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  • Antillia

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    Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention

    The title poem of this collection refers to the phantom island of Antillia, included on maps in the fifteenth century but later found not to

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  • Alchemy at 55

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    Kevin Max has been writing poetry since his 20’s. He began painting at 55. It started with the notion of art therapy and developed into full-blown obsession. This book is the public document of that w

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    • Author: Max, Kevin
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 58
    • Publish Date: August 29 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957007753
    • Language: English
  • Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

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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

    Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of

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    • Author: Bukowski, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 31 2002
    • ISBN10: 0876851383
    • Language: English
  • Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960

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    “As a pandemic rages and we are unable to gather to celebrate our dead, make our minyans, or hold one another’s hands, have our seders, I think of Ginsberg writing Kaddish for his mother. I think of

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    • Series: Pocket Poets #14
    • Author: Ginsberg, Allen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: November 23 2010
    • ISBN10: 0872865118
    • Language: English
  • String

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    A book-length sequence of poems, Matthew Thorburn’s String tells the story of a teenage boy’s experiences in a time of war and its aftermath. He loses his family and friends, his home and the life he

    • Series: Barataria Poetry
    • Author: Thorburn, Matthew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 84
    • Publish Date: March 01, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0807179043
    • Language: English
  • The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth

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    The definitive volume of Rexroth’s poetry now available in paperback.

    • Author: Rexroth, Kenneth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 900
    • Publish Date: September 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 1556592175
    • Language: English
  • Why I Write in Coffee Houses and Diners: Selected Poems

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    • Author: Huffstickler, Albert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 124
    • Publish Date: November 20 2000
    • ISBN10: 0595140149
    • Language: English
  • Making Certain It Goes on: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo

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    Richard Hugo was, in James Wright’s words, “a great poet, true to our difficult life.” Making Certain It Goes On brings together, as Hugo wished, the poems published in book form during his lifetime, … [more below]

    • Author: Hugo, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 490
    • Publish Date: November 29 2012
    • ISBN10: 0393307840
    • Language: English
  • Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

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    WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
    WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

    The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices

    Gathered together, the poems of Fr

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    • Author: Bidart, Frank
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 736
    • Publish Date: August 21 2018
    • ISBN10: 0374537690
    • Language: English
  • The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems

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    Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardon… [more below]

    • Author: Simic, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: December 14 2012
    • ISBN10: 015603073X
    • Language: English
  • Said the Manic to the Muse

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    From dangerous trysts and barroom brawls to “grief-induced psychosis,” Said the Manic to the Muse recounts the year she lost everything, including her mind.
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    • Author: Verlee, Jeanann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: April 15 2015
    • ISBN10: 1938912969
    • Language: English
  • Naked for Tea: Poems

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    Naked for Tea, a finalist in the Able Muse Book Award, is a uniquely uplifting and inspirational collection. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s poems are at times humorously surreal, at times touchingly rea

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    • Author: Trommer, Rosemerry Wahtola
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: July 09 2018
    • ISBN10: 1773490168
    • Language: English
  • Lines from a Canvas

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    Lines from a Canvas offers the public one of the best kept secrets in the world of poetry for years, the work of Jacob Miller.

    His poems uniquely traverse the cultural territory from Homer to the Grat

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    • Series: American Literature
    • Author: Miller, Jacob
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: September 23 2016
    • ISBN10: 1628971371
    • Language: English
  • The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

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    William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

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    • Author: Stafford, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 268
    • Publish Date: March 01 1999
    • ISBN10: 1555972845
    • Language: English
  • Downward Dreaming: poems

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    The poems in this book present poignant portraits of the author’s family members and of her own struggles to be seen and known. Through a personal lens, the poet sheds light on human dilemmas shared b

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    • Author: Johnston, Marilyn E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 106
    • Publish Date: September 16 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798988818601
    • Language: English
  • Words Under the Words: Selected Poems

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    Words Under the Words gathers into a single volume the finest poems by one of the most exciting, accessible poets in America today. This long-awaited collection draws from Naomi Shihab Nye’s three cri… [more below]

    • Series: Far Corner Book
    • Author: Nye, Naomi Shihab
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: October 01 1994
    • ISBN10: 0933377290
    • Language: English
  • Lady Wing Shot

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    Lady Wing Shot is an exploration of the life of famed sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who was called both the “Peerless Lady Wing Shot” and “Little Sure Shot,” a name given to her by Sitting Bull. The coll

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    • Author: Wagner, Sara Moore
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: February 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 0899241948
    • Language: English
  • Notes from the Divided Country: Poems

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    In her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of difficult subjects–colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a homeland would be for a divided nation

    • Author: Kwock Kim, Suji
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: April 01, 2003
    • ISBN10: 0807128732
    • Language: English
  • The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays

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    The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver’s classic poems, and two essays all about mammal… [more below]

    • Author: Oliver, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 01 2010
    • ISBN10: 0807068853
    • Language: English
  • In Ghostlight: Poems

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    In Ghostlight, a long-awaited second collection of original poems by Ryan Wilson, considers the haunting of the contemporary mind. With virtuosic formal variety and masterful craft, these poems range

    • Series: Southern Messenger Poets
    • Author: Wilson, Ryan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: January 31, 2024
    • ISBN10: 0807181293
    • Language: English
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