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For NowIn this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work "A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait."--Kirkus Reviews "[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy...
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Floaters: PoemsMartín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry. Floaters takes its title from...
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Flight from MeaningAccording to T.R. Hummer, "Stephen Haven is a poet of incisive discipline deployed in the service of a passionate, humanistic ethos." His poems reflect "concern for humanity, and concern for language, humanity's best hope." The poems in Haven's new collection, The Flight from Meaning,...
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Fifty PoemsFresh, beautiful new translations of one of the most important poets of all time, publishing in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Rainer Maria Rilke's birth. Rilke is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, revered throughout the world. Geoffrey Lehmann has...
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Fata MorganaFata Morgana mingles personal experience, history, mythology, politics, and natural science to explore the relationships of conception and perception, the self finding its way through a physical and social world not of its own making, but changing the world by its presence.Author: Reginald ShepherdPublisher:...
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Everything Alive: PoemsWith desperate longing and raw vulnerability--but also surprising humor--Molly Johnsen's debut collection confronts trauma and disability like long-lost relatives. Johnsen relies on the power and shortcomings of language to highlight the ways "we are manhandled by mortality." From a therapist's office, to a cave...
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Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to BelongThere is a divine restlessness in the human heart, our eternal echo of longing that lives deep within us and never lets us settle for what we have or where we are.In this exquisitely crafted and inspirational book, John O'Donohue, author of the bestseller...
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Elemental MemoirsIn these poems, you will find yourself in the flicker of stardust and the flow of rivers, in the warmth of sun and the stillness of the void. The symbols and metaphors woven throughout the pages are not merely artistic flourishes but a way...
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Duino Elegies: A Bilingual EditionWho, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelicorders? and even if one of them pressed mesuddenly to his heart: I'd be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, and we...
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Distinguished Office of EchoesFrom renderings of sea creatures to maps of ancient battles, Olstein's latest collection engages the archive, transforming what it reveals about the body, language, and time. A collection of three collage-, cutout, and erasure-based poems, Distinguished Office of Echoes leans into the intersection of...
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Dispatch from the Mountain State: PoemsDispatch from the Mountain State encompasses the trademark themes of a mature poet-death, despair, dread, and the seeming randomness with which all of these come into life. The dispatches provide, if sometimes obliquely, a keen awareness of the troubled times within which we live,...
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Daniel's Good DayDaniel finds the poetry in the everyday activities of his own neighborhood, in this gorgeous companion to Ezra Jack Keats Award winner Daniel Finds a Poem. The people in Daniel's neighborhood always say, "Have a good day!" But what exactly is a good day?...
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Cord Swell: PoemsHow can we memorialize our dead? How can that memorialization rend the veil between the dead and the living? In her debut volume, brittny ray crowell sifts through decades of obituaries, journals, and other ephemera to exhume the generations of her family from her...
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Complete Sonnets and Poems: The Oxford Shakespearethe ^Acomplete Sonnets and PoemsThis is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems...
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Coeur de Lion"Lines that make me want to have sex on the moon."-Thurston MooreCɶur de Lion is a book-length epistolary love poem that directly addresses a recently lost "you"--in accessible tones yet with extreme erudition and fierce intellect--but that also directly addresses the work of poetic...
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Christmas Ideals 2025Celebrate the wonder and hope of this holiday season with Christmas Ideals, a time-honored tradition and family favorite. Continuing its legacy of holiday cheer and warmth, this Ideals annual Christmas edition is a collection of poetry, essays, quotations, recipes, and Bible excerpts. Each carefully...
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CannibalColliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by...
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By Stone and Needle: PoemsWinner of the 2025 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award Shimmering to the pulse of the unseen, By Stone and Needle circles like a compass needle around the figure of the witch. Catherine Carter concocts a book of secular spells and incantations for engaging with,...
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Burn Me Back"My Spanglish," Peggy Robles-Alvarado declares, "drops the -s and makes it ma' o meno'," replaces accent marks with side-eye, "has a Tía sin papeles," and recognizes that "there is no other way to say-- / Cónchole papi, you look good!" Igniting across tongues, cultures,...
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Breath for the Bones: Art, Imagination, and Spirit: Reflections on Creativity and Faith"The double question we must always ask is, 'How does faith inform art?' and 'How can art animate faith?'"Imagination, appreciation of beauty, creativity: all of these qualities have been given to us by God. For the Christian artist, the drive to create something wonderful...
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