Death/ Grief/ Loss
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Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960
$12.95 Read more“As a pandemic rages and we are unable to gather to celebrate our dead, make our minyans, or hold one another’s hands, have our seders, I think of Ginsberg writing Kaddish for his mother. I think of
- Series: Pocket Poets #14
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0872865118
- Language: English
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String
$20.95 Add to cartA book-length sequence of poems, Matthew Thorburn’s String tells the story of a teenage boy’s experiences in a time of war and its aftermath. He loses his family and friends, his home and the life he
- Series: Barataria Poetry
- Author: Thorburn, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179043
- Language: English
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Dissolve
$17.00 Add to cartDrawing upon Navajo traditions and language, Sherwin Bitsui composes a brutal and catastrophic passage through the American Southwest.
- Author: Bitsui, Sherwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 30, 2018
- ISBN10: 155659545X
- Language: English
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Said the Manic to the Muse
$18.00 Add to cartFrom dangerous trysts and barroom brawls to “grief-induced psychosis,” Said the Manic to the Muse recounts the year she lost everything, including her mind.
Jeanann Verlee’s second book, Said the Manic… [more below]- Author: Verlee, Jeanann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1938912969
- Language: English
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Vanishing Below the Waist
$11.50 Add to cartWinner of the Heartland Review Chapbook contest, finalist in the Wolfson Press Chapbook Competition & Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Contest, semi-finalist for Yellow Arrow Publishing’s Chapbook Contest,
- Author: White, Ellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: February 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1959118862
- Language: English
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The Book of Nightmares
$19.99 Add to cartGalway Kinnell’s poetry has always been marked by richness of language, devotion to the things and creatures of the world, and an effort to transform every understanding into the universality of art.
A… [more below]
- Author: Kinnell, Galway
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 22 2010
- ISBN10: 395120985
- Language: English
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When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds
$19.99 Add to cartA luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.
- Author: Markus, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0814348505
- Language: English
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Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately
$16.99 Read moreA poet, journalist, and activist, Alicia Cook offers a soundtrack of survival.
Structured like an old-school mix-tape, Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately is Alicia Cook’s lyric message to anyone who has d- Author: Cook, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1449487564
- Language: English
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Hackable Animal
$18.00 Add to cartTraveling from the Peruvian Amazon to Beijing, from the Siberian tundra to Oaxacan villages, Ian Ramsey’s Hackable Animal explores the metaphysical dimensions of being human amongst the disruptions of
- Author: Ramsey, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1956368388
- Language: English
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Rise above the River (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)
$19.95 Add to cartIn Kelly Rowe’s Rise above the River, we find a sister powerless to redress her brother’s fall from grace after the trauma of his childhood sexual abuse by a female authority figure. Rise above the R
- Author: Rowe, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1773491105
- Language: English
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It’s This
$17.00 Add to cartIt’s This contemplates relationships, identity, love, loss, and radical transformation, finding acceptance, joy, and growing peace, as the speaker practices meditation, and falls more deeply in love w
- Author: Foley, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1594981035
- Language: English
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Childcare
$17.95 Read moreCrackling with the hypervigilance of parenthood, Childcare explores the paradox at the root of raising kids: the joy of new life accompanies an awareness of potential loss. Rob Schlegel’s fourth coll
- Author: Schlegel, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245564
- Language: English
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Ashes in Paradise
$19.95 Add to cartYou’ve lost everything, my enemy said. No, I answered, I still have you, Jeff Friedman writes in his inspired new collection of prose poems and micros, Ashes in Paradise. His fabulist inventions, bibl
- Author: Friedman, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1952335698
- Language: English
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A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press
$35.00 Add to cartCopper Canyon Press celebrates its first 50 years of poetry publishing in anticipation of the next 50 years.
Poetry
is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of
Copper Canyon- Author: Wiegers, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596707
- Language: English
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Amanda Paradise
$18.00 Read moreFormer United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad’s poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propr
- Author: Caconrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 195026842X
- Language: English
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Water Look Away
$18.00 Read moreBob Hicok’s Water Look Away is an experimental conversation with the highest and lowest facets of humanity.
“Once a man who sometimes wanted to kill himself
loved a woman who sometimes wanted to live.”… [more below]
- Author: Hicok, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596502
- Language: English
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Notes from the Passenger
$17.95 Add to cartSonically vivid, as empire and climate fall into catastrophe, these poems open portals where the living and the dead find one another in new communication.
From Shelley Memorial Award Winner Gillian Co
- Author: Conoley, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621726
- Language: English
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A Fire in the Hills
$22.00 Add to cartIn A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the wo… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Afaa M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 163628082X
- Language: English
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Red Ocher
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize
In Jessica Poli’s Red Ocher, the wild mortality of the natural world merges with melancholic expressions of romantic loss: a lamb runt dies in the night, a
- Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize
- Author: Poli, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262294
- Language: English
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Come Shining: More Poems and Stories from Fifty Years of Copper Canyon Press
$17.00 Add to cartA compendium of stories about the importance of poems in people’s lives, accumulating a remarkable history of Copper Canyon Press.
For its fiftieth anniversary, Copper Canyon Press invited a broad comm… [more below]
- Author: Wiegers, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596979
- Language: English
