Poetry
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Forgive the Body This FailureEngaging the past and present, these poems attempt to reconcile loss and longing while also seeking to understand our own impermanence. Written in a plain-spoken voice, they are meditative, elegiac and tender.Author: Blas FalconerPublisher: Four Way BooksPublished: 09/04/2018Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.90h x...
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ErouMaya Phillips' stunning debut collection Erou borrows the framework of the traditional Greek epic to interrogate the inner workings of a present-day nuclear family and the role of a patriarch whose life, marriage, and death are imagined as a sort of hero's journey. Her...
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We Go Seasonal"Robert Siek's Manhattan is a city in distress, one that resembles, at times, a zombie apocalypse: 'a herd / of walking dead crowding you, / mouths open and moaning, two step on your toes.' 'Does anyone ever get used to this?' he asks. Siek...
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The FutureFilled with nostalgia, love, heartbreak, and the author's signature wry examinations of mental health, Neil Hilborn's second book helps explain what lives inside us, what we struggle to define. Written on the road over two years of touring, The Future is rugged, genuine, and...
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AutopsyWritten after the death of his mother, Donte Collins's Autopsy establishes the poet as one of the most important voices in the next generation of American poetry. As the book unfolds, the reader journeys alongside the author through grief and healing. Named the Most...
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While Standing in Line for DeathWinner of the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay PoetryFrom these rituals come notes; from those notes come poems; and from those poems comes not just a view into his process, but an entrance into another present. --Boston GlobeAfter his boyfriend Earth's murder,...
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Underworld LitSimultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family life and his sudden reckoning with mortality, this adventurous serial prose poem moves from the college...
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Ecodeviance: (Soma)Tics for the Future WildernessListed in The Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books of 2014Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay PoetryWinner of The Believer Poetry AwardThe (Soma)tic Exercises are innovative and crucial to our art form. . . . Conrad must be one of the most original...
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What Is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (1983 - 2009)The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 for the overlapping circles of poets in the Lower East Side of New York. These interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter form a kind of conversation over time between some of the late...
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Monsters I Have BeenUsing an invented poetry method called frankenpo (frankenstein poetry), Liu takes existing texts and remixes them, creating multi-faceted poems that investigate the relationship between toxic masculinity and forms of violence plaguing our modern society. It also explores the male-male erotic and marginalized masculinities that...
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Collected PoemsAuthor: Tory DentPublisher: Sheep Meadow PressPublished: 09/02/2015Pages: 206Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.50w x 1.00dISBN: 9781937679507About the AuthorTory Dent's (1958-2005) Selected Poems draws from her three books. Among her awards, she was the winner of the 1999 James Laughlin Award of The Academy...
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Desires Mothers to Please Others in LettersCo-published with SplitLevel TextsEndlessly inclusive, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, first published in 1994 and long out of print, evokes the complexity of real persons as it simultaneously reinvents multiple genres: epistle, prose poem, and memoir. Written between 1979 and...
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SubwooferSUBWOOFER makes audible the deep bass of history, for this is a book of vibrant, honest listening: to the voices of Nina Simone, James Baldwin, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Basquiat; to those without names; to the sadness of loss and the bitter...
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GiltPoetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. To read GILT is to open windows steamed with bright and exacting language, worlds where a 'cobra is a garland--no, the cobra / is a man's knuckles, a girl's hair clumped / between them.' Shirali's tough-tender...
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Butch GeographyPoetry. LGBT Studies. In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves, Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite's fusion of gender identities: Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are...
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The Crafty Poet: A Portable WorkshopA poetry tutorial to inform and inspire poets. Includes discussion of sample poems, writing tips, and interviews with poets. Geared for the experienced poet as well as those just getting started. Guaranteed to break through any writer's block.Author: Diane LockwardPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublished: 08/01/2013Pages: 282Binding...
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The Blue Horse WindLet go of your hold on reality and dive in for a magnificent ride with The Blue Horse Wind. Prepare yourself to be beguiled in the fantastic orgy of words that flow from Anastacia Burns in her supreme worship of the intricacies of this...
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Poems of My NightCynthia Pelayo constructs a narrative in her poetry in response to the work of Jorge Luis Borges that examines the themes and subsequent consequences of insomnia, death, and blindness. There's a visionary quality to her work that dances along the line between the present...
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TopazTopaz examines the experiences of a Japanese American family separated and incarcerated in World War II prison camps and considers how this incarceration affected the family. Moreover, this collection delves into the lasting impact of this imprisonment on future generations. The speaker of these...
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The Early Death of MenPoetry. In his dark and often humorous debut, THE EARLY DEATH OF MEN, Clint Margrave gives us poems that provide no railings for the honest, frank edge on which they stand, poems that peek through telescopes and key holes in equal astonishment, devour words...
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