Crab Orchard Poetry – serie
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Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing
Häftad, 2017
216 kr
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In this affecting poetry debut, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems, Shanahan--queer and mixed-race--confronts the challenges of a complex cultural inheritance, informed by colonialism and his mother's …
Egg Island Almanac
Häftad, 2017
233 kr
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An endangered right whale attempting to nurse her new calf in the December ocean, foxgloves blooming in different places from year to year, or the rescue of imperiled Kemp’s ridley sea turtles – the bounty and cruelty of nature infuses this latest collection of poems from Brendan Galvin, which …
View from True North
Av Sara Henning
Häftad, 2018
200 kr
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In these edgy poems of witness, Sara Henning’s speaker serves as both conduit and curator of the destructive legacies of alcoholism and multigenerational closeting. Considering the impact of addiction and sexual repression in the family and on its individual members, Henning explores with deft …
Star-spangled Banner
Av Southern Illinois University Press
Häftad, 1999
200 kr
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This sixth book of poems from Denise Duhamel is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American.
In Search of the Great Dead
Av Southern Illinois University Press
Häftad, 1999
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With grim humour and humourous grimness, these poems engage in the themes of death and fame. The title poem of this collection for example, records Cecil's quest for the tombs of the once famous dead.
Winter Amnesties
Av Southern Illinois University Press
Häftad, 2000
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In this text, each poem addresses the dilemma posed by G.K. Chesterton: ""One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it."" The poems revisit the past, assess the present, and stare hard into the future.
Names Above Houses
Häftad, 2001
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In Names above Houses, Oliver de la Paz uses both prose and verse poems to create the magical realm of Fidelito Recto - a boy who wants to fly - and his family of Filipino immigrants. Fidelito's mother, Maria Elena, tries to keep her son grounded while struggling with her own moorings. Meanwhile, …
Misery Prefigured
Häftad, 2001
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In her second collection of poems, J. Allyn Rosser explores the human condition in all its gloriously valiant pathos. Misery Prefigured dwells on our continual reinventions of self and world, and the restless dynamic that vibrates between them. Whether contemplating a failed marriage, a visit from …
Train to Agra
Av Vandana Khanna, Jon Tribble
Häftad, 2001
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Calling upon two cultures, Vandana Khanna's Train to Agra meditates on the effects of displacement and expatriation on the construction of a young Indian American woman's identity. The physical journeys undertaken by the speaker reflect her inner journey from immigrant child to Indian American …
Muse
Poems by Susan Aizenberg
Häftad, 2002
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Muse, the first full-length collection from poet Susan Aizenberg, brings together poems of personal history, elegy, and the complex lives of artists, writers, and ""ordinary"" people, in an exploration of the relationship between art and life, esthetics and ethics. She is sharp-eyed in purpose, …
Fabulae
Poems by Joy Katz
Av Joy Katz
Häftad, 2002
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In Fabulae, Joy Katz interrogates the physical world, turning it over and over in her mind, constructing a sensual and striking autobiography. Her poems find flaws in how we live in the world and suffer from desire but still come back to find delight in it - the language, the objects, and the …
White Summer
Av Joelle Biele
Häftad, 2002
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In White Summer, Joelle Biele investigates the problems of personal and cultural memory. Rich with images of flight and displacement, Biele's poems show a love for words, their music and physicality. In lyric addresses, historical meditations, and autobiographical narratives, she takes readers on a …
Pelican Tracks
Av Elton Glaser
Häftad, 2003
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Pelican Tracks is a book of poems with a homing instinct. Elton Glaser travels a restless circuit between his native Louisiana and his adopted home of Ohio, from the ""spice and license of the lowlands"" to the ""streets of Akron cobbled in ice."" These reflections, leavened with a fierce wit and …
Consolation Miracle
Häftad, 2003
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This is a collection of visceral, image-driven poems that search for the miraculous in the seemingly ordinary. It fashions art out of artless objects as a consolation, or perhaps compensation, for their smallness.
Strange Valentine
Av Southern Illinois University Press
Häftad, 2005
233 kr
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Voices family, history, sexuality, and identity in the working-class Midwest. Loudermilk utilizes confessional, persona, and third-person poems throughout this intimate yet socially conscious first collection. ""Strange Valentine"" is an indictment of love, fixating on the paranoid relationship …
Persephone in America
Häftad, 2009
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This book reimagines myth, loss, and redemption through the contemporary female experience. In ""Persephone in America"", Alison Townsend deftly weaves autobiography with myth in this reinvention of the tale of Demeter and Persephone as seen from the modern woman's perspective. Fraught with …
Heavenly Bodies
Häftad, 2012
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In this blistering collection of lyric poems, Cynthia Huntington gives an intimate view of the sexual revolution and rebellion in a time before the rise of feminism. Heavenly Bodies is a testament to the duality of sex, the twin seductiveness and horror of drug addiction, and the social, political, …
Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love
Av Wally Swist
Häftad, 2012
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In Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love, poet Wally Swist blends themes of love and epiphany to lead readers into a more conscious interaction with the world around them. These ethereal poems call upon a spirituality unfettered to any specific religion, yet universal and potent in its scope, …
Instructions
Abject and Fuming
Häftad, 2017
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In this inventive collection, Julianna Baggott invites readers to reconsider basic assumptions about language, faith, motherhood, and love. With a sharply honed voice featuring parentheticals that often comment on and sometimes undercut what has come before, these poems whirl through contemporary …
Terra Nova
Häftad, 2017
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In this bold and ambitious book-length poem, National Book Award finalist Cynthia Huntington explores exile and migration—what it means to lose, seek, and find home in all its iterations—through a polyphonic work, written in multiple voices and evoking the method of Hart Crane’s The Bridge or the …
Dots & Dashes
Häftad, 2017
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Moving between the languages of love and war, Jehanne Dubrow’s latest book offers valuable testimony to the experiences of military wives. Frequently employing rhyme, meter, and traditional forms, these poems examine what it means to be both a military spouse and an academic, straddling two …
Gospel According to Wild Indigo
Häftad, 2018
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Consisting of two dynamic song cycles, Cyrus Cassells’s sixth poetry volume, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo, keeps the reader on edge with a timeless and beguiling feast of language that fuses together history, memory, and family.The first cycle, rooted in the culture of the Gullah people of …
Spitting Image
Häftad, 2018
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Kara van de Graaf’s debut collection heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary poetry. Through poems that balance personal recollection with ekphrasis, science, and meditation, Van de Graaf searches for answers in the fluctuating relationship between the body and the self.Taking …
Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live
Häftad, 2018
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Monica Berlin’s Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live resides at the turbulent confluence of relentless news cycles and the repeated rending of our interior lives. In Berlin’s poetry sorrow makes its own landscape—solitary, intimate, forward-looking. Whether we attempt to traverse it or choose …
