Four Way Books
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Indirect Light
$17.95 Add to cartReliving the overdoses of beloved friends, Malachi Black closes this book’s opening poem with a resuscitating command: “Doctor, / turn back. One of us lives.” Indirect Light is a testament to and apo
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Black, Malachi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1961897121
- Language: English
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Whale Aria
$17.95 Add to cart“For seasons I was faceless // trying to swallow constellations, / to roll a star-map on my tongue,” recounts Rajiv Mohabir’s speaker in “Boy with Baleen for Teeth.” As formally visionary and acoustic… [more below]
- Author: Mohabir, Rajiv
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245688
- Language: English
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To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems: Selected and New
$17.95 Add to cartThe capstone of a quarter-century career in poetry, To the Boy Who Was Night collects the poetry published by Rigoberto González since 1999, including selections from five previous books as wel
- Author: Gonz?lez, Rigoberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245521
- Language: English
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Ignatz
$15.95 Read moreIgnatz takes the form of a cycle of love poems–in radical variations–based on Ignatz Mouse, the rodent anti-hero and love-object of George Herriman’s classic comic strip Krazy Kat. For decades, Kraz
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Youn, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 193553601X
- Language: English
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So Long
$17.95 Read moreAnticipating and then grieving the death of her father, Jen Levitt’s So Long fleshes out a full elegiac register, sitting with the mourning of farewell while holding onto gratitude, remembrance, and
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Levitt, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245505
- Language: English
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Up Jump the Boogie
$16.95 Read morePoetry. African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. “Up jumps the boogie. That’s almost all one needs to say. Murillo is headbreakingly brilliant. I didn’t have a favorite poet for this year: Now… [more below]
- Author: Murillo, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1945588500
- Language: English
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What Shines
$17.95 Read moreRetrospective of a long life and already inimitable career in poetry, Sydney Lea’s What Shines asserts and asks in equal measure. In older age, Lea affirms the luster of fruit long labored for: a resi… [more below]
- Author: Lea, Sydney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245580
- 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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Steady Diet of Nothing
$19.95 Read moreIn this stunning novel, Cynthia Cruz administers an IV drip of capitalist entropy that keeps us rapt: Steady Diet of Nothing compels readers to consume it in one headlong sitting. Charting the dissol… [more below]
- Author: Cruz, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245661
- 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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For the Love of Endings
$15.95 Read moreHow does it feel to lose your planet, your lover, yourself? Ben Purkert’s debut collection, For the Love of Endings, tests what connects us to this earth and to each other. His brilliantly crafted poe… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Purkert, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1945588055
- Language: English
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Digest
$15.95 Read moreFrom Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we expe… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Series Selections
- Author: Pardlo, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1935536508
- 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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Fantasia for the Man in Blue
$16.95 Read moreIn his debut collection Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the black, queer body as a site of desire an… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Blount, Tommye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1945588497
- Language: English
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Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going
$15.95 Read moreA memoir-in-poems about coming of age in sultry Florida and navigating a complex lesbian relationship grounded in the daily world.
- Author: Jacobs, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1945588268
- 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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The Mansions
$17.95 Read moreFrom award-winning poet Daniel Tobin comes The Mansions, an epic trilogy of book-length poems which examines exemplary 20th-Century figures Georges Lemaître, Simone Weil, and Teilhard de Chardin… [more below]
- Author: Tobin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245602
- Language: English
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Everything
$16.95 Read moreThe poems in Everything, Andrea Cohen’s seventh collection, traffic in wonder and woe, in dialogue and interior speculation. Humor and gravity go hand in hand here. Cohen’s poems have the rueful iron… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1945588683
- Language: English
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Bastards of the Reagan Era
$15.95 Read moreBastards of the Reagan Era is a challenge, confronting realities that frame an America often made invisible. Within these poems, we see the city as distant lover, we hear “the sound that comes from al… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Betts, Reginald Dwayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1935536656
- Language: English
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Back to the Woods
$17.95 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner Cynthia Cruz reevaluates the paradox of the death drive in her eighth collection of poetry, Back to the Woods. Could it be that in ceaselessly snuffing ours
- Author: Cruz, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245645
- Language: English
