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By: Muradyan, Luisa
American Radiance
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, American Radiance, at turns funny, tragic, and haunting, reflects on the author’s experience immigrating as a child to the United States from Ukra… [more below]
- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Muradyan, Luisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496207750
- Language: English
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By: Lerner, Ben
The Lichtenberg Figures
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartWinner of the Hayden Carruth Award uses “broken sonnets” to explore complex juxtapositions of contemporary culture.
- Series: Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets
- Author: Lerner, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1556592116
- Language: English
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By: Gigot, Jessica
Feeding Hour
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartGigot’s Feeding Hour deftly reimagines motherhood and devotion in the most tender of ways. This book will remind you how to care and be cared for. I’m so smitten with these love poems that dare promis
- Author: Gigot, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: November 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0578714612
- Language: English
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By: Donovan, Matt
The Dug-Up Gun Museum
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cartTraveling the nation, Matt Donovan examines the paradox of a country plagued by gun violence yet consumed with protecting the right to bear arms.
Matt Donovan’s The Dug-Up Gun Museum confronts our coun… [more below]
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Donovan, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1950774759
- Language: English
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By: Manning, Maurice
Bucolics
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cartUntitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this acclaimed collection seem to cascade from one page to another. Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gra
- Author: Manning, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0156034751
- Language: English
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By: Gluck, Louise
The Seven Ages
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
The masterful collection from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wild Iris and Vita Nova
Louise Gl ck has long practiced poetry as a species of c
- Author: Gluck, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0060933496
- Language: English
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By: Hejinian, Lyn
My Life and My Life in the Nineties
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartNew edition of one of the founding works of Language writing
Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hejinian, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0819573515
- Language: English
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By: Stallings, A. E.
This Afterlife: Selected Poems
$24.00PaperbackAdd to cartA selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator.
This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings’s four- Author: Stallings, A. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607834
- Language: English
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By: Laird, Nick
Up Late: Poems
$26.95HardcoverAdd to cartReeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity, and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the p
- Author: Laird, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065443
- Language: English
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Ghost: : Seeds: Poems
$21.95PaperbackRead moreWinner of The 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn
Set on a remote island on the Maine coast, GHOST:: SEEDS incorporates elements of magical realism and myth to explore and troubl- Author: Merrill, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1680033514
- Language: English
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Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
$18.95PaperbackRead moreAn award-winning poet’s testimony of the war in Vietnam.
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Komunyakaa, Yusef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: April 30 1993
- ISBN10: 0819512117
- Language: English
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Life Can Be Crazy
$14.99HardcoverAdd to cartBorn in Brooklyn in 1949, Garry Zafrani grew up in a working-class family. As soon as he could get out of his family’s house, he moved to Manhattan, eager to explore the city’s cultural scene. He quic
- Author: Zafrani, M. Garry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: May 26 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988084907
- Language: English
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Butterfly Nebula
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartGold Medal in Poetry for the 2024 Illumination Book Awards
Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Butterfly Nebula reaches from the depths of the sea to the edges of space to chart intersections o- Series: Backwaters Prize in Poetry
- Author: Hogan, Laura Reece
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236106
- Language: English
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By: Oliver, Mary
White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartFrom the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver, a collection of evocative and haunting poetry and prose
“Oliver’s poems are…as genuine, moving and implausible as the first c
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0156001209
- Language: English
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By: Notley, Alice
The Descent of Alette
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe Decent Of Alette is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of The Inferno. Alice Notley presents a feminist epic: a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds hers… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140587640
- Language: English
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By: Doty, Mark
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cartMark Doty’s prose has been hailed as “tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene” (The New York Times Book Review) and “achingly beautiful” (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he of… [more below]
- Author: Doty, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0807066095
- Language: English
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By: Mookherjee, Sati
Ways of Being
$16.99PaperbackAdd to cart“The poems in this award-winning collection reveal a bold voice that brings us on a tour through emotional and literal landscapes as fluid as the tides.”
-Rena Priest, Washington State Poet Laureate an
- Author: Mookherjee, Sati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1936657740
- Language: English
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By: Nelson, Maggie
Something Bright, Then Holes: Poems
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartBefore Maggie Nelson’s name became synonymous with such genre-defying, binary-slaying writing as The Argonauts and The Art of Cruelty, this collection of poetry introduced readers to a singular voice … [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1593762305
- Language: English
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A Coney Island of the Mind
$11.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe title of this book is taken from Henry Miller’s “Into the Night Life” and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950’s–as … [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperback No. 74
- Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 93
- Publish Date: January 17 1968
- ISBN10: 0811200418
- Language: English
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By: Dove, Rita
Thomas and Beulah
$15.95PaperbackRead moreA collection of poetry by Rita Dove.
- Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0887480217
- Language: English

















