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Fungi from Yuggoth - The Sonnet Cycle: Contextualized with a Selection of Other Lovecraft Poems - A Pulp-Lit Annotated EditionAlthough he's best known for his works of weird fiction, H.P. Lovecraft for most of his life considered himself primarily a poet. This cycle of 36 classic-form sonnets, infused with his trademark cosmic dread, represents the pinnacle of Lovecraft's career as a poet, and...
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The Poetry of Stephen CraneStephen Crane referred to his poetry as "lines" rather than poems. He did not consider it poetry, as the poetry of the time was mainly metered and rhymed. His lines draw heavily on allegory, most of them snippets of some universal aspect of existence....
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The J Horoscope: PoemsLook. A woman is writing on parchment, a scroll.*We don't know her name. Her king, Solomon, hasdied, and the whole country's going to hell under thenew king, Rehoboam. The year is 937 BCE. Banishedfrom the ring of political power, she grounds herselfby collecting the...
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The SonnetsAs the Third Reich advanced on Paris, Walter Benjamin entrusted his writings to the philosopher George Bataille. These eighty religious, lyric sonnets, produced in Benjamin's twenties in a sustained response to the suicide of his college friend in protest of the First World War,...
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Odd BoyIn poems at once dazzling and trussed to quietude, Martin Jude Farawell's Odd Boy traverses a fretwork of silence and sonority. From the solemn pews of a Catholic childhood, the improvised dance floor at his wedding, and the mossy underbelly of late and early...
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Everything HereBillie Swift's Everything Here meditates on the mythologies of the banal with a calibrated ambivalence. The "here" of Swift's poems rebuffs and bolsters the eye's ability to document, the body's ability to believe the swelter of its sensate world: "Compare this to flight. /...
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The Nameless and the Faceless of the Civil War: A Collection of Poems and EssaysA collection of 28 poems and 28 essays along with a selection of historical photos, sketches, and quotes that are dedicated to the lost and forgotten of the Civil War, by award winning author, Lisa G. Samia. Selections within this work earned her the...
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Of the Flame: Poems Volume 15A new constellation of wisdom and healing that is modern and timeless.Word by word, the poetic method and wisdom of Wendy E. Slater will radiate into your soul, and liberate you from constraints of self-blame and judgment."Wendy has an unusual perspective on so many...
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Desert LightWhat is striking about Desert Light is that the "traditional" Southwest poems are human, i.e. "a chorale of clouds," "night shuts its ears," "the wind walks quietly," "the sky is a woman," while the poems that are written in first person or second person...
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Cyborg DetectiveAn NPR Favorite Book of 2019In her third collection of poems, Jillian Weise delivers a reckoning to the ableism of the Western Canon. These poems investigate and challenge the ways that nondisabled writers have appropriated disabled bodies, from calling out William Carlos Williams to...
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We Are Not Your Metaphor: A Disability Poetry AnthologyWe are not your metaphor. "Sometimes ableism is so embedded in our culture that it's hard to recognize that it's there. Getting people to be aware of it is like asking them to think about the air that we breathe in. It's subtle; it's...
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Quantum Heresies: Poems by Mary PeelenMary Peelen's spare poems pulse with what they contain and describe--in both the imagistic and the mathematical sense of the word--harnessing the power of the sciences to navigate the chthonic worlds of illness, loss, and desire on both personal and planetary scales. Peelen denies...
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RoyalsOne finishes a poem feeling as though they have taken part in a singular event that can be returned and mined again and again without exhausting the kernel of mystery around which each poem swirls. --BOMBCedar Sigo's fourth collection restlessly enacts the pleasures of...
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The Problem of the ManyWinner of the Big Other Book Award for poetry and finalist for the Believer Book Award.If The Cloud Corporation is, as John Ashbery called it, "the poetry of the future, here, today," then Timothy Donnelly's third collection, The Problem of the Many, is the...
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My Heart Laid Bare: & other textsIn My Heart Laid Bare, an apodictic work of aphorism, maxim, note, and extended reflection, we encounter a fierce dandy who revolts against utilitarianism: to be useful, Baudelaire gibes, is to be hideous. Yet, contrarily, it is not dissolution that this po te maudit...
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One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin IsshuThe Hyakunin Isshu is a poetry anthology beloved by generations of Japanese since it was compiled in the 13th century. Many Japanese know the poems by heart as a result of playing the popular card game version of the anthology, called karuta. Collecting one...
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The Absence of KnowingIn Matt Henriken's stirring follow-up to his debut, Ordinary Sun, he writes with an uninhibited resolve to explore intimate, everyday struggles and capture their reality in amber. Brokenness, anger, and the light of innocence power the poems of The Absence of Knowing. Meanwhile, a...
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Said The Manic To The MuseJeanann Verlee's second book, Said the Manic to the Muse, takes a deeper, more focused look at the erratic, whimsical, ominous, and sometimes perilous ways manic depression functions. Introduced through the careful prophecy of three archetypes: Medea, Jezebel, and Kali-each a woman largely misrepresented...
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Pecking OrderNicole Homer's first full-length poetry collection, Pecking Order, is an unflinching look at how race and gender politics play out in the domestic sphere. Homer challenges the notion of family by forcing the reader to examine how race, race performance, and colorism impact motherhood...
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Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tearjerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, PerPretty much every poet in every age has written about death and dying. Along with love, it might be the most popular subject in poetry. Yet, until now, no anthology has gathered the best and most famous of these verses in one place. This...
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