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  • Whoever Drowned Here

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    With a magician’s deft touch, Sessner raises the curtain on the strange, spectral life of inanimate objects and the sorrows and misadventures of humans who live, lonely, among them.

    • Author: Sessner, Max
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: September 26 2023
    • ISBN10: 1636281389
    • Language: English
  • Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete

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    Walker’s complete poems, including new and previously unpublished verse, collected for the first time-with author’s notes that provide historical perspective on spiritual and political issues of the l

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    • Author: Walker, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 463
    • Publish Date: May 17 2004
    • ISBN10: 0156028611
    • Language: English
  • I Don’t Smoke Enough to Quit: An Epic of Diminished Proportions

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    “Dreesen presents an unusual and welcoming memoir-in-verse, an epic colloquial journey through his childhood in a chaotic, eight-kid family as they ran a 24-hour highway truck stop and popular roadhou

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    • Author: Dreesen, Robert J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 221
    • Publish Date: February 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1589881710
    • Language: English
  • Flutter, Kick

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    In her award-winning second book, Anna V. Q. Ross transforms motherhood into a lens, examining narratives of girlhood, migration, trauma, and inheritance. Compassing home and horizon, this tightly wov… [more below]

    • Author: V. Q. Ross, Anna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1636280455
    • Language: English
  • New Poetry from the Midwest 2019

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    New American Press releases a new volume of recently published work from the Midwest each year to bring more visibility to Midwestern writing that is innovative, engaging, finely crafted, and strong i

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    • Author: Stephenson, Hannah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 198
    • Publish Date: June 01 2021
    • ISBN10: 1941561209
    • Language: English
  • Hoarders

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    A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021
    An NPR Best Book of 2021
    An Electric Literature Best Poetry Book of 2021
    A Dennis Cooper Best Book of 2021

    In Hoarders, Kate Durbin deftly traces the associations

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    • Author: Durbin, Kate
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: May 04 2021
    • ISBN10: 1950268136
    • Language: English
  • I Know Your Kind: Poems

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    Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Lim, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia.

    In West Virginia,

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    • Author: Brewer, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 05 2017
    • ISBN10: 1571314954
    • Language: English
  • Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater

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    A story of separation and displacement in two fictionalized voices: a person who has migrated, without papers, to the United States for work, and their partner who waits at home.

    Nostalgia Doesn’t Flo

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    • Author: Pineda, Irma
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: January 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1646052781
    • Language: English
  • Ghost Apples

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    In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it, and in doing so asks what [more below]

    • Author: Coles, Katharine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: May 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 1636280846
    • Language: English
  • A Scrap in the Blessings Jar: New and Selected Poems

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    A Scrap in the Blessings Jar, a volume of new and selected poems by David Bottoms, captures the evolution of the poet’s spiritual quest over the past fifty years. A native and longtime resident of Geo… [more below]

    • Series: Southern Messenger Poets
    • Author: Bottoms, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 0807180319
    • Language: English
  • Woke Up No Light: Poems

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    A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California

    woke up no light is a Black girl’s saunter turned to a woman’s defiant strut. These a

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    • Author: Mottley, Leila
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: April 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593319710
    • Language: English
  • Everything Waits

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    In his lyrical and expansive debut, Jonathan Graham highlights the natural world, the rugged beauty and kinship with a coal-mining region in Appalachia, the loud thunder when relatives and townspeople

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    • Author: Graham, Jonathan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 94
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1960329030
    • Language: English
  • Moon Grammar

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    In the opening poem of Matthew Porto’s dazzling debut collection, we hear the voice of the recurring angel figure for the first time, commanding us to “Get used to the light.” That light-blinding, mys

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    • Author: Porto, Matthew
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 30 2024
    • ISBN10: 1639821570
    • Language: English
  • From the New World: Poems 1976-2014

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    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry

    An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poe

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    • Author: Graham, Jorie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: June 27 2023
    • ISBN10: 0062315447
    • Language: English
  • Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005: A Pulitzer Prize Winner

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    The poems in Robert Hass’s new collection–his first to appear in a decade–are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture

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    • Author: Hass, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 07 2008
    • ISBN10: 0061350281
    • Language: English
  • Late Wonders: New & Selected Poems

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    “Wesley McNair, an unassuming, avowedly regional pastoral poet from Western Maine, is writing the best poetry of his life-poetry uniquely capable of, and interested in, addressing our larger moment.”-

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    • Author: McNair, Wesley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 296
    • Publish Date: September 27 2022
    • ISBN10: 1567927424
    • Language: English
  • Wind, Trees

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    A politically urgent yet timeless collection that studies
    the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.

    In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on
    power and l

    • Author: Freeman, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 25, 2022
    • ISBN10: 1556596480
    • Language: English
  • Abstract Heart

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    ab-stract (adjective)

    1. existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.

    heart (noun)

    1. the central or innermost part of something.

    Abstract Heart is a labor of

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    • Author: Iron Word, J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 25 2016
    • ISBN10: 1945322039
    • Language: English
  • Poems of Paris

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    A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems from across the ages inspired by the City of Light

    Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as has Paris. Poems of Pa

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    • Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
    • Author: Fragos, Emily
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: March 12 2019
    • ISBN10: 1101908122
    • Language: English
  • Every Transmission

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    Every Transmission is about the erosion of our mechanical relationships and the movement to natural forms. Any attempts to escape the cycle only help to complete the circuits through which we flow. Th

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    • Author: Deutsch, Adam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 94
    • Publish Date: March 08 2023
    • ISBN10: 1594980969
    • Language: English
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