American poetry
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A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship
$18.00 Add to cartIn Ariel Francisco’s Miami, invasive lionfish are sympathetic creatures, the beach succumbs to sea-level rise, and “305 till I die” is a cry for help. The speakers in these hilarious and melancholy po
- Author: Francisco, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1941681514
- Language: English
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The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide
$18.95 Add to cartThe only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in genre to the nonfictional novel. It is based not only o
- Author: Kaufman, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1630450812
- Language: English
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Ordinary Beast: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY’S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017
NPR’S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017
A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole Sealey
The existentia
- Author: Sealey, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0062688812
- Language: English
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The Drum That Beats Within Us
$7.99 Add to cartThe tradition of the poet warrior endures throughout human history, finding expression in the Bible’s King David, the Vikings of Iceland, Japan’s Samurai, the Shambhala teachings of Tibet, the ancient
- Author: Bond, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1949751007
- Language: English
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The Chaos of Longing
$16.99 Read moreThe Chaos of Longing is a brutally honest exploration of desire–physical, emotional, and spiritual. This revised and expanded edition contains over 50 pages of all-new material.
Organized in four sec- Author: Robinson, K. y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 1449492037
- Language: English
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I Find You in the Darkness: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartFind your truest self revealed through Alfa’s carefully chosen words, and discover the love you’ve been waiting for.
Soul connection. Love. Heartbreak. Alfa knows them all, and I Find You in the Darkn- Author: Alfa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1250202620
- Language: English
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How to Be Drawn
$25.00 Add to cartA finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award
In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of t- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126881
- Language: English
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
$25.99 Add to cartWalker’s complete poems, including new and previously unpublished verse, collected for the first time-with author’s notes that provide historical perspective on spiritual and political issues of the l
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 463
- Publish Date: May 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0156028611
- Language: English
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Separation Anxiety
$16.95 Add to cartA complex and entangled text that explores inherited trauma, the presence of ghosts, interspecies communication, the dream world, grief, and human/animal separation.
Weaving wisdom from her shamanic p
- Author: Lee, Janice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1955904081
- Language: English
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Salvinia Molesta
$21.95 Add to cartVictoria Chang’s collection takes its title from what many call “the worst weed in the world,” a plant so rapidly and uncontrollably invasive that it is illegal to sell or possess in the United States
- Series: VQR Poetry
- Author: Chang, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0820331767
- Language: English
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Poems by Presidents: The First-Ever Anthology
$14.95 Read more“Well-written, thoroughly researched, and impeccably organized, Poems by Presidents explores an intriguing and unexpected side to many American presidents: they wrote poetry! In this excellent antholo… [more below]
- Author: Croland, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851532
- Language: English
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Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007
$17.00 Add to cartA GENEROUS SELECTION FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING POETS
Henri Cole has been described as a fiercely somber, yet exuberant poet by Harold Bloom, who identifies him as the central poet of his generat- Author: Cole, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0374532664
- Language: English
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At The Drive-In Volcano
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the author of the award-winning book of poems, Miracle Fruit, comes the eagerly anticipated second collection, At the Drive-In Volcano. In this new and imaginative followup, Aimee Nezhukumatathil… [more below]
- Author: Nezhukumatathil, Aimee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 85
- Publish Date: December 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1932195459
- Language: English
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Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems: A National Book Award Winner
$18.99 Add to cart“Fire to Fire should solidify Doty’s position as a star of contemporary American poetry. . . . The poems combine close attention to the fragile, contingent things of the world with the constant, almos
- Author: Doty, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0060752513
- Language: English
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Dear Selection Committee
$18.00 Add to cartFramed as a job application, and bounding with associative leaps and surrealist underpinnings, Dear Selection Committee is a subversive, sexy love song to an endlessly messy self and the burning world
- Author: Studdard, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1737513412
- Language: English
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Butch Geography
$19.95 Add to cartIn her Los Angeles Review of Books essay “Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves,” Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite’s fusion of gender identities: “Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the… [more below]
- Author: Waite, Stacey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1936797259
- Language: English
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Soft Thorns
$14.99 Read moreThe poetry living within these pages tells stories of love, heartbreak, freedom, oppression, sexual assault, sexism, hope, and humanity. Our darkest times are where we grow the most, so in this book, … [more below]
- Author: Devoue, Bridgett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1449496881
- Language: English
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Mortal Trash: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartPassionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called “Over the Bright and Darkened Lands,” canonical poems are torqued into new s
- Author: Addonizio, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354342
- Language: English
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Explorations of a Cosmic Soul
$14.99 Read moreA revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Explorations of a Cosmic Soul.
Align your soul and spirit with this beautiful collection of poetry straight from the author’s heart. Written by Allie- Author: Michelle, Allie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1524868124
- Language: English
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Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems
$52.99 Add to cartAgha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad lovers of poetry and devoted students. This volume, his shining legacy, moves from playful early poems to themes of mourning and loss, culminating in th
- Author: Ali, Agha Shahid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393068048
- Language: English
