Alice James Books
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Thief in the Interior
$15.95 Add to cartRecipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for Poetry
2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner
Nominated for the 2017 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry
2016 INDIES Book of the Year Award… [more below]- Author: Williams, Phillip B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1938584171
- Language: English
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Second Empire
$15.95 Add to cart“The delicate arc of these poems intimates–rather than tells–a love story: celebration, fear of loss, storm, abandonment, an opening forth. Richie Hofmann disciplines his natural elegance into the s
- Author: Hofmann, Richie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1938584163
- Language: English
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The Far Mosque
$14.95 Add to cartThese gently fragmented narrative lyrics pursue enlightenment in long, elegant yet plain-spoken, dark yet ecstatic lines. Ali travels by water and by night, seeking the Far Mosque and its overarching
- Author: Ali, Kazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1882295536
- Language: English
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The Voice of Sheila Chandra
$17.95 Read moreTitled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only… [more below]
- Author: Ali, Kazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 194857912X
- Language: English
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Phantom Noise
$16.95 Read moreIn the aftermath of best-selling Here, Bullet, Brian Turner deftly illuminates existence as both easily extinguishable and ultimately enduring. These prophetic, osmotic poems wage a daily battle for n
- Author: Turner, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1882295803
- Language: English
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Slamming Open the Door
$15.95 Add to cartOf all the losses we may be asked to bear, the murder of one’s child must be the most terrible. These poems evoke that keenly, seeking justice but transcending judgment as they grieve loss, celebrate
- Author: Bonanno, Kathleen Sheeder
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1882295749
- Language: English
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Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine
$39.95 Add to cartMulti-award winner, including a National Book Award, Jean Valentine published twelve full-length collections of poetry during her lifetime, and all of them–plus an entirely new, unpublished manuscrip
- Author: Valentine, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1949944603
- Language: English
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I Am the Most Dangerous Thing
$17.95 Read moreOver the course of these poems, the Black, queer protagonist begins to erase violent structures and fill the white spaces with her hard-won wisdom and love. I am the Most Dangerous Thing doesn’t just … [more below]
- Author: Williams, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1949944522
- Language: English
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Mad Honey Symposium
$15.95 Add to cart“Like Sylvia Plath’s poems, these visionary poems are not only astute records of experience, they are themselves dazzling, verbal experiences. Worldly, wily, wise: Mad Honey Symposium is an extraordin
- Author: Wen Mao, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1938584066
- Language: English
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Decade of the Brain: Poems
$18.95 Read moreIn the deeply personal Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph writes of a newly-naturalized American citizen who suffers from post-concussive memory loss after a major auto accident.
The collection is an- Author: Joseph, Janine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1948579308
- Language: English
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Sugar Work
$17.95 Read moreSugar Work chronicles the complexities of womanhood, race, and gender that arose from growing up around sex work in Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1990s. Poems investigate beauty and whiteness, the afte… [more below]
- Author: Marya, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 194857926X
- Language: English
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Contradictions in the Design
$15.95 Add to cart“Matthew Olzmann’s poetry is that rare thing that embraces complication while, at every turn, filling us with wonder. Contradictions in the Design incorporates ‘patterns among celestial bodies, the my
- Author: Olzmann, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1938584279
- Language: English
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Orders of Service
$18.95 Read moreAs a young, Black, queer person in a small town in the South where everyone knows everyone, Orders of Service is a coming-of-age exploration of the everyday fever of fleeting relationships, while capt… [more below]
- Author: Kinard, Willie Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1949944573
- Language: English
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Here, Bullet
$15.95 Add to cartA first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award.
Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the trad
- Author: Turner, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1882295552
- Language: English
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How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
$24.95 Add to cartExplores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, s
- Author: Wong, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1948579219
- Language: English
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Feast
$17.95 Read moreWinner of a 2022 Whiting Award in Poetry
Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award
At times located in the Philippines, at others in the United States, the speaker of these poems is curious about how home c
- Author: Cari?o, Ina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1948579316
- Language: English
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The Goodbye World Poem
$17.95 Add to cartWhile Turner (author of Here, Bullet) grieves the loss of his wife to cancer, The Goodbye World Poem is a series of poetic meditations that sit quietly in the silent “afterward” of someone’s death. Lo… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1949944549
- Language: English
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The Wild Delight of Wild Things
$17.95 Read moreAlthough grief is at the forefront of these poems, The Wild Delight of Wild Things is a simple love letter to Turner’s late wife, poet Ilyse Kusnetz (1966-2016).
The poems are also a love letter to ou- Author: Turner, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1949944530
- Language: English
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Song of My Softening
$22.95 Add to cartRecommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot
“It’s not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the be
- Author: James, Omotara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1948579243
- Language: English
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Theophanies
$24.95 Add to cartMoving between the scriptures of the Qur’an and the Bible, these poems explore the complexities and spectacles of gender, faith, and family by unraveling the age-old idea that seeing is believing. Nav
- Author: Ghazal Ali, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1949944581
- Language: English
