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Moving PicturesThe author of this impressive collection of poems, Joseph Stanton, is both a scholar and masterful practitioner of ekphrastic poetry. His commitment to the form is evident in Moving Pictures, his third collection of ekphrastic poems. In this volume, Stanton offers poems inspired by...
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BranchesMicroscopes swivel and flowers spread as the poet wrestles with a spectrum of growing pains. These coming-of-age poems draw inspiration equally from science textbooks and fairy tales. As the final poem prays, "I will see the moon and morning and know". Branches explores what...
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Threat Come CloseIn his debut collection, Aaron Coleman writes an American anthem for the 21st century, a full-throated lyric composed of pain, faith, lust and vulnerability. Coleman's poems comment on and interrogate the meaning of home and identity for a black man in America, past and...
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Lilith, but DarkLILITH, BUT DARK reveals a series of confessions and penances, exploring a southern black woman's tour through lover's lament. It explores intimacies from home to the schoolyard to the bedroom. It is a journey through tornado alley, a search for power and peace in...
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Night LadderHere is a poet who dares everything--she sings, she philosophizes, she converses with the dead--to bring us closer, impossibly, to what we have lost. "I will be the spirit of your / departed," she writes. And so she is, in every haunted line, but...
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Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary GenresLiterary Nonfiction. Hybrid Genre. Poetry. Fiction. Art. Cultural Studies. When we talk about hybrid literary genres, what do we mean? Unprecedented in both its scope and approach, FAMILY RESEMBLANCE is the first anthology to explore the answer to that question in depth, providing craft...
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Ship of TheseusShip of Theseus is brilliant new poetic work by Christopher Willard. "Prepare for an ascent into the maelstrom, where the huckleberries howl and butterflies twirl, caught in the F5 tornadoes they created 10,000 wingflaps ago. The pitch and yaw of the deck is so...
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Hardly WarHardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore her paternal relationship and heritage. Here poetry and...
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Life in the FoldsLife in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux's (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a laboratory of fantastical, destructive energies in which the poet presents his methods for dealing with...
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Rubaiyat of Rumi (Selected Poems) (Persain/ Farsi Edition)A selection of Rubaiyat (Quatrains) of Rumi in Persian/ Farsi. For more information about "Bahar Books," please visit the website: www.baharbooks.comAuthor: Molana Jalaleddin Mohammad Balkhi RumiPublisher: Bahar BooksPublished: 11/14/2012Pages: 52Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.14dISBN: 9781939099112Language: PersianThis title is not returnable
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The Burden of Being BurmeseThe Burden of Being Burmese displays an extraordinary fertile and febrile imagination--one that will both delight and disturb American readers.--Marjorie PerloffA brilliantly off-kilter book.--John AshberyKo Ko Thett writes that he is a poet by choice and a Burmese by chance. The poems in this...
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White BlightPoetry. Translated from the Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida. This vital book exposes the dense tectonics churning beneath migrant dreams. Accusatory, loving, full of grief and sage truths, Athena Farrokhzad's WHITE BLIGHT speaks eloquently to the troubled inheritance of diasporic survival. Through a litany of...
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A History of the UnmarriedPrediction: You will love A History of the Unmarried if you are married, or ambivalent about marriage, or hate the idea of marriage, or hope to be married someday. There is something sincere and surprising here for you, whatever your gender or orientation: if...
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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran - Special EditionKahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American poet, philosopher, and artist.His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages, and "The Prophet" has sold more than 9 million copies. He also transformed his rough sketches from his books into master paintings, now held in collections...
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I Be, But I Ain'tPoetry. African & African American Studies. Incandescent in her brutality & neon truth, Aziza Barnes writes her way into an urgent Black, wide & beautiful in its scream. You will find lightning here. You will discover a bruised constellation exploding in a vast black...
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Poems by Yvonne RainerPreviously unpublished poetry from one of the America's greatest living artistsFrom her work in dance and choreography to her films and writings, Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) has established herself as one of the America's greatest living artists. This first collection of her poems, which...
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Dark HorsePoetry. Meet Jane Dark--both the everywoman and the uberwoman--who tries 'to ache more beautifully' as she suffers the indignities of a husband's infidelity and the 'other wife.' In a series of stunning prose poems entitled 'Sad Film, ' Kristina Marie Darling sublimely describes the...
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RepetitionRepetition is a poetic memoir of a daughter's grief after her father's death, as told to a loved one. These meditative prose poems journey through Paris, New York and Berlin on bike rides "to watch the tower sparkle in the distance" and on walks...
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KithA complex and moving array of imagistic arguments-with-history about skin, postcolonialism, travel, exile, fluids, and cultural materialism.Kith describes postcolonialist relation from the painful psychohistorical perspective of a hybrid, in multiple exiles. Victor reaps the pain, reams the pain, approaches the painful material from striated...
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The Harmonist at Nightfall: Poems of IndianaThis book you�re holding represents years� worth of discipline and labor, of time and travel and, as you�ll discover, the pure joy of attention and love of language. The thing that makes a poet undertake a particular project is a mystery, finally. One day...
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