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  • What Narcissism Means to Me

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    An eagerly awaited new collection of poems by contemporary favorite Tony Hoagland, author of Donkey Gospel

    How did I come to believe in a government called Tony Hoagland?
    With an economy based on flatt

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    • Author: Hoagland, Tony
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 78
    • Publish Date: November 01 2003
    • ISBN10: 1555973868
    • Language: English
  • Stag’s Leap

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    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER – From one of today’s best poets–a stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.

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    • Author: Olds, Sharon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: September 04 2012
    • ISBN10: 0375712259
    • Language: English
  • Engine Empire

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    Engine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the future… [more below]

    • Author: Hong, Cathy Park
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: August 05 2013
    • ISBN10: 039334648X
    • Language: English
  • Trilogy

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    As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy‘s three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” and Ezra Pound’s “Pisan Cantos.” The first book of the T… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Paperbook
    • Author: Doolittle, Hilda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 206
    • Publish Date: September 17 1998
    • ISBN10: 0811213994
    • Language: English
  • Phone Ringing in a Dark House

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    Rolly Kent returns to poetry with a book that explores the mysteries and comforts of the known and unknown.

    Phone Ringing in a Dark House is filled with the mystery of loss, love, and the restorative

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  • Grace Engine

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    “Words carry the dead like henchmen,” in Joshua Burton’s extraordinary debut volume, Grace Engine. These spare and powerful poems are like pallbearers, like eulogists, like survivors, like battered so… [more below]

    • Series: Wisconsin Poetry
    • Author: Burton, Joshua
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: March 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 029934164X
    • Language: English
  • Interrupt the Sky

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    In John Hazard’s collection of poems, Interrupt the Sky, the title comes from a line in “Hills,” in which the speaker imagines an Ohio River landscape, with hills that

    send their chatter out

    to inte

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    • Author: Hazard, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: June 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1622889495
    • Language: English
  • What about This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford

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    “The big event in poetry for 2015 will likely be the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford.”–NPR.org

    National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

    What About This… introduces to a broader audien

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    • Author: Stanford, Frank
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 764
    • Publish Date: April 14 2015
    • ISBN10: 1556594682
    • Language: English
  • In the Next Galaxy

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    Winner: National Book Award and Wallace Stevens Award. “A marvelous tribute to love and survival.”–The New York Times

    • Author: Stone, Ruth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 99
    • Publish Date: April 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 1556592078
    • Language: English
  • Your Kingdom

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    Eleni Sikelianos, “a master of mixing genres” (Time Out New York), further bends time and space in Your Kingdom, an ode to our more-than-human animal origins. As she studies the wild roots of our pas

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    • Author: Sikelianos, Eleni
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: January 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1566896592
    • Language: English
  • What Flies Want: Poems

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    Colorado Book Award – poetry finalist

    In What Flies Want, disaster looms in domesticity: a family grapples with its members’ mental health, a marriage falters, and a child experiments with self-harm.

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    • Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
    • Author: Pérez, Emily
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 1609388437
    • Language: English
  • The Moon Is Always Female: Poems

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    • Author: Piercy, Marge
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: March 12 1980
    • ISBN10: 0394738594
    • Language: English
  • Selected Early Poems of Charles Simic

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    United States poet laureate & Pulitzer Prize winner, Charles Simic adds a new introduction to the most comprehensive collection of his early poetry from 1963-1983.

    • Author: Simic, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 252
    • Publish Date: March 20 2013
    • ISBN10: 0807616206
    • Language: English
  • The Pisan Cantos

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    Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos was written in 1945, while the poet was being held in an American military detention center near Pisa, Italy, as a result of his pro-Fascist wartime broadcasts to America… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Paperbook #977
    • Author: Pound, Ezra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 17 2003
    • ISBN10: 081121558X
    • Language: English
  • New Selected Poems and Translations

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    This newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Ezra Pound’s Selected Poems is intended to articulate Pound for the twenty-first century. Gone are many of the “stale creampuffs” (as Pound called th… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Paperbook #1185
    • Author: Pound, Ezra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: October 29 2010
    • ISBN10: 0811217337
    • Language: English
  • Inquisition

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    How we answer to love beneath the lash of history

    During the 1982 air strikes on Beirut, Faiz Ahmed Faiz asked his friend Mahmoud Darwish “Why aren’t the poets writing this war on the walls of the city

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Ali, Kazim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 06 2018
    • ISBN10: 0819577626
    • Language: English
  • That Other Life

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    Poems that deftly draw on the sonnet form to follow the speaker’s romantic life.

    That Other Life is a narrative about how relationships fail and succeed–or rather, about how the narrator fares on the

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  • An Ordinary Life: Poems

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    In this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty, power, and meaning. By turns polyphonic and deeply personal, the

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    • Author: Fairchild, B. H.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: January 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1324036850
    • Language: English
  • Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*perm**k*t, and Muse & Drudge

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    Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author of Sleeping with the Dictionary


    if you turned down the media
    so I could write a book
    then you could look

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    • Author: Mullen, Harryette
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 178
    • Publish Date: October 31 2006
    • ISBN10: 1555974562
    • Language: English
  • Zeno’s Eternity

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    “These sensitive and meditative poems offer up new ways to consider the passage of time.”–Publishers Weekly

    “A moving collection that acknowledges the limitations of the human mind, but also the limit
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    • Author: Jarman, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 85
    • Publish Date: January 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1589881702
    • Language: English
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