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Dwelling: an ecopoemA sequence of poems and prose questions, Dwelling: an ecopoem began as a conversation with Martin Heidegger's essay "Building Dwelling Thinking" and became an expansive journey into the notion of home. With sharp focus, at once moving and lyric, Scott Edward Anderson explores the...
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The Immigrants' New CameraReading The Immigrants' New Camera: A Family Collection is like sitting down to a large Italian meal. Maryfrances Wagner's images are seasoned with the immediacy of Kansas City's Little Italy, the family kitchen, the table with its stories, tender, painful, and humorous. The poet's...
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BroodIn Brood, Kimiko Hahn trains her eye on the commonplace--clothespins, bees, papaya, perfume, poached eggs, a sponge, fire, sand dollars--and reveals their very essence in concise evocative language. Underlying these little gems is a sense of loss, a mother's death or a longing for...
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Nasty Water: Collected New Orleans PoemsJames Nolan describes this collection of his New Orleans poems as an "autobiography of place," for which he selected fifty poems written over a span of fifty years focused on his native city. Rarely are readers offered a retrospective of both the lyrics and...
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Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir"It turns out Wally Swist is a skilled essayist and reviewer as well as a celebrated poet and a decidedly eclectic reader. Singing for Nothing (the title alone says something about the condition of poetry) is a refined review of the work of both...
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 EditionThis unabridged edition of Leaves of Grass presents the original 1855 versions and limited formatting of Whitman's most famous poems, including "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "There Was a Child Went Forth."Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Chump ChangePublished: 04/04/1855Pages: 46Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Forest with CastanetsIn her debut book of poems, knit together with personal essays, Mehta explores her own cultural history-- Indian Jainism and American Judaism--as well as her ideas about faith, feminism, and family.Author: Diane MehtaPublisher: Four Way BooksPublished: 03/04/2019Pages: 110Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w...
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You Darling ThingGuided by a poem assembled from "compliments" paid by a suitor to his girlfriend (which echo the endearments Anna Karenina's Count Vronsky directs toward his racehorse, before she collapses under his weight and is shot), You Darling Thing investigates bridehood and the concept of...
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DregsLike a series of slides from a film reel, the poems of Dregs reveal the ruin, remnants or dregs left over from the wars and economic and human inequalities of our world today. Praise for The Glimmering Room: "...an exquisite fever dream of drugs,...
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For the Love of EndingsHow does it feel to lose your planet, your lover, yourself? Ben Purkert's debut collection, For the Love of Endings, tests what connects us to this earth and to each other. His brilliantly crafted poems examine "the gap / between the world & how...
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High Poets SocietyThis is Brian Abbott's first major publication. The Boston-based writer has found his stronghold in the world of social media under the moniker of High Poets Society. HIs writing is most recognized for it's mesmerizing rhyme scheme and clever wordplay.Author: B. AbbottPublisher: Monarch Publishing,...
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Fungi from Yuggoth, The Sonnet Cycle: A Pulp-Lit Annotated Edition; Contextualized with a Selection of Other Lovecraft PoemsAlthough 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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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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