Wesleyan Poetry
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The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition
$17.95 Add to cartThe first bilingual edition of this radically original work
Aim? C?saire’s masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem wa
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Césaire, Aimé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500666
- Language: English
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Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer
$26.95 Read moreIndispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an American master
Be Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his blistering int
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Spicer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500968
- Language: English
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The Age of Phillis
$16.95 Read morePoems imagine the life and times of Phillis Wheatley Peters
NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work for Poetry
2020 National Book Award for Poetry, Longlist
2020 LA Times Book Award Finali- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Jeffers, Honor?e Fanonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0819579505
- Language: English
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Sukun: New and Selected Poems
$28.00 Add to cartNew 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500712
- Language: English
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Room Swept Home
$26.00 Add to cartIntimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineage
Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously rendered magnifying glass into all that is held in the line between the private and public, the invest
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Bingham-Risher, Remica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0819500984
- Language: English
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Bury It
$14.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets
sam sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in re
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Sax, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0819577316
- Language: English
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Outlandish Blues: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo
$15.95 Add to cartRoot-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres.
Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018)
Fierce and sensual, the poems in Outlandish Blues merge everyday speech with a shimmering lyri
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0819565849
- Language: English
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My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
$27.95 Add to cartAn essential collection of a highly original American poet
Winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009)
Winner of the American Book Award (2009)In 1965, when the poe
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Spicer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: August 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0819570907
- Language: English
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Mahogany
$16.95 Read moremahogany is about the passing of time and unimaginable loss, strength, humor, and love
mahogany takes its name from the dark wood prized for its durability, workability, and elegant look, and from the
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Lewis, Erica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500771
- Language: English
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To See the Earth Before the End of the World
$15.95 Add to cartGenerous, visionary new work by this major American poet
Winner of the Voelcker Award (PEN America) (2016)
In To See the Earth Before the End of the World Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, eac
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Roberson, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0819569496
- Language: English
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The Ruins of Nostalgia
$16.95 Read moreNew work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poem
What is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cleave intently to the complex truths of feeli
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Stonecipher, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500844
- Language: English
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Fierce Elegy
$16.95 Add to cartPeter 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500682
- Language: English
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Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
$17.95 Add to cartC?saire’s masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.
Aim? C?saire’s masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: C?saire, Aim?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0819564524
- Language: English
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Suddenly We
$15.95 Add to cartEvie Shockley’s new poems invite us to dream–and work–toward a more capacious “we”
In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes t
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Shockley, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500453
- Language: English
