Poetry
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The Naomi LettersRachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters chronicles the relationship between a woman speaker and Naomi, the woman she loves. Set mostly over the span of a...
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The River in the BellyA moving lyric meditation on the Congo River that explores the identity, chaos, and wonder of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as race and the detritus of colonialism.With The River in the Belly, award-winning Congolese author Fiston Mwanza Mujila seeks no less...
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Permanent VOLTAFINALIST for the 2022 California Book Awards in Poetry!FINALIST for the 2022 Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry!"Permanent Volta is a lush collection of poetry about the possibilities of love outside capitalism, and love as a way to resist its abuses."--VogueA debut...
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All the Rage2022 HOUSATONIC BOOK AWARDS FINALIST!2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALIST!2021 BIG OTHER BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST!A new collection of poems by Lambda Award winner, Rosamond S. King, conceptualizing state violence, racism, and the persistence of black desire, resistance, and joy All the Rage addresses...
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Foxlogic, FireweedWinner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Jennifer K. Sweeney's Foxlogic, Fireweed follows a lyrical sequence of five physical and emotional terrains--floodplain, coast, desert, suburbia, and mesa--braiding themes of nature, domesticity, isolation, and human relationships. These are poems of the earth's wild heart, its...
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The Gravity Inside Us: Poetry and ProseFrom rising Australian poet Chlo Frayne comes her newest poetry collection, The Gravity Inside Us. Gathering inspiration from a life of travel, hope, long-distance relationships, healing, and adventure, Frayne invites readers into her world. The Gravity Inside Us is an ode to whatever it...
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IntruderWinner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry In Intruder, acclaimed poet Bardia Sinaee explores with vivid and precise language themes of encroachment in contemporary life. Bemused and droll, paranoid and demagogic, Sinaee's much-anticipated debut collection presents a world beset by precarity, illness, and...
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One BreathOne Breath seems to be a revealing of "the secrets we keep between paper sheets"; a series of empty spaces and restless nights where poetry and music provide the kind of hope that is hard to let go. You'll find a quietude and gentleness...
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Wrapping It UpThis is my third and last book and mostly I wrote it because I like the sound of a "Trilogy." This, along with Forty Bad Poems and Sandy Sez, makes a trilogy. It includes some of my presentable poems and talks I have written...
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Old Stories, Some Not True and other poems"'With poetry around me, ' writes Kalia Kao Yang in The Song Poet, 'the entire world is a garden of meaning.' This is my sensation as I read Tim Gillespie's poems, for they are rooted in a life enriched by reading the world through...
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Bob Dylan: How the Songs WorkA career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan's songwriting Bob Dylan's reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music, establishing him as a major modern artist. However, until now, no study of...
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Survival Is a Style: PoemsNamed as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman's first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the...
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TheoremTheorem Elizabeth Bradfield, authorAntonia Contro, artist In Theorem, a collaboration by poet Elizabeth Bradfield and artist Antonia Contro, spare images, distilled text, and the resonant space between investigate the legacy of secrets acquired in childhood and held through a life. Part visual interrogation of...
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Soul SurvivorMandy Kocsis' SOUL SURVIVOR is a journey of one woman's pain and survival. You will find yourself breathing in every word, feeling every emotion rise and fall in your chest. You will be drawn into her world of words spilled onto the pages. Her...
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When My Body Was a Clinched Fist"Back in the day when KRS-One intoned-The Bridge is over!-he did not prefigure a poet from Queens of the fierce attitude and intellectual magnitude of Enzo Silon Surin. WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST gives the Heisman to such a refrain with lyrical...
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Exclusions"Noah Falck's Exclusions purports to leave everything out, and yet somehow this book has everything in it: birth, death, rust, sex, smoking, shadows, floodlights, Olympic mascots, how 'the sun flattens / into a sort of messy bruise / over the lake.' Falck is a...
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Dear God: Honest Prayers to a God Who ListensAre you looking to strengthen your relationship with God? Do you find yourself untangling the threads of what it is you really believe? Are you longing for a deeper connection to your spiritual side? Bunmi Laditan has been in your shoes.In the midst of...
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Little Big BullyWinner of the 2022 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry In a new collection that is "a force of nature" (Amy Gerstler), renowned Native poet Heid E. Erdrich applies her rich inventive voice and fierce wit to the deforming effects of harassment and...
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Dashuria Dhe Dhoma E Errët"Poezia e Shpresa Ymerajt i beson gjuh s figurative p r t krijuar hap sir n e vet intime. Pena e saj, n p rmjet nj reflektimi t ve ant thell sisht emocional, inkurajon analiz n e brendshme." "Shpresa Ymeraj's poetry trusts in the...
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On Seamus HeaneyA vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national...
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