Poetry

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Glenum returns with another grotesque and fantastical orgy of poems. This time they seem to be connected like a weird Richard Foreman play translated into redneck, red-light Dadaisms. Her words blur and hiss like a radio not quite tuned right, but you can't turn it off because they're saying things you've never heard or imagined before. These poems make even your weirdest dreams seem boring.
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Foust's poems are built with quiet and contemplative building blocks that are nearly see-through enough to reveal the barest intentions behind their words. He uses repeated phrasing not for dramatic effect but instead to slow things down into a microscopic beauty that is both odd and expansive. This book is a simple but mysterious island.
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Dean Young looks like a normal guy, but on the inside you'll not find a trace of conformity anywhere. You can barely go three lines without your brain trying to rewire itself. The latest book in Young's influential career (his ninth!), Primitive Mentor is funny and surreal and sometimes even heart-stopping.
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A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s.  Filled with images and recollections that... (read more)

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Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.<BR>... (read more)

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“The rising poetry stars? Well, you know there was someone we published just the other day [in The New Yorker] whose work I really like. Michael Dickman his name is. . . . Nothing makes me happier than the thought that there is going to be somebody... (read more)

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Whether you call it political action, slogan, or aphorism, guerrilla poetry — the kind you hold in your hand (pamphlet or broadside) or see on the street — is probably more widely read and thought about than Walt Whitman. Imagine if Republican... (read more)

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His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic -- a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable -- remaining vibrant and alive. Here now, newly discovered, are Tupac's most honest... (read more)

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The Orphans' New YearThe room is full of shadows; vaguely heard, The soft, sad whispers of two tiny babes. Their faces, heavy still with sleep, peck out Through long white curtains that shake and swirl ... -Outside, the shivering birds hop near; Their... (read more)

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Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. A decade before writing his earliest stories, Borges published his first book of poems. And even in that precocious debut, the... (read more)

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