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The Sixth Sense of LossThe Sixth Sense of Loss has as its subtitle Poems of Restoration, since it depicts not only terrible grief at the death of the author's husband of many years along with dire events in the world at large, but also the restorative powers of...
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Once Read as RuinOnce Read as Ruin is centered on the domestic, aesthetics, intimacies between humans and human and animal, and union's faltering. The speakers in these poems probe expectation and dream, deconstruct and construct intimacy through relationships with humans and animals, like horses, rabbits, dogs, mice,...
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Building BrownvilleBuilding Brownville explores forms of grief through the internalization of experience and wanders further to wonder if the past is too far away to fix the present while also serving as a love letter to Nebraska. This collection offers a millennial voice within poetry--a...
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This Is the Light of the Mind: Selections from the Sylvia Plath Collection of Judith G. RaymoWith meticulous care, Judith G. Raymo presents an impressive array of Sylvia Plath's published and personal writings. As Raymo notes in her insightful introduction, Plath's journals, when read in tandem with her correspondence to her mother, friends, and family "provide us with an abundant...
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The Quiet in Me: PoemsA posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier. In this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies--the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a raccoon...
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Collected PoemsCollected Poems contains the previously published poetry of Rowan Williams, together with a significant body of new work. Also included are his celebrated translations from Welsh, German, and Russian poetry. His earlier collections have included pieces prompted by the landscape and literature of West...
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Horrible Dance2022 Governor General's Literary Award Shortlist * 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry Finalist A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory. By turns darkly...
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Selected Poems 1980-2013Norman Fischer's new book is like a house with many mansions. Each mansion is explored room by room. The rooms are poems, and the poet seems to move unconscious of positive negativity, unobstructed liberty, paradoxes without stress. The syntax alters in these mansions of...
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In the BloodIn the Blood traces the relationship of two brothers through childhood to adulthood and in and out of institutions to reveal the intricate, often hidden bonds that are broken and forged by the effects of mental illness. In his debut full-length collection, former City...
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LotAward-winning poet Sarah de Leeuw considers the ways in which words and languages form and embolden coloniality and create unequal imaginings of--and power in--place. In Lot, award-winning poet and essayist Sarah de Leeuw returns to the landscape of her early girlhood to consider the...
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Lisieux's Poet Laureate: Gems From Saint Thérèse's CorrespondenceThe evolution of Saint Thérèse's spirituality can be traced through the two volumes of her published General Correspondence. Each chapter is devoted to a particular correspondent, and explores the nature and scope of the rapport Thérèse established with this individual. To achieve his objective,...
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The Book of SmallerWritten while at home full-time with two small children under five, the book of smaller is a collection of short, sharp, incredibly dense prose poems. Created in moments snatched from chaos, these poems challenge the possibilities of language in very small spaces. Each poem...
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Rhyme & Rhythm: Poems for Student AthletesWhat is it like to be a student athlete? Basketballer, runner, swimmer, cyclist, gymnast, pitcher, wrestler, football, tennis or lacrosse player? And what is it like to balance school, practice, work, family life, love, and all that competing? What is it like for the...
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GoWith awe and wonder leading the way, Leedahl's poems chronicle a journey that speaks of resilience, of joy experienced in simple things, and of the solace in discovering--finally, and late in life--exactly where one belongs. Leedahl's fifth poetry collection lyrically documents major life transitions...
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Mining for StardustMINING FOR STARDUST is a fiery and tender witness, a poetic chronology of one of the greatest collective paradigm shifts of our lifetime. Coggin's first poem in the collection was written on the first day of the COVID-19 lockdown. Each subsequent poem moves the...
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The Light That Burns UsThe English debut of one of Greece's most radical and original poetic voices....an explosive cadence... Khaleed's sentiment toward the would-be aesthetes seems clear: 'Fuck off, flower poets.''--David Wallace, The New Yorker[Jazra Khaleed] stands up to fascism by writing and performing Greek-language poetry that is...
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An Orchid AstronomySophie grew up in Veslefjord, deep in the Norwegian North, where the ice stretches to the horizon and the long polar night is filled with stories about the animals of the sea, ice, and sky. Now the ice is melting and the animals are...
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The 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the ShortlistThe prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist. Each year, the best books of poetry published in Canada and internationally in English are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of...
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KuralAuthor: TiruvalluvarPublisher: India Penguin ClassicsPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780144000098
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Old Snow, White SunExquisite and precise, Caroline Goodwin's newest poetry collection, Old Snow, White Sun, begins like "a catkin [making] its way through the cracks... A coolness over the throat." It traverses various terrains with grace and a commitment to astonishment. Here, Goodwin brilliantly gathers mothlight, herbal...
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