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Pilot ImpostorA startling, shape-shifting book of prose and images that draws on an unexpected pair of inspirations--the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and the history of air disasters--to investigate con men, identity politics, failures of leadership, the privilege of ineptitude, the slave trade, and the nature...
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When He Whispers: Learning to Listen on the JourneyDoes God really speak to us today? Linnea became desperate to hear him, to learn to listen for his voice instead of just mouthing prayers. She found that the spiritual disciplines of solitude and silence opened the way for her to practice listening, and...
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All Morning the CrowsPoetry. Women's Studies. Kearney draws on her acute powers of observation, a lively curiosity, and her gift for gorgeous imagery to take us on a journey of personal exploration, discovery, and reconciliation. Surprising poems bring together the parallel but discreet worlds of humans and...
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Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969-2018Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa's second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United States for a significant part of his life and collaborated with many influential and highly regarded writers, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Plumpp,...
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PinePoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Pine maps a secret relationship between two women in the South, where certain kinds of desire--queer desire, in particular--have historically been hidden and feared. Creating new landscapes of identity by reimagining form, modifying villanelles, sonnets, elegies, thank-you notes, and dictionary entries,...
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Selected PoemsA timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets--now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei One of the most influential poets in Chinese...
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Dream of No One But MyselfWinner of the 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry * 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Finalist * 2022 Governor General's Literary Award Shortlist * 2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Shortlist * 2022 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal Jury Selection * 2022 Concordia University First...
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Listening to Poetry: An Introduction for Readers and WritersSomething sad happens between preschool and college: most of us unlearn our natural love of poetry, a love that is rooted in sound and surprise, pattern and play, discovery and delight. This book aims to reverse that tragedy. Based on fifteen years of teaching,...
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The Kitchen of Small HoursReimagining the elusive American dream In The Kitchen of Small Hours, Derek N. Otsuji embraces the fragility and endurance of a family of immigrants from two prefectures in Japan: Kagoshima in the south and Okinawa, an island more than four hundred miles from the...
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Off Coldwater CanyonTHIRD PLACE WINNER of THE POETRY BOX CHAPBOOK PRIZE, 2020Off Coldwater Canyon explores the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles. The poems contained in this small volume hold a haunting, unmistakable relevance for those living through today's near-universal experience of global pandemic....
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Bamboophobia: Bilingual in Burmese and EnglishKo ko thett's poems -- described by John Ashbery as "brilliantly off-kilter" -- bring oddball lists, linguistic inventiveness, and sardonic humor to the brutal contradictions of life and history in and outside of his native Burma. In some poems he muses on chairs or...
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All This TimeThe newest collection from Cedar Sigo, All This Time, pays homage to artistic influences that have shaped his poetic practices. Lyrical and haunted, these poems call attention to the experience of living as an embodiment of art, reminding the reader that poetry is like...
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The Night with James Dean: and Other Prose PoemsProse Poetry collection by Allison A. deFreese. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Allison deFreese coordinates multi-language literary translation workshops for the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters. Her work appears in Fireweed: Poetry of Oregon, Hunger Mountain, La Piccioletta Barca, Plainsongs, and Waxwing. Her...
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The Survival ExpoIn her third collection, Caki Wilkinson steers us into flyover country--from its gun shows and high school gyms to the gates of Graceland--as she explores the relationship between fear and self-protection, both the ways we weather the past and how we carry it with...
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Everything AwakeEverything Awake was written during a dreamy, disorienting period of insomnia. In the middle of the night, I began studying Catullus, imagining that his hendecasyllabic rhythms might shush me to sleep. Instead, they prompted a series of eleven-line poems with eleven syllables per line....
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The Iron Tonic: Or, a Winter Afternoon in Lonely ValleyIt's difficult to say what The Iron Tonic is about, although it is "known the skating pond conceals a family of enormous eels," and that "the light is fading from the day. The rest is darkness and dismay." Finally, though, The Iron Tonic could...
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The Collection Plate: PoemsA deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty...
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Poems of the First Buddhist Women: A Translation of the TherigathaA stunning modern translation of a Buddhist classic that is also one of the oldest literary texts in world written by women. The Therīgāthā is one of the oldest surviving literatures by women, composed more than two millennia ago and originally collected as part...
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Als ich aufhörte, mich zu bekämpfen: Und mich selbst an die Hand nahm.Es ist eine Achterbahnfahrt der Gef hle. Es ist ein Leben voller Gegens tze - von intensivsten Gef hlen zu absoluter Leere. Von Hoffnungslosigkeit und Verlorenheit zu Verbundenheit und Vertrauen. Eine tiefe Sehnsucht nach N he, aber auch gro e Angst, sie zuzulassen. Angst...
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Ghost in a Black Girl's ThroatWhat happens when a Midwestern girl migrates to a haunted Southern town, whose river is a graveyard, whose streets bear the names of Southern slave owners? How can she build a home where Confederate symbols strategically stand in the center of town? Can she...
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