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Explain This CorpseWinner of the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry"Sophisticated and cerebral gymnastics of language sway with gravity through the poems and poetic sequences of Explain This Corpse. Throughout, Kirsten Kaschock's gestures are contemporary, jagged, and stop-start, wonderfully torqued and rippling with unexpected flights, breaks, and...
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Peter, Peter, Pizza-Eater: And Other Silly RhymesLike Mary Had a Little Jam, this book contains 40 silly rhymes that will put a smile on the faces of preschoolers and early-elementary kids. The rhymes (written by Lansky and an ensemble of poets whose work is featured in Mary Had a Little...
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Beyond the Moon's White ClawPoetry. BEYOND THE MOON'S WHITE CLAW, 2018 David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize winner, is Patty Dickson Pieczka's third book of poetry. Her second book, PAINTING THE EGRET'S ECHO, won the Library of Poetry Book Award for 2012 from the Bitter Oleander Press.Author: Patty Dickson PieczkaPublisher: Red...
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Prose Poetry: An IntroductionAn engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genre Prose Poetry is the first book of its kind--an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose poetry, an increasingly important and popular literary form that...
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To Drown a ManAt once delicate and visceral, the poems in To Drown a Man chronicle the long gauntlet from a life of secrets to a life of intimacy. "The only difference between imprisonment and hiding," Russell writes, "is who shuts the door." Exploring the meaning of...
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Whispers of Krip Love Shouts of Krip RevolutionLateef McLeod writes some of most daring poetry I have seen. This is poetry that is finely crafted and, oh yes, clearly has something to say. The best poets, to be sure, have something to say, they are artist and philosophers.Langston Hughes; Let America...
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The Silence Between What I Think And What I SayStephan Silich's voice portrays an uncompromising openness and unflinching vulnerability as he explores a variety of themes, ranging from love, loss, healing, family, fatherhood, art, literature, mortality, and everyday lifeAuthor: Stephan SilichPublisher: Stephan SilichPublished: 01/26/2020Pages: 186Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.43dISBN:...
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No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My BodyThrough a series of transmissions and proposals, the poems in No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body explore the intelligence of the body, especially bodies under duress. Wadud evokes the hum and chorus that fills us when we write to explore...
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Red StiltsRed Stilts finds Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser at the top of his imaginative and storytelling powers. Here are the richly metaphorical, imagistically masterful, clear and accessible poems for which he has become widely known. Kooser writes for an...
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Play for Time: PoemsSelected by Vijay Seshadri as the winner of the 2019 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. "Unimpeachable . . . round and rich and exfoliating with intuition, hesitation, self-questionings, and personhood." --Vijay Seshadri, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, 3 Sections "If you were made to speak a...
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Young Naked Soul: My ConfessionsI welcome you to my heart. This collection of poetry and prose is a step into my world, a piece of me. This collection is in a different direction as all of my others, where this one is more raw, personal, and intimate to...
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Ripples in the SandScripture says that wisdom is as old as creation. That wisdom was the breath of God. It is embedded in all that ever has been or ever will be created. The chaos of being human keeps us from seeing it. But some, like artists...
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Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles WrightThe selected works of one of our finest American poets The thread that dangles us between a dark and a darker dark, Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided. Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there. Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere--Let it...
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Selected PoemsDuring the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetayeva. The first two survived the terror, but Mandelstam died in a camp and Tsvetayeva was driven to hang herself in 1941....
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CawIn passionate poems about sin, obsession, and mortality--an artist's infatuation with a doll, an interspecies relationship, an ex-lover whose presence lingers in recipes, ecclesiastical birds, and a sex toy holding a loved one's ashes--Waters delivers impeccably crafted narratives infused with his signature lyrical gestures....
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Under the Banner of ConcernUnder the Banner of Concern is a compilation of drawings and poetry from acclaimed artist and musician, Tim Presley. Featuring art from Presley's 2019 exhibition in Chicago and Los Angeles, the black ink drawings merge abstracted and expressionistic brush and line work, the latter...
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Toledo Rez & Other Myths"The government keeps trying to erase the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb, Louisiana: first by drowning their ancestral grounds in a man-made reservoir, then by denying their petitions for federal recognition. But they did not count on the dazzling lyric gifts of Native poet Thomas...
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Chicago Poems"Chicago Poems" is an early collection of poems by American writer, poet, and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandburg. Published in 1916 and his first by a mainstream publisher, this collection was a critical success and began Sandburg's career as a notable writer. Sandburg...
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The Complete PoemsA visionary of eighteen-century English society, William Blake produced a vast collection of poetry, mythology, satires, political pieces, and prophetic works, in addition to his famous etchings and engravings. Although largely unknown during his own lifetime and often rejected as a madman for claims...
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From Cocoon To Butterfly: ReflectionsFrom Cocoon to Butterfly. Through the writings and Scriptures in this book come a story of a young woman who, in her life, overcame many trials and tests. From these experiences came this book. Just as a caterpillar resides in a cocoon and emerges...
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