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  • Odes to Lithium

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    Captivating poems and visual art seek to bring comfort and solidarity to anyone living with Bipolar Disorder. In this remarkable debut, Shira Erlichman pens a love letter to Lithium, her medication fo

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    • Author: Erlichman, Shira
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: September 17 2019
    • ISBN10: 1948579030
    • Language: English
  • Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

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    “On the subject of writing poetry, Oliver is the most enlightened and enlightening author I have read.” -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

    From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National

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    • Author: Oliver, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: April 24 2000
    • ISBN10: 0395850878
    • Language: English
  • Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

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    “Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the

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    • Author: Oliver, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 27 2012
    • ISBN10: 0807069140
    • Language: English
  • The Second O of Sorrow

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    A lyric narrative that celebrates the struggles, the joys, and the dignity of working-class life in the Rust Belt cities.

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Dougherty, Sean Thomas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: April 10 2018
    • ISBN10: 1942683553
    • Language: English
  • Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

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    Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time “as she preserved them,” and in the order in which she wished t

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    • Author: Dickinson, Emily
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 864
    • Publish Date: April 11 2016
    • ISBN10: 0674737962
    • Language: English
  • Creature

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    Creature is a complex poetics of vitality, and it immaculately cleaves: even as it underscores how living in an inherently inhospitable environment will dispossess us of the world and one another, mak… [more below]

    • Series: Stahlecker Selections
    • Author: Dumanis, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1954245769
    • Language: English
  • Helen of Troy, 1993: Poems

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    Part myth retelling, part character study, this sharp, visceral debut poetry collection reimagines Helen of Troy from Homer’s Iliad as a disgruntled housewife in 1990s Tennessee.

    In the hills of Spart

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    • Author: Zoccola, Maria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1668046334
    • Language: English
  • Spoon River Anthology

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    The innovative free verse collection of small-town life that made Edgar Lee Masters a legend

    A literary sensation when it appeared in 1915, Spoon River Anthology earned Edgar Lee Masters comparisons

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Masters, Edgar Lee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 143105159
    • Language: English
  • Chicago Poems

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    Now considered possibly Illinois’ greatest poet, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) saw himself as a bard of the working class. Chicago Poems brought him to national attention and is one of the few Chicago cla… [more below]

    • Series: Prairie State Books
    • Author: Sandburg, Carl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: January 01 1992
    • ISBN10: 0252062345
    • Language: English
  • Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (Poems of Rage, Love, Sex, and Sadness)

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    Writer, director, and actor Avan Jogia delivers a bright and acidic poetry collection on fame, rage, love, and sadness. A biting postmortem of the modern age, for fans of Lana Del Rey and Atticus.

    Ava

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    • Author: Jogia, Avan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: February 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1668062275
    • Language: English
  • The Grace of Falling Things: poems

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    • Author: Plank, Karl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: December 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798990747449
    • Language: English
  • Granny Cloud

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    A playful, ecstatic, and invigorating collection of lyrical work by one of America’s finest young poets.

    Farnoosh Fathi’s poetry has been admired for its “riot of associations and sonic improvisations

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    • Author: Fathi, Farnoosh
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: September 24 2024
    • ISBN10: 1681378590
    • Language: English
  • Father Elegies

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    Stella Fridman Hayes’s second poetry collection, Father Elegies draws from an impressive range of literary forms, from familiar couplets and tercets to erasure, blackout poems, and hybrid prose. While

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    • Author: Hayes, Stella
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 126
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798990014930
    • Language: English
  • Absent Here: Poems

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    Landscape and language drive the poems in Absent Here, which explore loss, community, the changing environment, and whiteness of skin and scenery against the backdrop of the Alaskan North Slope of the… [more below]

    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Shepard, Bret
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: October 08 2024
    • ISBN10: 0822967286
    • Language: English
  • I Was Working: Poems

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    A remarkable book of poems that mixes humor about the absurdities of office life with moments of Zen-like wisdom

    Seeking to find a song of the self that can survive or even thrive amid the mundane rou

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    • Series: Princeton Contemporary Poets #181
    • Author: Yelen, Ariel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: October 08 2024
    • ISBN10: 0691264066
    • Language: English
  • Soul Kindling: Ignite Your Sacred, Creative Heart

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    With playful and poetic depth, Soul Kindling: Ignite Your Sacred, Creative Heart invites you to embark on a journey of discovering your creative, sacred self. Drawing on her alluring artwork, poet and

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    • Author: Markotich, Ally
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 164
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 1961741156
    • Language: English
  • Exit Garden State

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    John Hennessy’s Exit Garden State never strays far from family life as it ranges from childhood in New Jersey’s industrial corridor to mid-life in the woods of New England, from Rahway prison’s sullen

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    • Author: Hennessy, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: September 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798989096510
    • Language: English
  • Hortensia, in winter

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    Hortensia, in winter transports readers on a powerful journey through the lives of women bound by blood, history, and the weight of silence. Megan Merchant’s titular Hortensia, an ancestor from a Morm

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    • Author: Merchant, Megan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1941561330
    • Language: English
  • The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present

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    Jerome Rothenberg’s final anthology–an experiment in omnipoetics with Javier Taboada–reaches into the deepest origins of the Americas, north and south, to redefine America and its poetries

    The Serpe

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    • Author: Rothenberg, Jerome
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 816
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 0520303547
    • Language: English
  • Ever After: Poems

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    In his final book, the celebrated poet Fred Chappell reflects on life and the beyond. Details drawn from daily actions, religion, classical myth, and the Appalachian landscape adorn this autumnal coll

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    • Author: Chappell, Fred
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: October 10 2024
    • ISBN10: 0807182605
    • Language: English
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