy gaps, the endless drudgery, the battle for survival on a small farm ? while at the same time heartbreaking in its ardent longing to fall into nature. His poetry is inspired by the untamed landscape of Mayo, and his lyrics are peppered with hard-hitting musings on the perennial problems that have bedeviled life on the fringe. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Gilyard (Author), Melba Joyce Boyd (Editor)Back JacketIn this powerful coming-of-age memoir, linguist Keith Gilyard presents a testament to the transformative power of language. From his earliest days in 1950s and '60s Harlem through his ascent in academia, the rhythm of Black America's vernacular and music provides the backdrop to Gilyard's intellectual awakening. His journey intertwines personal growth with the multiplicity of language and the sociopoli...

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Report copyright infringementby Mia S. Willis (Author)A poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, chosen as a National Poetry Series winner by Morgan Parker "Willis' poetic voice is brimming with personality and curiosity, as musical as it is philosophical, and the space between men is a formidable debut." --Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro and There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé These piercing, surprising poems look to...

Easter Is Egg-Cellent! (a Hello!lucky Book): A Board Book

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Report copyright infringementby Hello!lucky (Author), Sabrina Moyle (Author), Eunice Moyle (Author)Hop into the festive fun with Easter Is Egg-celent! This humor-filled board book is perfect for Easter celebrations and will delight young readers with its bouncy charm. Join every bunny, chick, and lamb as they celebrate Easter with egg hunts, sweet treats, and frilly hats, all while eagerly awaiting the Easter Bunny's arrival. Designed for children ages 1-3, this sturdy board book is ideal f...

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Report copyright infringementby A. Jamali Rad (Author)When Zero, the hero of our story, stumbles upon a mysterious manuscript, they're thrown into a journey across centuries, continents, and concepts. They travel throughout the Muslim world, from Sumeria to India to Baghdad. They learn about Europe as other and outside. They're guided by the cryptic mirror the manuscript provides as it traces a history of the number zero.A Jamali Rad's No Signal No Noise is a playful poetic hybrid, sitting so...

Earth Prayers: Encounters in Poetry with the Natural World

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Ann Duffy (Editor), Carol Ann Duffy (Author)'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' - Guardian The wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries, stretching far back beyond the Romantics. Beautifully curated by Carol Ann Duffy, the poems in Earth Prayers span widely across time, but in their moments of joy, empathy or difference, even the earliest poems reveal a concern for the welfare of our planet. Duffy brings these e...

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Report copyright infringementby Roberta Iannamico (Author), Alexis Almeida (Translator)This collection marks the long overdue introduction of a major Latin American poet to English-language readersAcclaimed Argentinian poet Roberta Iannamico's Many Poems animates the particulars of an imaginary world that lives deeply inside our real one, tapping into poetry's distinctive ability to magically transform daily scenes into purely ecstatic visions. A lonely winter day, the methods of lighting a c...

Ambiguity and Belonging: Essays on Place, Education, and Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin P. Myers (Author)In a new compilation of essays, Benjamin P. Myers articulates a well-rounded vision of a rooted life. Gathering critical observations about localism, liberal arts education, and contemporary poetics, Ambiguity and Belonging lays out the work necessary to live intentionally in one's home, career, and vocation. With a unique perspective as a former Oklahoma poet laureate, Myers intertwines personal reflections with close readings, poetry...

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Report copyright infringementby Indran Amirthanayagam (Author)Indran Amirthanayagam's Seer is a multi-lingual, multi- coastal, multi-dimensional poetic record of a time in our collective history when our potential human demise loomed large and when the only way to save ourselves seemed to be separation and isolation. In this new collection, Amirthanayagam documents--with his evocative imagery and generous lyricism--our fears, hopes and dreams during a dark time. Through gustatory cellular tab...

Talking with Mother Earth / Hablando Con Madre Tierra

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Report copyright infringementby Jorge Argueta (Author), Lucía Angela Pérez (Illustrator)An Américas Award Commended Title Raw, honest and powerful, these moving bilingual poems by noted Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta explore a young Indigenous boy's connection to Mother Earth and how he is healed from the terrible wounds of racism he has endured. Tetl has learned from his grandmother about the spirituality of his ancestors, about how they viewed the earth as alive with sacred meaning. This hel...

When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems

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Report copyright infringementby A. Van Jordan (Author)In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays--Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero of Othello--to mourn the deaths of Black people, particularly Black children, at the hands of police officers. What do these characters, and the ways they are defined by the white figures wh...

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Report copyright infringementby Phil Saintdenissanchez (Author)Phil SaintDenisSanchez's debut collection before & after our bodies tackles complex familial history and struggles, emerging in the rich backdrop of New Orleans, Louisiana.Through multilayered language and immersive imagery, SaintDenisSanchez interweaves political and social issues-from the lasting impacts of colonialism to environmental disaster-with intensely personal narratives of love, learning, and loss. The long, lyrical...

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Report copyright infringementby Allisa Cherry (Author)An Exodus of Sparks explores how violence reshapes family, geography, and faith. Predominantly set in the high desert, these poems explore the micro-losses of a father and brother (to downwinder-related cancer and substance abuse) against the macro-losses of a geography to nuclear testing and a tradition of faith to the ravages of grief. Liberally appropriating Judaic symbolism and wedding it to an inherited Mormon vocabulary and iconograp...

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Gardyn Levington (Author), Andreana Boatta (Illustrator)You're a writer. Did you know? Ready . . . Set . . . Come on, let's go! Rebecca Gardyn Levington inspires everyone to find joy in writing--in any and all forms--in this rhyming picture book. Her inspirational approach celebrates imagination and self-expression, proving everyone can be a writer if they find what's "right" for them. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.1 ...

Finding Grandmama God: And Talking Things Over With Her - Paperback

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by Mary Feagan (Author)FINDING GRANDMAMA GOD is a book of poems and illustrations that are about finding and having conversations with my inner divine feminine grandmother. She is my kind, self-nurturing inner voice, my true self. Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.24 x 11 x 8.25 IN Publication Date: December 21, 2023