Wesleyan Poetry
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Belly to the Brutal
$15.95 Read morePoetry for all the mothers and daughters healing the bloodlines
Belly to the Brutal sings a corrido of the love between mothers and daughters, confronting the learned complicity with patriarchal violen
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Givhan, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 081958097X
- Language: English
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Fierce Elegy
$27.00 Read morePeter Gizzi’s powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also–as it has been for centuries–a work of love
Peter Gizzi has said that “the elegy is a mode that can transform a brok
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Gizzi, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500674
- Language: English
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Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English
$17.95 Read moreA star-studded anthology infuses English poetry with the rigor and wit of a foreign form.
In recent years, the ghazal (pronounced “ghuzzle”), a traditional Arabic form of poetry, has become popular amo
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Ali, Agha Shahid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 03 2000
- ISBN10: 0819564370
- Language: English
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The New Black
$15.95 Read moreA profound and uplifting meditation on the meanings of race and belonging in America
Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2012)
Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley’s the new black integrat
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Shockley, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 081957287X
- Language: English
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Sukun: New and Selected Poems
$40.00 Read moreNew and selected poems from celebrated poet Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration, and the intersections of cultural and spiritual trad
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Ali, Kazim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500704
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton
$24.95 Read moreThe definitive guide to a major African American poet
This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton’s unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in Ameri
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hernton, Calvin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500364
- Language: English
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Magnified
$14.95 Add to cartOnce in a blue moon, a love like this comes along
This collection of love poems draws us into the sacred liminal space that surrounds death. With her beloved gravely ill, poet and activist Minnie Bruce
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Pratt, Minnie Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0819580066
- Language: English
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In a Few Minutes Before Later
$26.00 Read more“[Hillman’s] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful.” –Harvard Review
Finalist for the Four Quartets Prize, given by Poetry Society of America, 2023
An iconoclastic ecopoet who has led t- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hillman, Brenda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0819500151
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
$27.95 Add to cartThe lifework of a preeminent New York School poet
Winner of the SFSU Poetry Center Book Award (2010)
One of the most notable members of the New York School–and its best-known woman–Barbara Guest began
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Guest, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0819567779
- Language: English
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Go Figure
$16.95 Read moreKeen, pithy meditations on a world that continues to surprise us
The poems in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout’s new book are concerned with “this ongoing attempt/ to catalog the world” in a time o
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Armantrout, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0819500801
- Language: English
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Deed
$16.95 Add to cartA lyrically and formally innovative exploration of desire and its cost
DEED, the follow-up to torrin a. greathouse’s 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award winning debut, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, is
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Greathouse, Torrin A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0819501328
- Language: English
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In Mad Love and War
$16.95 Read moreSacred and secular poems of the Creek Tribe.
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1990)
Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1991)
2019 United States Poet LaureateJoy H
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 79
- Publish Date: May 21 1990
- ISBN10: 081951182X
- Language: English
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The Little Edges
$15.95 Read morePoems that play in the sonic texture of discourses
Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2016)
The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten’s experiments in what he calls “shape
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Moten, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0819576700
- Language: English
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Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005
$29.95 Add to cartSelected poems from a visionary feminist poet
Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experi
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: August 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0819567736
- Language: English
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Finalists
$16.95 Read moreA double book by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout
What will we call the last generation before the looming end times? With Finalists Rae Armantrout suggests one option. Brilliant and irascibl
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Armantrout, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0819580686
- Language: English
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Glottal Stop: 101 Poems
$16.95 Add to cartPaul Celan s widely recognized as the greatest and most studied post-war European poet. At once demanding and highly rewarding, his poetry dominates the field in the aftermath of the Holocaust. This s… [more below]
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Celan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0819567205
- Language: English
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Altazor
$19.95 Add to cartRevised edition of a Latin American classic in a tour-de-force translation.
Often compared with Apollinaire as the first and liveliest avant-garde poet in his language, Vicente Huidobro was a one-man m
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Huidobro, Vicente
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0819566780
- Language: English
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Semiautomatic
$15.95 Read morePoetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence
Art can’t shield our bodies or stabilize the earth’s climate, but Evie Shockley’s semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and re
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Shockley, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0819577448
- Language: English
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Magic City
$15.95 Add to cartAn award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.
Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He po
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Komunyakaa, Yusef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: October 09 1992
- ISBN10: 0819512087
- Language: English
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Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
$24.95 Add to cartThe collected works of one of America’s most innovative poets.
Winner of the National Book Award in Poetry (2004)
Since the 1965 publication of her first book, Dream Barker, selected for the Yale Younge
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Valentine, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0819567132
- Language: English
