American Poets Continuum Series – serie
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Little Mr. Prose Poem: Selected Poems of Russell Edson
Av Rusell Edson, Craig Morgan Teicher
Häftad, 2022
225 kr
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A baby that keeps losing its brain, a cow in a wedding gown, a woman whose chest is a radio — bizarre and whimsical figures populate this collection of dreamlike prose poems from Russell Edson (1935-2014), with a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Simic.A seminal voice in American prose …
Second O of Sorrow
Häftad, 2018
262 kr
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Winner of the 2019 Paterson Poetry PrizeWinner of the 2019 Housatonic Book Award for PoetrySean Thomas Dougherty celebrates the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in the Rust Belt. Finding delight in everyday moments—a night at a packed karaoke bar, a father and daughter …
Tiny Journalist
Häftad, 2019
287 kr
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“A moving testament to the impact one person can have and the devastating effects of occupation.” —Washington Post Best Poetry Books of 2019Internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye places her Palestinian American identity center stage in her latest full-length poetry collection for adults. The …
Caw
Häftad, 2020
190 kr
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In passionate poems about sin, obsession, and mortality—an artist’s infatuation with a doll, an interspecies relationship, an ex-lover whose presence lingers in recipes, ecclesiastical birds, and a sex toy holding a loved one’s ashes—Waters delivers impeccably crafted narratives infused with his …
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton
Av Lucille Clifton, Aracelis Girmay
Häftad, 2021
328 kr
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How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America’s most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected.These poems celebrating black womanhood and resilience shimmer with intellect, insight, …
Letters to a Young Brown Girl
Häftad, 2020
190 kr
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Barbara Jane Reyes answers the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of color with bold affirmations of hard-won empathy, fierce intelligence, and a fine-tuned B.S. detector.The Brown Girl of these poems is fed up with being shushed, with being constantly told how foreign and …
Mother Country
Av Elana Bell
Häftad, 2020
145 kr
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Mother Country examines the intricacies of mother–daughter relationships: what we inherit from our mothers, what we let go, what we hold, and what we pass on to our own children, both the visible and invisible.As the speaker gradually loses the mother she has always known and upon whom she has …
Naomi Letters
Häftad, 2021
187 kr
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Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters chronicles the relationship between a woman speaker and Naomi, the woman she loves.Set mostly over the span of a single year …
I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World
Inbunden, 2021
351 kr
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Punk-rock feminist poems exploring motherhood, pop culture, and resistance with a spirit of defiance, abundance, and irreverent joyKendra DeColo reaffirms the action of mothering as heroic, brutal, and hardcore. These poems interrogate patriarchal narratives about childbirth, postpartum healing, …
Naomi Letters
Inbunden, 2021
351 kr
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Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters chronicles the relationship between a woman speaker and Naomi, the woman she loves.Set mostly over the span of a single year …
Caw
Inbunden, 2021
351 kr
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In passionate poems about sin, obsession, and mortality—an artist’s infatuation with a doll, an interspecies relationship, an ex-lover whose presence lingers in recipes, ecclesiastical birds, and a sex toy holding a loved one’s ashes—Waters delivers impeccably crafted narratives infused with his …
Mother Country
Av Elana Bell
Inbunden, 2021
351 kr
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Mother Country examines the intricacies of mother–daughter relationships: what we inherit from our mothers, what we let go, what we hold, and what we pass on to our own children, both the visible and invisible.As the speaker gradually loses the mother she has always known and upon whom she has …
Diamonds
Häftad, 2021
187 kr
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Diamonds presents a woman in midlife on the edge. In hilarious and heartbreaking poems, Camille Guthrie writes about the trials and surprises of divorce, parenting, country life—and the difficulties and delights of being alone, looking at art, and falling in love.Witty resilience abounds in these …
Useful Junk
Häftad, 2022
190 kr
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A master of documentary poetry, Erika Meitner takes up the question of desire and intimacy in her latest collection of poems.In her previous five collections of poetry, Erika Meitner has established herself as one of America’s most incisive observers, cherished for her remarkable ability to temper …
Field Notes from the Flood Zone
Häftad, 2022
145 kr
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From the frontlines of climate catastrophe, a poet watches the sea approach her doorstep. Born and raised in Florida, Heather Sellers grew up in an extraordinarily difficult home. The natural world provided a life-giving respite from domestic violence. She found, in the tropical flora and fauna, …
Season in Hell with Rimbaud
Häftad, 2022
184 kr
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In pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship.The poems in Dustin Pearson’s A Season in Hell with Rimbaud form an allegorical travelogue that chronicles two brothers’ mutual descent into hell. When the older …
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
Av Chen Chen
Häftad, 2022
266 kr
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What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer …
Dug-Up Gun Museum
Av Matt Donovan
Häftad, 2022
191 kr
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Traveling the nation, Matt Donovan examines the paradox of a country plagued by gun violence yet consumed with protecting the right to bear arms.Matt Donovan’s The Dug-Up Gun Museum confronts our country’s obsession with guns to explore America’s deep-seated political divisions and issues linked to …
Four in Hand
Häftad, 2023
166 kr
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Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails. Language and white space equally captivate with their …
Buffalo Girl
Häftad, 2023
174 kr
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In these hybrid poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother’s fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of war through the lens of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl is a feminist indictment of the …
Nomenclatures of Invisibility
Häftad, 2023
187 kr
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Through a personal, historical, and political lens, Mahtem Shiferraw attends to the collective experiences inherited through deeply-rooted ancestry, tracing patterns of movement and migration, sorrow and invisibility, and the resulting complicated notions of home.In Nomenclatures of Invisibility, …
Flare, Corona
Häftad, 2023
145 kr
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A 2024 Washington State Book Award FinalistAgainst a constellation of solar weather events and evolving pandemic, Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Flare, Corona paints a self-portrait of the layered ways that we prevail and persevere through illness and natural disaster.Gailey deftly juxtaposes odd solar and …
Transitory
Häftad, 2023
181 kr
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Grounded in protest and solidarity, Subhaga Crystal Bacon’s Isabella Gardner Award-winning Transitory is a collection of elegies memorializing 46 transgender and gender-nonconforming people murdered in the US and Puerto Rico in 2020. Epistolary in nature, these commemorative poems are “gleaned …
Desire Museum
Häftad, 2023
184 kr
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Winner of the 2024 LAMBDA Literary Award for Outstanding Bisexual PoetryConsumed with the accumulation of lost time and unfulfilled longing, Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen is an intricate exploration of things left unfinished or unsatisfied. Divided into four sections and shaped by …
Death Prefers the Minor Keys
Häftad, 2023
172 kr
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In his twentieth book, most of which was first composed on the backs of medical forms while on break as a third-shift medical technician, Sean Thomas Dougherty brings us a memoir-like prose sequence reflecting on disability, chronic illness, addiction, survival, love, and parenthood. In Death …
