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{#289-128}: Poems
$19.95 Read more“Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme,” remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of
- Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose
- Author: Horton, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0813179882
- Language: English
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1919
$16.00 Add to cartNPR Best Books of 2019
Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2019
Chicago Review of Books Best Poetry Book of 2019
O Magazine Best Books by Women of Summer 2019
The Millions Must-Read Poetry of June 2019
LitH- Author: Ewing, Eve L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1608465985
- Language: English
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A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson
$19.95 Read moreIn this collection of essays, talks, and reviews, Major Jackson revels in the work of poetry not only to limn and assess the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of poets, but to amplify the controve
- Series: Poets on Poetry
- Author: Jackson, Major
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0472039067
- Language: English
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Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
$12.95 Add to cartKaufman promotes a spontaneous, prophetic verse, mixing street talk and jazz with vision. Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness contains odes to Charles Mingus, Hart Crane, Ray Charles, and Albert Camus a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Kaufman, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 17 1965
- ISBN10: 0811200760
- Language: English
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Village
$16.95 Add to cartPart poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement.
In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Ne
- Author: Diggs, Latasha N. Nevada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1566896614
- Language: English
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The Beloved Community
$17.00 Read moreDedicated to friends, fellow artists, and resilient working people, The Beloved Community sees Jones at her best as she writes toward and in search of all that connects and disconnects us.
In her fifth
- Author: Spears Jones, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596669
- Language: English
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Magical Negro
$16.95 Add to cartMagical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems … [more below]
- Author: Parker, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1947793187
- Language: English
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She’s Strong, But She’s Tired: Volume 3
$16.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin, an ode to the women who have chosen to fight for themselves.
A poetic documentation of pain, loneliness, courage, and triumph.- Series: What She Felt
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1524858285
- Language: English
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Winter Roses After Fall
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the authors of The New York Times bestsellers Empty Bottles Full of Stories and Falling Toward the Moon comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose.
There’s a harshness in the air- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1524867896
- Language: English
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American Smooth: Poems
$18.99 Add to cartAn occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks. With the grace of an Astaire, Rita Dove’s magnificent poems p… [more below]
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327442
- Language: English
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Perennial Fashion Presence Falling
$20.00 Add to cartLatest poetry collection from poet, critic, theorist, and MacArthur fellow and Guggenheim Fellow, Fred Moten.
“…some ekphrastic evening, this’ll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall som
- Author: Moten, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268764
- Language: English
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Horsepower: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartPriest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational. Across the book’s three sequences, we find the black-girl spea… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Priest, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0822966190
- Language: English
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Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62
$15.95 Read more2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry – Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance
2022 California Book Award Finalist
Politically astute, filled with wisdom and great humanity, this
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #62
- Author: Eisen-Martin, Tongo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0872868753
- Language: English
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Wade in the Water: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartShortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Even the men in
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1555978363
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
$40.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry
“The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton–both the woman and her poetry–is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1934414905
- Language: English
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Worldly Things
$16.00 Add to cart“Sometimes,” writes Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, “everything reduces to circles and lines.”
In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath a… [more below]
- Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
- Author: Kleber-Diggs, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1639550755
- Language: English
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Please Make Me Pretty, I Don’t Want to Die: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartThe debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry
Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fre- Series: Princeton Contemporary Poets #170
- Author: Mulalu, Tawanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0691239037
- Language: English
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Wild Is the Wind: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically admired poets “What has restlessness been for?” In Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips re- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538247
- Language: English
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My AfroRican State of Soul: A Journey of Identidad, Struggle, Love & Faith
$20.00 Add to cartMy AfroRican State of Soul is a blend of narrative nonfiction and poetry that chronicles Lucas Rivera’s journey through life. In her foreword, Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University Professor of African
- Author: Rivera, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1952952557
- Language: English
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Best Barbarian: Poems
$26.95 Add to cartThe poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf‘s Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to thin
- Author: Reeves, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0393609332
- Language: English
