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Everything in Life Is Resurrection: Selected Poems, 1982-2022Drawn from eight acclaimed books of poetry and spanning forty years, Everything in Life is Resurrection: Selected Poems, 1982-2022, is 2021 Texas Poet Laureate Cyrus Cassells's long-awaited retrospective volume. Ellen Hinsey, in her compelling introduction, "A Lyric Poet in Dark Times," heralds Cassells as...
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Annotations to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets"This book of annotations to Four Quartets provides unparalleled, page by page insights into the thoughts and background material behind the poem. It will be a unique asset for any reader who wants help in navigating the extraordinary complexities of T.S. Eliot's final masterpiece."...
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The Threshold and the LedgerA timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy. Since her untimely death in 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann has come to be regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important writers. Unpacking a single Bachmann poem, novelist Tom McCarthy latches...
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Birthright2021 Arab American Awards - George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Winner 2021 Lambda Literary Awards - Bisexual Poetry Finalist 2020 Big Other Awards - Poetry Winner 2020 Big Other Awards - Readers' Choice Finalist Abraham's highly anticipated debut Birthright constructs a dialogue in which "every...
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The Fire PassageWinner of the 2025 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry selected by Pulitzer Prize recipient Diane Seuss, The Fire Passage is a lyric descent in the epic tradition, traveling unto realms unmoored by extreme weather and mysterious illness before resurfacing to the light...
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Poem a Day: 366 Poems, Old and New - One for Each Day of the YearFill your life with more poetry, every day of the year! Read it daily by yourself or use it to connect with friends or your book club A book for self-discovery, and also sharing, with more than 100,000 copies sold! "This book is a...
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Girl WorkWINNER OF THE 2022 NOEMI PRESS BOOK AWARD IN POETRYGIRL WORK, a book-length meditation on sexual violence and feminized labor, centers hybrid-form and prose poems exploring haunting, labor, sexual trauma, and the assertion of a gender- nonconforming self in our current political moment. Written...
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Hair on Fire: Afghan Women PoetsFive female Afghan poets wield language to combat the loneliness, absurdity, and claustrophobia of life in a war-torn country and its diaspora. There are "hypnotic, long beards" tangled with mass extinctions; hateful men burning grapevines; black blindfolds; jinn in chadors; and condoms advertised every...
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Poems of the Night: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel TextA dual-language volume of poems on darkness and light--many appearing in English for the first time--by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. Poems of...
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Proprioception: Poems Volume 8Proprioception tastes of a feral urgency to time, to presence, a need. The poems move through ideas of race, of fear, of sexuality, of life already lived in low-level terror now amplified, of the weight of responsibility, of the burdens of age--trying to find...
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Moon Garden: Poetry for ManifestationReconnect with your intuition, heal gently, and manifest your dreams with intention--one season, one cycle, one phase at a time. From Melody Godfred, author of the international bestseller Self Love Poetry for Thinkers & Feelers, comes Moon Garden: Poetry for Manifestation, a one-of-a-kind poetry...
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The Complete Poems: Second EditionThe complete poems of an English master Keats's first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his politics, his immediate circle of friends and...
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Maybe the Saddest Thing"These are wide-ranging Whitmanesque poems--self-aware meditations that rap and jazz their way forward, talk back, backtrack, and scratch so hard they blow out the speakers with their complicated love for a huge cast of icons, from Pam Grier to Flavor Flav, from RuPaul to...
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It's Thanksgiving!It's time for turkey! The parade is about to start. The pumpkin pie is in the oven. The whole family is gathered around the table. And everybody wants to pull the wishbone! From Children's Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky comes a scrumptious helping of twelve...
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Mother BodyMother Body is an intersectional exploration of the trauma and agency held within a body defined by its potential to mother. As Mother Body unfolds, it tasks its reader to understand the expected and unexpected manifestations of motherhood, through menstruation and womb work, but...
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Abuela, Don't Forget MeIn his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on--to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him...
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Snakeberry MamasAuthor: Mary Alice DixonPublisher: Charlotte Lit PressPublished: 09/16/2025Pages: 64Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.15dISBN: 9781960558121About the AuthorDixon, Mary Alice: - Mary Alice Dixon is an award-winning poet, born in Appalachian coal dust and reared in Carolina red clay. She has a...
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CirculationBeginning with its opening poem, "The Invention of Time," Ken Autrey's collection shows an attentiveness to the power of the past along with its riches and sorrows. The poems in Circulation address the writer's upbringing, the influence of his parents, and in turn his...
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Silencer"Tough talk for tough times. Silencer is both lyrical and merciless-Wicker's mind hums in overdrive, but with the calm and clarity of a marksman." --Tim Seibles, author of One Turn Around the Sun and finalist for the National Book Award A suburban park, church,...
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A Candle Unconsumed: Poetry in the Language of the Jewish SpiritThe metaphor of the Jew-or the Jewish people-as a perpetual flame or fire is one that has endured throughout our history. Enter any synagogue, for example, and above the Torah scrolls you will discover a ner tamid-an eternal light that is never to be...
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