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  • A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

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    2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY


    A collection inspired by Hoa’s mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam’s diaspora.

    Hoa Nguyen’s

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    • Author: Nguyen, Hoa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: April 06 2021
    • ISBN10: 1950268179
    • Language: English
  • All This Time

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    The newest collection from Cedar Sigo, All This Time, pays homage to artistic influences that have shaped his poetic practices. Lyrical and haunted, these poems call attention to the experience of li

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    • Author: Sigo, Cedar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 05 2021
    • ISBN10: 1950268462
    • Language: English
  • Mirror Nation

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    Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award-winning DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020).

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    • Author: Choi, Don Mee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: April 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 1950268934
    • Language: English
  • Lake Superior: Lorine Niedecker’s Poem and Journal Along with Other Sources, Documents, and Readings

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    Lake Superior is a compilation of writings around Lorine Niedecker’s poem of the same title–strata that inform the poem’s ecological and historical resonance.

    Lorine Niedecker was a major American po

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    • Author: Niedecker, Lorine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 02 2013
    • ISBN10: 1933517662
    • 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
  • Scenes of Life at the Capital

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    Written from 1969 to 1971, West Coast Beat poet Philip Whalen’s “Scenes of Life at the Capital” is a lasting testament to the ambition, range, powers, and devotion of this crucially important American

    • Author: Whalen, Philip
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: May 05, 2020
    • ISBN10: 1940696925
    • Language: English
  • Ecodeviance: (Soma)Tics for the Future Wilderness

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    Listed in The Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2014
    Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry
    Winner of The Believer Poetry Award

    “The (Soma)tic Exercises are innovative and crucial to our

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    • Author: Caconrad
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: September 09 2014
    • ISBN10: 1940696011
    • Language: English
  • Triptychs

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    Sandra Simonds’s Triptychs is a brilliant intersection of poetic form and the passage of time.

    Crafted initially in strips handwritten on rolls of receipt paper obtained at a dollar store, then assemb

    • Author: Simonds, Sandra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: November 01, 2022
    • ISBN10: 1950268683
    • Language: English
  • I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me

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    With 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
  • And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight

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    Part 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

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    • Author: Xu, Lynn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: April 19 2022
    • ISBN10: 1950268543
    • Language: English
  • Dunce

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    FINALIST FOR THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY

    A finalist for both the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award and a the LA Times Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award.

    Through her ma

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    • Author: Ruefle, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: December 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 1940696992
    • Language: English
  • Amanda Paradise

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    Former 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

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    • Author: Caconrad
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: September 07 2021
    • ISBN10: 195026842X
    • Language: English
  • New Life

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    In her latest book, NEW LIFE, Lambda Award-winning poet Ana Bozičevic writes poems that are by turns cheeky and heartfelt, grounded and wistful, and above all–surprising.

    In her latest book, NEW

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    • Author: Bozičevic, Ana
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 1950268713
    • Language: English
  • Olio

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    Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

    Winner of the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry

    Winner of the 2017 Book Award from the Society of Midland Authors for Poetry

    2016 National Book Criti

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    • Author: Jess, Tyehimba
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: April 05 2016
    • ISBN10: 1940696208
    • Language: English
  • Yi Sang: Selected Works

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    Winner of the Big Other Award in Translation
    Winner of MLA’s 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work

    Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang’s works were

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    • Author: Sang, Yi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 08 2020
    • ISBN10: 195026808X
    • Language: English
  • Selected Poems

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    “[Selected Poems] offers readers a chance to catch on to one of the most distinctive talents of our time, one of the few who can genuinely startle. . . . Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poe

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    • Author: Ruefle, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: August 16 2011
    • ISBN10: 1933517565
    • Language: English
  • Furniture Music

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    In Furniture Music, Montreal legend Gail Scott chronicles her years in Lower Manhattan during the Obama era, in a community of poets at the junction between formally radical and political art.

    Immersi

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    • Author: Scott, Gail
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 03 2023
    • ISBN10: 1950268861
    • Language: English
  • Guard the Mysteries

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    Guard the Mysteries is a compendium of five talks that the poet Cedar Sigo presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo pl

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    • Series: Bagley Wright Lecture
    • Author: Sigo, Cedar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: June 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 1950268292
    • Language: English
  • My Private Property

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    “Ruefle can seem like a supernally well-read person who has grown bored with what smartness looks like, and has grown attracted to the other side. . . . She is not writing with a prescription, or at l

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    • Author: Ruefle, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: September 05 2017
    • ISBN10: 1940696518
    • Language: English
  • Calamities

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    WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from CLMP

    A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature…. [more below]

    • Author: Gladman, Renee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: September 06 2016
    • ISBN10: 1940696275
    • Language: English
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