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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away-- loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it -- that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard
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African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song
by Kevin Young
A wide-ranging anthology of black poetry represents 250 famous and less-recognized poets from the colonial era to the present who used their powerful words to illuminate such issues as racism, slavery and the threatened African Diaspora identity.
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DMZ colony
by Don Mee Choi
"Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War cranes had no place to land.' Devastating and vigilant, this bricolage of survivor accounts, drawings, photographs, and hand-written texts unearth the truth between fact and the critical imagination. We are all 'victims of History,' so Choi compels us to witness, and to resist."--Judges Citation
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Emporium
by Aditi Machado
"Aditi Machado's Emporium takes us on a tour of the development of mercantilism that gradually and deftly builds up into a critique of capitalism and its plundering." - James Laughlin Award jusges Gillian Conoley, Fady Joudah, and Cole Swensen
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Poetic Notions
by Wade E. Newsom
Poetic Notions is a collection of combustible poetry, bursting with life, love, loss, and the journey of self-discovery through the rhythms that fuel Wade Newsom's imagination and delivery.
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Falling awake : Poems
by Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald's poems are vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, physically, engaged in the natural world. Working with an ear to the oral tradition, these poems attend to the organic shapes, sounds, and momentum of the language as it's spoken as well as how it's thought: fresh, fluid, and propulsive but also fragmentary, repetitive. These are poems that are written to be read aloud.
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Citizen : an American lyric
by Claudia Rankine
"Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in theclassroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV--everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in ourcontemporary, often named 'post-race' society"--From publisher's description
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Homie : poems
by Danez Smith
"Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. Inpoems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family--blood and chosen--arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez's friends and for you and for yours"
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Life on Mars : poems
by Tracy K. Smith
Presents the third collection of new poems by the Pulitzer-prize-winning poet
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Thrall : poems
by Natasha D. Trethewey
Collects the author's poems as she reflects on her own interracial ancestry, her estrangement from her father, and their place in the history of race in America
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Night sky with exit wounds
by Ocean Vuong
A debut collection of poems draws from personal traumas to offer observations on such themes as violence, poverty, depression, and queer sexuality
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