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  • Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

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    This is one of the wisest books I’ve read in years… —New York Times Book Review

    No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledg

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    • Author: Ruefle, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: August 07 2012
    • ISBN10: 1933517573
    • Language: English
  • Onement Won

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    Following her acclaimed Grief Sequence, Prageeta Sharma’s newest collection, Onement Won, is at once a contemplation and a sharp critique. Having been twice widowed to cancer, Sharma questions the var

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    • Author: Sharma, Prageeta
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: September 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798891060357
    • Language: English
  • The Book of Rain

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    The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.

    So begins translator David Larsen’s introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by early Arabic ling… [more below]

    • Author: Al-Anṣārī, Abū Zayd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: October 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798891060364
    • Language: English
  • Siren of Atlantis

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    Cedar Sigo’s latest poetry collection, Siren of Atlantis, is an introspective odyssey of remarkable poetic and personal resonance.

    Here are poems that speak to Sigo’s profound experience of learning t

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    • Author: Sigo, Cedar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: April 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798891060135
    • Language: English
  • Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return

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    Following their book AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry), CAConrad’s Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return shifts its attention from th[more below]

    • Author: Caconrad
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1950268969
    • Language: English
  • I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always

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    On the heels of Sho (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and Optic Subwoof (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney’s visual poetry masterpiece, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, pushes f

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    • Author: Kearney, Douglas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: April 08 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798891060128
    • Language: English
  • The Book

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    Following the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle’s latest prose publication The Book, now in softcover.

    True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle… [more below]

    • Author: Ruefle, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798891060043
    • Language: English
  • Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth

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    Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009’s Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decad… [more below]

    • Author: Nelson, Maggie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
    • Language: English
  • Plans for Sentences

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    “These sentences–they–will begin having already been sentences somewhere else, and this will mark their afterlife, and this will be their debut.” So begins Renee Gladman’s latest interdisciplinary p

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    • Author: Gladman, Renee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: May 03 2022
    • ISBN10: 1950268586
    • Language: English
  • The Book of Frank

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    Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional “Frank” poems and an essay by Eileen Myles.

    Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a “voyeuresque surre

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    • Author: Caconrad
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: November 01 2010
    • ISBN10: 1933517492
    • Language: English
  • Letters to Wendy’s

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    Letters to Wendy’s is an outrageous, tragic, genre-bending novel written over the course of a year on comment cards from the fast-food chain restaurant Wendy’s. Through the letters, the book traces a

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    • Author: Wenderoth, Joe
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 296
    • Publish Date: January 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 0970367201
    • Language: English
  • A Little White Shadow

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    Selectively painting over much of a forgotten nineteenth-century book, Ruefle’s ninth publication brings new meaning to an old story. What remains visible is delicate poetry: artfully rendered, haunte

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    • Author: Ruefle, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 56
    • Publish Date: May 01 2006
    • ISBN10: 1933517034
    • Language: English
  • Iggy Horse

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    New collection from Michael Earl Craig, farrier and former poet laureate of Montana.

    In Michael Earl Craig’s sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and u

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    • Author: Craig, Michael Earl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 1950268756
    • Language: English
  • Chariot

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    Timothy Donnelly’s fourth collection of poems, Chariot, ferries the reader toward an endless horizon of questioning that is both philosophical and deeply embodied.

    “How did we get here?” he asks in hi… [more below]

    • Author: Donnelly, Timothy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 1950268772
    • Language: English
  • Optic Subwoof

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    Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction

    Winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism

    Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Dougla[more below]

    • Author: Kearney, Douglas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1950268675
    • Language: English
  • Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee

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    “Fiction lovers who come to this book with an open mind will find themselves challenged and entertained by a brilliant writer with a very fertile imagination.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)

    “When

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    • Author: Tate, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: December 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 1933517352
    • Language: English
  • Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee: 44 Stories

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    The 44 stories of Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee–long-awaited by fans of Tate’s poetry–will come as a welcome surprise to readers unfamiliar with his previous work. Tate seems both awed and bemused b

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    • Author: Tate, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 229
    • Publish Date: January 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 0970367252
    • Language: English
  • To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight

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    “Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” –NPR

    In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as specu

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    • Series: Bagley Wright Lecture
    • Author: Hayes, Terrance
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 04 2018
    • ISBN10: 1940696615
    • Language: English
  • The Book of Frank

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    Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional “Frank” poems and an essay by Eileen Myles.

    Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a “voyeuresque surre

    [more below]

    • Author: Caconrad
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: November 01 2010
    • ISBN10: 1933517492
    • Language: English
  • A Little White Shadow

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    Selectively painting over much of a forgotten nineteenth-century book, Ruefle’s ninth publication brings new meaning to an old story. What remains visible is delicate poetry: artfully rendered, haunte

    [more below]

    • Author: Ruefle, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 56
    • Publish Date: May 01 2006
    • ISBN10: 1933517034
    • Language: English
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