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Shadowboxing: Poems & ImpersonationsBorrowing the poetic language found in boxing lore and in the Rocky films, Shadowboxing pieces together a poetic portrait of Josefo, a Chicano adolescent working and becoming a poet in the farm territories of Central California. Rios confounds the relationship between author, speaker, and...
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Variations on Dawn and DuskActing as poetic records of light, the poems in Variations on Dawn and Dusk follow the sun as it warms, cools, colors, and shifts the space of Robert Irwin's untitled (dawn to dusk) in the desert of Marfa, TX. Built on the footprint of...
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Under the Sign of the Samovar: poems of seven decadesMy grandmother's samovar has been an abiding presence in my life. Carried to the United States as she and my great-grandparents escaped the Russian pogroms, it is a reminder of their determination to resist the forces that seek to destroy the human spirit, their...
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Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's AmericaPoetry. The poets anthologized in MISREPRESENTED PEOPLE: POETIC RESPONSES TO TRUMP'S AMERICA bear witness to, rage against, and defy the misogyny, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and authoritarian impulses that have always surrounded us, but that are incarnated in the 45th president. At a time when...
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Fifteen StonesPoetry. In FIFTEEN STONES, Craig Czury traverses multiple continents, dimensions and decades. It is a magnetic web of words, woven from fish scales, seaweed, handlebars and tire treads, reaching across an ephemeral geography between coast lines and chalk lines. Czury steps neatly out of...
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GlamourpussHow many errors can one person make? Enough, it seems, to fill a poetry book (And poetry is also a mistake). Oh gentle reader, open it and look; A gallery of girls Cat used to be, Expressing plainly, though in janky verse, Their hope,...
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Blood BoxPoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. BLOOD BOX, the deliciously haunting debut short collection from poet Zefyr Lisowski, takes us inside the infamous 1892 axe murders of Abby and Andrew Borden through twenty-six wide-ranging, stylistically experimental persona poems. Lisowski re-introduces us to mythologized spinster Lizzie Borden as...
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New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the CityNew York Elegies attempts to demonstrate how descriptions and evocations of New York City are connected to various stylistic modes and topical questions urgent to Ukrainian poetry throughout its development. The collection thus gives readers the opportunity to view New York through various poetic...
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The Wife of BathThe Wyves Tale of Bathe and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his...
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U.P. Reader -- Issue #2: Bringing Upper Michigan Literature to the WorldMichigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure trove of storytellers, poets, and historians, all seeking to capture a sense of Yooper Life from settler's days to the far-flung future. Now U.P. Reader offers a rich collection of their voices that embraces the U.P.'s...
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Kite kè m paleIn his latest collection, Kite k m pale (Let My Heart Speak), the poet Jacques Pierre speaks lovingly and eloquently about women and others who have faced and continue to face difficulties and injustice. Jacques uses the elegance and imagery of his poetry not...
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Psalms of the Dining RoomEndorsements: ""In Psalms of the Dining Room, Lauren Schmidt lays down riffs like a fierce blues guitarist, one who knows the power of each carefully chosen note. These poems explode with tough compassion. They sting a little bit--they make us flinch in recognition. Schmidt's...
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My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry and Speaking Your TruthThe ultimate writing guide that is a helping hand to anyone who dreams of telling their truth through words on a page." --Ellen Bass, author of Indigo [This book] gives us endless ways to access our creative selves and shows us how to shape...
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A Broken Thing: Poets on the LineIn the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked formal concern than the line. But what, exactly, is...
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PsalmsDescription: These psalms grow out of a decades-long fascination with the biblical psalms, particularly the Davidic psalms, which portray the tempestuous, sometimes awful intimacy of the Divine-human relationship. In the lightning-shot Psalm-space where Divine meets human, time shatters, splits, leaps like a river, and...
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CommandoE'mon Lauren's poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago's Southside and Westside to create a manifesto of survival and growth. These poems from Chicago's first Youth Poet Laureate grapple with sexism, racism, love, and class with a style that announces Lauren...
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The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent"[A] superb tribute . . . [an] essential collection" of essays analyzing the works of the preeminent twentieth-century poet and voice of social justice (Booklist).Winner of the Central New York Book Award for NonfictionFinalist for the Chicago Review of Books AwardPoet, educator, and social...
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Raising the DeadRaising the Dead by Ron Rash is a collection of poetry.Many of the poems are set in the Southern Appalachian mountains.Author: Ron RashPublisher: Iris PressPublished: 02/14/2013Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23dISBN: 9781604542219This title is not returnable
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Among the BelieversAmong the Believers by Ron Rash is a book of poetry set in the mountains of the western Carolinas. The book also has an introduction by Anthony Hecht.Author: Ron RashPublisher: Iris PressPublished: 11/08/2013Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23dISBN: 9781604542240This title...
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So You Wanna Be a Foreman: An Electrical Construction Foreman's Guide to Efficient Labor ManagementLabor efficiency tactics of the top-notch foreman Regardless of the business you're in, efficient labor management is the key to its success. On the construction site, it's the difference between the profit or loss of a project and ultimately, the success or failure of...
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