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The Declarable Future (Four Lakes Prize in Poetry)
The Declarable Future (Four Lakes Prize in Poetry)
by Jennifer Boyden
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The poems in this book inhabit a world uneasily familiar and promising, but from the distance of a few possibilities into the future. In this collection of sharp, hallucinatory, and often darkly humorous poems, a lost man wanders among the towns of... (read more)

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The Joker: A Memoir
The Joker: A Memoir
by Andrew Hudgins
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From an award-winning poet and compulsive joke teller, a memoir about the jokes that educated him about history, religion, and family — delighting him, and often horrifying him, as he grew into adulthood. Since he was a child, Andrew Hudgins was an... (read more)

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The Narrow Circle (Poets, Penguin)
The Narrow Circle (Poets, Penguin)
by Nathan Hoks
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Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Dean Young   John Ashbery called Reveilles, Nathan Hokss debut book, a “dazzling” collection and Hoks a poet whose “fine gradations of observation turn the reader into a... (read more)

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Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine
Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine
by Mari (edt) L'esperance
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This collection of essays pays tribute to Philip Levine as teacher and mentor. Throughout his fifty-year teaching career, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Levine taught scores of younger poets, many of whom went on to become famous in their own right... (read more)

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A Clown at Midnight: Poems
A Clown at Midnight: Poems
by Andrew Hudgins
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“Recklessness and rigor, in equal measure, mark the stirring poetics of Andrew Hudgins in this fine new book. Hudgins can wrestle a rhyme scheme into submission with one hand tied behind his back and can penetrate the black heart of history with a... (read more)

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The Morrow Plots
The Morrow Plots
by Matthew Gavin Frank
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The Morrow Plots is a series of linked, research-based, murderous, scandalous poems investigating the bloody history of small Midwestern towns.... (read more)

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Catching Light: Collected Poems of Joanna McClure (Io Poetry)
Catching Light: Collected Poems of Joanna McClure (Io Poetry)
by Joanna Mcclure
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Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the... (read more)

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Belmont: Poems
Belmont: Poems
by Stephen Burt
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The new poetry collection by Stephen Burt, “one of the most gifted poets of his generation” (Frank Bidart) Our skills are finally in demand. If you mock us, Pan, In whom we also believe, do it As gently as you can.     ... (read more)

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The Essential Gibran
The Essential Gibran
by Suheil Bushrui
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Oneworld Publications and the Kahlil Gibran Research and Studies Project at the University of Maryland have put together The Essential Gibran, a volume of selected passages representative of Gibrans style and thought. The collection includes selections... (read more)

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Love Poems
Love Poems
by Alexander Pushkin
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A selection of the very finest love poems from the master of the genre, in a lavishly produced edition The wondrous moment of our meeting . . . I well remember you appear Before me like a vision fleeting, A beauty's angel pure and clear. One of the many... (read more)

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Map Home
Map Home
by David Havird
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In the poem that opens this career-spanning odyssey, a blind weaver, who is at once a grandmotherly Penelope and a Homeric bard, “maps you home”—home finally, as the concluding poem reveals, to the Swamp Fox-haunted lowlands of Havird... (read more)

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Quorum
Quorum
by William Fuller
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Quorum, the latest book from William Fuller, is a collection of vivid detours and deadpan visions arranged into forty-five sonnet-like poems. Employing an ear “that hears not what the eye / sees not, in detail,” the poet makes his rounds... (read more)

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The Big Smoke (Poets, Penguin)
The Big Smoke (Poets, Penguin)
by Adrian Matejka
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From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that examines the myth and history of the prizefighter Jack Johnson The legendary Jack Johnson (1878–1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent... (read more)

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Sweet Crude (Karen & Michael Braziller Books)
Sweet Crude (Karen & Michael Braziller Books)
by Randy Blasing
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This is the eighth collection from a poet of formal grace an open heart. Blasing's poems of love, the passing of time, and the kinds of desires that transcribe a life are timeless and full of warmth.... (read more)

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The Rose of January
The Rose of January
by Geoffrey Nutter
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"Nutter is a true believer in the power of art, which is the power that produces these beautiful and vital poems."—Mark Levine In his fourth collection, Geoffrey Nutter beckons us into his lush imagination—where bygone monoliths cast shadows... (read more)

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Nazim Hikmet: The Life and Times of Turkey's World Poet (Karen & Michael Braziller Books)
Nazim Hikmet: The Life and Times of Turkey's World Poet (Karen & Michael Braziller Books)
by Mutlu Konuk Blasing
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Nâzim Hikmet (1902–1963), Turkey’s best-loved poet and a commanding presence in its public life, lived through a turbulent era—the end of the Ottoman Empire, the rise of Communist Russia, and the birth of the Turkish Republic. Born... (read more)

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Korean Voices #17: Magnolia and Lotus: Selected Poems of Hyesim
Korean Voices #17: Magnolia and Lotus: Selected Poems of Hyesim
by Chin'gak Kuksa Hyesim
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"Hyesim's poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images' beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The... (read more)

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Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic
Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic
by Mario Santiago Papasquiaro
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"[Santiago Papasquiaro] didn't believe in countries and the only borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear, the golden borders of ethics."—Roberto Bolaño "... (read more)

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Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems (Agm Collection)
Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems (Agm Collection)
by Aime Cesaire
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Annette Smith and Dominic Thomass new translations of Aimé Césaires Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed (poems deleted) expose to a new audience a pivotal figure in twentieth-century French literature. This... (read more)

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Bury My Clothes
Bury My Clothes
by Roger Bonair Agard
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Bury My Clothes is a meditation on violence, race, and the place in art at which they intersect. Art—specifically in oppressed communities—is about survival, Roger Bonair-Agard asserts, and establishing personhood in a world that says you have... (read more)

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