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Lazarus SpeciesFrom the celebrated author of Philomath, an astonishingly inventive collection of poems illuminating human, planetary, and personal survival.Traversing historical, terrestrial, and discursive limits, Devon Walker-Figueroa brings a chorus of perspectives, eras, idioms, and ideals into novel if not turbulent dialogue. In this dazzling second...
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I Tell You That I Love YouI Tell You That I Love You"I tell you that I love you and you say, "I love you, too."You sing it so sweetly I know that it's true. From author Tanaya Winder, a member of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, this joyful poem celebrates...
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I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems"Myles speaks with one of the essential voices in American poetry." --New York TimesA collection of new and selected past work from one of America's most celebrated poetsEileen Myles's poetry and prose are known for their blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and...
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Good King WenceslasGood King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even. Brightly shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel, when a poor man came in sight, gathering winter fuel.This story, based...
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Flop Era: PoemsFlop Era reckons with the complications of being human, and therefore, with the consequences of being fundamentally flawed. It contends with failed potential and the certain uncertainty of the future, while interrogating the past for clues that might explain why, as the speaker bemoans,...
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Everyone I Love, AliveBayani's third poetry collection considers how we might cultivate life in times of oppression and upheaval. With this collection of poems, Jason Bayani leans into traditions of lyric, song, and prayer to cultivate life while existing within a time of empire and societal collapse....
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Eunoia: The Upgraded EditionWinner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002) Stunning and masterful in its execution, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram. The word 'eunoia, ' which literally means 'beautiful thinking, ' is the shortest word in English that contains...
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Collected Poems of W. H. AudenBetween 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin...
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Christina's CarolBased on the 1872 Christmas carol "In the Bleak Midwinter" by English poet Christina Rosetti, this stunning, wintry picture book from acclaimed author-illustrator Tomie dePaola will be cherished all through the holiday season. One chilly winter's night, the wind howled over a blanket of...
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Bum TownBum Town is Tony Fitzpatrick's allegorical tale of a journey through Chicago with the ghost of his father--revisiting the places that have changed, remembering the uncle who died as a boy trying to hop a freight during the Great Depressions, praising and dispraising a...
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Blood HarmonyAn unflinching tale of selfishness and sacrifice, guilt and resentment, hope and despair, Bruce Snider's fourth collection tells the story of two brothers torn apart by opioid addiction. These sublime poems paint a singular portrait of rural working-class America populated by shuttered tool factories...
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A Sun Behind Us / Un Sol Caído AvanzaMARÍA AUXILIADORA ÁLVAREZ'S winning entry of the Paz Prize for Poetry is in many ways a loving memoriam to her father, Oswaldo Álvarez Rojas, and a celebration of the long embrace that still warms María, her seven siblings, and their mother. Her poems explore...
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Anatomy Is BeautifulDo you know what the sphenoid is? How about the ampulla of Vater? Or the organ of Corti? If the answer is yes, then this book of anatomical poetry and art is definitely for you. If not, then this book can still be for...
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After the Storm: Poems and PrayersAfter the Storm is an initial offering of poems from spiritual director and retreat facilitator, Peter M. Ivey, written in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the devastating storm that ravaged Southern Appalachia and Ivey's hometown of Asheville, NC in the fall of 2024. In...
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A Black Story May Contain Sensitive ContentIn a q&a after a reading I gave at George Mason University in the spring of 2023, I paraphrased a conversation I had with my brother earlier that year. We were on the stoop of his home in Bed-Stuy, talking about technology, about AI...
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100 Best Christmas Poems for ChildrenFrom traditional verses by Christina Rossetti and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to modern classics by Carol Ann Duffy, Steve Turner and Benjamin Zephaniah, this dazzling anthology of Christmas poems will delight children and adults of all ages.All the wonders of the season are captured in...
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The Complete Poems of Cavafy: Expanded EditionCavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the poems are openly homosexual. Sixty-three newly translated poems have been added to the widely praised edition which includes...
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A Golden Treasury of Irish VerseDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library...
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Very Collected PoemsOver sixty years of poems celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry. Gathering a lifetime of poetry, Ron Padgett's Very Collected Poems is the ultimate record of the Pulitzer Prize finalist's oeuvre--newly updated since the sold-out first...
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I Climb the Mesas: Selected Poems of Paula Gunn AllenAn overdue retrospective of a pathbreaking feminist Native American poet, with a foreword from activist and educator Lee Francis IV I Climb the Mesas: Collected Poems of Paula Gunn Allen span the landscapes of the Southwest, excavate popular misunderstandings of Native women through history,...
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