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Born Upon the Dark SpearChasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of the most powerful figures in modern world literature. Brought together here in translation for...
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Passing Through HumansvilleInPassing Through Humansville, Karen Craigo builds a rich and embracing vision of life from the bricks of mundane experience. She strikes a surprising and sturdy balance between the pressure of new motherhood on an aging body and the electric energy of a sleepy toddler....
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Every Hour Is LateBrian Brodeur's Every Hour Is Late achieves an "art that conceals art." These verse-dispatches from deep within Indiana and Ohio offer a feast of poetic forms and genres rare in contemporary American poetry: dramatic monologues, blank verse narratives, Sapphics, tritinas, and rimas dissolutas. Here...
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Glitter in the Blood: A Poet's Manifesto for Better, Braver WritingYou do not want to write good poems. You want to write great poems. You want to write poems that challenge, inspire and awe. You want to write poems that forever alter your audience, that forever alter yourself. Those poems take guts. Glitter in...
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The Drowning Boy's Guide to WaterCameron Barnett's poetry collection, The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water (winner of the 2017 Rising Writer Contest), explores the complexity of race and the body for a black man in today's America.Author: Cameron BarnettPublisher: Autumn House PressPublished: 11/07/2017Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.80h x...
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Some Say the LarkSome Say the Lark is a piercing meditation, rooted in loss and longing, and manifest in dazzling leaps of the imagination--the familiar world rendered strange. --Natasha TretheweyChang's poems narrate grief and loss, and intertwines them with hope for a fresh start in the midst...
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The Oasis of NowThe Oasis of Now is the first U.S. book publication of the works of Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980), one of the major Iranian poets of the twentieth century. Well-versed in Buddhism, mysticism, and Western traditions, Sepehri mingled Western concepts with Eastern ones, creating a poetry...
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TracksPoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. The tracks of which Lynn McGee writes are both literal and metaphorical. Many of her poems are based on observations along her daily commute on the New York City subways, and she captures both the urban landscape and her...
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Sun of ConsciousnessSoleil de la Conscience (Sun of Consciousness) was Martinican philosopher douard Glissant's first published work, and opened the Po tique (Poetics) strain of his oeuvre. This book-length essay, which is characterized by its exploratory, intimate character, announces Glissants concerns with cr olisation (creolization), mondialit...
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Modern Love & Other MythsPoetry. The poems in MODERN LOVE & OTHER MYTHS explore, as Elizabeth Bishop phrased it, efforts of affection in our contemporary world. Sutphen's appraisals--both personal and general--resonate deeply with all who have mapped the story land between hello and goodbye. The title invites us...
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Girl-KingThe poems in Brittany Cavallaro's Girl-King are whispered from behind a series of masks, those of victim and aggressor, nineteenth-century madame and reluctant magician's girl, of truck-stop Persephone and frustrated Tudor scholar. This "expanse of girls, expanding still" chase each other through history, disappearing...
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The Crushing OrganDan Rosenberg drank all the great masters, took them inside, dead and alive, all alive. He explodes them and then he says: "I want the sun to be potent and kind." The sun listens. Or: "The heavens are bleached out with streetlights and we...
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Crow-Blue, Crow-BlackPoetry. LGBT Studies. Native American Studies. Chip Livingston confronts and immerses himself into new cultural territories in his second poetry collection, CROW-BLUE, CROW-BLACK, an examination-critical, colloquial, and personal-of identity in terms of geography, experience, and blood quantum. A southern, gay, mixed-blood poet is thrust...
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Electric SnakesIn Electric Snakes, Adrian C. Louis's thirteenth poetry collection, no one is spared his critical eye, including himself. These powerful and often humorous poems cover myriad subjects: Trump, music, zombies, Jimmy John's, childhood, caller ID, venetian blinds, magpies, love, and Mom. --From the EditorLouis's...
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How Narrow My EscapesA new chapbook of poems by Lillian-Yvonne BertramAuthor: Lillian-Yvonne BertramPublisher: New Michigan PressPublished: 02/01/2019Pages: 52Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.12dISBN: 9781934832714
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is: heretical Jewish blessings and poemsif you have an idea of god it is not god god negates your idea. So begins this book of heretical prayers, Dharma aphorisms, neo-Hasidic koans, and unorthodox blessings for unexpected occasions. Is asks the question of what it means to live as a...
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Diadem: Selected PoemsMarosa di Giorgio has one of the most distinct and recognizable voices in Latin American poetry. Her surreal and fable-like prose poems invite comparison to Franz Kafka, Julio Cortázar, or even contemporary American poets Russell Edson and Charles Simic. But di Giorgio's voice, imagery,...
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Miss PlastiqueMiss Plastique, the fourth full-length poetry collection by Lynn Levin, invites the reader into a world of female bravado in which Miss Plastique and her many selves rant, fret, joke, fall in love, dress up, and do their hair. Poems in this collection first...
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A Winter Season of Nature Poems for Catholic ChildrenThrough the simple rhythm and rhyme of nature poems, our sense of wonder is aroused. Through time spent in the natural world, our reverence for the great Creator blossoms and grows. This poetical journey through the natural and liturgical season of winter will enable...
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The Minor Virtues: PoemsThe Minor Virtues, Lynn Levin's fifth collection of poems, begins with celebrations of small everyday practices--among them, fixing broken things and buying produce from the marked-down cart--which, when fancifully contemplated, branch into deeper appreciations of life. Levin's outlook is eclectic and occasionally very funny....
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