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The Collected Poems
$25.99 Add to cartThe early poems, long unavailable in any edition, sound themes that have always engaged Kunitz: life’s meaning, the relation of time to eternity, kinship with nature, and loss, most poignantly that of… [more below]
- Author: Kunitz, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393322947
- Language: English
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Once When Green: Poems
$18.95 Add to cart“We breathe, and then / vanish,” proclaims a speaker in Once When Green, a new collection by accomplished poet Mark Irwin. While deeply personal, the book engages the earth, “gulls, / gray, quarrelin
- Series: Juniper Prize for Poetry
- Author: Irwin, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1625348657
- Language: English
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Pattern-Book
$20.99 Add to cartJon McGregor writes: ‘ In these wonderful, breath-stopping and heart-enlarging poems, ? ireann Lorsung asks only that we pay close attention – to the text, to the world, to the way the world becomes n
- Author: Lorsung, Éireann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1800174853
- Language: English
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Travesty Generator
$15.00 Add to cartLike a ghost in the machine, Travesty Generator remixes programming codes and turns them to ruminate on the intersections of race and gender. Rhythmic, hypnotic, and percussive, the poems are iterativ
- Author: Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1934819840
- Language: English
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Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine
$24.95 Add to cartFood expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts–in delicious detail–the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of the modern American wasn’t always as corporate, cong
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: Smith, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0231140932
- Language: English
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Abbey’s Road
$24.00 Add to cart“The natural world, as we call it, has already become remote, out of reach, mysterious, in the minds of urban and suburban Americans. They see the wilderness disappearing, slipping away, receding into… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 30 1991
- ISBN10: 0452265649
- Language: English
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Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art
$55.00 Add to cartOffering a new approach seen through a variety of frameworks, this groundbreaking publication reframes the narrative of American Art through the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. How might American a… [more below]
- Author: Sparling Williams, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1785515845
- Language: English
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The Light of Civil Day
$14.00 Add to cartThe Light of Civil Day – Poems of Memory, Mortality, and Resilience from Boston to the Maine Coast
In The Light of Civil Day, Robert Breen-Boston firefighter, Irish-American poet, and observer of life’
- Author: Breen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: March 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218607173
- Language: English
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Just Telling the True Facts: Grace in the fire, Strength in the Struggle
$12.99 Add to cartUnveiling the Unspoken: An African American’s Journey through the Unforgiving Terrain of 1930s-40s Tennessee: Struggles, Strength, and the Quest for Equality.
Step back in time and experience the raw a
- Author: Whitaker, William Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822989900
- Language: English
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Moon as Salted Lemon
$15.99 Add to cartClayre Benzad?n’s award-winning debut full-length poetry collection, Moon as Salted Lemon, is a queering of form and language which interrogates the intersections of Sephardic Jewish, American, and no… [more below]
- Author: Benzadón, Clayre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1949065383
- Language: English
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Hindsight: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartHindsight arises from a tormented time in our country’s history. Some poems contemplate the shocks of the COVID-19 assault. Others consider our nation, which is torn to pieces politically. The poems
- Author: Warren, Rosanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116951
- Language: English
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Tabemasho! Let’s Eat!: A Tasty History of Japanese Food in America
$18.95 Add to cartYour favorite Japanese foods, home-cooked, packaged, or served in restaurants, and how they came to delight the American palate.
- Author: Asakawa, Gil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1611720680
- Language: English
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Peasant
$18.00 Add to cartPeasant takes its title from a poem by Nikki Giovanni: “peasant food . . . must be mixed with your hands. Grandmother taught us that.” These poems aspire to the richness of peasant food (and assert th
- Author: Woodford, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999015815
- Language: English
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All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems
$19.00 Add to cartAll The Words I Can Remember Are Poems challenges colonized ideas of history and truth, particularly in relation to Filipinx/a/o history and its colonization by the United States. Engaging with archiv… [more below]
- Author: Peñaloza, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0892556277
- Language: English
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Time Remaining: Body Odes, Praise Songs, Oddities, Amazements
$16.00 Add to cartAn exuberant collection celebrating the body and the soul of language, wringing delights and amazements out of the latter years of life.
In his seventh decade and seventh full length collection, poet J… [more below]
- Author: Lenfestey, James P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1571315748
- Language: English
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The Sorrow Festival
$15.95 Add to cartThis collection of poetry interrogates the impact of grief and partner violence on a family lineage, as well as the connections between sorrow and joy as they relate to poetry, women’s writing, and th… [more below]
- Author: Slaughter, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1955904049
- Language: English
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The Redshifting Web: New & Selected Poems
$19.00 Add to cartA comprehensive collection by one of the most intensely musical and visionary poets writing today.
- Author: Sze, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: May 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1556590881
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby: A Norton Critical Edition
$11.90 Read moreThis Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The 1925 first American edition text of the novel.
- A full introduction, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations by David J. Alworth.
- An unusually rich
- Series: Norton Critical Editions #0
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0393656594
- Language: English
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Unmasking The Humourist: Alexander Gordon’s Lost Essays of Colonial Charleston, South Carolina
$27.95 Add to cartColonial America’s Greatest Literary Mystery Solved at Last
Unmasking The Humourist is a groundbreaking literary investigation that solves one of Colonial America’s greatest mysteries: Who wrote The Hu
- Series: The Wired Researcher
- Author: Kendrick, Brent L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886799156
- Language: English
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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
$24.00 Add to cartAward-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1469692090
- Language: English
