Death/ Grief/ Loss
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Fierce Elegy
$27.00 Read morePeter Gizzi’s powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also–as it has been for centuries–a work of love
Peter Gizzi has said that “the elegy is a mode that can transform a brok
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Gizzi, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500674
- Language: English
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Godhouse
$22.95 Add to cartPoems that consider the human body as a meeting place of the infinite and the mortal.
Starting with the idea that the human experience is the universe looking back at itself, godhouse takes the notio- Author: Kocher, Ruth Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1632431165
- Language: English
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Please Bury Me in This
$15.95 Read moreThe speaker in Please Bury Me in This grieves the death of her father and the loss of several women to suicide while contemplating her own death and the nature of language as a means of human connecti… [more below]
- Author: White, Allison Benis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1935536834
- Language: English
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Funeral Diva
$16.95 Add to cartFuneral Diva is the Winner of the Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry!
A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art.
“Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry,
- Author: Sneed, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0872868117
- Language: English
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Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party
$17.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Chessy Normile’s debut collection, Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party, asks what would happen if we actually believed language to be a creative f… [more below]
- Author: Normile, Chessy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0986093823
- Language: English
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Seeing the Body: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartPoems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss.
In radiant poems-
- Author: Griffiths, Rachel Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020164
- Language: English
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A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn
$21.99 Read moreFrom the renowned Booker Prize-winning author, a powerful collection of poems covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, Black Lives Matter protests, and COVID-19.
In our times of crisis- Author: Okri, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423082
- Language: English
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Chariot
$18.00 Read moreTimothy Donnelly’s fourth collection of poems, Chariot, ferries the reader toward an endless horizon of questioning that is both philosophical and deeply embodied.
“How did we get here?” he asks in hi… [more below]
- Author: Donnelly, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268772
- Language: English
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Romantic Comedy
$17.95 Read moreJames Allen Hall returns to poetry with Romantic Comedy, a sophomore collection sounding the parameters of genre to subvert cultural notions of literary value and artistic legitimacy. What realities
- Author: Hall, James Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245467
- Language: English
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The World Behind the World: Poems
$26.95 Read moreBalancing emotional openness with formal restraint, April Bernard proves once again a poet who “harmonizes the raucous and the classic, the songful and the wry, the courtly and the quick” (Wayne Koest
- Author: Bernard, April
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324036206
- Language: English
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Memento Mori: Poems
$15.00 Add to cartMemento Mori is a meditation on mortality, change and loss. Rather than being simply somber, this volume observes our human condition through a poetic kaleidoscope, with glimpses of irony and humor th… [more below]
- Author: Coe, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1948585022
- Language: English
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Previously Owned
$17.95 Read moreIn his daring sophomore collection, Nathan McClain interrogates his speaker’s American heritage, history, and responsibility. Investigating myth, popular culture, governance, and more, Previously Owne… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: McClain, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1954245262
- Language: English
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The Essential T.S. Eliot
$25.99 Add to cartA selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri
T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century l
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 006297811X
- Language: English
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Archy and Mehitabel
$19.95 Read morearchy and mehitabel is a collection of humorous verses by Don Marquis, originally published from 1916 onwards in Marquis’s newspaper columns ‘The Sun Dial’ in the New York Evening Sun and ‘The Lantern… [more below]
- Author: Marquis, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 177
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1915530016
- Language: English
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Firebird
$14.95 Read moreEnergetic, formally audacious poems by a recently rediscovered Polish writer, shining examples of art as resistance.
Zuzanna Ginczanka’s last poem, “Non omnis moriar…” (“Not all of me shall die”), w- Author: Ginczanka, Zuzanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377306
- Language: English
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Black Movie
$12.00 Read more2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner
“These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make ‘a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry Contest Winner #3
- Author: Smith, Danez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 194373500X
- Language: English
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The Wendys
$16.95 Read more“Because it is easier to miss a stranger / with your mother’s name,” Allison Benis White instead writes about five women named Wendy as a way into the complex grief that still lingers after the death … [more below]
- Author: White, Allison Benis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 194558842X
- Language: English
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Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
$14.99 Read moreFrom NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in Ame… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0358539412
- Language: English
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Selected Books of the Beloved
$18.00 Read moreAn expansive, lyric testament to the formidable mystery of love, spanning several previous volumes all in dedication to the beloved.
For more than a decade, Gregory Orr has been writing toward “the Bo… [more below]
- Author: Orr, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596537
- Language: English
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So Far So Good
$23.00 Read more“Ursula K. Le Guin, loved by millions for her fantasy and science-fiction novels, ponders life, death and the vast beyond in So Far So Good, an astute, charming collection finished weeks before her de… [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1556595387
- Language: English
