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  • Ruin

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    Reader, take heed: These are no ordinary poems about childhood. In a series of secular prayers, Cynthia Cruz alludes to a girlhood colored by abuse and a brother’s death. A beautifully understated sen

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    • Author: Cruz, Cynthia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: September 01 2006
    • ISBN10: 1882295587
    • Language: English
  • The Bones of Winter Birds

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    Like “sunlight stroking the birds’ throats so it comes out as song,” Ann Fisher-Wirth’s graceful and sturdy lines unsettle the seemingly familiar. A writer of moral gravity, her distilled attentivenes

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    • Series: Terrapin Poetry
    • Author: Fisher-Wirth, Ann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 102
    • Publish Date: February 15 2019
    • ISBN10: 1947896113
    • Language: English
  • Eureka Mill

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    20th Anniversary Edition of this classic poetry collection, with a foreword by New York TImes Bestselling author, Robert Morgan and a new preface by the author.

    First published in 1998, Eureka Mill is

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    • Author: Rash, Ron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: October 16 2018
    • ISBN10: 1938235444
    • Language: English
  • Stupid Hope: Poems

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    The final collection by the late Jason Shinder, “one of the finest of our new poets” (Gerald Stern)

    I close my eyes and try to remember
    when I was unopposed, when I started to die,
    buoyant, fragrant, sh

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    • Author: Shinder, Jason
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: August 04 2009
    • ISBN10: 155597533X
    • Language: English
  • Enough Rope (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

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    On its publication in 1926, Enough Rope-Dorothy Parker’s debut collection of poems-was an instant bestseller and established her as the wittiest woman in America. Full of cynical humor, lighthearted w… [more below]

    • Author: Parker, Dorothy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 116
    • Publish Date: May 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1957240504
    • Language: English
  • Fame

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    FAME is a book about human affection and disaffection and the unique narrative which presents this perpetual movement. The poems come from India, Greece, the Windward Islands, and New England, places … [more below]

    • Author: McGrath, Kevin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 284
    • Publish Date: May 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1955194122
    • Language: English
  • All the Time You Want

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    In Selected Poems, Keith Taylor, acclaimed poet of the Upper Midwest and the author of eighteen celebrated collections, delivers a stunning medley of his most lasting work: poems that remain vivid in [more below]

    • Author: Taylor, Keith
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 1
    • Publish Date: January 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 1950539903
    • Language: English
  • How to Know You’re Dreaming When You’re Dreaming, lesson one

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    Angelica Maria Barraza Tran’s debut collection, How to Know You’re Dreaming When You’re Dreaming, Lesson One, articulates a practice of queer-of-color worldmaking in which the lyric strives to bridge

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    • Author: Barraza Tran, Angelica Maria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 92
    • Publish Date: April 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 1955969140
    • Language: English
  • Undercurrent

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    The water belongs to itself. undercurrent reflects on the power and sacredness of water–largely underappreciated by too many–whether it be in the form of ocean currents, the headwaters of the Fraser… [more below]

    • Author: Wong, Rita
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 18 2015
    • ISBN10: 0889713081
    • Language: English
  • Blowout

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    Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award.
    In Blowout, Denise Duhamel asks the same question that Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers asked back in 1954–“Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” Duhamel’s poems rea… [more below]

    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Duhamel, Denise
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: February 17 2013
    • ISBN10: 0822962365
    • Language: English
  • Two and Two

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    Denise Duhamel’s much anticipated new collection begins with a revisionist tale–Noah is married to Joan of Arc–in a poem about America’s often flawed sense of history. Throughout Two and Two, double

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    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Duhamel, Denise
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 126
    • Publish Date: February 08 2005
    • ISBN10: 0822958716
    • Language: English
  • Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry

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    Anew, sun, to fire summer
    leaves move toward the air
    from the stems of the branches

    fire summer fire summer
    –from Anew

    Here is the complete music-filled arc of Louis Zukofsky’s shorter verse collect… [more below]

    • Author: Zukofsky, Louis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: January 28 2011
    • ISBN10: 0811218724
    • Language: English
  • Waterlines: Poems

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    In Waterlines, Louisiana native Alison Pelegrin gives us poems that describe the terrible power of nature even as they underscore the state’s beauty. The poet moves from the familiar gaudy delights of

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    • Author: Pelegrin, Alison
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: August 22 2016
    • ISBN10: 0807164496
    • Language: English
  • She Let Herself Go: Poems

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    From George Ella Lyon comes a dynamic and humorous collection examining the transformations of one woman’s life as she tries on, takes on, and peels off identities learned from family stories, gender,

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    • Author: Lyon, George Ella
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 13 2012
    • ISBN10: 080714276X
    • Language: English
  • The Robert Frost Reader

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    Robert Frost was the most emblematically American of poets, a forthright advocate of both the art and craft of verse who was recognized and cherished as few other poets have ever been. This reader off

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    • Author: Frost, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: April 01 2002
    • ISBN10: 0805070214
    • Language: English
  • Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006

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    Quiver of Arrows is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips’s work that showcases the twenty-year evolution of one of America’s most distinctive–and one of poetry’s most essential–contemporary voice

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    • Author: Phillips, Carl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 222
    • Publish Date: May 01 2007
    • ISBN10: 0374530785
    • Language: English
  • Draw Me After: Poems

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    “Cole’s splendid ear orchestrates awakenings.” –Forrest Gander, author of Twice Alive

    Peter Cole’s luminous new book is in many ways his freest and most moving to date. In Draw Me After, Cole evolves

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    • Author: Cole, Peter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: January 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 0374607877
    • Language: English
  • Disobedience

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    Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Her last collection, Mysteries of Small Houses, was a finalist for both the Pulitze… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Notley, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 01 2001
    • ISBN10: 0141002298
    • Language: English
  • The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990 – 2010

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    “Tate’s poems are meditative, introverted, self-reliant, funny, alarming, strange, difficult, intelligent, and beautifully crafted.”
    New York Times

    The Eternal Ones of the Dream is a breathtaking c… [more below]

    • Author: Tate, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 27 2012
    • ISBN10: 0062101862
    • Language: English
  • American Melancholy: Poems

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    A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years

    Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute so

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    • Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063035278
    • Language: English
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