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  • Bloodroot

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    The poems in Bill King’s first full-length collection articulate a life grounded in the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains. These poems follow the root of a life nourished by and inseparable from ga… [more below]

    • Author: King, Bill
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: October 03 2023
    • ISBN10: 0881469106
    • Language: English
  • The Human Line

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    “Poetry,” writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, “is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray. It’s the way I embody my love for the world.”

    The Human Line,

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    • Author: Bass, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: June 01 2007
    • ISBN10: 1556592558
    • Language: English
  • Still Falling: Poems

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    A searching new collection by a poet who “pays exquisite attention to everything she encounters” (The Washington Post)

    Still Falling expands on Jennifer Grotz’s precise sense of craft and voice to inv

    • Author: Grotz, Jennifer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: May 02, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644452316
    • Language: English
  • Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going

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    A memoir-in-poems about coming of age in sultry Florida and navigating a complex lesbian relationship grounded in the daily world.

    • Author: Jacobs, Jessica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: March 04 2019
    • ISBN10: 1945588268
    • Language: English
  • Collected Poems

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    All of Jane Kenyon’s published poems gathered in one definitive collection, now in paperback

    Yes, long shadows go out
    from the bales; and yes, the soul
    must part from the body:
    what else could it do?

    –f

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    • Author: Kenyon, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: September 04 2007
    • ISBN10: 1555974783
    • Language: English
  • The Shadow of Sirius

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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

    Featured on NPR’s “Fresh Air” and “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS.

    Honored as one of the “Best Books of the Year” from Publishers Weekly.

    “A collection of lu

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    • Author: Merwin, W. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 130
    • Publish Date: October 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 1556593104
    • Language: English
  • Radium Girl

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    The poems in Radium Girl hold dual citizenship in the land of the sick and the kingdom of the well. The point where illusion ends and reality begins is never clear, as Celeste Lipkes evokes saints, ma… [more below]

    • Series: Wisconsin Poetry
    • Author: Lipkes, Celeste
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 0299341747
    • Language: English
  • The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems of Frank Stanford

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    Between 1972, when he published his first book, The Signing Knives, and 1978, when he died at the age of twenty-nine, Frank Stanford published seven volumes of poetry. Within a year of his death, two

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    • Author: Stanford, Frank
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 111
    • Publish Date: July 01 1991
    • ISBN10: 1557281939
    • Language: English
  • The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems

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    Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry

    Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Harryette Mullen

    By turns aggressively reckless and fiercely protective

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    • Author: Almontaser, Threa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 06 2021
    • ISBN10: 164445050X
    • Language: English
  • The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

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    Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry

    Beginning with “long poem of these States,” The Fall of America is the follow up book to Ginsberg’s Planet News … chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand

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    • Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
    • Author: Ginsberg, Allen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 188
    • Publish Date: June 01 1972
    • ISBN10: 0872860639
    • Language: English
  • The Life of Poetry

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    Our century’s lost classic about American culture, the essential saving force of poetry, and how it can improve the quality of life in the United States

    Observing that poetry is a natural part of our p… [more below]

    • Series: Paris Press
    • Author: Rukeyser, Muriel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 01 1996
    • ISBN10: 0963818333
    • Language: English
  • Archy and Mehitabel

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    archy and mehitabel is a collection of humorous verses by Don Marquis, originally published from 1916 onwards in Marquis’s newspaper columns ‘The Sun Dial’ in the New York Evening Sun and ‘The Lantern… [more below]

    • Author: Marquis, Don
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 177
    • Publish Date: September 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1915530016
    • Language: English
  • Lo

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    Lo maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman–tender, hungry, hopeful–who manages to emerge. In a series of lyric odes and elegies, Lo explor… [more below]

    • Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
    • Author: Crowe, Melissa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: May 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1609388992
    • Language: English
  • The Upstate

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    Poetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis.

    Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne’s lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay Tu

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    • Series: Phoenix Poets
    • Author: Turner, Lindsay
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: October 06 2023
    • ISBN10: 0226828646
    • Language: English
  • The Turtle Saver

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    A kind-hearted man moves a turtle from the middle of the road and sets off a remarkable chain of events, reminding us that even the smallest act of kindness can have far-reaching results.

    • Author: Parker, Laurie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: February 01 2002
    • ISBN10: 1893062325
    • Language: English
  • The Wendys

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    “Because it is easier to miss a stranger / with your mother’s name,” Allison Benis White instead writes about five women named Wendy as a way into the complex grief that still lingers after the death … [more below]

    • Author: White, Allison Benis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 02 2020
    • ISBN10: 194558842X
    • Language: English
  • Denise Levertov Selected Poems

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    Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid an… [more below]

    • Author: Levertov, Denise
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 220
    • Publish Date: September 17 2003
    • ISBN10: 0811215547
    • Language: English
  • So Far So Good

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    “Ursula K. Le Guin, loved by millions for her fantasy and science-fiction novels, ponders life, death and the vast beyond in So Far So Good, an astute, charming collection finished weeks before her de… [more below]

    • Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: October 02 2018
    • ISBN10: 1556595387
    • Language: English
  • The Symmetry of Fish

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    “All hits no skips. I was incredibly moved by these poems.” –Roxane Gay, via Goodreads

    From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about immigration, m

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Cho, Su
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: October 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 0143137255
    • Language: English
  • The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939

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    So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams’ radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the firs… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Paperbook #730-
    • Author: Williams, William Carlos
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 604
    • Publish Date: September 17 1991
    • ISBN10: 0811211878
    • Language: English
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