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The Way of TankaThe Way of Tanka is an approachable yet comprehensive examination of the Japanese form of poetry known as tanka. The author, Naomi Beth Wakan, discusses its roots in early Japanese courts where it was considered the poetry of lovers, as well as its adaptation...
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How to Prove a TheoryIn this brave, elegiac debut, How to Prove a Theory, Nicole Tong relies on empirical evidence to construct meaning in the wake of a series of losses that include a childhood lost to trauma, a best friend lost following childbirth, a brother-in-law, a father,...
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The ShoreThe five poem-essays of Chris Nealon's The Shore give space and voice to the complexity of contemporary life, admitting bafflement and dismay but also creating openings for indiscreet hope. Queer and anti-capitalist, they urge us not to be ruled by our fears, while always...
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Scenes of Life at the CapitalWritten from 1969 to 1971, West Coast Beat poet Philip Whalen's Scenes of Life at the Capital is a lasting testament to the ambition, range, powers, and devotion of this crucially important American voice. Positioned among the Buddhist temples of Kyoto, Whalen looks across...
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MilkIn her latest collection, Dorothea Lasky brings her signature style--a deeply felt and uncanny word-music--to all matters of creativity, from poetry and the invention of new language to motherhood and the production of new life. At once a personal document as it is an...
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AnimalConstellating four central topics--ghosts, colors, animals, and bees--in highly attuned prose, Dorothea Lasky explores the powers and complexities of the lyric, "metaphysical I," which she exposes as one of the central expressions of human wildness. In deceptively simple language carrying profound insights directly to...
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The Incredible Sestina AnthologyMore than 800 years after its invention in medieval France, the sestina survives and thrives in English. A fixed 39-line poetic form with of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three- line stanza known as an envoi, tornada, or tercet, the...
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The Year of No Mistakes: A Collection of Poetry...leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature. -- U.S. Poet Laureate Billy CollinsIn The Year of No Mistakes, Aptowicz goes cross country and tackles themes like love, lust, heartache...
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We're On: A June Jordan ReaderJune Jordan was not the blacksmith's daughter. June Jordan was the blacksmith. . . . She never waited around, not for anyone's permission, to write or act or be. . . . For this book to have its birth now, in the lopsided moment...
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The Secret of Hoa SenPoems by Nguyen Phan Que Mai Translated from the Vietnamese by Bruce Weigl and Nguyen Phan Que Mai Nguyen Phan Que Mai is among the most exciting writers to emerge from post-war Vietnam. Bruce Weigl, driven by his personal experiences as a soldier during...
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The Trident Poems"Korkut Onaran's ruminative first full-length collection is filled with reflection, keen observation, and emotional experience. Any artist of sound, image, or word will identify with these insightful, breathtaking poems. Onaran is the Hafiz for our century." --Lana Hechtman Ayers, author of Red Riding Hood's...
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Mrs. Nelson's ClassOn May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools is unconstitutional. In September 1954, in an Air Force base school near Salina, Kansas, young African American...
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The Art of DigressionThe Art of Digression: A Fragmented Memoir, is a nonfiction work in both prose and poetry about a place, a family, and one individual. Short and to the point, the "fragments" relate events and experiences from ranging from prehistory to the present. Overall they...
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Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the WorldPoetry. Anthology. Poetry Foundation's Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute poets in the world Series; Ilya Kaminsky, Series Editor. In this unprecedented anthology, acclaimed poets from around the world select poems from their countries of origin to share with a wider audience. Readers will find eloquence,...
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Bohr's SpinozaPoetry. BOHR'S SPINOZA--an experiment in ambiance, lineation and energy exchange--is a book-length poem that alternates prose and verse sections. The prose rewrites the opening salvos of Spinoza's Ethics through a conversation between two people walking around a parking lot and talking about dogs, an...
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You Always Wished the Animals Would LeaveThis is a work of seething precision. In these poems, hope is a meticulous, meditative state--a method of forensic searching and study that is carried with great care across generations. By stitching her raging images together with stillness and poise, Popa asks us to...
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These Days of CandyPoetry. Fiction. Hybrid Genre. Latinx Studies. THESE DAYS OF CANDY is a collection of mixed- genre work, including verse play, micro fiction, serial and solo poem, ekphrastic, and poem cycle riffing on the YouTube tutorial phenomenon. This collection utilizes tropes that point to fable...
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DiwataTagalog is a language spoken by twenty-two million people in the Philippines. Diwata is a Tagalog term meaning muse. Diwata is also a term for a mythical being who resides in nature, and who human communities must acknowledge, respect, and appease in order to...
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When They Broke Down The Door: PoemsThe power of poetry to map the human heart has been a hallmark of Persian culture for at least a thousand years, and Fatemeh Shams wields it unforgettably. As a member of the Iranian diaspora living in the West, her voice is often one...
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Divining Poets: DickinsonTurtle Point Press is pleased to introduce the Divining Poets Quotable Deck Series. These elegant, boxed sets of seventy-eight cards la tarot decks feature short quotes meant to inspire, provoke, and guide users--to contemplate, memorize, or answer life questions. Here is the ever-astonishing Emily...
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