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Report copyright infringementby Patrycja Humienik (Author)To whom do we belong, and at what cost? Patrycja Humienik's debut poetry collection, We Contain Landscapes, is haunted by questions of desire, borders, and the illusion of national belonging. Bringing music and rich sensory detail to the page, these poems attend to the inextricable link between our bodies and the land. Over six ruminative and lush sections, they survey place and memory, both intergenerationally and through emotional bo...

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Report copyright infringementby Esther Lin (Author)Cold Thief Place speaks of the experiences of an undocumented American, her parents who fled Communist China and found safety in fundamentalist Christianity, and how she tried to understand them and herself by way of confessional poems. This is a family story. It tells of a mother who fled an authoritarian government and turned that authoritarianism on to her children. Of a father who made a new life--three times on three different continent...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Hutchins (Author)An exquisite poetry collection from the creator of The Daily Victorian that celebrates the hidden versions of ourselves, and unveils the healing power of nostalgia, imagination, and hope "This is for anyone who doesn't see deep feeling as a bad thing but would appreciate a warm and talented companion while they do it."--Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author of Am I There Yet? Maybe you're not old enough yet to believe in fairy...

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Walter (Author)In award-winning poet Robin Walter's debut collection, Little Mercy, writing and looking--seeing feelingly--become a practice in radical care. These poems pursue moments of shared recognition, when looking up to see a deer across a stream, or when sunlight passes through wingtip onto palm, the self found in other, the river in vein of wrist. Attuned to the transparent beauty in the natural world, Walter's poems are often glancing observatio...

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Report copyright infringementby Ariana Reines (Author)In The Rose, award-winning poet Ariana Reines navigates the intersection of power and surrender. Drawing on the history of "romance" as the troubadours knew it and the titular flower's ancient allegories for sexuality and mystery, Reines plunges into feminine archetypes to explore masculine pain: "I have always liked helpless / & terrible men because they break my mind." In these poems, inherited ideologies of gender performance are re...

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Report copyright infringementby Mart?n Espada (Author)In this brilliant new collection of poems, National Book Award winner Mart?n Espada offers narratives of the forgotten and the unforgettable. The poems in Jailbreak of Sparrows reveal the ways in which the ordinary becomes monumental: family portraits, politically charged reports, and tributes to the unsung. Espada's focus ranges from the bombardment of his family's hometown in Puerto Rico amid an anti-colonial uprising to the murder of a ...

I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living

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Report copyright infringementby Josie Balka (Author)For fans of Rupi Kaur and Cleo Wade, this first collection of poetry from the viral TikTok poet Josie Balka evokes themes of nostalgia, love, envy, and hope, speaking to the universal longings that live deep in our souls. I've never seen anyone at a public pool with a memorable enough body, good or bad, that I think about it ever again. If this line sounds familiar, it's because you've heard it in the background of thousands of videos on soc...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Chang (Author)Winner of the Forward Prize for Best CollectionFinalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPRNamed One of the Best Poetry Collections of the Year by The Guardian, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit. Yesterday I slung my depression ...

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Report copyright infringementby Louise Gl?ck (Author)A new edition of the Nobel laureate's searing sixth collection of poetry, about "the myth of a happy family" (The New York Review of Books). Louise Gl?ck, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet, one who was innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. As Dan Chiasson wrote in The New Yorker, "This voice is not going to go a...

Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Fisher-Wirth (Editor), Laura-Gray Street (Editor), Margaret Ronda (Introduction by)The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative book of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment. Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street, the editors of the daring first volume, have reunited to create Attached to the Living World. The second anthology explores the issues and conversations in ecopoetry over the past decade and features more than 150 establis...

When We Talk to God: Prayers and Poems for Black Women

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Report copyright infringementby Sharifa Stevens (Author)These are prayers for your moments of gratitude and celebration. For your seasons of loss and waiting. For your days when prayers come, not in words but in groans. When We Talk to God, from poet-theologian Sharifa Stevens, captures the arc and the ache of our lives.A beautiful interweaving of artwork, prayers, and poems for Black women, this unique book encourages you to lift up your whole heart and loudest voice to God. And to tell Him ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Lim (Author) Number of Pages: 190 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 30, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby C. D. Wright (Author), Forrest Gander (Editor), Michael Wiegers (Editor)Spanning four decades of writing--and including never-before-seen poems--The Essential C.D. Wright carries the reverence and wisecracking lyricism of poems that reshaped American poetry.The Essential C.D. Wright gathers rare selections across the famed poet's entire oeuvre--from the first book, Alla Breve Loving (1976), through to ShallCross, which was in production at the time of her unex...

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Report copyright infringementby Ty Smith (Author)Introducing Here to Stay (an Anthology) by Ty Smith, a mesmerizing collection of poems that will sweep readers off their feet. In this remarkable anthology, Ty Smith showcases his poetic prowess, taking readers on an emotional journey through the depths of love, loss, and the resilience of the human spirit.Through his evocative verses, Smith explores themes of identity, belonging, and the power of self-expression. Each poem is a window into the...

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

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Report copyright infringementby Ada Lim?n (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe #1 bestselling and beloved poetry anthology, now in paperback!"Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection." -Margaret Renkl, New York Times"A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike." -Los Angeles TimesPublished in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collect...

In God We Do Not Trust: The Ten Commandments of MAGA and other essays

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Brueggemann (Author)This stirring series of essays by Walter Brueggemann represents the inaugural book for the new imprint, Santos Books. Who better than Walter Brueggemann to inaugurate this imprint? Sinner? Undoubtedly. Saint? By God's grace alone. Walter once told me that progressives dislike him because he still believes in the old formula, that it is by grace alone that we are saved. And then he confided in me, "Conrad, I have to work to stay in tha...

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Report copyright infringementby Hasib Hourani (Author) One more rock thrown onto the pile to tumble the mountain on my chest --Hasib HouraniHasib Hourani's rock flight is a book-length poem that, over seven chapters, follows a single personal and historical narrative centered on the violent occupation of Palestine. The poem uses refrains of suffocation, rubble, and migratory bird patterns to address the realities of forced displacement, economic restrictions, and surveillance technology tha...

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Report copyright infringementby Morgan Richard Olivier (Author)With unapologetically honest reflections and revelations-Morgan Richard Olivier embraces the tears, trials, and triumphs one experiences when seeking development, direction, and detachment. The Tears That Taught Me poetry and prose collection guides readers as they dig through the roots of their struggles, truths, faith, and life lessons.Through pruning, positioning, and reframing-we are able to blossom as we make peace with our p...

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Report copyright infringementby John Koethe (Author)John Koethe unravels timeless questions of death, math, meaning, and much more in this mesmerizing collection. John Koethe, one of our most philosophically sophisticated poets, has written a book of pithy, contentious, witty poems about our perennial, never-satisfied search for meaning. The silent mysteries of the stars and the mute beauty of human graves have deep similarities that Koethe probes in these poems with a wondering, wandering gi...

Love Is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends

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Report copyright infringementby James Crews (Editor), Brad Peacock (Editor), Lisa Congdon (Illustrator)This luminous and open-hearted anthology of poems from the LGBTQIA+ community proves that there is nothing more universal than love. Edited by James Crews with his husband, Brad Peacock, and illustrated by Lisa Congdon, these compassionate poems of connection and affirmation are a celebration of all kinds of love--romantic, family, friendship, self-love, and love for nature. The poems are ...

Crush: Twentieth Anniversary Edition Volume 99

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Siken (Author), Louise Gluck (Foreword by), Dana Levin (Introduction by)The twentieth-anniversary edition of the influential first poetry collection by Richard Siken Since winning the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, Crush has become a modern classic. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new introduction by award-winning poet Dana Levin and a new afterword by the author.Author BiographyRichard Siken is a poet, painter, and filmma...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Mitchell (Author), Lao Tzu (Author)The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell"Mitchell's rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom." -- Huston Smith, author of The Religions of ManIn eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-...

Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Oliver (Author), Natalie Diaz (Foreword by)An archival compendium of three complete works by Mary Oliver: the book-length poem The Leaf and the Cloud, the collection What Do We Know, and essays from Long Life--with a foreword by fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Postcolonial Love Poem Natalie Diaz. For the many admirers of Mary Oliver's breathtaking poetry of touch and transcendence, as well as for those coming to her words for the first time, Lit...

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by J. R. R. Tolkien (Author)Tales told through the ages of quests and curses, enduring love and immeasurable tragedy "The power of Tolkien's central characters--tragic, cursed T rin; the lovers Beren and L thien--shines through."--Library Journal Gathering together two of the most crucial stories in Tolkien's world--those of Túrin, a hero living under a ruinous family curse, and Lúthien, an elven princess whose love for a mortal man is mirrored ages later in Arwen and Aragorn--The Lays of B...

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition - Paperback

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by Dylan Thomas (Author), Paul Muldoon (Introduction by)The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. (A piece of New Directions history: it was our founder James Laughlin who identified Thomas' body at the morgue of St. Vincent's Hospital.) Since its initial publication in 1953, this book has become the definitive edition of the ...

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by Edgar Allan Poe (Author), Guillermo del Toro (Editor)Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ray Russell's short sto...

Forever Words: The Unknown Poems - Paperback

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by Johnny Cash (Author)These never-before-published poems by Johnny Cash make the perfect gifts for music lovers and fans alike. Edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon with a foreword by John Carter Cash, this poetry collection is illustrated with facsimile reproductions of Cash's own handwritten pages. Now an album with music by Rosanne Cash, Brad Paisley, Willie Nelson, Kacey Musgraves, Elvis Costello, and more. Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has...

Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of It

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Hauser (Author)Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past three millennia. But these are not just tales about heroic men. There are scores of women as well--complex, fascinating wome...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Vendler (Author)In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poems and poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath Helen Vendler was our greatest reader of poetry, a scholar who illuminiated its inner mechanisms and emotional roots for a wide audience. Always attentive to the stylistic and imaginative features of a poem, Vendler addresses the work of a wide range of ...

Super Gay Poems: Lgbtqia+ Poetry After Stonewall

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Burt (Author)A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more. A groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet, critic, and scholar Stephanie Burt, Super Gay Poems brings together fifty-one works encompassing the wide range of queer and trans verse after the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Since that ga...

The People's Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward

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Report copyright infringementby Saeed Jones (Author), Maggie Smith (Author)A liberatory anthology of twenty-seven writers--a community in book form--charting paths ahead for action and care in the face of political uncertainty, curated by Maggie Smith and Saeed Jones. Inspired by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith's conversations in the wake of the 2024 election, this is a collection of poems, essays, and visual art on what we--individually and collectively--can hold onto, and what we can work tow...

Letters in Exile: Transnational Journeys of a Harlem Renaissance Writer

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Report copyright infringementby Claude McKay (Author), Brooks E. Hefner (Editor), Gary Edward Holcomb (Editor)A collection of private correspondence from one of the Harlem Renaissance's brightest and most radical voices The Jamaican-born, queer author Claude McKay (1890-1948) was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His 1919 poem "If We Must Die" expressed a revolutionary vision for militant Black protest art, while his novels, including Home to Harlem, Banjo, and Banana Bottom, descr...