Crab Orchard Series in Poetry – serie
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Furious Lullaby
Häftad, 2007
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Furious Lullaby is both a celebration of and a eulogy to the body in the twenty-first century. The collection, which examines the larger concepts of salvation and temptation in a world of blossoming strife, includes a series of aubades - dramatic poems culminating with the separation of lovers at …
Strange Land
Av Southern Illinois University Press
Häftad, 2010
206 kr
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Traveling the labyrinthine roads of estrangement and longing, Todd Hearon's haunting debut collection chronicles the twin paths of isolation and desire in the search for meaning and union with others. On his pilgrimage through the lost worlds of earth and the soul, the speaker encounters drought in …
Hijra
Av Hala Alyan
Häftad, 2016
216 kr
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In her third poetry collection, Hijra, Hala Alyan creates poems of migration and flight reflecting and bearing witness to the haunting particulars in her transnational journey as well as those of her mother, her mother’s sister, the lost aunts of her father in Gaza, and her Syrian grandmother.
Objects of Hunger
Av E.C. Belli
Häftad, 2019
200 kr
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By turns stoic and ravaged, but always with gutting honesty, E. C. Belli invites readers to consider the smallest rooms of the intimate in this first collection. With each poem pared down to an elemental language both slight and clear, Belli’s work exhibits a surprising muscularity in its …
Fieldglass
Häftad, 2021
216 kr
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Sexual identity, female friendship, and queer experiences of love Fraught with obsession, addiction, and unrequited love, Catherine Pond's Fieldglass immerses us in the speaker's transition from childhood to adulthood. A queer coming-of-age, this collection is a candid exploration of sexual …
Burn
Av Sara Henning
Häftad, 2024
233 kr
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A lyrical meditation on time, survival, and merciful moments of joySara Henning’s Burn draws readers deep into the moments that make us, focusing on instances of crisis and renewal to explore our relation to time and lived experience. In these poems, we follow a speaker as she works through the …
Civil Twilight
Häftad, 2024
233 kr
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New collection from National Book Award finalistCivil twilight is the astronomical term for the minutes just before sunrise and just after sunset. If one took a snapshot, it would be impossible to tell whether the light was increasing or diminishing. The poems in Civil Twilight arise in this …
Soluble Fish
Häftad, 2007
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Soluble Fish transports readers to a place of discovery, exploring issues of borders, familial and love relationships, and other aspects of being human. Mary Jo Firth Gillett layers her poems in rich metaphor as she searches for meaning in everyday life. Contemplating a range of topics from …
Last Predicta
Häftad, 2008
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This title juxtaposes themes of popular culture and apocalypse. ""The Last Predicta"" is Chad Davidson's searing collection of poetry dedicated to endings of all varieties. From odes to the corporate cornucopia of Target and the aggressive cheer of a Carnival cruise, to emotive examinations of …
Cinema Muto
Häftad, 2009
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This book celebrates the golden age of silent cinema. In ""Cinema Muto"", Jesse Lee Kercheval examines the enduring themes of time, mortality, and love as revealed through the power of silent film. Following the ten days of the annual Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy, this collection of …
Holding Everything Down
Häftad, 2009
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Navigating the landscapes of human experience, William Notter's stunning collection ""Holding Everything Down"" explores the everyday struggles, triumphs, and desires of rural Americans. With disarming humor and remarkable honesty, Notter delves into the most personal longings of those who inhabit …
On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year
Häftad, 2009
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Channeling women writers of the past to explore issues of the present. Lady Murasaki wrote in ""The Tale of Genji"" that thirty-seven is 'a dangerous year' for women. Evoking the styles of Murasaki and other women writers of the Heian-period Japanese court, Lee Ann Roripaugh presents a collection …
Threshold
Häftad, 2010
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Jennifer Richter presents a series of poems that explore the many facets of the term ""threshold."" Throughout the collection, the narrator experiences several acts of threshing, or separating—from birth and the small yet profound distances that part a mother and child, to the separation caused by …
Glaciology
Häftad, 2013
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“Once I walked a thin rail through a glacier” begins “Shattered Bio”, the first poem in Glaciology, Jeffrey Skinner’s latest collection of poetry. Filled with images that slide into one another in a dreamlike way, from the “squeak of pine trees in a forest” to “pinwheel, the baby’s hand”, the poem …
Laughter of Adam and Eve
Av Jason Sommer
Häftad, 2013
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In The Laughter of Adam and Eve, Sommer speaks from a multitude of voices and perspectives, in short, formal lyrics as well as longer free-verse narratives. From the archetypal parents of us all, down through anonymous voices, throughout these pages, women and men speak to—and of—each other, in …
Salt Moon
Av Noel Crook
Häftad, 2015
200 kr
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Throughout Salt Moon, Noel Crook forges the kind of tragic vision Howard Nemerov described as the mark of our finest poets: drawing on myth and memory, Crook’s fierce lyrics reveal a world that is at once “hopeless and beautiful . . . giving equal emphasis to both words.” Sacrifice and betrayal, …
Incarnate Grace
Häftad, 2015
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In her collection “Incarnate Grace,” poet Moira Linehan explores, questions, and ultimately celebrates her attempt to live in the temple of the present.After learning she has breast cancer, the poet struggles to live an examined life. Alienated and estranged from her own body, she turns her …
USA1000
Poems by Sass Brown
Av Sass. Brown
Häftad, 2015
233 kr
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Loss and longing through the lens of popular cultureSass Brown’s darkly funny debut collection of poems explores both the isolation and the absurdity of twentysomething apartment living. The world Brown creates in USA1000 overflows with infomercials, classic Hollywood films, billboard messages, …
Errata
Poems by Lisa Fay Coutley
Häftad, 2015
200 kr
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Uncovering the healing bond between generationsLisa Fay Coutley’s lyrical debut collection, Errata, investigates the delicate balance between parent and child, love and loss, hope and grief. Errata’s narrator reflects on struggles and fears that span generations in compositions that are at once …
Primitive Observatory
Häftad, 2016
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The poems of The Primitive Observatory, set roughly in the Gilded Age, take readers into a dreamy, alluring world where hapless travelers, doomed heirs, and other colorful types grapple with horrors. Within the pages of this book, we find a group of cousins who wager their pets in endless games of …
No Acute Distress
Häftad, 2016
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Jennifer Richter’s penetrating second collection of poems, No Acute Distress, introduces us to the unspoken struggles and unanticipated epiphanies of illness and motherhood, subjects rarely explored together in contemporary poetry. The first poem of each section borrows from a classic joke form—one …
Gold Bee
Av Bruce Bond
Häftad, 2016
200 kr
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Gold Bee takes its cue from Wallace Stevens’s Harmonium, bringing a finely honed talent to classic poetic questions concerning music, the march of progress, and the relationship between reality and the imagination. Blending humor and pathos, Bruce Bond examines the absurdities of contemporary life …
Vanishing Acts
Av Brian Barker
Häftad, 2019
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In Vanishing Acts, Brian Barker cements his reputation as one of contemporary poetry’s great surrealists. These prose poems read like dreams and nightmares, fables and myths. With a dark whimsicality, Barker explores such topics as extinction, power, class, the consequences of tyranny and war, and …
River Where You Forgot My Name
Häftad, 2019
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The River Where You Forgot My Name travels between early 1800s Virginia and Missouri and present-day western Montana, a place where “bats sail the river of dark.” In their crosscutting, the poems in this collection reflect on American progress; technology, exploration, and environment; and the …
Even the Dark
Häftad, 2019
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The speaker in this collection seeks an understanding of the darkness of suicide and mortal illness in the light of Christian faith. Poet Leslie Williams captures this light in tender and piercing poems that traverse a grieving world where healing is always possible but never assured: “my God can …
Unearth
Häftad, 2020
216 kr
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Personal pain and globalized loss"What if the end were as colorless as real / estate?" the speaker asks in Unearth. Poet Chad Davidson's latest collection takes a hard look at our world as it collapses under numerous trials and tribulations. Fashioned mostly of elegiac poems, Unearth charts the way …
All the Great Territories
Häftad, 2020
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In 2012 Matthew Wimberley took a two-month journey, traveling and living out of his car, during which time he had planned to spread his father’s ashes. By trip’s end, the ashes remained, but Wimberley had begun a conversation with his deceased father that is continued here in his debut collection. …
Maps for Migrants and Ghosts
Häftad, 2020
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Language as key and map to places, people, and histories lostFor immigrants and migrants, the wounds of colonization, displacement, and exile remain unhealed. Crossing oceans and generations, from her childhood home in Baguio City, the Philippines, to her immigrant home in Virginia, poet Luisa A. …
Hinge
Häftad, 2020
216 kr
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Finding joy and beauty in the face of suffering.Readers enter “a stunted world,” where landmarks—a river, a house, a woman’s own body—have become unrecognizable in a place as distorted and dangerous as any of the old tales poet Molly Spencer remasters in this elegant, mournful collection. In myth …
Kitchen of Small Hours
Häftad, 2021
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Reimagining the elusive American dream In The Kitchen of Small Hours, Derek N. Otsuji embraces the fragility and endurance of a family of immigrants from two prefectures in Japan: Kagoshima in the south and Okinawa, an island more than four hundred miles from the mainland. In these poems, five …
