Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award – serie
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17 produkter
Light in Our Houses
Poems
Av Al Maginnes
Häftad, 2000
249 kr
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Remarkable for their dark, sharp wit, their stylistic unity, and their combination of sweetness and risk, the poems in The Light in Our Houses probe the intersection of public and private history, and visit the way stories are told: ""what we have named history / was once only the braided rivers / …
Green Girls
Poems
Av John Blair
Häftad, 2002
249 kr
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Green is the colour of beginnings, of memory and regeneration, of the ""fluid arc of what has been, / forever becoming us."" John Blair's debut poetry collection, The Green Girls, takes the reader on a journey through life as it explores such subjects as marriage, family, and sex. Written in …
Motherhouse
Poems
Häftad, 2005
281 kr
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In Motherhouse, Kathleen Jesme takes the reader on a journey with a young novice through the heart of Mystery. Jesme's poems, which investigate religious life in a convent in the 1960s, are assembled from many fragments: juxtapositions of place and time (childhood and novitiate), shifting scale …
Compulsions of Silk Worms and Bees
Poems
Häftad, 2007
307 kr
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Part primer, part credo, part arm-swinging gambol, this wonderful book is resonant with wit and insight.""-- Linda BierdsCompulsions of Silkworms and Bees takes up the tradition of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, but on poetry's own terms. At first glance, Baggott's candid counsel can be seen as a …
Pacific Shooter
Poems
Av Susan Parr
Häftad, 2009
249 kr
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Pacific Shooter is a book of transformations as insubordinate and subversive as Ovid's Metamorphoses -- and with all the taste and twang of a new language. The bourgeois reader will hate it: there's too much magic, too much genius, too much linguistic bliss."" -- Susan Mitchell, from her judge's …
Belle Mar
Poems
Häftad, 2015
249 kr
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Katie Bickham's poems, set on a Louisiana plantation from 1811 through 2005, speak through the imagined voices of slaves, masters, mistresses, servants, and children. Focused on events that take place in a single room within the plantation home, Belle Mar, she offers an unflinching portrayal of the …
Strange Wood
Poems
Häftad, 1998
249 kr
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Strange Wood contains verse remarkable for its fearless insight. The first poems in this lush, lyrical collection are populated with infants and adolescents, while the middle section gives way to bewildered, misguided adults, who are futilely attempting to understand and conquer the myriad …
Sacrificial Zinc
Poems
Häftad, 2001
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A Sacrificial Zinc impels the reader on a journey into the nature of place. Written out of a vanished suburban landscape, Matthew Cooperman's book , part navigational trope, part metaphor of embodiment , enacts the complex weave of identity as a series of places, lovers, influences, and natural …
Lure
Poems
Av Nils Michals
Häftad, 2004
265 kr
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With Lure, Nils Michals extends to us a world of radiant detail, sometimes the world feels painfully beautiful, and eerie inner song. Moving between quietly charged description and sweeps of anguish and abrupt joy, Michals is always aware of how his attention treads on the landscapes and people it …
Snow House
Poems
Av Brian Swann
Häftad, 2006
281 kr
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The poems that make up Brian Swann's rich and constantly rewarding book Snow House are muscular and masterful. He has a marvelous ear and the ability to write poems that move insistently forward to a lovely and offhand resolution. The long and sinuous sentences that make up this collection range …
It Was a Terrible Cloud at Twilight
Poems
Häftad, 2008
265 kr
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In It was a terrible cloud at twilight, Alessandra Lynch reflects on personal, social, moral, and historical terror. These ambitious, imagistic poems move through subjects of violence and loss that are both deeply personal and elegantly public. The elegiac poems in the final section are dedicated …
Self-Portrait with Expletives
Poems
Av Kevin Clark
Häftad, 2010
265 kr
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I swear Kevin Clark's Self-Portrait with Expletives is the book I've have been waiting to read -- the book in which the past and present are not strangers, but lovers. Clark's ecstatic poems time-travel with alacrity on their quest for transformation and song. Intimate, hilarious, attentive, …
What's This, Bombardier?
Poems
Häftad, 2011
249 kr
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Ryan Flaherty pays particular attention to linguistic slippages and etymologies as heexamines the persistent difficulties of language and love in his latest collection, What's This, Bombardier? Alternating between self-deprecating humor and striking images, wry wordplay and a sense of awe at the …
Paradise, Indiana
Poems
Av Bruce Snider
Häftad, 2012
249 kr
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A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish for bluegill; a young drag queen returns home to die. At the center of it all, a teenage boy's suicide resonates through the lives of those closest to him. The poems in Bruce Snider's Paradise, …
Sylph
Poems
Häftad, 2014
265 kr
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In her first collection of poems, Abigail Cloud draws inspiration from nineteenth-century European Romantic ballets, which often portrayed scorned females as mystical spirits such as sylphs, shades, and wilis. Some of these creatures seduced men into dancing until they died -- punishment for …
Random Exorcisms
Poems
Häftad, 2016
249 kr
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In his latest collection, Random Exorcisms, Adrian C. Louis writes poems with the rough-edged wit and heart-wrenching sincerity that make him one of the seminal voices in contemporary American poetry. Deeply rooted in Native American traditions and folklore, these poems tackle a broad range of …
Novena
Poems
Häftad, 2017
265 kr
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In poems inspired by and sometimes borrowing their forms from the novena, a nine-day Catholic prayer addressing and seeking intercession from the Virgin Mary, Jacques Rancourt explores the complexities of faith, desire, beauty, and justice. Novena is a collection that invites prayer not to symbols …
