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  • American Radiance

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    Winner 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]

  • The Lichtenberg Figures

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    Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award uses “broken sonnets” to explore complex juxtapositions of contemporary culture.

  • Feeding Hour

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    Gigot’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

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    • Author: Gigot, Jessica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 84
    • Publish Date: November 20 2020
    • ISBN10: 0578714612
    • Language: English
  • The Dug-Up Gun Museum

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    Traveling 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
  • Bucolics

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    Untitled 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

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    • Author: Manning, Maurice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: November 03 2008
    • ISBN10: 0156034751
    • Language: English
  • The Seven Ages

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    Winner 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

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    • Author: Gluck, Louise
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 26 2002
    • ISBN10: 0060933496
    • Language: English
  • My Life and My Life in the Nineties

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    New 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

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Hejinian, Lyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: March 07 2013
    • ISBN10: 0819573515
    • Language: English
  • This Afterlife: Selected Poems

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    A 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

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    • Author: Stallings, A. E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 0374607834
    • Language: English
  • Up Late: Poems

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    Reeling 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

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    • Author: Laird, Nick
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1324065443
    • Language: English
  • Ghost: : Seeds: Poems

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    Winner 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

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    • Author: Merrill, Sebastian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 78
    • Publish Date: November 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1680033514
    • Language: English
  • Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

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    An 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
  • Life Can Be Crazy

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    Born 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

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    • Author: Zafrani, M. Garry
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 28
    • Publish Date: May 26 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798988084907
    • Language: English
  • Butterfly Nebula

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    Gold 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

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    • Series: Backwaters Prize in Poetry
    • Author: Hogan, Laura Reece
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: October 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1496236106
    • Language: English
  • White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems

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    From 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

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    • Author: Oliver, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: March 24 2011
    • ISBN10: 0156001209
    • Language: English
  • The Descent of Alette

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    The 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
  • Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

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    Mark 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
  • Ways of Being

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    “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

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    • Author: Mookherjee, Sati
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 86
    • Publish Date: May 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 1936657740
    • Language: English
  • Something Bright, Then Holes: Poems

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    Before 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
  • A Coney Island of the Mind

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    The 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
  • Thomas and Beulah

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    A 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
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