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  • Ezra Pound: Poems & Translations (Loa #144)

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    Poetic visionary Ezra Pound catalyzed American literature’s modernist revolution. This volume, the most comprehensive collection of his poetry and translations ever assembled, gathers all his verse ex… [more below]

    • Series: Library of America #144
    • Author: Pound, Ezra
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 1363
    • Publish Date: October 13 2003
    • ISBN10: 1931082413
    • Language: English
  • Daniel Boone’s Window: Poems

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    Daniel Boone’s Window, a new book of poetry by Matthew Wimberley, meditates on the past and future of contemporary Appalachia through explorations of both mythologized and actual landscapes. In poems … [more below]

    • Series: Southern Messenger Poets
    • Author: Wimberley, Matthew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 78
    • Publish Date: September 08 2021
    • ISBN10: 0807175684
    • Language: English
  • Flavortown

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    At FLAVORTOWN’s core is a sequence of poems that imagines a place called, well, Flavortown, an American culinary dystopia where Guy Fieri is patron saint and everything is painfully delicious and “aut

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    • Author: Caine, Danny
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: May 04 2021
    • ISBN10: 0578876345
    • Language: English
  • West Portal

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    Winner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize

    West Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pill

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    • Author: Gucciardi, Benjamin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: July 30 2021
    • ISBN10: 1647690404
    • Language: English
  • Tell Me How You Got Here

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    Emily Franklin’s Tell Me How You Got Here is rich with the objects of this world-a stray sneaker on the highway, a garage-sale skillet, “damp frogs small as grapes”-ordinary things and situations reve

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    • Author: Franklin, Emily
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 114
    • Publish Date: February 01 2021
    • ISBN10: 1947896334
    • Language: English
  • Words Like Love: Poems

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    With beauty and ease, Winder explores emotion and thought through the poems featured in this debut collection.

    • Author: Winder, Tanaya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: February 15 2021
    • ISBN10: 0826362613
    • Language: English
  • Bernadette Mayer: Memory

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    A revered classic of 1970s New York conceptualism, Bernadette Mayer’s Memory synthesizes writing and photography in this prescient “emotional science project”

    A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday

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    • Author: Mayer, Bernadette
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 332
    • Publish Date: June 09 2020
    • ISBN10: 1938221257
    • Language: English
  • Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems

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    Joyce Sutphen’s evocations of life on a small farm, coming of age in the late 1960s, and traveling and searching for balance in a very modern world are both deeply personal and familiar. Readers from … [more below]

    • Series: Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry
    • Author: Sutphen, Joyce
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: October 01 2019
    • ISBN10: 1496216369
    • Language: English
  • Speech Crush

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    Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing a broken vessel with lines of tree sap and gold, the poems in Sandra McPherson’s new book, Speech Crush, run a vein of intelligence and attention through o[more below]

    • Author: McPherson, Sandra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: October 02 2022
    • ISBN10: 1957062045
    • Language: English
  • O Body

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    A collection of moving and tender poems that delves into questions of masculinity, fatherhood, home, and learning to live in and love one’s own body.

    In his second full-length poetry collection, Chica

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    • Author: Sullivan, Dan Sully
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: February 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1642599743
    • Language: English
  • Bad Animal

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    Bad Animal is a collection of poems about the body, about violence, about safety, a meditation on love, sex, and death. It explores the body’s changing relationship to desire in the aftermath of incre

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    • Author: Bratt-Pfotenhauer, Kathryn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 82
    • Publish Date: July 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1736138685
    • Language: English
  • Coming To Terms

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    Coming To Terms.

    Poetry by Peter Sagnella.

    Peter Sagnella lives with his wife and sons in North Haven, Connecticut, where he has taught Composition, Poetry, and Environmental Literature for twenty-two

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    • Author: Sagnella, Peter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 52
    • Publish Date: July 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1952869803
    • Language: English
  • Soft Urgency

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    Soft Urgency validates the fluidity of the human emotional experience by embodying that people, like nature, also have seasons. This collection escorts you along a cyclic, visceral journey that is bot

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    • Author: Leick, Megan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 84
    • Publish Date: June 23 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798218174545
    • Language: English
  • A Dangerous Heaven

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    A Dangerous Heaven creates personal and political conversations that resound through both the sacred and the secular worlds. Jo Angela Edwins has spent the past many years excavating those personal re

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    • Author: Edwins, Jo Angela
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: August 29 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798985483390
    • Language: English
  • Break the Habit

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    • Author: Betts, Tara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 94
    • Publish Date: October 01 2016
    • ISBN10: 0996586431
    • Language: English
  • The End of Beauty

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    A collection of poems by “a poet of large ambitions and reckless music. Ms. Graham writes with a metaphysical flair and emotional power.”–New York Times Book Review.

    • Series: American Poetry Series #33
    • Author: Graham, Jorie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: May 01 1988
    • ISBN10: 0880016167
    • Language: English
  • Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays

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    Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this twentieth-anniversary expanded edition to add twenty poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with “chant” as central to con

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    • Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
    • Author: Waldman, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 159
    • Publish Date: January 01 1996
    • ISBN10: 0872863166
    • Language: English
  • Magic City

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    An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.

    Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He po

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Komunyakaa, Yusef
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 68
    • Publish Date: October 09 1992
    • ISBN10: 0819512087
    • Language: English
  • Divine Ratios: Poems

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    The reach of Divine Ratios is global, ranging from Tang Dynasty China and the Florentine Renaissance to contemporary Baltimore, post-World War II Berlin, and the landscapes of the Mountain West. The s… [more below]

    • Author: Osherow, Jacqueline
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 108
    • Publish Date: February 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 0807177717
    • Language: English
  • Queen of a Rainy Country: Poems

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    Linda Pastan writes, “the art that mattered / was the life led fully / stanza by swollen stanza.” That life is portrayed here, from the poet’s earliest childhood memories to the surprises that come wi

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    • Author: Pastan, Linda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 90
    • Publish Date: May 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 0393331415
    • Language: English
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