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  • Myths and Texts

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    The three sequences in the book–“Logging,” “Hunting,” “Burning”–show the remarkable cohesiveness in Snyder’s writings over the years, for we find the poet absorbed, then as now, with Buddhist and Am… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Paperbook
    • Author: Snyder, Gary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 54
    • Publish Date: April 01 1978
    • ISBN10: 0811206866
    • Language: English
  • All-American Poem

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    Winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award.

    “Matthew Dickman’s all-American poems are the epitome of the pleasure principle; as clever as they are, they refuse to have ulterior int

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    • Series: Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize
    • Author: Dickman, Matthew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 0977639541
    • Language: English
  • So Long

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    Anticipating and then grieving the death of her father, Jen Levitt’s So Long fleshes out a full elegiac register, sitting with the mourning of farewell while holding onto gratitude, remembrance, and

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    • Series: Stahlecker Selections
    • Author: Levitt, Jen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: March 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1954245505
    • Language: English
  • Fight or Flight

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    Fight or Flight artifacts the trauma of McFadyen-Ketchum’s divorce and the journey he took across the wilds of America (living in a tent on the California coast, getting intentionally lost in the Utah

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    • Author: McFadyen-Ketchum, Andrew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: March 16 2023
    • ISBN10: 1622889436
    • Language: English
  • Joy Ride

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    Poems that navigate the intersection of history and memory, family lore, and world events.

    The poems of Joy Ride look for the connections and listen for the echoes between world events, family lore,

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  • Brute: Poems

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    Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets

    Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing s

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    • Author: Skaja, Emily
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: April 02 2019
    • ISBN10: 1555978355
    • Language: English
  • Coal Mountain Elementary

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    A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue t

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    • Author: Nowak, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 190
    • Publish Date: April 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 1566892287
    • Language: English
  • Late Summer Ode

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    “The balance of rigidity, rhyme and ruin . . . makes an Olena Kalytiak Davis poem extraordinarily distinct. Even when she’s alluding to Dante and Rilke and Chekhov, her voice is like no one else’s.”-

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    • Author: Davis, Olena Kalytiak
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 1556596472
    • Language: English
  • The Kingdom of Ordinary Time

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    Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secul… [more below]

    • Author: Howe, Marie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: September 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 0393337340
    • Language: English
  • Whitman: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington

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    The Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Whitman contains forty-two of the American master’s … [more below]

  • The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems

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    Haunted by the voices of those committed to the notorious Virginia State Colony, epicenter of the American eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century, this evocative debut marks the … [more below]

    • Author: Brown, Molly McCully
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 07 2017
    • ISBN10: 0892554789
    • Language: English
  • Mother Winter

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    A poetic personification of the winter season, Mother Winter goes walking “on the longest cold night,” inviting the reader along to experience chill winds, icy ponds, white snowdrifts, and other quiet… [more below]

    • Author: Carroll, James Christopher
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 16
    • Publish Date: August 08 2023
    • ISBN10: 1682770907
    • Language: English
  • Doe

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    Winner of the 2018 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize

    Doe began as author Aim e Baker’s attempt to understand and process the news coverage of a single unidentified woman whose body was thrown from a car

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    • Series: Akron Poetry
    • Author: Baker, Aimée
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: April 23 2018
    • ISBN10: 1629220841
    • Language: English
  • Bread from a Stranger’s Oven

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    “Through her fervent lyrics, delightful odes and image-rich narratives, Janlori Goldman invites us into her world–and it is a deeply moving one. With fluid, vivid clarity, she valiantly stares at the

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    • Series: White Pine Press Poetry Prize #22
    • Author: Goldman, Janlori
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 102
    • Publish Date: September 19 2017
    • ISBN10: 1945680067
    • Language: English
  • The Iron Tonic: Or, a Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley

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    It’s difficult to say what The Iron Tonic is about, although it is “known the skating pond conceals a family of enormous eels,” and that “the light is fading from the day. The rest is darkness and dis… [more below]

    • Author: Gorey, Edward
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 36
    • Publish Date: October 13 2000
    • ISBN10: 0151004374
    • Language: English
  • The Portable Walt Whitman

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    A comprehensive collection of Whitman’s most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories

    When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Whitman, Walt
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 608
    • Publish Date: December 30 2003
    • ISBN10: 0142437689
    • Language: English
  • A Dog Runs Through It: Poems

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    Reflecting on her long and celebrated career in poetry, two-time National Book Award finalist Linda Pastan was struck by the number of dogs that have appeared in her poems–whether as the primary subj

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    • Author: Pastan, Linda
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: May 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 0393651304
    • Language: English
  • Works and Days

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    Part springtime journal (“why are there thorns?”), Works and Days meditates on the first wasps and chipmunks of the season, times’ passage, grackle hearts, and dandelions, while also collecting dozens… [more below]

    • Author: Mayer, Bernadette
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 28 2016
    • ISBN10: 0811225178
    • Language: English
  • Anybody Home?

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    The poems in Kay Cosgrove’s first collection, Anybody Home? are driven by curiosity – about herself, the world, and her place in it. Witty and elegantly restrained, they ask the question: how do we li

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    • Author: Cosgrove, Kay
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 78
    • Publish Date: August 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798985435726
    • Language: English
  • Quiver: Poems

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    “Luke Johnson cements his title as the uncontested master of shadow… Quiver will change the way you see.”
    Patricia Smith, author of Unshuttered: Poems

    Quiver is a rare creation full of song and

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    • Author: Johnson, Luke
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 105
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1680033204
    • Language: English
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