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A Love Story Beginning in SpanishJudith Ortiz Cofer's third volume of poetry collects thirty-four poems written over the course of many years. In places as stark as a New Jersey barrio or fabled as the island home of Penelope and Odysseus, the people in these poems sometimes resist, sometimes...
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Drawing of a Swan Before Memory: PoemsHow do we experience the world before memory, before language, before the senses have separated, or before the concepts of "you" and "I" have been distinguished? Laynie Browne investigates both the limits and potential of such an inchoate world in her new book of...
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Mead: An EpithalamionThe central subject in Julie Carr's debut poem collection is marriage. Intimacy is examined, not only in terms of the erotic, the quotidian, and the contractual, but also in terms of the intertextual: the pact between reader and writer and the blending of texts...
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A Poetry of Two MindsIn his long-awaited first book of prose, poet and essayist Sherod Santos takes a compelling look into some of poetry's deepest secrets, an investigation that leads him to the surprising conclusion that poems have minds of their own, minds often inaccessible even to the...
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Civilian HistoriesIn Civilian Histories, her fourth book of poetry, Lee Upton portrays contemporary culture as the many-eyed, monstrous argus, and explores the common gestures between people and among cultures that constitute "foreign relations." Formally ambitious, ranging from short, allusive lyrics to long, intricately patterned sequences,...
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WeatheringAlastair Reid began publishing poetry in the New Yorker in 1951 and has since contributed reviews, translations, stories, and reportage as well. Having lived variously in Scotland, the United States, Spain, France, Greece, Switzerland, Central and South America, Reid has until recently called Magazine...
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ArcheophonicsSoulful and intricate lyrics make this Gizzi's strongest book to dateArcheophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task...
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The Half-Inch HimalayasA stellar collection of early work from a renowned poet.The Half-Inch Himalayas is a stellar collection of early work by the poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001). His most recent volumes of poetry are Rooms Are Never Finished and The Country Without a Post Office....
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Practical WaterThe latest volume in Hillman's acclaimed meditations on the elementsWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry (2009)Runner-up for the Northern California Book Award for Poetry (2009)Practical Water is, like Brenda Hillman's previous two books, Cascadia and Pieces of Air in the...
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The Flowers of EvilA modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century.It is not given to everyone to blend into the multitude: enjoying the crowd is an art, and only he can gain a stroke of vitality from it, at humanity's expense, whose good fairy at his cradle...
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Gilgamesh: A Verse PlayThe first dramatic adaptation of GilgameshBringing new life to the world's oldest story, Yusef Komunyakaa and Chad Gracia have refashioned a classic Sumerian legend into a compelling verse play. In this ageless saga, Gilgamesh of Uruk, part god and part man, embarks on an...
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The Last Clear NarrativeRadical, intimate poems about marriage and motherhood.In her second collection of poems, Rachel Zucker returns to a more autobiographical stance and writes about the particulars of marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood--experiences that radically surprised her. But this is no simple reportage. With candor, humor,...
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The Self-Dismembered Man: A Social History of the American Musical TheatreFirst substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet.Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful...
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Veil: New and Selected PoemsFirst book of selected poems by this core member of the Language writing group.Rae Armantrout, a core member of the Language writing movement, has long been known for the wit, emotion and punch of her social critique. Veil contains poems from five of Armantrout's...
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It Is If I SpeakNew poems from the most iconoclastic poet of his generation.In the epigraph to Joe Wenderoth's new volume of poetry, a herdsman, exhorted by Oedipus to speak the truth, replies "It is if I speak that I will be destroyed."Wenderoth's poetry is sparse, nihilistic --...
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Sonnets to OrpheusAn accomplished poet's first and only sonnet sequence.Sonnets to Orpheus is Rainer Maria Rilke's first and only sonnet sequence. It is an undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets, translated here by a master of translation, David Young.Rilke revived and transformed the...
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DisfortuneWenderoth's poetry features Terse and haunting lyrics that mark a new intimacy with the worldDisfortune is not in the mainstream of American poetic speech, nor is it easily placed into any of the well-known poetic speech-camps that have arisen on its margins. Terse, haunting...
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Alcools: PoemsA new translation of this complex and beautiful poetry.Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness. Champion of "cubism", Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) fashions in verse the sonic...
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Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934 1994Rare poetry concerning human mortality and alienation.For over half a century, David Ignatow has crafted spare, plain, haunting poetry pf working life, urban images, and dark humor. The poetic heir of Whitman and William Carlos Williams, Ignatow is characteristically concerned with human mortality and...
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Shades Shades Shades Shades ShadesAn exquisite series of poems that explore living and dying.Shades is a book of shadow and light cast between trees and sun, between day and room, between life and death. It acknowledges endings as beginnings; it offers compassion and tenderness, searching for hope in...
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