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The Declarable Future (Four Lakes Prize in Poetry) by Jennifer Boyden Synopsis 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) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Joker: A Memoir by Andrew Hudgins Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Narrow Circle (Poets, Penguin) by Nathan Hoks Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine by Mari (edt) L'esperance Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Clown at Midnight: Poems by Andrew Hudgins Publisher Comments “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) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Morrow Plots by Matthew Gavin Frank Publisher Comments The Morrow Plots is a series of linked, research-based, murderous, scandalous poems investigating the bloody history of small Midwestern towns.... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Catching Light: Collected Poems of Joanna McClure (Io Poetry) by Joanna Mcclure Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Belmont: Poems by Stephen Burt Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Essential Gibran by Suheil Bushrui Synopsis 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) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Love Poems by Alexander Pushkin Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $14.95 New - Hardcover
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Map Home by David Havird Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $8.95 New - Trade Paper
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Quorum by William Fuller Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Big Smoke (Poets, Penguin) by Adrian Matejka Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Sweet Crude (Karen & Michael Braziller Books) by Randy Blasing Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Rose of January by Geoffrey Nutter Publisher Comments "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 imaginationwhere bygone monoliths cast shadows... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nazim Hikmet: The Life and Times of Turkey's World Poet (Karen & Michael Braziller Books) by Mutlu Konuk Blasing Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Korean Voices #17: Magnolia and Lotus: Selected Poems of Hyesim by Chin'gak Kuksa Hyesim Publisher Comments "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) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic by Mario Santiago Papasquiaro Publisher Comments "[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) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems (Agm Collection) by Aime Cesaire Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Bury My Clothes by Roger Bonair Agard Publisher Comments Bury My Clothes is a meditation on violence, race, and the place in art at which they intersect. Artspecifically in oppressed communitiesis about survival, Roger Bonair-Agard asserts, and establishing personhood in a world that says you have... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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