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Oil CoursesWinner of the 2025 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Grounded in deep concern about the climate crisis, CarolynWilliams-Noren's Oil Courses recalls a family reliant on the oilindustry--her father worked for British Petroleum in Anchorage, Alaska--and asummer spent in its service on Endicott Island....
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MotherDorothea Lasky's stunning new collection of poems presents an unfurling, terrifying, and fiercely loving embodiment of motherhood as a force of creation. Inspired by Bernadette Mayer's The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, Lasky writes from the inner realm of a third...
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Mornings Like This: Found Poems"Found poems are to their poet what no-fault insurance is to beneficiaries: payoffs waiting to happen where everyone wins and no one is blamed. Dillard culls about 40 such happy accidents from sources as diverse as a The American Boys Handy Book (1882) and...
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Lump: A Memoir in Ineloquent ReflectionsA dazzling, unconventional memoir--in essays and verse--of a young woman's sojourn with breast cancer; a chronicle of the most tragic moments in loss, and a celebration of the most tender moments in life, for fans of Between Two Kingdoms and Milk and Honey. Question:...
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In the RootsWhen I arrived at the last poem in this beautiful book of poems by Abby Wheeler, I returned immediately back to the first poem. I wanted them all again, and more. This collection of pieces is luminous and liminal, subtly illuminating the edges, the...
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IfWhen Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem "If--" in 1909, he was addressing his 12-yearold son, John, who would die in battle a few short years later during World War I. The famous author's words soon inspired a nation, and the poem has twice been...
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Gitanjali: A Collection of Indian Poems by the Nobel LaureateAn illuminating collection of inspirational poems by a Nobel Laureate While traveling through one of the poorest regions in India, W. B. Yeats was amazed to discover the women in the tea fields singing the songs and poems of Rabindranath Tagore. This striking scene...
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From Montezuma, With Love...Grounded in the honesty and rawness of lived experience, Montezuma Zepeda's debut collection traces a journey through memory, identity, and survival on occupied Indigenous land. Moving between the personal and political, these poems wrestle with the legacies of colonialism, the search for belonging, and...
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Falling, in Love with TeachingFalling, in Love with Teaching, by veteran high school English teacher Patrick Hueller, is necessary reading for all those who care about the state of education. At a time when the profession is undergoing an existential crisis, this singular book of narrative poems reminds...
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Fall is... An Early Reader Book for Toddlers and Kids: Fun and Educational Rhyming Picture Book. A Fall Read Aloud Book for the Whole FamilyIs your little one curious about the beauty of Fall? Make this book the perfect gift that turns the season into magic! Why Kids, Parents, and Teachers Will Love It A Gentle, Rhyming Journey Through Fall Easy-to-follow rhymes introduce children to the beauty and...
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EquinoxEquinox is an unforgettable and never-before-published masterwork completed by Kamau Brathwaite before his death in 2020. Written in his unique Sycorax typeface and replete with compelling images and photographs, Equinox contains poems written in Brathwaite's singular Barbadian vernacular and visionary style--poems about the Middle...
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short IntroductionbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the 90 or so published poems that are at the core of her...
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Days & ChancesFrom "a poet of lyric wonderment, angular beauty, and uncompromising vision" (Poetry Northwest), a luminous meditation on loss and love In Joanna Klink's dreamlike sixth book, she turns her gaze to ordinary days and asks, What is the measure of a life? How should...
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Cloud BuilderWhat do we owe the dead? This is the question at the heart of Cloud Builder, in which Weston Morrow interrogates the burden of legacy and the ever-watchful gaze of our deceased loved ones. His search takes him from the landscapes of the late...
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AfterlightWinner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry "When I wake I'm in ninth grade again," begins "Reunion," the first poem in Caleb Nolen's debut collection Afterlight. These haunting, tender poems revisit the fraught adolescence of a group of boys growing up in...
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Where The Osprey NestHillary Gonzalez, the author, writes "In the Chesapeake Bay, we are blessed to have the highest population of nesting ospreys in the world-but that's changing. In the Chesapeake, watching the return of the ospreys is one of the first signs that spring has arrived....
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Warmly, The WildWarmly, The Wild is a love letter to nature, from nature. Written over the course of many years spent outside while exploring the continental U.S. and Canada, the collection reflects on humankind's relationship to wildness. Centered on interconnection, the poems tell stories like parking...
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The WondermentOn his deathbed, the poet's father offered a striking revelation: "From our birth...to our death...the wonderment." His words became a compass, inspiring a luminous collection of poems that invites readers to marvel at the sacred woven through every ordinary moment. In The Wonderment, Rosemerry...
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The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina LoyMina Loy's technique and subjects - prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide - shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it. Roger Conover has resuced the key texts from the pages of forgotten publications,...
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Splendor: Trans PoetsIntroducing readers to five trans and nonbinary poets Splendor is an ode to queer bodies, with previously unpublished translations from Argentina, Denmark, Korea, Norway, and Quebec. From the irreverent and irresponsible to the quiet and meditative these poems decentralize our ideas of trans experience...
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