American poetry - 21st century
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A Beauty Has Come
$18.95 Read moreA collection of psychedelic poems inspired by Egyptian queen, Nefertiti, exploring the slippage between her image and legacy across time, place, and space.
A Beauty Has Come takes the reader on a sonic
- Author: Gibson, Jasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621750
- Language: English
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Mistress
$16.00 Read moreThis book of poems presents a cross-generational conversation between Sally Hemings and the contemporary narrator about what it means to be a black woman in their respective landscapes, while at the s… [more below]
- Author: Sebree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1936970627
- Language: English
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I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
$16.00 Add to cartThe long form poem is tethered in folklore and personal narrative, detailing the impact of the destructive mass incarceration system.
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Browne, Mahogany L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1642595705
- Language: English
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A Dog Runs Through It: Poems
$18.95 Read moreReflecting on her long and celebrated career in poetry, two-time National Book Award finalist Linda Pastan was struck by the number of dogs that have appeared in her poems–whether as the primary subj
- Author: Pastan, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0393651304
- Language: English
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Felon: Poems
$26.95 Read moreFelon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems–canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic
- Author: Betts, Reginald Dwayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0393652149
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses: City Lights Spotlight No. 22
$15.95 Read moreOne of Publishers Weekly‘s Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Spring 2023
Metamorphoses springs from Ovid’s epic poem to explore the slipperiness of identity, its propensity for change and transience. I
- Series: City Lights Spotlight
- Author: Kennedy, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 77
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0872869008
- Language: English
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Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations
$20.00 Read moreFinalist in CALIBA’s 2022 Golden Poppy Book Awards
A collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet Gary Snyder, written during his most productive an- Author: Snyder, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1640095772
- Language: English
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All the Gay Saints
$16.00 Read moreWhiting Award winner Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s second full-length book, All the Gay Saints, is a collection of trans joy and resilience. Focused on love, partnership, and cultivating the landscape of one… [more below]
- Author: Candrilli, Kayleb Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1947817124
- Language: English
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Philomath: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Levis Reading Prize
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s 2021 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book
A Publishers Weekly “Top Ten Pick” for Fall 2021 Poetry Titles
A Library- Author: Walker-Figueroa, Devon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1571315225
- Language: English
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Zeno’s Eternity
$16.95 Read more“These sensitive and meditative poems offer up new ways to consider the passage of time.”–Publishers Weekly
“A moving collection that acknowledges the limitations of the human mind, but also the limit… [more below]- Author: Jarman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 85
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881702
- Language: English
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Born to Love, Cursed to Feel
$16.99 Read moreFor fans of r.h. Sin comes a new voice, Samantha King’s raw, relatable poetry both celebrates love and mourns the human “curse to feel.” Her verse transports readers to the most private reaches of lov… [more below]
- Author: King Holmes, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1449480950
- Language: English
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A Place Called No Homeland
$14.95 Add to cartThis extraordinary poetry collection journeys to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monstrous women roam–and where the distinctions between body, land, and language are lost. In these fierc
- Author: Thom, Kai Cheng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1551526794
- Language: English
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Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems
$18.00 Read more“Tarfia Faizullah is a poet of brave and unflinching vision.” –Natasha Trethewey
Somebody is always singing. Songs
were not allowed. Mother said,
Dance and the bells will sing with you.
I slithered. Gl- Author: Faizullah, Tarfia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1555978002
- Language: English
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Every Day We Get More Illegal
$15.95 Add to cartVoted a Best Poetry Book of the Year by Library Journal
Included in Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Poetry Books of the Year
One of LitHub’s most Anticipated Books of the Year!
A State of the Union from the n
- Author: Herrera, Juan Felipe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0872868281
- Language: English
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Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
$26.95 Read moreIn her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867773
- Language: English
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Arias
$18.95 Read moreFollowing her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us radical new poems of intimate life and political conscience, of race and class and a mother’s violence.
The atom bomb, Breaking Bad- Author: Olds, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1524711608
- Language: English
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Nothing Is Okay
$16.00 Read more2019 Ohioana Book Award – Readers’ Choice Winner
Nothing is Okay is the second full-length poetry collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously deconstructs the lies that we were taught about … [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Wiley, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1943735301
- Language: English
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Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party
$17.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Chessy Normile’s debut collection, Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party, asks what would happen if we actually believed language to be a creative f… [more below]
- Author: Normile, Chessy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0986093823
- Language: English
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Almost an Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems
$30.00 Read moreIn poems of graceful lyricism and penetrating observation, award-winning poet Linda Pastan sheds new light on the complexities of ordinary life and the rising tide of mortality. Drawing from Pastan’s
- Author: Pastan, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021497
- Language: English
