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Life of the Party: PoemsA dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalized world, from a thrilling new feminist voice. i'm a good girl, bad girl, dream girl, sad girl girl next door sunbathing in the driveway i wanna be them...
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LibreA soaring collection of poems that deftly explores the familial, personal, and societal relationships of a young Black woman trying to make her way in a fraught world. Freedom reverberates in Skye Jackson's breathtaking debut, Libre, with evocative poems that are heart-wrenching, haunting, sensual,...
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LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia"This collection, the first of its kind, gathers fiction and poetry from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer authors from Appalachia. Like much Appalachian literature, these works are pervaded with an attachment to family and the mountain landscape, yet balancing queer and Appalachian identities...
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Ledger: PoemsA pivotal book of personal, ecological, and political reckoning tuned toward issues of consequence to all who share this world's current and future fate--"Some of the most important poetry in the world today" (Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times Magazine). Ledger's pages hold...
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Leaving Saturn: PoemsLeaving Saturn, chosen by Al Young as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, is an ambitious and honest collection. Major Jackson, through both formal and free verse poems, renders visible the spirit of resilience, courage, and creativity he witnessed among his family,...
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Kalevala: The Epic of the Finnish PeopleThe great epic poem of Northern Europe, born deep in the heart of ancient Karelian forests Sharing its title with the poetic name for Finland--the land of heroes--Kalevala is the soaring epic poem of the Finnish people. Born of an ancient tradition of folklore...
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Kaan and Her SistersLena Khalaf Tuffaha's Kaan and Her Sisters illuminates the work of grief and survival, the sordid legacies of official historical record and the liberatory practice of intimate narration. Tuffaha writes in the liminal space between languages, personifying Arabic verbs who guide the reader through...
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Just Two YearsThose first two, tender years of motherhood are reflected upon in this little book of poetry. The messes, the mayhem, and the glory of raising children and being utterly transformed by the process.Author: C. M. PalmerPublisher: Bookleaf PublishingPublished: 04/23/2025Pages: 54Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 8.00h...
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I Would Leave Me If I Could.: A Collection of PoetryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Grammy Award-nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of their generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, they reveal never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder. In this...
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Immortal Poems of the English LanguageA timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Emily Dickinson. The last six hundred years in British and American literature have given us some...
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I Imagine I Been Science Fiction AlwaysOn the heels of Sho (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and Optic Subwoof (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney's visual poetry masterpiece, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, pushes further into Kearney's long-time practices of performance typography, collaging pre-existing media sources to create...
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If They Come for Us: Poems"A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice."--Booklist"Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones."--Elle"[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed...
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If Only for a Moment (I'll Never Be Young Again): Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de BiedmaJaime Gil de Biedma is the most original and influential among the poets known as the '50's Generation in Spain, and is considered the greatest Spanish poet to emerge in the second half of the 20th century. His life and literary career were bracketed...
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I Can't Talk about the Trees Without the BloodFor poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as...
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FractalsThis book deepens its intellectual pursuit of Black liberation through creative writing and understanding poetry as a unifying concept. FRACTALS explores the power of poetry to articulate the inner life of Black individuals, offering a space to express emotions, thoughts, and experiences often marginalized...
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Feller: PoemsAuthor: Denton LovingPublisher: Mercer University PressPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.13w x 0.22dISBN: 9798897360000Review Citation(s): PW Booklife Reviews 09/15/2025About the AuthorDenton Loving is the author of the poetry collections CRIMES AGAINST BIRDS and TAMP, recipient of the inaugural Tennessee Book Award...
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Fast Cheetah, Slow Tortoise: Poems of Animal OppositesA whimsical portrait of animals--and antonyms--in action.How do you contrast creatures as different as cheetahs and tortoises, or as similar as butterflies and moths? In this lively book of poetry, antonym pairs introduce thirty-two members of the animal kingdom. Each spread presents the voices...
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Faithful and Virtuous Night: PoemsWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems...
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Essential Poems from the Staying Alive TrilogyStaying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, and have helped poetry lovers to discover the little known riches of world poetry. Each anthology in the Staying Alive series has 500 poems to touch the...
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Essential DickinsonFrom the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates: Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche....Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human...
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