Death/ Grief/ Loss
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Reconstruction of the Poet: Uncollected Works of Zbigniew Herbert
$30.00 Read moreFrom one of Poland’s most acclaimed poets comes a new collection of poems and plays spanning almost five decades and translated for the first time.
Encapsulating the prolific work of the poet and playw
- Author: Herbert, Zbigniew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0062883194
- Language: English
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Poem Bitten by a Man
$18.95 Read moreFinalist for the 2024 Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Collaged from journals and notebooks kept during a period of chronic illness, economic precarity, and heartbreak, Poem Bitten By… [more below]
- Author: Teare, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1643622102
- Language: English
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Poems Bewitched and Haunted
$20.00 Read moreA delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages-a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow’s Eve… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Hollander, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 1400043883
- Language: English
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The Flowers of Evil
$7.99 Add to cartThe Flowers of Evil (1857) is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire. Translated into English by Cyril Scott in 1909, Baudelaire’s poems remain lively and idiosyncratic nearly two centuries after
- Series: Mint Editions–Poetry and Verse
- Author: Baudelaire, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1513296442
- Language: English
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Middle Distance: Poems
$16.95 Read moreAfter a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the middle distance–looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future sha
- Author: Plumly, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882497
- Language: English
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Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tearjerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Per
$24.95 Read morePretty much every poet in every age has written about death and dying. Along with love, it might be the most popular subject in poetry. Yet, until now, no anthology has gathered the best and most famo
- Author: Kick, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 01, 2013
- ISBN10: 1938875044
- Language: English
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A Different Distance: A Renga
$16.00 Add to cartAn Indie Next Selection for December 2021
A Ms. Magazine Recommended Read for Fall 2021
In March 2020, France declared a full lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Shortly thereafter, poets
- Author: Hacker, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1571315519
- Language: English
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Here, at the end.
$14.99 Add to cartAlice Teeter’s Book of Revelations is gentle and brutal, devoid of the supernatural and full of nature. Her poetry gives us a recipe, a warning, a hint at what is to come. Somehow she scares us and re
- Author: Teeter, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1665306149
- Language: English
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The Truth of You: Poetry about Love, Life, Joy, and Sadness
$14.99 Read moreThis is the truth of you.
Because you are all I see.
Because you are all I breathe.
Because when I cannot find you, I am lost.
Because when I’m with you, I am found.
Because you have the fire of the univer… [more below]- Series: Souls Trilogy
- Author: Thomas, Iain S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1524860441
- Language: English
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The Bones of Winter Birds
$16.00 Add to cartLike “sunlight stroking the birds’ throats so it comes out as song,” Ann Fisher-Wirth’s graceful and sturdy lines unsettle the seemingly familiar. A writer of moral gravity, her distilled attentivenes
- Series: Terrapin Poetry
- Author: Fisher-Wirth, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: February 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1947896113
- Language: English
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Today Means Amen
$19.99 Add to cartVivid, courageous, and candid, the poetry of Sierra deMulder speaks straight to the heart.
Dear you:
Whoever you are,
However you got here,
This is exactly where you are supposed to be.
This moment- Author: Demulder, Sierra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 144947411X
- Language: English
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Reliquaria
$17.95 Add to cartIn his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; myth
- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Villanueva, R. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 080329638X
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems
$22.00 Read more“O pure of heart! thou need’st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be!”
One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge created works of remarkable diversity- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140423532
- Language: English
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The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven
$18.95 Add to cartA timely reissue, the typographical experiments of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven make visible the hidden experience of chronic pain and illness. During uninsured and ineffectual medicaliza
- Author: Teare, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621599
- Language: English
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Stemmy Things
$17.95 Add to cartFINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature
A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy.
This flirty collection trace
- Author: Smith, Imogen Xtian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621505
- Language: English
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Who Am I: Mending a Lost Identity
$9.95 Add to cartAnvil Long was devastated to learn he had been conceived during a date rape incident. His lineage, which he had once believed to be an essential element of his being, was lost forever. The pain and in
- Author: Long, Anvil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218148218
- Language: English
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The Price of a Small Hot Fire
$18.60 Add to cartA careful study on estrangement and loss, The Price of a Small Hot Fire excavates the archetypal horrors of monstrous motherhood, from abandonment and unsteady reconciliation to the grave. Experimenta
- Author: Schraeder, E. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: July 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1947879618
- Language: English
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Relative Sanity: Poems
$28.95 Add to cartAn elegiac array of poems, with nostalgic themes of loss, longing, betrayal and forgiveness, Relative Sanity reflects on a lifetime in Michigan’s north country.
“This lovely collection is a kind of t
- Author: Lord, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997687
- Language: English
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The Candle: Poems of Our 20th Century Holocausts
$18.00 Add to cartThe Candle is a record, unlike any other in literature, of an American poet’s staring into the central atrocities of our Twentieth Century, of his struggle against soul-sickness as he attempts, over a
- Author: Heyen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0990322173
- 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
