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Red Bird: Poems
by Mary Oliver
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Poetry lovers, rejoice! Mary Oliver's new collection has arrived, echoing her beloved early poems as well as exploring new territory. Whether reminiscing about nature or exploring the grim inevitability of its loss, Oliver's meditations on human... ( read more)
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Elegy: Poems
by Mary Jo Bang
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To write a single poem about grief and loss without slipping into
sentimentality or self-pity is a rare achievement. To write a book of
poems that not only avoids these pitfalls but demonstrates a brave loyalty to the truth is Mary Jo Bang's Elegy... ( read more)
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A Poetry Handbook
by Mary Oliver
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I bought A Poetry Handbook when I entered my first poetry-writing class as an undergrad. My professor was a notorious curmudgeon who didn't spare anyone's feelings and expected each progressive class in the term "to separate the sheep from the goats." I... ( read more)
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The Ghost Soldiers: Poems
by James Tate
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Intriguing. The most intense of Tate's writings, with political and environmental themes. Such wonderful, imaginative writing.
Recommended by Adrienne, Powells.com... ( read more)
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Eros the Bittersweet (American Literature)
by Anne Carson
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Beginning with Sappho's description of Eros as "sweetbitter," Anne Carson
traces the treatment and understanding of Eros in philosophy and
literature, both classical and contemporary. Written in accessible, smart, and
lyrical prose, Eros the... ( read more)
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Don't Let Me Be Lonely
by Claudia Rankine
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There are little televisions throughout Don't Let Me Be Lonely. Really. Little photographs of televisions, sometimes depicting widely broadcast images from the news, sometimes only static, are interspersed throughout this long prose poem. The images come... ( read more)
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Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947
by William Stafford
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In Another World Instead, we receive a true gift: the early writings of
one of our best-loved modern American poets. These poems, most of them
composed while Stafford was interned as a conscientious objector during
World War II, are small and... ( read more)
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All of Us: The Collected Poems
by Raymond Carver
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I had a professor in college who told me to read Carver's poetry to
understand "voice." Carver's voice was so very much his own that it
couldn't belong to anyone else. That sounds ridiculous, but I think what
he meant was that once you've read Carver,... ( read more)
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Behind My Eyes: Poems with CD (Audio)
by Li-Young Lee
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Li-Young Lee has the rare gift of being able to write about the personal
and the communal in a humble and truthful voice that lends his poems great
authority and reach. Behind My Eyes, his fourth book, demonstrates again
his ability to allow the... ( read more)
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Measured by Stone
by Sam Hamill
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What to say about Sam Hamill? The legendary founder of Copper Canyon Press
is a gifted poet in his own right, and this fine collection will only go
to further his reputation. Whether writing of love or politics, Hamill
hones in on his subject and... ( read more)
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Bad Bad
by Chelsey Minnis
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Minnis is partly known for using extended ellipses in her work. The dots scrawl across the page like fleas looking for blood. They create tension with their silence. Her short spit-out lines makes the reader itch but somehow empathize with her cranky... ( read more)
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Figures for a Darkroom Voice
by Noah Eli Gordon and Joshua Marie Wilkinson
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These aren't just two guys with three names each; these are two of the
poets to watch in the next generation. Gordon just won the National Poetry
Series Open (judged by the legendary John Ashbery) for his book Novel
Pictorial Noise, and Wilkinson won... ( read more)
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Nettles: Poems
by Venus Khoury-Ghata
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This fabulous book, written originally in French by Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata, combines a command of the lyrical with the utter transcendence of the classically surreal. In this sequence of five pieces, Khoury-Ghata renders from such... ( read more)
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Homegirls and Handgrenades
by Sonia Sanchez
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Winner of the American Book Award, Homegirls and Handgrenades is strong, heroic, and deeply moving. The poems, ranging from haiku to fairly
traditional free verse to longish story-like poems, are devastating. They
speak of drugs and loyalty, politics... ( read more)
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Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (American Indian Studies)
by Trevino L. Plenty and Steve Pacheco and Luke Warm Water and Joel Waters
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A vastly entertaining collection that combines four Native American voices unlike any you'll find in today's marginalized poetry circles. These four young writers have been blazing a new, more modern trail in recent years and it is high time that their... ( read more)
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Selected Poems: 1970-2005
by Floyd Skloot
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Frankly, Floyd Skloot deserves to be better known. His lovely poems, many
dealing with subjects made familiar to his readers through
nonfiction books such as In the Shadow of Memory, are rigorous and
technically brilliant. He writes with equal and... ( read more)
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Circadian (Penguin Poets)
by Joanna Klink
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Joanna Klink's new book, Circadian, is a wonderful exploration of inner and
outer landscapes, speaking to the underlying rhythm that connects us, even
in the most solitary moments, to the world around us. Klink's poems always
seem to have a meditative... ( read more)
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The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Philip Whalen
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For the first time, all of Philip Whalen's published poems are together in
the order that he wrote them. Wesleyan University Press has published a beautiful, massive volume (871 pages and close to
three pounds!) of the works of
perhaps one of the... ( read more)
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For Girls (and Others)
by Shanna Compton
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In For Girls (and Others), Shanna Compton commandeers the prim, repressed language of antique advice books for girls and deftly manipulates it
into subversion. Compton shows that while the style of these books is outmoded, the constricting messages they... ( read more)
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Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon
by Liz Nakazawa
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A wonderful collection of work by 33 Oregon poets that celebrates the state (and state of mind) of Oregon, eco-region by eco-region, west to east, from
the Pacific coast to the high desert country and the Blue Mountains.
Editor Liz Nakazawa describes... ( read more)
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