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Dear Prudence: New and Selected PoemsThis magnum opus confirms David Trinidad's place in the poetic firmament: he is simply the best we have. A worthy successor to James Schuyler, Trinidad writes soulfully and sometimes photorealistically about the melancholy threshold where dolls and stars become inner objects--dirty, glamorous, destructible. Jacqueline...
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The Poems of Renata FerreiraRenata Ferreira's poems were composed in the final years of Portugal's fascist regime, exposing and subverting the government's draconian edicts against women's rights, sexual freedoms, political dissent, and progressive thought. While she worked in the resistance as a clandestine writer, passing hand-typed bulletins and...
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Made FleshFew... could have predicted the delayed depth-charge of this explosive second book, motored by vividly earthly language and disguised philosophical sophistication. --Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThroughout Made Flesh, one of the most powerful poetry books this year, Arnold gets at both the contradictions and timelessness...
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Boy with a Halo at the Farmer's MarketWinner of the Codhill Poetry Award for 2014. Author: Sonia GreenfieldPublisher: Distribution PartnersPublished: 05/15/2015Pages: 72Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.30w x 0.30dISBN: 9781930337831About the AuthorSonia Greenfield was born and raised in Peekskill, New York, and earned an MFA from the University of Washington...
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Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone"Memory and its embodiment in a colloquial, yet highly wrought musical language are what originally drew me to Harrington's manuscript and what continues to pull me back. We learn the story of Lillian and Webster and their children and grandchildren, a black family living...
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Cityscapes in Mating SeasonCityscapes in Mating Season combines a lyric sensibility with a distrust of any such singular vision, a loneliness coupled with desire to feel into the thrumming ground of a place, and a willingness to register beauty even at its most apocalyptic. Whether playful, sensual,...
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Cause for ConcernPoetry. Carrie Shipers' CAUSE FOR CONCERN traverses a landscape of assorted disasters--such as overwork and layoffs, the ill-fated explorer, circus mishaps, nuclear disaster and radiation--but at its heart is the personal disaster of spousal illness. While a spouse might avow faith in the sentiment...
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All the Wasted Beauty of the WorldPoetry. ALL THE WASTED BEAUTY OF THE WORLD, a finalist for the 2012 Able Muse Book Award, extols the beautiful as readily as it expounds on the blemished. The reasoned commingles with the rambunctious, as in the case of the speaker who declares that...
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Strange BorderlandsPoetry. STRANGE BORDERLANDS, Ben Berman's first full-length collection, counterpoises insights with uncertainties while chronicling the poet's immersion in a new culture. In compelling metrical, free verse and prose poems, Berman provides a vivid narrative of exotic adventures, especially his Peace Corps service in Zimbabwe--the...
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The Garden of Divine Songs and Collected Poetry of Hryhory SkovorodaHryhory Skovoroda is considered by many as the first great Slavic philosopher and poet. Written over a period stretching from the 1750s until 1785, his The Garden of Divine Songs is a unique collection of 30 poems, featuring a complex system of strophic structures...
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Gorski Vijenac: The Mountain WreathThe Mountain Wreath is a heroic poem in the form of folk drama by Petar II Petrovic Njegos. It was written at the high of the Serbian romantic movement and is now considered to be the Serbian national epic. Njegos manages to weave all...
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A Landscape Blossoms Within MeEeva Kilpi is one of Finland's best-loved writers, and a Nobel Prize nominee. Her work has been published in sixteen languages, but this is her first full-length poetry collection in English.Kilpi's poems, which encompass everything from bawdy humour to compassionate irony, and from haunting...
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Adventures in Form: A Compendium of New Poetic FormsWelcome to a strange new world in which a poem can be written using only one vowel, processed through computer code, collaged from film trailers, compiled from Facebook status updates, hidden inside a Sudoku puzzle, and even painted on sheep to demonstrate Quantum Theory....
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The Cult of Seizure & the Deep ZooThe Cult of Seizure is a work of lyrical mesmerism and animal magnetism from acclaimed novelist and artist Rikki Ducornet, which displays a lush poesis and visionary soul. Jane Urquhart describes it as a "combination of the bestial and the bestiary; of terror and...
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Curente La Rascruce: Poetry from the English-speaking world translated by students at the West University of TimisoaraCROSS-CURRENTS is a multinational project in literary translation featuring poetry from the English-speaking world. This volume, CURENTE LA RASCRUCE, features English and Romanian face to face. It is a collaboration between a selected group of poets and students at the West University of Timisoara,...
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North End Love SongsKatherena Vermette's award-winning poetry collection North End Love Songs is an ode to the place she grew up, where the beauty of the natural world is overlaid with the rough reality of crime and racism. When a young girl's brother goes missing, she learns...
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There Is No Road: Proverbs by Antonio MachadoWith an insightful introduction by Thomas Moore, this volume presents the wisdom and philosophy of one of Spain's most important poets. Born in 1875, Machado, along with Juan Ramon Jimenez and Miquel de Unamuno, formed the famed generation of 1898, which ushered in a...
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Island in the SkyMarshall has created the definitive book on Grand Mesa, the large table-top mountain which dominates the Grand Junction, Colorado skyline. She shares details about Grand Mesa's geological origins and history, covers the edible as well as the just plain beautiful plants, the big and...
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I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of DemeraraWinner of the Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Prize, 2020 Award-winning Indo-Caribbean poet Rajiv Mohabir (born 1981) brings his own poetic swagger and family history to a groundbreaking translation of Lalbihari Sharma's Holi Songs of Demerara, originally published in India in...
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The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern PoetryThe indispensable anthology of poetry from the Fugitive group, this collection chronicles the impact of literary modernism on these Southern poets as their region took a "backward glance" before coming to terms with the modern world. Southern Classics Series.Author: William PrattPublisher: J. S. Sanders...
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