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Black Hope
Häftad, 1997
125 kr
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“Whether her subject is mental illness, the oppression of one human being by another, or the constantly-cast shadow of our mortality, Marsha de la O’s resilient, unpretentious, sharply intelligent and unsentimental voice speaks to us of what we need to know. This is a disturbing and memorable …
Sama Alshaibi
Sand Rushes In
Av Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, Isabella Ellaheh Hughes
Inbunden, 2015
592 kr
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Sama Alshaibi: Sand Rushes In , the first book by this rising artist, presents work from Silsila , a video and photographic installation that premiered at the 2013 Venice Biennale, as well as other series. Alshaibi’s lyrical multimedia work explores the landscape of conflict: the ongo - ing …
Something Black in the Green Part of Your Eye
Häftad, 2002
146 kr
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These poems say that the world is one fire, but only the steadiest and most masterful hand can show us the burning. Kevin Cantwell's poems blend poise and intimacy in a style that is his own and built for the ages.
In the Evening of No Warning
Av Kevin Clark
Häftad, 2002
146 kr
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Kevin Clark's 'In the Evening of No Warning charts the late twentieth century life of a man who swings back and forth between the elegiac lyric and the urgent rant. Divided into three distinct sections, the book considers the ecstasies and exigencies of romantic love, an homogenising American …
Côte Blanche
Inbunden, 2002
223 kr
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In this, her first book, Martha Serpas succeeds brilliantly in fulfilling the calculations of the alchemists, those great hermetic artists of medieval Europe. Côte Blanche deliberately and beautifully weds the secular to the divine in poems which, steeped in the Cajun landscape of Serpas’s …
Please
Häftad, 2008
346 kr
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Please explores the points in our lives at which love and violence intersect. Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often frightening imagery, Please is the album playing in the background of the history and culture that surround African American/male identity and sexuality. Just as …
SUBWOOFER
Häftad, 2017
164 kr
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SUBWOOFER makes audible the deep bass of history, for this is a book of vibrant, honest listening: to the voices of Nina Simone, James Baldwin, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Basquiat; to those without names; to the sadness of loss and the bitter silences within privilege and racism; to …
Erasable Walls
Av Lance Larsen
Inbunden, 1998
223 kr
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Erasable Walls is a series of elegant personal meditations on the always evolving self. These beautifully crafted poems show a degree of mastery that's rare in a first book. Though quiet and subtle, Larsen's voice is also nervy and truth-telling, with considerable cumulative power.
Ocean Avenue
Inbunden, 1999
223 kr
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The poet's sense of wonder is contagious whether she views the world from her seat on a train, from the window of her apartment, or from the streets of the city. Through a subtle, mediated surrealism, Mörling reins in the urban landscapes of New York, drawing the reader into her meditations on the …
Brace's Cove
Häftad, 2000
146 kr
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The poems of Brace's Cove consider the seemingly random connections between the cosmos and our daily lives. As Featherstone see it, "we are as close to heaven / as it gets," and even "the Milky Way pouring down" is reflected in smaller ways so that we may witness its routine: "Waterlilies, filling …
Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes
Häftad, 2014
154 kr
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This collection is about living in the rural North. Inside that, it is about isolation and love and loneliness. Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes is preoccupied with reckoning, with grief and happiness, with divorce and what constitutes family. At its core are people trying to cross the lines …
Little Arias
Av Kristen Case
Häftad, 2016
154 kr
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Divided into six dissimilar but related sections, Little Arias, simultaneously draws on and problematizes the linguistic roots of aria. On one hand Case’s tight poems (almost always delivered in the first person) do feel like small songs sung inwardly and quietly between the symbol crashes of the …
In One Version of the Story
Häftad, 2016
164 kr
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In One Version of the Story, is a lyric exploration of the ways human beings confront desire, loss and absence by creating stories. Its narrative situation begins with from the French folk legend of “l’Inconnue de la Seine”—the unidentified young woman who drowned herself in Paris in the 1880s, and …
Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House
Av Nina Puro
Häftad, 2018
164 kr
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Preoccupied by haunting, poisoned places and bodies, Puro explores the intersections of personal history and social forces, integrating representations of femininity and the body, creating an undercommons, a multiplicity, a “we.”
Let the House of Body Fall
Häftad, 2018
164 kr
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Employing Manhattan fire alarm dispatcher transcripts, 911 transcripts, and the language of postindustrial environments, Let the House of the Body Fall explores individual narratives of bodily trauma. Through this, many elements and themes are brought into play: figures of physically disabled …
