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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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Lorca: Selected Poems: Bilingual Spanish-English Edition
$24.00 Add to cartA new dual-language edition of poems from Spain’s greatest modern poet and dramatist.
Federico Garc? Lorca was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
- Author: Lorca, Federico GarcÃa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1780376103
- Language: English
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Nightingale
$16.00 Add to cartA fierce, contemporary reworking of ancient mythology-from Ovid to Eden-confronts sexual violence, loss, and existential reckoning.
- Author: Rekdal, Paisley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1556595670
- Language: English
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Nocturnal
$14.99 Read moreThe poems of Nocturnal–newly revised and expanded–are constellations to guide those on a journey of healing and self-discovery, no matter how dark the night.
From @wilderpoetry comes a heavily expan- Author: Poetry, Wilder
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1524850969
- Language: English
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The After: Poems that explore the emotional experiences of life after love and loss.
$12.99 Add to cart“The After” is a collection of poems that explore the emotional landscape after love and loss. The selection of these poems reflect the navigation through life after it is forever altered. Love is why
- Author: Gerard, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: December 26 2022
- ISBN10: 9798987516706
- Language: English
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Survivalism for Hedonists
$11.00 Add to cartSurvivalism for Hedonists is a collection of poetic experiments, using digital randomisation and cut-up techniques to explore how exploding language might move us closer to representing cataclysmic li
- Author: McNulty-Holmes, Dylan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1959118544
- Language: English
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Semiautomatic
$15.95 Read morePoetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence
Art can’t shield our bodies or stabilize the earth’s climate, but Evie Shockley’s semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and re
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Shockley, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0819577448
- Language: English
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The Clearing: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with rich imagination and a singular incisiveness, “asserting feminist viewpoint… [more below]
- Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
- Author: Adair, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1639550232
- Language: English
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Brand New Spacesuit
$17.00 Add to cartWith wry humor and acute attention to detail, John Gallaher’s latest poetry collection captures the pain and joys of caretaking.
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Gallaher, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1950774031
- Language: English
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Helen Or My Hunger
$18.00 Add to cartHelen or My Hunger is a looping, serial sequence that explores the relationship between memory, language, the body, and power. In dialogue with H.D.’s 1961 epic Helen in Egypt, these poems address the
- Author: Thompson, Gale Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1936919842
- Language: English
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Know I Loved You Today
$15.00 Add to cartKnow I Loved You Today is a deeply personal collection of Kenneth Francis Pearson’s haiku and free verse reflecting on loss and commemoration. The concise haiku find solace through images from the nat
- Author: Pearson, Kenneth Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0976854333
- Language: English
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The Silk the Moths Ignore
$15.00 Add to cartThe Silk the Moths Ignore animates the liminal, sometimes gothic, spaces of miscarriage, pregnancy, and early parenthood with exquisite defamiliarizing detail. Weaving together prose versets, sonnets,
- Author: Tate, Bronwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: September 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1734497777
- Language: English
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Desgraciado: (The Collected Letters)
$17.95 Read moreA collection of epistolary poems that exorcises and explores the material violence and generational trauma of colonization and systemic racism stored within queer Latinx memory.
Includes a Foreword fr
- Author: Dominguez, Angel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621149
- Language: English
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I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me
$16.00 Read moreWith tender attention and a keenly embodied curiosity, the poems in I am the dead, who, you take care of me are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead.
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- Author: McCann, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268888
- Language: English
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Tranquility Teetering on Tears: Tears of Sorrow Tears of Joy An Incident in Faith, Hope, and Love
$17.95 Add to cartTranquility Teetering on Tears is an insightful observation of a nontraditional society and written by a nontraditional student formed and scripted in a traditional Lutheran University that is current
- Author: Pence Aka Gpb, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1662466978
- Language: English
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The Far Unlit Unknown
$17.95 Add to cartIn this collection of poems, Mary Lou Kayser guides readers through some of life’s biggest moments. Falling in love. Working through grief. Healing old wounds. Losing someone dear to us. Deciding it’s
- Author: Kayser, Mary Lou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987792315
- Language: English
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Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine
$39.95 Add to cartMulti-award winner, including a National Book Award, Jean Valentine published twelve full-length collections of poetry during her lifetime, and all of them–plus an entirely new, unpublished manuscrip
- Author: Valentine, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1949944603
- Language: English
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Searching for Home
$17.00 Add to cartSearching for Home, Pack’s splendid twenty-second collection of poems, written largely during his last year of life, centers on the search for meaning. At its heart are sequences of poems about three
- Author: Pack, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821473
- Language: English
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The Angel of History
$13.99 Add to cartPlaced in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster–war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb–Forche’s ambitious and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifi
- Author: Forche, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0060925841
- Language: English
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And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight
$22.00 Add to cartPart protest against reality, part metaphysical reckoning, part internationale for the world-historical surrealist insurgency, and part arte povera for the wretched of the earth, Lynn Xu’s book-length
- Author: Xu, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1950268543
- Language: English
