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  • Scenes of Life at the Capital

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    Written from 1969 to 1971, West Coast Beat poet Philip Whalen’s “Scenes of Life at the Capital” is a lasting testament to the ambition, range, powers, and devotion of this crucially important American

    • Author: Whalen, Philip
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: May 05, 2020
    • ISBN10: 1940696925
    • Language: English
  • Thanksgiving Poems

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    Contents

    1. Thanksgiving Time

    2. Thanks to Thanksgiving

    3. Red Man’s Revenge

    4. Thanksgiving Grace

    5. Black Friday

    6. Thanksgiving: The Bird’s-Eye View

    7. Thanksgiving Toast

    8. Thanksgiving on the Square

    9. Thanksgiving at the

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    • Author: Zajac, Fred
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 52
    • Publish Date: April 13 2019
    • ISBN10: 164424859X
    • Language: English
  • I Know Your Kind: Poems

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    Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Lim, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia.

    In West Virginia,

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    • Author: Brewer, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 05 2017
    • ISBN10: 1571314954
    • Language: English
  • The Lice

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    This Fiftieth Anniversary edition celebrates one of the most ground-breaking books in American poetry. When first published in 1967, W.S. Merwin’s The Lice was ground-breaking. Its visionary urgency d

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    • Author: Merwin, W. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 30 2017
    • ISBN10: 1556594984
    • Language: English
  • One Big Self

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    “For a long while now, C. D. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-prose you can find in American literature. One Big Self does to the contemporary prison-industrial complex what Jam

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    • Author: Wright, C. D.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 01 2007
    • ISBN10: 1556592582
    • Language: English
  • Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence

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    A masterful poet re-envisions the myth of Orpheus’s descent into Hades, in search of Eurydice.

    • Author: Orr, Gregory
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: February 01 2001
    • ISBN10: 1556591519
    • Language: English
  • Invention of the Wilderness: Poems

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    In Invention of the Wilderness, Bruce Bond explores the wilderness as a spiritual, psychological, and ecological realm–a territory that, depending on our tolerances and affections, calls out for ord… [more below]

    • Author: Bond, Bruce
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 84
    • Publish Date: October 12 2022
    • ISBN10: 0807177962
    • Language: English
  • Ghost Apples

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    In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it, and in doing so asks what [more below]

    • Author: Coles, Katharine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: May 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 1636280846
    • Language: English
  • Hillbilly Madonna

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    Sara Moore Wagner’s Hillbilly Madonna is a harrowing and ultimately hopeful lens into rural life and the opioid crisis. Rendered with crucial honesty, these poems center women’s experiences in Appalac

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    • Author: Wagner, Sara Moore
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1949065227
    • Language: English
  • Shape Shifter: A Minidoka Concentration Camp Legacy

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    Lawrence Matsuda’s collection of poems in Shape Shifter: A Minidoka Concentration Camp Legacy express the reverberating trauma of his family’s imprisonment in the Minidoka Concentration Camp during WW

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    • Author: Matsuda, Lawrence
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 110
    • Publish Date: August 16 2022
    • ISBN10: 0999364685
    • Language: English
  • After Reading

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    During the pandemic, Bill Brown started reading friends’ poems that he loved. He chose a quote from each poem and wrote a tribute poem as a response. That is how this book, After Reading, got its titl

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    • Author: Brown, Bill
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 86
    • Publish Date: March 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1604542691
    • Language: English
  • Man at the Railing

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    In Man at the Railing, the 2022 winner of the Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award, Edwin Romond explores how “joy and loss join hands across our lifetime.” Drawing upon his family experiences, his four

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    • Author: Romond, Edwin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 03 2023
    • ISBN10: 1630451053
    • Language: English
  • A Scrap in the Blessings Jar: New and Selected Poems

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    A Scrap in the Blessings Jar, a volume of new and selected poems by David Bottoms, captures the evolution of the poet’s spiritual quest over the past fifty years. A native and longtime resident of Geo… [more below]

    • Series: Southern Messenger Poets
    • Author: Bottoms, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 0807180319
    • Language: English
  • Everything Waits

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    In his lyrical and expansive debut, Jonathan Graham highlights the natural world, the rugged beauty and kinship with a coal-mining region in Appalachia, the loud thunder when relatives and townspeople

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    • Author: Graham, Jonathan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 94
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1960329030
    • Language: English
  • I Would Have Left You Everything

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    In this collection of new poems, Eric Sbarge presents an often yin- and-yang view of the world-humorous yet serious, uplifting yet demoralizing, ironic yet straightforward-influenced in part by his fo

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    • Author: Sbarge, Eric
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: November 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1960558048
    • Language: English
  • Relative Hearts

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    How does a family heal from brutal trauma? The speaker in Relative Hearts faces the burdens of both his namesake and his past by digging to uncover personal details while there are still witnesses to

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    • Author: Mohring, Ron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 34
    • Publish Date: November 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957755342
    • Language: English
  • The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966

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    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”–Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

    “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”–Leonard Cohen, songwriter

    The Roominghouse Madrigals is a selection of p

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    • Author: Bukowski, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 31 2002
    • ISBN10: 0876857322
    • Language: English
  • Bridge: A Poem (Revised)

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    Begun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane’s major work. “Very roughly,” he wrote a friend, “it concerns a mystical synthesis of ‘America’ . . . The initial impulses of ‘our people’ will ha… [more below]

    • Author: Crane, Hart
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 114
    • Publish Date: July 01 1992
    • ISBN10: 0871402254
    • Language: English
  • The Selected Levis

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    Edited and with an Afterword by David St. John

    When Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he had years earlier recognized Levis as “the most gifted and determined young poet I ha

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    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Levis, Larry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: January 26 2003
    • ISBN10: 0822957930
    • Language: English
  • Salvinia Molesta

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    Victoria Chang’s collection takes its title from what many call “the worst weed in the world,” a plant so rapidly and uncontrollably invasive that it is illegal to sell or possess in the United States

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    • Series: VQR Poetry
    • Author: Chang, Victoria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: September 15 2008
    • ISBN10: 0820331767
    • Language: English
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