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New and selected poems
by Marie Howe
"An indispensable collection of more than four decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed poet Marie Howe"
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Book of Hours
by Kevin Young
An award-winning poet presents a searing collection of emotional poems that acknowledges life's passages, including the tragic death of his father and the birth of his son.
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Felicity
by Mary Oliver
In a collection of new poems, a Pulitzer Prize winner turns her eye from the grace of the natural world to the even more mysterious landscape of the human heart.
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1919
by Eve L. Ewing
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Un-American
by Hafizah Geter
"Poetry that investigates definitions of belonging in relation to migration, religion, language, and loss, tracing a family history between Nigeria and the United States"
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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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American melancholy : poems
by Joyce Carol Oates
A latest poetry collection by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys observes the human heart and mind while exploring subjects ranging from politics and racism to poverty and loss. 15,000 first printing.
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Parallel movement of the hands : five unfinished longer works
by John Ashbery
"Gathers unpublished, book-length projects and long poems written between 1993 and 2007, along with one (as yet) undated work, to showcase Ashbery's diverse and multifaceted artistic obsessions and sources, from children's literature, cliffhanger cinema reels, silent films, and classical music variations by Beethoven's pupil Carl Czerny to the history of early photography"
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Winter recipes from the collective
by Louise Glèuck
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner's haunting new book is the voice containing all of our lifetimes—“all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.” 50,000 first printing.
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Heart first into this ruin : the complete American sonnets
by Wanda Coleman
"The first complete collection of Wanda Coleman's original and inventive sonnets. Long regarded as among her finest work, these one hundred poems give voice to loving passions, social outrage, and hard-earned wisdom. "Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."-Washington Post "Terrifying and fearlessly inventive."-New York Times Wanda Coleman was a beat-up, broke Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and ruthless intelligence: "to know, i must survive myself," she wrote in "American Sonnet 7." A poet of the people, she created the experimental "American Sonnet" form and published them between 1986 and 2001. The form inspired countless others, from Terrance Hayes to Billy Collins. Drawn from life's particulars, Coleman's art is timeless and universal. In "American Sonnet 61" she writes: reaching down into my griot bag of womanish wisdom and wily social commentary, i come up with bricks with which to either reconstruct the past or deconstruct a head.... from the infinite alphabet of afroblues intertwinings, i cull apocalyptic visions (the details and lovers entirely real) and articulate my voyage beyond that point where self disappears These one hundred sonnets-borne frominfluences as diverse as Huey P. Newton and Herman Melville, Amiri Baraka and Robert Duncan-tell Coleman's own tale, as well as the story of Black and white America. From "American Sonnet 2": towards the cruel attentions of violent opiates as towards thefatal fickleness of artistic rain towards the locusts of social impotence itself i see myself thrown heart first into this ruin not for any crime but being This is a collection for anyone who values the power of words to name what is real and what is possible in a unique, questioning, and questing mind"
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How to communicate : poems
by John Lee Clark
"A stunning debut that "brims with the talent and generosity of a living classic" (Ilya Kaminsky), from an award-winning DeafBlind poet. Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms inspired by the braille slate to sensuous prose poems to pathbreaking translations from ASL and Protactile, a language built on touch. Amid the astonishing task of constructing a new canon, Clark reveals a radically commonplace life-the vagaries of family, grief, and small delights: visiting a museum, knitting, and, once, encountering a ghost in a gas station. A rare work of transformation and necessary discovery, How to Communicate offers a "steadily revelatory gift" (Carl Phillips)"
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Suddenly we
by Evie Shockley
"Shockley repurposes literary and musical modes from across centuries of African American and diasporic traditions. Given the choice between formal flawlessness and page-spanning sprawls, between autobiographical revelation and collective outcry, she welcomes the self-contradictions of being all the above."
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To 2040
by Jorie Graham
"A collection of poems by Jorie Graham"
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The diaspora sonnets
by Oliver De la Paz
"The sonnet proves formally malleable as de la Paz breaks and rejoins its tradition throughout this collection, embarking on a broader conversation about what fits and how one adapts--from the restrained use of rhyme in "Diaspora Sonnet in the Summer with the River Water Low" and carefully metered "Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father's Uncertainty and Nothing Else" to the hybridized "Diaspora Sonnet at the Feeders Before the Freeze." A series of "Chain Migration" poems viscerally punctuate the sonnets, giving witness to the labor and sacrifice of the immigrant experience, as do a series of hauntingly beautiful pantoums"
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The book of light
by Lucille Clifton
"An anniversary edition of Lucille Clifton's Book of Light, a collection of poems"
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The tradition
by Jericho Brown
"The Tradition explores cultural threats on black bodies, resistance, and the interplay of desire and privilege in a dangerous era"
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DMZ colony
by Don Mee Choi
"A new book by Don Mee Choi that includes poems, prose, and images"
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Floaters : poems
by Martâin Espada
"From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief, and love. In this collection, Martâin Espada bears witness to confrontation with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings thepraises of Central American adolescents playing soccer in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He knows that times of hate also call for poems of love-even in the voice of a Galâapagos tortoise. Whether celebrating the visions of fallen dreamers and poets or condemning the devastation of Hurricane Maria and official negligence in his father's Puerto Rico, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits"
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Sparrow envy : field guide to birds and lesser beasts
by J. Drew Lanham
"Renowned naturalist and writer J. Drew Lanham explores his obsession with birds and all things wild in a mixture of poetry and prose. He questions vital assumptions taken for granted by so many birdwatchers: can birding be an escape if the birder is notin a safe place? Who is watching him as he watches birds? With a refreshing balance of reverence and candor, Lanham paints a unique portrait of the natural world: listening to cicadas, tracking sandpipers, towhees, wrens, and cataloging fellow birdwatchers at a conference where he is one of two black birders. The resulting insights are as honest as they are illuminating"
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Such color : new and selected poems
by Tracy K. Smith
Collects the best poems the author's award-winning books, which culminates in brilliant new poems that confront America's historical and contemporary racism and injustices while urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it. 30,000 first printing.
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Then the war : and selected poems, 2007-2020
by Carl Phillips
"Then the War sees Carl Phillips turn his sharp and subtle gaze inward, charting the changing landscapes of his life and work in a collection of new and selected poems"
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I dreamed I was Emily Dickinson's boyfriend : poems
by Ronald Koertge
"I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson's Boyfriend easily solidifies his reputation as a poet who is very funny and also very serious. In these surprising and delightful poems, a mannequin joins the Me Too movement, a summer job turns into a lesson in class distinctions, and Jane Austen makes a surprise appearance at a mall. Ron Koertge's uniquely playful imagination is on display in poem after poem"
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Fog and smoke
by Katie Peterson
"The Rilke Prize-winning poet unfurls the quotidian fabric of our lives, stained with the difficulties of language and our present moment"
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Joy is the justice we give ourselves
by J. Drew Lanham
"In gorgeous and timely pieces, Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves is a lush journey into wildness and Black being. Lanham notices nature through seasonal shifts, societal unrest, and deeply personal reflection and traces a path from bitter history to the present predicament. Drawing canny connections between the precarity of nature and the long arm of racism, the collection offers reconciliation and eco-reparation as hopeful destinations from our current climate of division. In Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves, Lanham mines the deep connection to ancestors through the living world and tunes his unique voice toward embracing the radical act of joy"
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The serpent and the fire : poetries of the Americas from origins to present
by Jerome Rothenberg
"The Serpent and the Fire breaks out of deeply entrenched models that limit 'American' literature to work written in English within the present boundaries of the United States. Editors Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada gather vital pieces from all parts of the Western Hemisphere and the range of European and Indigenous languages within: a unique range of cultures and languages going back several millennia, an experiment in what the editors call an American 'omnipoetics.' The Serpent and the Fire is divided into four chronological sections--from early pre-Columbian times to the immediately contemporary--and five thematic sections that move freely across languages and shifting geographical boundaries to underscore the complexities, conflicts, contradictions, and continuities of the poetry of the Americas. The book also boasts contextualizing commentaries to connect the poets and poems in dialogue across time and space"
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Playlist for the Apocalypse : poems
by Rita Dove
"A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from "perhaps the best public poet we have" (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives Matter, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect history's grand exploits to the triumphs and tragedies ofindividual lives-the simmering resentment of an elevator operator, an octogenarian's exuberant mambo, the mordant humor of a philosophizing cricket. Audaciously playful yet grave, alternating poignant meditations on mortality and acerbic observations of injustice, Playlist for the Apocalypse takes us from the smallest moments of redemption to apocalyptic failures of the human soul"
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Best Barbarian : poems
by Roger Reeves
"An incandescent collection that interrogates the personal and political nature of desire, freedom, and disaster. In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity -- climate change, anti-Black racism, familial and erotic love, ecstasy and loss. The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer night after the police have killed a Black man. Drawing on a history of poetry that ranges from the Aeneid to Walt Whitman to Drake, Best Barbarian offers moments of joy and intimacy amid catastrophe"
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Grocery shopping with my mother : poems
by Kevin Powell
A poet, journalist, civil rights activist and author describes in verse how he got to hear his mother's true voice and stories in a new way when she became ill and he had to take her grocery shopping every week.
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Woke up no light / : Poems
by Leila Mottley
"A poignant and rousing debut book of poetry from the acclaimed, best-selling author of the novel Nightcrawling, also the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, CA. Leila Mottley follows her trailblazing first novel with a perfectly pitched first collection of poems that demonstrate her energy and range. poems for reckoning day is full of heart and edge, subtlety and fluidity. Moving in sections from "girlhood" to "neighborhood" to "falsehood" to, finally, "womanhood," these poems open up the experiencesof a young Black woman with immediacy and wisdom. In "Crow Feet," Mottley casts her vision wide enough to take in history, the ongoing struggle for justice across generations of a family. In "For the Women I Twerk to," she zeroes in on a body in motion, with intimacy and abandon. woke up no light confirms Leila Mottley's arrival and demonstrates the enduring power of her voice--brave and distinctive and thoroughly her own"
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The lights : poems
by Ben Lerner
Experimenting in the animation of our common world, this stellar blend of verse and prose, voicemails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, written over the space of 15 years, registers the pleasures, risks and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interconnect crises.
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This is the honey : an anthology of contemporary Black poets
by Kwame Alexander
Exploring joy, love, origin, race, resistance and praise, this beautiful poetry anthology, featuring works from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, is filled with poignant and delightful imagery, music and raised fists.
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Bread and circus
by Airea D. Matthews
"This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia's former Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class is a brilliant intellectual and artistic contribution to the ongoing conversation about American inequality. As a former student of economics, Airea D. Matthews was fascinated and disturbed by 18th-century Scottish economist Adam Smith's magnum opus The Wealth of Nations. Now, she presents a direct challenge to Smith's theory of the invisible hand, which claims self-interest is the key to optimal economic outcomes. By juxtaposing redacted texts by Smith and the French Marxist Guy Debord with autobiographical prose and poems, Bread and Circus personally offers how self-interest fails when it reduces people to commodity and spectacle. A layered collection to be read and reread, with poems that range from tragic to humorous, in forms as varied and nuanced as the ideas the book considers, Bread and Circus asks what it is to have survived, indeed to have flourished, and at what cost"
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Modern poetry : poems
by Diane Seuss
"In poems of rangy curiosity, sharp humor, and illuminating self-scrutiny, Modern Poetry investigates our time's deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean? "It seems wrong / to curl now within the confines / of a poem," Seuss writes. "You can't hide / from what you made / inside what you made." What she finds there, finally, is a surprising but unmistakable love"
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Water, water : poems
by Billy Collins
The former Poet Laureate shares a collection of sixty poems that explore the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of daily life, blending clarity with a touch of mystery, and capturing both familiar and unusual moments with his signature lyrical style.
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I love hearing your dreams : poems
by Matthew Zapruder
"I Love Hearing Your Dreams is a book of reveries, of failed elegies, of "the last time that things were real" and the moments that come afterward. These are dream songs for an age of insomnia, where the poet is always awake "at that oddest hour / that does not end, / the crooked, unnumbered one" and the future seems to be "just the past in a suit / that will never be in style." Yet dreams in Matthew Zapruder's poems are also a place of possibility, of reality envisioned anew-sleep shows us not merely what the world is, but what it could be. From a poet celebrated for his "razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture" (The New York Times), I Love Hearing Your Dreams is a startlingly beautiful and deeply vulnerable book where lives journey into a mystifying place and emerge transformed"
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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. 80,000 first printing.
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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, andthose who normally seek out nonfiction, some lyrical beauty"
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Call us what we carry : poems
by Amanda Gorman
The presidential inaugural poet—and unforgettable new voice in American poetry—presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
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Summer snow : new poems
by Robert Hass
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author presents a new volume of poetry in which he pays careful attention to the natural world and exhibits his virtuosic abilities, expansive intellect and tremendous readability. 25,000 first printing.
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Time is a mother
by Ocean Vuong
The highly anticipated collection of poems from an award-winning writer.
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