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The Dead Animal Handbook: An Anthology of Contemporary PoetryThe Dead Animal Handbook is a field guide to contemporary American poetry. Collecting and compiling emerging and established writers from a range of backgrounds, this Handbook charts one of poetry's most used tropes in order to bring the dead animal back to life. We're...
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House of WaterDeeply felt and beautifully built, the poems in Matthew Nienow's long-awaited debut shimmer with hard-won grace. . . . House of Water is a staggering book that marks the arrival of an important voice in American poetry.--Eduardo C. CorralThis debut highlights fatherhood at its...
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Rodeo in ReversePicture reversing a rodeo: the rider flies back onto the horse, the horse bucks into stillness. A whirling cast of characters engage in self-interrogation and self-discovery and wrestle in similar fashion in the pages of Rodeo in Reverse, a debut collection from Lindsey Alexander,...
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The Pillow Book: English-Japanese Illustrated Edition マクラノソウシ（日本&（英語に続き、日本語でのご案内があります）The critically acclaimed Pillow Book by Singapore poet Jee Leong Koh is now out in an illustrated dual Japanese and English edition. Inspired by Sei Shonagon, a Heian period Japanese court lady, Koh interweaves lists, anecdotes, tanka and haiku into witty, meditative essays. The...
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The Happy End / All WelcomePoetry. THE HAPPY END / ALL WELCOME is set in a job fair inspired by the Nature Theater of Oklahoma from Kafka's unfinished novel Amerika: the largest theater company in the world is recruiting all kinds of employees. De la Torre builds, fastens, cuts,...
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The Most Foreign CountryPoetry. Translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert. First published in 1955 and now translated for the first time into English, THE MOST FOREIGN COUNTRY is Alejandra Pizarnik's debut collection. Here, the nineteen-year-old poet begins to explore the themes that will shape and define...
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MistressThis book of poems presents a cross-generational conversation between Sally Hemings and the contemporary narrator about what it means to be a black woman in their respective landscapes, while at the same time demonstrating how little the ways in which we talk about black...
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The Cowherd's Son: PoemsPoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Rajiv Mohabir uses his queer and mixed- caste identities as grace notes to charm alienation into silence. Mohabir's inheritance of myths, folk tales, and multilingual translations make a palimpsest of histories that bleed into one...
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One Hundred HungersPoetry. Middle Eastern Studies. In her Dorset Prize-winning new collection, Lauren Camp explores the lives of a first-generation Arab-American girl and her Jewish-Iraqi parent. One Hundred Hungers tells overlapping stories of food and ritual, immigration and adaptation, evoking her father's boyhood in Baghdad in...
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The City of PoetryJerusalem is a stucco cottageFilled at all hours with angels, Devils, and assorted orphansWho dance and drinkAnd hand-tint engravings.Blake himself is up in the atticNight and day--Even in eternity, he's still scribbling.Gregory Orr is the author of ten collections of poetry. The recipient of...
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The Baby That Ate CincinnatiThe Baby That Ate Cincinnati is a collection of poems about parenthood. And horror movies. It's about that other side of things, the bit with the wonder and the magic as well as the terror of trying to redefine yourself and your place in...
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Rumored AnimalsReaders of new poetry have come to expect a certain amount of wonder in the work, a certain receptivity (here and there) to the non-rational, preternatural undercurrents which ordinarily reveal themselves to us with full force only every now and then. For some, poetry...
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A Collection of NightmaresHold your screams and enter a world of seasonal creatures, dreams of bones, and confessions modeled from open eyes and endless insomnia. Christina Sng's A Collection of Nightmares is a poetic feast of sleeplessness and shadows, an exquisite exhibition of fear and things better...
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Useful Information for the Soon-to-be Beheaded"The marvelous prose poems in Shivani Mehta's debut collection live at the intersection of language and imagery. Even if you won't be losing your head anytime soon, Useful Information for the Soon-to-be Beheaded should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in spending some time...
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Killing FloorPoetry. In 1978, KILLING FLOOR was awarded the Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. The book was selected by Charles Wright, Maxine Kumin, and Philip Levine. On the Occasion of the 40th anniversary of publication, Tavern Books has brought this masterpiece...
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Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows"Everyone warns us off the rocks. / But what will keep us from the river?" Leigh asks in her debut collection, which pieces together a kind of mythology in which the surreal and celestial coexist with the realities of childhood abuse as an adult...
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Woman Without UmbrellaWith a voice that is rooted in the lush, immediate present, Victoria Redel explores the necessity to live and love deeply in her third collection of poems, Woman Without Umbrella. With her fearless and insistent engagement with language, Redel leads us, unprotected and exposed...
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Watching the Perseids: The Backwaters Press Twentieth Anniversary AnthologyThis anthology commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the Backwaters Press, a nonprofit literary publisher located in Omaha, Nebraska. Virtually every poet published by the press in its first two decades is represented here with two new, previously unpublished poems selected specifically for this volume.Author:...
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Like the New Moon I Will Live My LifeThe most recent in a line of great American transcendentalist writers.--The New York TimesBly's poems flow from . . . the great current of longing for reality, true maturity, the devotee's call to the Beloved.--The NationRobert Bly changed the course of poetry in America...
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Vertical Poetry: Recent PoemsRoberto Juarroz's poems focus on the interior world or the internal experience of the exterior world. We are reissuing this collection of Juarroz's earlier work as a companion to the new volume.Mary Crow is a translator and former Colorado Poet Laureate. Her most recent...
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