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How to not be afraid of everything
by Jane Wong
Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this fear?
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Sukun : new and selected poems
by Kazim Ali
A selection of verse and prose poems published in earlier books along with previously unpublished new poems.
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Pretty boys are poisonous : poems
by Megan Fox
Deliciously dark and highly addictive, this powerful collection of 70 poems chronicles all the ways in which we mold ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process.
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Promises of gold = : Promesas de oro
by Josâe Olivarez
Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation, this stellar collection of poems, exploring many forms of love and how each is birthed, shaped and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion and so on, serves as a reminder that love is abundant and worth experiencing.
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Above ground : poems
by Clint Smith
The number one New York Times bestselling author, intellectual, and spoken word poet Clint Smith gives his devoted readers a collection of poetry straight from the heart. It is a meditation on the country he studies through the lens of all he has learned from fatherhood. The poems are manifestations of Smith's wisdom and latest observations, starting with the precarious birth of his son, to the current political and social state of the country, to childhood memories, and back again. Smith traverses the periods of his life from four different cities and the process pf realizing what it means to build a life that orbits around his family. Amid all of it, he has watched as the country has been forced to confront the ugliest manifestations of itself, and has thought about what it means to raise children amid the backdrop of political tumult. Smith is a poet who uses the form to interrogate his own autobiography and the state of the country today, affording those who prefer reading poetry a shot of news, and those who normally seek out nonfiction, some lyrical beauty.
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Death prefers the minor keys
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
In his twentieth book, most of which was first composed on the backs of medical forms while on break as a third-shift medical technician, Sean Thomas Dougherty brings us a memoir-like prose sequence reflecting on disability, chronic illness, addiction, survival, love, and parenthood.
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The orange tree
by Dong Li
Comprised of a series of long, lyrical narrative poems, Dong Li's debut collection of poetry braids forgotten histories, family sorrows, and political upheavals into a panoramic view of China and the people who embody it across generations. The Orange Tree navigates the personal and the political, grounding its abstract meditations in the raw, worldly experience in characters whose lives bear striking affinities across disparate eras. Cycling between mythological time, ancient history, and modern memory, Li offers unexpected perspectives on epochs that resemble our own-not the least of which are the poems' unflinching meditations on the brutality of war. Throughout the book, images and phrases are compressed into portmanteaus of premonition, signaling as nouns the metaphoric inventions that one will come to find-"the anguished night," "the faraway orange tree," "the laundered years," "the drifted dream." Like the legend of a map or the runes on a relic, these puzzles invite us to parse the words of The Orange Tree, breaking them apart and creating entrances that lead deeper into the elaborate architecture of Li's poetic world-building.
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So to speak
by Terrance Hayes
In this seventh collection from the 2010 National Book Award winner, the author maps the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling while exploring themes of fatherhood, history and longing with remarkable openness and humanity.
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Tarta Americana
by J. Michael Martinez
A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desire.
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Pure wit : the revolutionary life of Margaret Cavendish
by Francesca Peacock
Shining on a light on the remarkable—and in her time scandalous—17th century poet, philosopher, scientist, fiction writer, and playwright, who pioneered the science fiction novel, this biography of the brilliant, courageous proto-feminist largely forgotten by history chronicles her complex and controversial life.
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The warped side of our universe : an odyssey through black holes, wormholes, time travel, and gravitational waves
by Kip S. Thorne
For decades, Kip Thorne has been consumed by a desire to better understand our universe's "Warped Side." Using an untold number of computer simulations and mathematical equations, and with a thousand-person fleet of scientists and engineers, Thorne has relentlessly pursued his quest, inventing and constructing, in the process, LIGO, the world's largest gravitational wave observatory, to mediate our first encounters with the Warped Side. Thirteen years in the making, The Warped Side of Our Universe marks the extraordinary collaboration of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and award-winning painter Lia Halloran, and explores the very concepts that first set Thorne to task. Through verse and poetry, the authors address the oldest questions known to man: How did our universe begin? Can anything travel backward in time? How does the Warped Side impact the material side, the side that we humans see and feel? Featuring rich illustrations of stars-giant and dwarf, red and blue-and galaxies-large and small, diffuse and spiraled-and even a soaring Stephen Hawking anchored to his wheelchair, this stunning volume carries us into and through the dark side of the universe.
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