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Commonwealth of Wings
An Ornithological Biography Based on the Life of John James Audubon
A Portrait of the Last Days of the American Wilderness |
Alexander, Pamela |
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Ravishing DisUnities
Real Ghazals in English
A star-studded anthology infuses English poetry with the rigor and wit of a foreign form. |
Ali, Agha Shahid, ed. Sarah Suleri Goodyear, afterword. |
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Bright Felon
Autobiography and Cities
Eloquent intercultural coming-of-age story |
Ali, Kazim |
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Sky Ward
New poems from this poet of “precision and ardor” |
Ali, Kazim |
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Inquisition
How we answer to love beneath the lash of history |
Ali, Kazim |
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The Self-Dismembered Man
Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire
First substantial translation of Apollinaire’s later works by an award-winning poet. |
Apollinaire, Guillaume; Revell, Donald, trans. |
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Alcools
Poems
A new translation of this complex and beautiful poetry. |
Apollinaire, Guillaume. Donald Revell, trans. |
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Veil
New and Selected Poems
First book of selected poems by this core member of the Language writing group. |
Armantrout, Rae |
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Up to Speed
Corrosive new poems from a poet whose work challenges expectations. |
Armantrout, Rae |
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Next Life
Forward-looking poetry that pushes the limits of knowledge |
Armantrout, Rae |
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Versed
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
Armantrout, Rae |
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Money Shot
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet searches for new ways to understand the world in the wake of the Great Recession |
Armantrout, Rae |
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Just Saying
Deft and deeply intelligent poems on the nature of language |
Armantrout, Rae
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Partly
New and Selected Poems, 2001–2015
New and selected poetry from Pulitzer prize-winning author Rae Armantrout |
Armantrout, Rae |
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Itself
Deft and audacious new poems from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet |
Armantrout, Rae |
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Wobble
Poems written on the shifting ground of imminent systemic collapse |
Armantrout, Rae |
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The Flowers of Evil
A modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century. |
Baudelaire, Charles; Waldrop, Keith, trans. |
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Paris Spleen
little poems in prose
A modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century |
Baudelaire, Charles, Waldrop, Keith, trans. |
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Signs and Abominations
Poems search for signs of the divine amid the abominations of the profane and the materials of language itself. |
Beasley, Bruce |
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Candy Necklace
The brutality of both public and private experience finds reckoning in these intricate and majestic new poems. |
Bedient, Cal |
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Mr. West
Identities are formed and broken in this unauthorized lyric biography |
Blake, Sarah |
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The Work-Shy
A poetic archive of subcultures rooted in the lives and language of the unsettled |
BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP |
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Luster
Vivid exploration of what the world of objects reveals about our lives. |
Bogen, Don |
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The Known World
Stunning poetry that explores the complex relationship between past and present. |
Bogen, Don |
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Tug
An inmate on Florida’s death row writes piercingly of incarceration, racism and growing up. |
Booker, Stephen Todd |
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Grace, Fallen from
Illuminating poetry that quiets and startles and troubles |
Boruch, Marianne |
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Born to Slow Horses
New work by the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement. |
Brathwaite, Kamau |
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Elegguas
Deeply felt requiems from an internationally celebrated poet
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Brathwaite, Kamau |
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Selected Poetry, 1937–1990
Brings together a representative selection of the work of one of Brazil’s most respected poets, including many poems published in English for the first time. |
Cabral de Melo Neto, João. Djelal Kadir, ed. |
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Other
British and Irish Poetry since 1970
The most significant US anthology of innovative poetries from the UK and Ireland in over 25 years. |
Caddel, Richard, and Peter Quartermain, eds. |
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Glottal Stop
101 Poems by Paul Celan
Rich new translations of one of the most important poets of our time. |
Celan, Paul. Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, trans. |
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Collected Poems
Long awaited collection of a singular American poet |
Ceravolo, Joseph, edited by Rosemary Ceravolo and Parker Smathers, introduction by David Lehman |
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Solar Throat Slashed
The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition
The only bilingual edition of this radically original collection |
Césaire, Aimé, A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman, eds. & trans. |
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The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire
Bilingual Edition
The definitive edition of the complete work of a master Caribbean poet |
Césaire, Aimé, A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman, trs. |
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What Is Amazing
Poems stunned by the world and their presence in it |
Christle, Heather |
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Heliopause
Beauty and peril abound in new poems from this spirited poet |
Christle, Heather |
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Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple
The Poems of Frances Chung
Two previously unpublished collections by an important Chinese American poet depict daily life inside New York's Chinatown and across the Chinese diaspora during the 1960s and 70s |
Chung, Frances. comp. and afterword by Walter Lew |
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The Folded Heart
Poems with a lyrical compression of language—precise, and intensely felt |
Collier, Michael |
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The Wesleyan Tradition
Four Decades of American Poetry
A compelling anthology of the best poetry of a unique press. |
Collier, Michael, ed. |
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The Tatters
An elegy for the end of a pristine natural world |
Coultas, Brenda |
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Recumbents
A widely acclaimed collection by one of France’s leading poets and thinkers. Bilingual—first English translation. |
Deguy, Michel; Baldridge, Wilson, trans. |
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The Eagle’s Mile
Poems that marked a new direction for a master poet |
Dickey, James |
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The Whole Motion
Collected Poems, 1945–1992
Documentation of the development of a major literary figure. |
Dickey, James |
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James Dickey
The Selected Poems
Gathers the very best lyrics from the career of one of America's best known poets. |
Dickey, James. Robert Kirschten, ed. and introd. |
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Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
Celebrate re-publication of this Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book. |
Dillard, Annie; Collier, Michael, foreword |
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Fauxhawk
A sonic boom at the root of language and dissent |
Doller, Ben
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Endarkenment
Selected Poems
Major collection by a contemporary Russian avant-garde master |
Dragomoshchenko, Arkadii, edited by Eugene Ostashevsky |
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Trophic Cascade
Poems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and power |
Dungy, Camille T.
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Drafts 1–38, Toll
This book is one long poem in many sections. It is the "masterwork" of this avante garde poet, who has been working on this composition for a decade. |
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau |
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Honest Water
Meditative and musical poetry. |
Farnsworth, Robert |
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Scarecrow
A lyric exploration of crisis, transformation, love, and recovery |
Fernandez, Robert |
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Spells
New and Selected Poems
A spellbinding collection from one of America’s most original and magical poets |
Finch, Annie |
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Sea Room
A poetic exploration of love, fear and god. |
Flook, Maria |
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il cuore – the heart
Selected Poems, 1970-1995
Rich and detailed poems by one of America’s preeminent experimental writers. |
Fraser, Kathleen. Peter Quartermain, introd. |
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Threshold Songs
A series of private and ecstatic meditations on living and dying |
Gizzi, Peter |
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Archeophonics
Soulful and intricate lyrics make this Gizzi’s strongest book to date |
Gizzi, Peter |
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Mose
A book-length narrative poem exploring one man’s experience of crime and imprisonment. |
Graham, Loren |
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The Age of Reasons
Uncollected Poems 1969–1982
The best of Ted Greenwald’s uncollected poems from the 1970s |
Greenwald, Ted, edited by Miles Champion |
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Common Sense
Reissue of a seminal Greenwald collection |
Greenwald, Ted |
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Indelible
Indelible is Rachel Hadas's first book since her critically acclaimed Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems (1998). |
Hadas, Rachel |
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Halfway Down the Hall
New and Selected Poems
A generous gathering of the best poems, both previously published and uncollected, from Rachel Hadas's career. |
Hadas, Rachel |
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Things Come On
An amneoir
National and family disasters converge in this radically new kind of memoir |
Harrington, Joseph |
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Virtual Muse
Experiments in Computer Poetry
A poet-programmer explores the intersection of reading, writing, and computing. |
Hartman, Charles O. |
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Cascadia
These poems use the geography of California as metaphor for exploring fundamental pressures and issues of everyday life. |
Hillman, Brenda |
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Fortress
Lyrical approaches to the relationships between solitude, beauty and the world. |
Hillman, Brenda |
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Death Tractates
A celebrated poet asks anguished questions about separation and loss. |
Hillman, Brenda |
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Bright Existence
A celebrated poet’s vision of our dynamic universe. |
Hillman, Brenda |
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Loose Sugar
An elaborate collection of poems that culminate in a meditation on the possibility of a native and feminine language, |
Hillman, Brenda |
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Practical Water
The latest volume in Hillman’s acclaimed meditations on the elements |
Hillman, Brenda |
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Of Gravity & Angels
A precise and passionate collection by a brave new voice in poetry. |
Hirshfield, Jane |
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Odes and Elegies
Powerful new translations of this seminal figure in modern poetry |
Hölderlin, Friedrich, and Nick Hoff, trans. |
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Singularities
A celebration of language by a gifted poet. |
Howe, Susan |
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Altazor
Revised edition of a Latin American classic in a tour-de-force translation. |
Huidobro, Vicente. Eliot Weinberger, trans. |
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Against the Evidence
Selected Poems, 1934–1994
Rare poetry concerning human mortality and alienation. |
Ignatow, David |
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I Have a Name
I have a Name is a vital engagement with life and an unflinching stare at death, concluding that love transcendent is a reality, |
Ignatow, David |
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Against the Meanwhile
3 Elegies
Three elegies exploring the nature of remembered time and space. |
Irwin, Mark |
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Outlandish Blues
Root-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres. |
Jeffers, Honoreé Fanonne |
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The Glory Gets
A deft, lyrical meditation on blues, womanhood, and beyond |
Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne |
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Poasis
Selected Poems 1986-1999
Poasis, Joris's first major publication in the United States, highlights his work since the mid-1980s. |
Joris, Pierre |
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Mixed Plate
New and Selected Poems
Irreverent and edgy renderings of the American scene. |
Kicknosway, Faye |
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Pleasure Dome
New and Collected Poems
Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems. |
Komunyakaa, Yusef |
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Gilgamesh
A Verse Play
The first dramatic adaptation of Gilgamesh |
Komunyakaa, Yusef and Chad Garcia |
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Dien Cai Dau
Poetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author. |
Komunyakaa, Yusef |
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Magic City
An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana. |
Komunyakaa, Yusef |
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Neon Vernacular
New and Selected Poems
An award-winning poet’s testimony of the war in Vietnam. |
Komunyakaa, Yusef |
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Thieves of Paradise
Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa delivers a powerful meditation on American, and particularly African American, life in the wake of Vietnam. |
Komunyakaa, Yusef |
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Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker
With New and Selected Jazz Poems
A collaborative tribute of words and music reflecting the tension and beauty of jazz, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation audio recording with music by Sandy Evans |
Komunyakaa, Yusef |
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Toward the Open Field
Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950
The historical writings that helped shape our current understandings of poetry. |
Kwasny, Melissa, ed. |
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Treadwinds
Poems and Intermedia Works
The long-awaited first collection of Lew’s poems and intermedia pieces. |
Lew, Walter K. |
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Watchword
Intimate, intense poems forge a language for life when life is at stake |
López Colomé, Pura; Forrest Gander, Trans. |
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Azure
Poems and Selections from the "Livre"
A vibrant new translation of a modernist poet |
Mallarmé, Stéphane |
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Echoes of Memory
Selected Poems of Lucio Mariani
Timeless lyric poetry by a contemporary European master. |
Mariani, Lucio. Anthony Molino, trans.; afterword by Thomas Harrison. |
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In the Language of My Captor
Poems about captivity, escape, and the possibility of freedom - Finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry |
McCrae, Shane |
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What Madness Brought Me Here
New and Selected Poems, 1968–1988
A collection of new and old poems that explore the relationship between language and the self. |
McElroy, Colleen J. |
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Eyeshot
Scintillating new work from a celebrated contemporary poet. |
McHugh, Heather |
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Hinge & Sign
Poems, 1968–1993
A renowned poet’s artful collection is a striking body of work |
McHugh, Heather |
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The Father of the Predicaments
Whether sorrowful or sassy, the poems in this new collection bear McHugh's signature: a lively love for the very language she bewares. |
McHugh, Heather |
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Shades
An exquisite series of poems that explore living and dying. |
McHugh, Heather |
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Edge Effect
Trails and Portrayals
Constructed in two parts, this collection embraces secretly related worlds: the poetics of natural history and artistic discoveries of self-taught folk artists. |
McPherson, Sandra |
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The Spaces Between Birds
Mother/Daughter Poems, 1967–1995
In 1967, Sandra McPherson’s daughter Phoebe was born with Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. Representing 28 years of work, these poems descripe the voyage on which mother and daughter embarked. Interspersed are poems by Phoebe. |
McPherson, Sandra |
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Planetary Noise
Selected Poetry of Erín Moure
An extraordinary retrospective spanning forty years |
Moure, Erín, Edited by Shannon Maguire |
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Fall
A single word holds a narrative of the human condition. |
Newman, Amy |
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Grave of Light
New and Selected Poems, 1970–2005
Selected poems from a visionary feminist poet. |
Notley, Alice |
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Public Figures
An investigation of the gap between sight and site |
Osman, Jena |
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Ten to One
Selected Poems
The first selected poems from one of the most inventive poets writing today. |
Perelman, Bob |
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Zong!
A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry |
Philip, M. NourbeSe, as told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng |
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Apples from Shinar
A special centenary edition of this American poet’s critically acclaimed collection |
Plutzik, Hyam with David Scott Kastan, afterword. |
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Lunch
A direct and moving account of a young man's life in a time of plague. |
Powell, D. A. |
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Breath
Poems and Letters
Rediscovery of a stunning achievement in modern Italian poetry. |
Pozzi, Antonia; Venuti, Lawrence, ed. & trans. |
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Sam’s Book
Eloquent and accessible poems commemorating the “stunning blast” of loss
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Ray, David |
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Trans
The first poetic exploration of transgender issues by the mother of a transgendered child. |
Raz, Hilda |
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Divine Honors
A transcendent account of the effects of breast cancer. |
Raz, Hilda |
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Afterrimages
Retallack’s book draws readers into a meditative experience of time, space and language. |
Retallack, Joan |
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Arcady
A musical desert elegy on life born from loss. |
Revell, Donald |
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New Dark Ages
Evocative poems about the most simple and complicated ideas. |
Revell, Donald |
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Erasures
A celebrated poet struggles with the century’s events |
Revell, Donald |
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Beautiful Shirt
The world that Revell ponders in these poems is replete with contrarieties, as he searches for the true nature of the self through language unfettered by narrative constraints and conventional conceptual identities. |
Revell, Donald |
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There Are Three
Poems
Poems from the indestructible wilderness of American words and silences. |
Revell, Donald |
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Sonnets to Orpheus
An accomplished poet’s first and only sonnet sequence. |
Rilke, Rainer Maria. David Young, trans. and introd. |
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Provoked in Venice
The Rider Quintet, vol. 3
The remarkable third volume in a trilogy that includes the award-winning Rider and Millennium Hotel. |
Rudman, Mark |
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The Couple
The Rider Quintet, vol. 4
Rudman’s unique exploration of relationships. |
Rudman, Mark |
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Sundays on the Phone
The Rider Quintet, vol. 5
Intimate account of the fierce, unsettling connection between son and mother. |
Rudman, Mark |
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Rider
The Rider Quintet, vol. 1
Rudman skillfully explores his own life and past. |
Rudman, Mark |
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bury it
Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets |
sax, sam |
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New Time
The latest collection of poetry from one of the foremost American avant-garde poets. |
Scalapino, Leslie |
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The Front Matter, Dead Souls
This extraordinary new book is essay-fiction-poetry, an experiment in form, “a serial novel for publication in the newspaper” that collapses the distinction between documentary and fiction. |
Scalapino, Leslie |
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Stèles
First English critical edition of a bilingual masterpiece with facsimile and facing-page translation |
Segalen, Victor, Timothy Billings & Christopher Bush, trans., Haun Saussy, fwd. |
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Once Again, La Fontaine
Sixty More Fables
New translations of classic French fables. |
La Fontaine, Jean de. Norman R. Shapiro, trans. David Schorr, illus. John Hollander, fwd. |
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The Sights Along the Harbor
New and Collected Poems
The comprehensive collection of a master of the American modern form |
Shapiro, Harvey |
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The Light Holds
Poems
A celebrated poet writes on the hidden beauty of American cities. |
Shapiro, Harvey |
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Selected Poems
Collection of poems of great emotional investment. |
Shapiro, Harvey. James Atlas, introd |
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A Momentary Glory
Last Poems
The passionate testament of a brilliant poet in the face of age, illness, and mortality |
Shapiro, Harvey; edited by Norman Finkelstein |
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the new black
A profound and uplifting meditation on the meanings of race and belonging in America |
Shockley, Evie |
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semiautomatic
Poetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence |
Shockley, Evie |
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Continued
Spontaneous, colloquial, and anti-conventional verse from a celebrated Polish writer . |
Sommer, Piotr, August Kleinzahler, fwd. |
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Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You
This book of "documentary poetics" is by an important up and coming female experimentalist. |
Spahr, Juliana |
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My Vocabulary Did This to Me
The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
An essential collection of a highly original American poet |
Spicer, Jack; edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian |
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Alphabet Theater
Intelligent, emotionally engaging multi-media performance poetry. |
Stricker, Meredith |
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Rococo and Other Worlds
Selected Poems
First English language publication of Urdu’s greatest modern poet |
Syed, Afzal Ahmed; Musharraf Ali Farooqi, trans. |
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Selected Poems
1950-2000
Linguistically and formally audacious, Tarn is a true innovator. |
Tarn, Nathaniel |
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Selected Poems
An award-winning gathering of exquisite poems by a celebrated poet. |
Tate, James |
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Exposition Park
A midway of poetic styles and syllabic tableaux |
Tejada, Roberto |
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The Cradle of the Real Life
A poet speaks of the deaths and births that come within a life: alcoholism, womanhood, depression, marriage, motherhood, psychotherapy, sex, poetry. |
Valentine, Jean |
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Door in the Mountain
New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
The collected works of one of America’s most innovative poets. |
Valentine, Jean |
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Trilce
A highly-praised translation of a seminal work of Spanish literature is once again available. |
Vallejo, César. Clayton Eshleman, trans.; Spanish text established by Julio Ortega; Américo Ferrari, introd. |
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The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding
Three Collections by Contemporary Greek Women Poets—The Cake by Rhea Galanaki, Tales of the Deep by Jenny Mastoraki, Hers by Maria Laina
Fills a serious gap in contemporary poetry in translation, in general, and in Greek poetry, in particular. |
Van Dyck, Karen, trans. and introd. |
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Favor of Crows
New and Collected Haiku
A collection of original haiku from a preeminent Native American poet and novelist |
Vizenor, Gerald |
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The Trailhead
Visionary poems lay claim to the power of the female poet |
Webster, Kerri |
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It Is If I Speak
New poems from the most iconoclastic poet of his generation. |
Wenderoth, Joe |
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Disfortune
Poems
Wenderoth’s poetry features Terse and haunting lyrics that mark a new intimacy with the world |
Wenderoth, Joe |
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Lullaby for One Fist
A first collection of poems that explores the anatomy of destructive relationships. |
Werblin, Andrea |
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The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen
The collected work of a legendary San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poet |
Whalen, Philip. Michael Rothenberg, ed.; Gary Snyder, fwd.; Leslie Scalapino, intro. |
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Meteoric Flowers
A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition. |
Willis, Elizabeth |
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Address
New poems from an original and challenging American voice |
Willis, Elizabeth |
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Country Music
Selected Early Poems
A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet’s career. |
Wright, Charles. David St. John, fwd. Charles Wright, preface. |
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Collected Poems
A collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems. |
Wright, James. Anne Wright and Robert Bly, eds. |
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Anabranch
Emotionally charged poetry offers an uncanny poetics of intimacy. |
Zawacki, Andrew |
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What Kind
When the human family frightens us, we try to join the animals. |
Zweig, Martha |
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