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Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New (Revised)
$21.99 Add to cart“Undersong is a remarkable poetic document. It comprises a thoroughgoing revision of Lorde’s early poems, 1950-1979, along with nine hitherto unpublished poems from that period, and an essay describin
- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0393309754
- Language: English
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The Angel of History
$13.99 Add to cartPlaced in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster–war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb–Forche’s ambitious and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifi
- Author: Forche, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0060925841
- Language: English
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No Mountains Around Here Are Purple
$10.00 Add to cartA collection of poetry by poet and hospice patient George “Hoey” McEwen. Hoey takes us along on his journeys of hope and heartbreak, joy and agony, and gives us a greater appreciation for our own jour
- Author: McEwen, George Hoey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 108789882X
- Language: English
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Hoodwitch
$16.00 Add to cartThis riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them. HoodWitch tells the story of a y… [more below]
- Series: Acre
- Author: Hicks, Faylita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1946724246
- Language: English
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Soldier on
$19.95 Add to cartFascinated by what emerges from unlikely sources when absorbed into memory, Gale Marie Thompson’s poems delight in what remains: John Wayne, Bewitched, turnip fields, camellias and canned figs, and-of… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Gale Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: January 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1936797550
- Language: English
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Scared Violent Like Horses: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartSelected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, John McCarthy’s Scared Violent Like Horses is a deeply personal examination of violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more comp
- Author: McCarthy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1571315071
- Language: English
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Bender
$18.00 Add to cart“Only a rare poet can make a reader simultaneously cry and laugh this way.” –Publishers Weekly
- Author: Young, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1556594003
- Language: English
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Because You Previously Liked or Played
$17.95 Read moreThe poems in Because You Previously Liked or Played explore a world that is increasingly mediated through technology; the personal and political struggle for meaning, connection, and reality run like … [more below]
- Author: Redmond, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052773
- Language: English
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Portal
$18.00 Read moreA poetry collection exploring inheritance and reproduction through the lenses of parenthood, etymology, postcoloniality, and climate anxiety.
Tracy Fuad’s second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes t- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Fuad, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0226831531
- Language: English
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Do Angels Need Haircuts?
$30.00 Add to cartIn August of 1970, a 28-year-old Lou Reed quit the Velvet Underground, moved home to Long Island, New York, and embarked on a fascinating alternate creative path: poetry. Spending months in relative i… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Lou
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1944860215
- Language: English
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What Love Comes to: New & Selected Poems
$25.00 Add to cartA finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. “Ruth Stone is . . . a pre-eminent American poet.” —Harvard Review
- Author: Stone, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 14 2010
- ISBN10: 1556593279
- Language: English
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Sibilance: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartThe word “sibilance” refers to pronunciations of the letter “s,” including the emission of a hissing or whistling sound. As the title of Sally Van Doren’s fourth collection of poetry, the word alerts
- Author: Van Doren, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180181
- Language: English
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History (and Pre-)
$24.95 Read moreThese poems are set in, or arise from, the past but, with Goldbarth’s characteristic precision, insight, and narrative intelligence, springboard into a conjunction of thought and heart that reminds re
- Author: Goldbarth, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0899241964
- Language: English
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Racing Hummingbirds
$18.00 Add to cartRacing Hummingbirds examines, critiques, and at times delights in one woman’s navigation through the many worlds of manic depression and her struggle to maintain humanity in the process.
Jeanann Verlee… [more below]
- Author: Verlee, Jeanann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0984251553
- Language: English
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What It Doesn’t Have to Do with: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartLindsay Bernal’s What It Doesn’t Have to Do With explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality. The elegiac meditations throughout this
- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Bernal, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353949
- Language: English
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Turtle Island
$24.95 Add to cartDescribing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in his introductory note that Turtle Island is the old / new name for the continent, based on many crea
- Author: Snyder, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 1974
- ISBN10: 0811205452
- Language: English
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The Blizzard Voices
$14.95 Add to cart2007 Book Sense Poetry Top Ten selection
This book is a collection of poems recording the devastation unleashed on
2007 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award for Poetry, honoring Tom Pohrt (Illustrator)- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803259638
- Language: English
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Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartCombining the personal with the political in his fifth collection, Mart n Espada celebrates the bread of the imagination, the bread of the table, and the bread of justice. The heart of the collection … [more below]
- Author: Espada, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: May 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0393316866
- Language: English
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And after All: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartRhina P. Espaillat’s And after All meditates on the passage of time. The perspective sweeps from the panorama of foreign landmarks to the close view of a lover’s feet in failing health, held and cared
- Author: Espaillat, Rhina P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1773490222
- Language: English
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A Girl Like Me
$19.99 Read more“[A] rallying cry for girls to reject limitations others might place on them and their dreams.”–starred, The Horn Book Magazine
“Once I dreamed I swam / the ocean / and saw everything deep, co
- Author: Johnson, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1541557778
- Language: English
