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The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetry (Marie Alexander Poetry)
by Robert Alexander  Publisher Comments The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetryis unique in its diversity and includes voices from Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. Poets include Nin Andrews, Robert Bly, Ale Debeljak, Russell Edson, Marie Harris...
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The Mad Farmer Poems
by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments During the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell Berry has become mad at what contemporary society has made of its land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak in the poems of the Mad Farmer, an open-ended sequence he...
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Where Clouds Are Formed
by Ofelia Zepeda Publisher Comments Ofelia Zepeda is a Native American poet who possesses a kind of double vision. She sees the contemporary world through her own highly observant eyes and, at the same time, through the eyes of her Tohono Oaodham ancestors. Seeing this way infuses her...
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Cloisters
by Kristin Bock Synopsis Kristin Bock's first published collection of poetry highlights her intriguingly spare, economical verse. Her lines are subliminally infused with gothic imagery and visceral insights. She is compellingly original, and each poem is liberally seasoned with...
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Keep This Forever
by Mark Halliday Publisher Comments Halliday's is an entire poetics of the available-a direct, often quietly comic voice capable of piercing emotional climaxes or bracingly tart cynicism.-Ken Tucker, The New York Times Book Review There are many voices within these poems, each distinct and...
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Active Boundaries: Selected Essays and Talks
by Michael Palmer Publisher Comments A poet's prosebook, a hymn to the art of the word, here is the first collection of essays/talks to be published by "one of America's most important poets" (Harvard Review), winner of the Wallace Stevens Award for Mastery in the Art of Poetry. A lifetime...
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Saga / Circus
by Lyn Hejinian Publisher Comments Two distinct, extended poems present an ensemble of memorable characters in moving, humorous, and mesmerizing motifs. The themes of duality, gender, dichotomy, and genre are explored, blending them with exciting and lyrical language. Beautifully...
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Dear Darkness: Poems
by Kevin Young Publisher Comments Las Vegas, Nashville, the Midwest, his family’s Louisiana home, the state of despair: these are the places that Kevin Young visits in this, his powerful sixth book of poetry. Facing the sudden loss of his father, Young pays homage to his...
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Breaking the Willow: Poems of Parting, Exile, Separation & Reunion (Companions for the Journey)
by David Lunde Synopsis Breaking the Willow is a wonderful collection of classic Chinese poems on the themes of parting and exile. The poems capture brief meetings between poet friends over a jug of wine, the lament of lovers parting, and the seclusion of the hermit. One can...
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Yellowrocket: Poems
by Todd Boss Publisher Comments Todd Boss is going to be a poetry all-star....He can make any rhyme feel like a concealed weapon.--Sherman Alexie Increasingly, Todd Boss has been attracting attention, with poems in the Paris Review and The New Yorker and a series in Poetry, His first...
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A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories
by Luci Tapahonso Publisher Comments In this sixth collection of stories and verse, award-winning writer Luci Tapahonso finds sacredness in everyday life. Viewing a sunset in a desert sky, listening to her granddaughter recount how she spent her day, or visiting her mother after her father...
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Made Flesh
by Craig Arnold Publisher Comments A girl wakes up to find out just how completely her lover has possessed her. A couple realizes they've been trapped inside an ancient myth. A traveler glances out through a train window and catches the dim reflection of another world. This is the world...
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The Messianic Trees
by Kit Robinson Publisher Comments I consider Kit Robinson to be one of his generation's most accomplished, innovative, and genuinely witty writers.-Anselm Hollo The Messianic Trees is the first major collection of thirty years of poetry by Kit Robinson, one of the core members of the Bay...
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Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000
by Robert Hass Publisher Comments During his tenure as US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass revived the popular nineteenth-century tradition of including poetry in our daily newspapers. Poet's Choice ultimately became a nationally syndicated column appearing in dozens of papers across the...
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Sufficiency of the Actual (Illinois Poetry)
by Kevin Stein Publisher Comments In this ambitious collection, Kevin Stein enters the volatile intersection of private lives and larger public history. In poems variously formal and experimental, improvisational and narrative, wisely silly and playfully forlorn, Stein renders the human...
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If I Were Writing This
by Robert Creeley Publisher Comments "Robert Creeley has created a noble life body of poetry that extends the work of predecessors Pound, Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson and that provides like them a method for his successors in exploring our new American poetic consciousness."—Allen...
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The Border Kingdom
by D. Nurkse Publisher Comments In a collection of urgent and intimate poems, D. Nurkse explores the biblical past and the terrifying politics of the present with which it resonates, the legacy of fathers and the flawed kingdoms they leave their sons. In “Ben Adan,” a...
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Gulf Music: Poems
by Robert Pinsky Publisher Comments Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus. Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces. Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and his Shuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciation And invention, is this the image...
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Spring (National Poetry)
by Oni Buchanan Publisher Comments Representing nothing less than a tour-de-force of formal invention and emotional intensity, Oni Buchanan’s Spring encompasses radically contrasting work. Ecstatic, visually intricate rhapsodies are juxtaposed with tight, sonnet-like poems, and...
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Parents from a Different Alphabet (Essential Poets)
by Diane Raptosh Publisher Comments Containing a very moving section dedicated to the death of the author's father, this collection of prose poems considers a variety of forms of love as well as the plights and blitheness of the body, individual and collective. Flourishing under the...
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