American poetry - 21st century
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Reparations Now!
$16.00 Add to cartReparations Now! asks for what’s owed.
In formal and non-traditional poems, award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones calls for long-overdue reparations to the Black descendants of enslaved people in the Unit
- Author: Jones, Ashley M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 193823586X
- Language: English
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Space Struck
$17.95 Read more“Must-Read Poetry: October 2019” by Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions
“Best Books of 2019,” Book Riot
This astonishing, self-assured debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to
- Author: Lewis, Paige
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1946448443
- Language: English
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Date of Birth: Poems
$15.95 Read moreThe poems in this bracing debut do not shy away from incomprehensible tragedies: racism, poverty, abuse, and addiction, incest, and infidelities of the body and mind. Yet the world depicted by Shawn R… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Shawn R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0892555696
- Language: English
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A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press
$35.00 Add to cartCopper Canyon Press celebrates its first 50 years of poetry publishing in anticipation of the next 50 years.
Poetry
is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of
Copper Canyon- Author: Wiegers, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596707
- Language: English
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Amanda Paradise
$18.00 Read moreFormer United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad’s poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propr
- Author: Caconrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 195026842X
- Language: English
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Bicycles: Love Poems
$18.99 Add to cartIn her legendary career, artist and activist Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, and a voice for social justice who can inform and inspire in times of n
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0061726494
- Language: English
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The Lumberjack’s Dove
$17.99 Add to cart“Serious art does not need to be weighty or explicitly topical. It can be, as it is here, apparently as light as a feather: The Lumberjack’s Dove is, in its manner, a folktale; it is also a meditation
- Author: Nethercott, Gennarose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062853678
- Language: English
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Best American Poetry 2017
$18.99 Add to cartEdited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers “a vivid s… [more below]
- Series: Best American Poetry
- Author: Lehman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1501127756
- Language: English
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With the River on Our Face
$18.00 Add to cartEmmy P駻ez’s poetry collection With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle. The poems celebrate the land, c… [more below]
- Series: Camino del Sol
- Author: Pérez, Emmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 081653344X
- Language: English
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Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert
$17.99 Add to cartBeautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert’s poetry is a beacon to anyone who’s ever been knocked down–and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and bo… [more below]
- Author: Lambert, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1250195896
- Language: English
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Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems
$16.00 Read moreIn Ghana’s Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola’s rhapsodic debut, the in
- Author: Abimbola, Kweku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452278
- Language: English
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Auto/Body
$18.00 Add to cartThe poems in Auto/Body are an inexhaustible engine–sometimes a body, sometimes flesh–a sensual exploration of what it means to repair, to remake, to keep going even when rebuilding feels impossible.
- Series: Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry
- Author: Vértiz, Vickie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0268203938
- Language: English
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Conversation Among Stones
$17.00 Read moreAwakening to histories personal and social, Conversation Among Stones is a meditation on memory and identity.
Through fields of wild grass, restless seascapes, and cities tinged with sand, Willie Lin’
- Series: New Poets of America #51
- Author: Lin, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1960145045
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems
$16.00 Add to cartPlayfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countles… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0375755217
- Language: English
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Deluge
$17.00 Add to cart“To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge… Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma.” –Nao… [more below]
- Author: Chatti, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595891
- Language: English
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Ward Toward: Volume 118
$20.00 Add to cartYale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation
“Ok’s m?ier in this lovely debut is an elegantly discursive, analytical style studded with ironies.”–David W- Series: Yale Younger Poets
- Author: Ok, Cindy Juyoung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273924
- Language: English
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With My Back to the World: Poems
$26.00 Add to cartA new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit.
Yesterday I slung my depre- Author: Chang, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0374611130
- Language: English
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Scribbled in the Dark: Poems
$15.99 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent new poems–an American master at the height of his talent
The latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic hums
- Author: Simic, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0062661183
- Language: English
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Not Here
$16.95 Add to cartBeing queer and Asian American; families we are born into and ones we chose; nostalgia, trauma and history–all dissected fearlessly.
- Author: Nguyen, Hieu Minh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 156689509X
- Language: English
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Bimboland
$14.95 Add to cartAn astonishing debut poetry collection wrestling with desire, vulnerability, sex work and money from writer and poet Erin Taylor.
Erin Taylor’s Bimboland is an astute and confident debut, balancing, i- Author: Taylor, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1576879917
- Language: English
