American poetry - 21st century

  • Silver: Poems

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    Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth collection is a book as lustrous as the metal of its title.

    This beautiful, slender collection–small and weighted like a coin–is Rowan Ricardo Phillips at his very be

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    • Author: Phillips, Rowan Ricardo
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 0374611319
    • Language: English
  • Songs from Under the River: A Poetry Collection of Early and New Work

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    World renowned performer, top-selling author and two-time National Slam Poetry Champion, Anis Mojgani has combed through out-of-print editions to put together Songs from Under the River.

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    • Author: Mojgani, Anis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: March 15 2013
    • ISBN10: 1938912241
    • Language: English
  • Jim Harrison: Complete Poems

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    Editors’ Choice Selection, The New York Times Book Review

    ** Starred Reviews ** in Library Journal and Booklist

    “This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet’s work…

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    • Author: Harrison, Jim
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 944
    • Publish Date: December 07 2021
    • ISBN10: 155659593X
    • Language: English
  • We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

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    2021 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST

    Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

    Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Ra

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    • Author: Abi-Karam, Andrea
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: November 24 2020
    • ISBN10: 1643620339
    • Language: English
  • The Naomi Letters

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    Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters chronicles the relationship

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    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Mennies, Rachel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 27 2021
    • ISBN10: 1950774295
    • Language: English
  • A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

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    2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY


    A collection inspired by Hoa’s mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam’s diaspora.

    Hoa Nguyen’s

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    • Author: Nguyen, Hoa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: April 06 2021
    • ISBN10: 1950268179
    • Language: English
  • Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005

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    Selected poems from a visionary feminist poet

    Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experi

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Notley, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 388
    • Publish Date: August 26 2008
    • ISBN10: 0819567736
    • Language: English
  • Cemetery Ink: Poems

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    In poems of compassion and social justice, Mihaela Moscaliuc probes borders and memory to work through, and further complicate, understandings of belonging–from places (including her native Romania) … [more below]

    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Moscaliuc, Mihaela
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 70
    • Publish Date: April 06 2021
    • ISBN10: 0822966573
    • Language: English
  • Blud

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    Cultural brujer?, sacrilegious litanies, ritualized births, and letters from hearts and/or brains populate Rachel McKibben’s world in blud.

    • Author: McKibbens, Rachel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: October 17 2017
    • ISBN10: 1556595247
    • Language: English
  • Blowout

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    Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award.
    In Blowout, Denise Duhamel asks the same question that Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers asked back in 1954–“Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” Duhamel’s poems rea… [more below]

    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Duhamel, Denise
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: February 17 2013
    • ISBN10: 0822962365
    • Language: English
  • Draw Me After: Poems

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    “Cole’s splendid ear orchestrates awakenings.” –Forrest Gander, author of Twice Alive

    Peter Cole’s luminous new book is in many ways his freest and most moving to date. In Draw Me After, Cole evolves

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    • Author: Cole, Peter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: January 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 0374607877
    • Language: English
  • The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990 – 2010

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    “Tate’s poems are meditative, introverted, self-reliant, funny, alarming, strange, difficult, intelligent, and beautifully crafted.”
    New York Times

    The Eternal Ones of the Dream is a breathtaking c… [more below]

    • Author: Tate, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 27 2012
    • ISBN10: 0062101862
    • Language: English
  • Stemmy Things

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    FINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

    A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy.

    This flirty collection trace

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    • Author: Smith, Imogen Xtian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 18 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643621505
    • Language: English
  • Love Poems in Quarantine

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    An award-winning, multi-genre writer grapples with the pandemic, death of George Floyd, and other crises of our times in gnomic poems written from inside the purgatory (and sudden revelations) of quar

    • Author: Ruhl, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: May 31, 2022
    • ISBN10: 1556596308
    • Language: English
  • Commando

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    E’mon Lauren’s poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago’s Southside and Westside to create a manifesto of survival and growth. These poems from Chicago’s first Youth Poet Laur

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    • Series: Breakbeat Poets
    • Author: Lauren, E’Mon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: October 31 2017
    • ISBN10: 1608469433
    • Language: English
  • Hard Child

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    Natalie Shapero spars with apathy, nihilism, and mortality, while engaging the rich territory of the 30s and new motherhood

    • Author: Shapero, Natalie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 04 2017
    • ISBN10: 1556595093
    • Language: English
  • Metabolics: Poems

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    In this debut poetry collection, a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navigating identities, impulses, and relationships that are often[more below]

    • Author: Johnson, Jessica E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 20 2023
    • ISBN10: 1946724572
    • Language: English
  • Over the Anvil We Stretch

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    Over The Anvil We Stretch contains swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three legged frog on the lawn and the jar of marbles your mother kept … [more below]

    • Author: Mojgani, Anis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: December 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 0981521347
    • Language: English
  • Cape Verdean Blues

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    “These words feel like experiences. Some are personal, most are enlightening, but all connect. Connect on a higher Level. A spiritual level.” –Kendrick Lamar, Grammy Award-winning artist, and winner[more below]

    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Barbosa, Shauna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 12 2018
    • ISBN10: 0822965216
    • Language: English
  • The Pact

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    In her newest collection, award-winning poet and memoirist Jennifer Militello confronts obsession, intimacy, and abuse. Through love poems inspired by such disparate spaces as a British art museum and… [more below]

    • Author: Militello, Jennifer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: May 01 2021
    • ISBN10: 1946482471
    • Language: English
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