American poetry - 21st century
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Leavings
$15.95 Add to cartA stunning collection of poems and other writings on love, nature, spirituality, and hope–from the award-winning Kentucky writer who “returned American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose” (… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 158243624X
- Language: English
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Stay, Illusion: Poems
$19.00 Add to cartNational Book Award Finalist
Stay, Illusion, the much-anticipated volume of poems by Lucie Brock-Broido, illuminates the broken but beautiful world she inhabits. Her poems are lit with magic and star- Author: Brock-Broido, Lucie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0307962032
- Language: English
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Home.Girl.Hood.
$18.00 Add to cartRings on every finger. Hood and educated AF. You’ve met her. Wearing all her feelings and responding with a side-eye or a tongue-pop. You’ve seen her. At the grocery store. In restaurants. On the subw… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Stewart, Ebony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1638340072
- Language: English
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I Love My Love
$14.99 Read moreIn short, poignant verses, Reyna Biddy’s poems explore pain, emotional reckoning, and the power of self-love.
The debut collection from 22-year-old poet Reyna Biddy, I Love My Love tells the story of- Author: Biddy, Reyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1449486762
- Language: English
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Doppelgangbanger
$16.00 Add to cartIn his anticipated second poetry collection, Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston examines the performance of Black masculinity in the U.S., and its relationship to family, love and community.
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- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Charleston, Cortney Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 164259265X
- Language: English
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Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
$17.99 Add to cartNAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work
From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suic- Author: Shange, Ntozake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1501169947
- Language: English
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American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry
$33.99 Add to cartAs Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged “fundamental division” between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in … [more below]
- Author: Swensen, Cole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393333752
- Language: English
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Romance or the End: Poems
$16.00 Read more“This book takes me right back to the Carnage Years―yours, too―sacrificed to love. If only I, you, had possessed Elaine Kahn’s wisdom and wit. These poems are lacerating, coy, bloody, and
- Author: Kahn, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 1593765843
- Language: English
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Against Silence: Poems
$16.00 Read moreAn urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and “one of the undisputed master poets of our time” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR)
Words, voices reek of the wo- Author: Bidart, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0374606471
- Language: English
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Dream of the Divided Field: Poems
$16.00 Read moreFrom an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity.
FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY – “Written with great tenderness… [more below]- Author: Yanyi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 059323099X
- Language: English
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Nocturnal
$14.99 Read moreThe poems of Nocturnal–newly revised and expanded–are constellations to guide those on a journey of healing and self-discovery, no matter how dark the night.
From @wilderpoetry comes a heavily expan- Author: Poetry, Wilder
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1524850969
- Language: English
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Triptychs
$18.00 Read moreSandra Simonds’s Triptychs is a brilliant intersection of poetic form and the passage of time.
Crafted initially in strips handwritten on rolls of receipt paper obtained at a dollar store, then assemb- Author: Simonds, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1950268683
- Language: English
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Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartJoyce Sutphen’s evocations of life on a small farm, coming of age in the late 1960s, and traveling and searching for balance in a very modern world are both deeply personal and familiar. Readers from … [more below]
- Series: Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry
- Author: Sutphen, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496216369
- Language: English
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Break the Habit
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Betts, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0996586431
- Language: English
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Out of Order
$16.95 Add to cartA debut collection featuring formally diverse poems that address topics from misogyny and mental health to race and identity.
Alexis Sears’s debut collection, Out of Order, is a collage of unapologet- Series: Donald Justice Poetry Prize
- Author: Sears, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1637680325
- Language: English
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What Love Comes to: New & Selected Poems
$25.00 Add to cartA finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. “Ruth Stone is . . . a pre-eminent American poet.” —Harvard Review
- Author: Stone, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 14 2010
- ISBN10: 1556593279
- Language: English
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Incantations: poems
$18.95 Add to cartOut of grief, upheaval, derision, disappointment, and change of all kinds-from the intimate to the mythic-Incantations both admonishes and rails. Darnell Arnoult’s evocative collection unleashes frust… [more below]
- Author: Arnoult, Darnell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1956440771
- Language: English
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Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems
$15.00 Read moreA powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.
Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 0374539359
- Language: English
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Hold What Makes You Whole
$19.99 Add to cartRest like the sun does:
Schedule some time
to stay out of sight
when too many people
praise warm energy …
THE BOOK.
Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker‘s (he/him) tenth book, Hold What Makes You Whole, is a pock
- Author: Amaker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1734673729
- Language: English
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Salt Body Shimmer
$18.00 Add to cartLyrical and rife with utterance, Salt Body Shimmer asks of the violence we inherit: who speaks from “the threshold throat” inside “the dark’s dark”? Interior driven and intimately political, the poems
- Author: Foreman, Aricka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1936919753
- Language: English
