Poetry

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by 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 choosing whether to take the Philo...

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by 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 a site of divine presence ma...

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by 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 that dismantle the public sph...

You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis - Paperback

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by 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, pathologizing medical settings, and othe...

Call This Mutiny: [Uncollected Poems] - Paperback

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by 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 the entangled ecologies of h...

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by Homer (Author), Anthony Verity (Translator), 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 challenges. But Odysseus is "of ma...

Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance - Hardcover

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by Nikki Grimes (Author)From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance--paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators. For centuries, accomplished women--of all races--have fallen out of the historical records. The same is true for gifted, prolific, women poets of the Harlem Renaissance who are little k...

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by 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 how to live in a disabled body....

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by Grant Gosch (Author)An intimate and immersive collection of heartfelt letters that capture the essence of romance through tender and sensual exchanges between lovers, self, and even pets. Dear Love is a collection of heartfelt love letters written by request from people from across the globe. Each letter is an answered call between lovers, self, and even pets. Sometimes erotic, sometimes funny, always sincere, Dear Love expresses connection through one of the most meaningful forms of roman...

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by 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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by Pablo Neruda (Author), Donald D. Walsh (Translator)Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover's body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled...

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry - Paperback

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by Jane Hirshfield (Author)A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays.Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-express...

The Wilderness That Bears Your Name - Paperback

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by 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 spark of life. And when you...

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by 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 extraordinary vision, these observat...

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by Mahogany L. Browne (Author)Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne's Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America. "We praise their names / & the hands that write / Praise the mouth that speaks," she writes in tribute to those who came before her. Browne captures a quintessential girlhood through the pleasures and pangs of young love: the thrill of skating hip to hip at the roller rink, the heat of holding hands in the dark, and, sometimes, th...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/Pearl/Sir Orfeo - Paperback

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by J. R. R. Tolkien (Author)Three masterpieces of medieval poetry, translated by the author of The Lord of the Rings--including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the poem that inspired the major motion picture The Green Knight Comparable to the works of Chaucer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo weave a bright tapestry of stories from a remote age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quests--but unlike The Canterbury Tales, the name of the poet who wrote them is lo...

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

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by 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 sticky Chicago summer of 1967,...

Copper Canyon Classics: A Manual of Prosody - Paperback

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by Alfred Corn (Author)"[M]ay well be the finest general book available on prosody."--Library Journal (starred review)Author BiographyAlfred Corn is a poet, novelist, and art critic. His poems appear regularly in The New Yorker, The Nation, and the New Republic. He has traveled widely and taught at many universities, including Columbia, UCLA, and Yale. He lives in New York. Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.59 x 7.38 x 5.52 IN Publication Date: October 01, 2008

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by Joshua Beckman (Author), Gerald Stern (Introduction by)The inaugural winner of the annual American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award. Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.36 x 9.01 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: September 01, 1998

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color - Paperback

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by Christopher Soto (Editor)The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United States.Author BiographyChristopher Soto (b. 1991, Los Angeles) is a poet based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of Sad Girl Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016) and the editor of Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books, 2018). For more information visit christophersoto-poet.com Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May ...

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by 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 wry. The virtuosic central s...

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by 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 described as recluses, Meng Haoran a...

Have You Ever Stopped To Think - Paperback

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by 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 journey-the shared experiences that...

The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth - Paperback

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by Robert Graves (Author), Grevel Lindop (Editor)The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion, and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet's quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and...

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

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by 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 encourages you to feel the poem as...

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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 - Paperback

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by Rolf Jacobsen (Author), Robert Bly (Translator), Robert Hedin (Translator)Bilingual volume of one of Europe's most reverred poets, with introduction by Robert Bly.Author BiographyRobert Bly is one of the most influential poets, translators, and editors of his generation. He is the author of numerous books, including the National Book Award-winning Silence in the Snowy Fields and the iconic (and best-selling) Iron John. Number of Pages: 212 Dimensions: 0.54 x 8.94 x 6.02 IN Publication Date...

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by Deborah Landau (Author)Landau creates "a poetry of vibrant physicality, open to joy and to failure."-Mark Doty Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN Publication Date: June 21, 2011

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by Amy Uyematsu (Author)Uyematsu's poems articulate a distinct perspective--a life defined by poetry, mathematics and Asian identity.Author BiographyAmy Uyematsu is the author of two previous books of poetry. In addition to her poetry, she has taught high school math for the Los Angeles Unified School District for the last twenty-six years. A third-generation Japanese American, Uyematsu helped pioneer the Asian American Studies program at UCLA. She lives in Culver City, CA. Number of Pages: 9...

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by 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 moral dilemmas of our time--g...

The Dance of No Hard Feelings - Paperback

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by Mark Bibbins (Author)"Mark Bibbins [is a] brilliant young poet." --John AshberyAuthor BiographyMark Bibbins is the author of The Dance of No Hard Feelings; The Anxiety of Coincidence, a digital-only chapbook; and Sky Lounge, which received a Lambda Literary Award. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School, where he co-founded LIT magazine, and at Columbia University. Bibbins is the editor of the poetry section of The Awl and the recipient of a New York Foundation for ...

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by Benjamin Alire Saenz (Author)Sáenz turns to memory, heritage, and the living desert as he confronts faith and contemporary politicsAuthor BiographyA former Catholic priest, Benjamin Sáenz, has published five books of poetry, four novels, a collection of short stories, and two bilingual children's books. He received the American Book Award, and teaches in the MFA program at University of Texas, El Paso. Number of Pages: 124 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2010