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Harbinger
Poems
AvShelley Puhak
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
183 kr
Skickas
The speaker in Shelley Puhaks Harbinger is no closer to knowing herself than I am, than we are, which is why we trust her. Each similarly titled poem holds a triptych mirror up to the artist and, in so doing, up to us all, so we may better see ourselves as we are. In ever-changing form. Nicole Sealey
A stunning meditation on artistic creation and historical memory from the winner of the National Poetry Series, chosen by Nicole Sealey
From Portrait of the artist, gaslit to Portrait of the artists ancestors to Portrait of the artist reading a newspaper, the poems in Harbinger reflect the many facets of the artistic self as well as the myriad influences and experiences that contribute to that identity.
Portrait of the artist as a young man has long been the default position, but these poems carve out a different vantage point. Seen through the lens of motherhood, of working as a waitress, of watching election results come in, or of simply sitting in a waiting room, making artand making an artistis a process wherein historical events collide with lived experience, both deeply personal but also unfailingly political. When we make art, for what (and to whom) are we accountable? And what does art-making demand of us, especially as apocalypse looms?
With its surprising insights, Harbinger, the latest book from acclaimed poet Shelley Puhak, shows us the reality of the constantly evolving and unstable self, a portrait of the artist as fragmentary, impressionable, and always in flux.
Palladium
POEMS
AvAlice Fulton
Häftad, Engelska, 1986
327 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Alice Fulton's writing has been characterized by The New Yorkeras "electrifying," and the poet herself, according to Publishers Weekly, "may be Dickinson's postmodern heir."
GREAT BIRD of LOVE
POEMS
AvPaul Zimmer
Häftad, Engelska, 1989
296 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
"The Great Bird of Love brims with a life so intense that itmust be told quietly. The pages are quirky, full of surprise, variety,humor, and the sustaining reliable voice of a worthy guide to experience.These poems come from perception informed by sympathy, and the languageis alive with verbal adventure."-- William StaffordA book in the National Poetry Series
Stubborn
POEMS
AvRoland Flint
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
276 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
Selected by Dave Smith as one of the five volumes published in 1990 in the National Poetry Series "I could not leave this book aside nor, among so many worthy others,could I choose another. It interested me, crooned to me, and in theend I loved it. I hope he writes many more. Read it. You will see why." Dave Smith "A poet whose own craft is beyond dispute and whose gifted hearthas something to tell us about our ordinary selves we had almost despairedof hearing again in the American tongue." John D. Bernard,Poet Lore
Surface
POEMS
AvLaura Mullen
Häftad, Engelska, 1991
296 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
My Alexandria
POEMS
AvMark Doty
Häftad, Engelska, 1993
280 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This is the first cloth edition of one of the most highly praised and touching collections of poems to appear in recent years. In selecting it for the National Poetry Series, Philip Levine said: "The courage of this book is that it looks away from nothing: the miracle is that wherever it looks it finds poetry. . . . Mark Doty is a maker of big, risky, fearless poems in which ordinary human experience becomes music."
Broken World
POEMS
AvMarcus Cafagna
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
296 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as one of five volumes published in 1996 in the National Poetry Series"Marcus CafagÑa is a poet who shies at nothing, who willnot turn away from what he sees--ordinary people struggling against, andsometimes breaking on, the wheel of their fate. The Broken Worldis a deeply humane and accomplished first book--probing, watchful, compassionate,and necessary."-- Edward Hirsch"I challenge anyone to be unmoved by The Broken World. CafagÑanever gives up in these difficult, heart-rending poems." -- Jim Daniels,editor of Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on RaceThe Broken World, the powerful debut of a poet of great depthand maturity, begins with narratives of individuals caught up in circumstance--adistressed girl on a Detroit overpass, a boy shooting baskets at a crisiscenter. By the end of the slim volume, Marcus CafagÑa has led usthrough the postwar New York of Jewish Holocaust survivors to his nativeMichigan, where his marriage ended tragically with his wife's suicide,a death that has come to symbolize for CafagÑa the confusion andmadness of the twentieth century.
Nine Skies
POEMS
AvA V. Christie
Häftad, Engelska, 1997
296 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Selected by Sandra McPhersonfor the 1996 National Poetry SeriesThe late poet James V. Dickeywas judge of the Yale Prize poetry competition when he wrote to A. V.Christie, one of the finalists, "I have become very fond of yourpoems, especially the elegiac ones. . . . Your work is heartfelt; onebelieves every word of it. . . . You have given me much in-depth pleasure;have moved me strongly."The work in Nine Skies is as Dickey described it--heartfelt, moving. Here is what otherssay about it:"Beautifully craftedand sustained, with six or seven poems as fine as anything being writtentoday. This remarkable book is a rite of passage for the poet and speaksof even better things to come." -- Elizabeth Spires"Only the best poetryis written this well, with this much craft and conviction. Of course thepoems are meditative and elegiac, brilliant and finely detailed, but theyare also thought through and wholly felt, so that even in their smallmoments they celebrate."-- Stanley Plumly"A. V. Christie writeswith a Romantic's eye and a Realist's heart, so there is no sentimentality,that sickness afflicting our age. The voice on these pages is hard-bitten,luxuriant, and true." -- Henri Cole"Nine Skies isa graceful realization in each detail of elegy or celebration." --Sandra McPherson
So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until It Breaks
POEMS
AvRigoberto Gonzalez
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
276 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
An astonishing new talent, Rigoberto GonzÁlez writes with a clarity of the senses that pulls the reader into a marvelous and unfamiliar world. The sidewalk preacher, the umbrella salesman, the nurse on the graveyard shift, the professional mourner- all allow GonzÁlez a clandestine glimpse of their lives. Crackling with the dry electricity of the desert and flashing with the brilliant colors of Mexico, GonzÁlez's poems are rooted in the fertile soil beneath poverty's dust, the border's violence, and longing's desolation.
Nigger Heaven
AvCarl Van Vechten
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
351 kr
Skickas
No other contemporary novel received the volume and intensity of criticism and curiosity that greeted Nigger Heaven upon its publication in 1926. Carl Van Vechten's novel generated a storm of controversy because of its scandalous title and fed an insatiable hunger on the part of the reading public for material relating to the black culture of Harlem's jazz clubs, cabarets, and social events. "The book and not the title is the thing," James Weldon Johnson insisted with regard to Nigger Heaven, and the book is indeed a nuanced and vibrant portrait of "the great black walled city" of Harlem. Opening on a scene of tawdry sensationalism, Nigger Heaven shifts decisively to a world of black middle-class respectability, defined by intellectual values, professional ambition, and an acute consciousness of class and racial identity. Here is a Harlem where upper-class elites discuss art in well-appointed drawing rooms; rowdy and lascivious drunks spend long nights in jazz clubs and speakeasies; and politically conscious young intellectuals drink coffee and debate "the race problem" in walk-up apartments. At the center of the story, two young people--a quiet, serious librarian and a volatile aspiring writer--struggle to love each other as their dreams are slowly suffocated by racism. This reissue is based on the seventh printing, which included poetry composed by Langston Hughes especially for the book. Kathleen Pfeiffer's astute introduction investigates the controversy surrounding the shocking title and shows how the novel functioned in its time as a site to contest racial violence. She also signals questions of racial authenticity and racial identity raised by a novel about black culture written by a white admirer of that culture.
Renunciation
POEMS
AvCory Marks
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
296 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Renunciation introduces a powerful new poet whose work, though it treads the ground of silence and loss, bears a redemptive grace. Disquieting and healing, Corey Marks's poems hold to "a moment when possibility / bristles so close it holds a shape in the air." The sculptor Gislebertus, Doubting Thomas, Theseus, and John Keats share space in the pages of Renunciation with a survivor of the bomb in Hiroshima, a blind girl in the South American jungle, and DeSoto's thirteen swine in the hold of a ship bound for America. Rich with almost palpable nuances of light and sound, Marks's lyric meditations unravel a constant play of loss and continuation, "mending sense from spare threads" and hovering over connections undone even as they are made.
Manderley
POEMS
AvRebecca Wolff
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
296 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Selected by Robert Pinsky as one of five volumes published in 2001 in the National Poetry Series In the Manderley of Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's forbidding haven of mocking ghosts and secrets that refuse to remain buried, nothing is as it seems. So in this stunning debut collection by Rebecca Wolff, cities, partners, mothers, sisters, friends, and perfect strangers all disguise their true faces, while they who seek connection are "transported from one great gaping / hole in the fabric / of our knowledge to another." No passage is too dark, no garden too tangled for the troubled dreamer of Manderley. Wolff turns a quicksilver gaze on a fluid world where both the real and the imaginary are transfigured. Tempering steely candor with a sophisticated delight in wordplay, these poems turn on a dime from the sensual to the eerie, the resigned to the hopeful, the comforting to the shocking. Each poem weaves together layers of dream, remembrance, and fantasy, distilling from romantic excess a gritty, spare language of truth-telling and surprise.
Theory of Devolution
POEMS
AvDavid Groff
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
276 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
With blazing wit and a searing language, David Groff writes fiercely of erosion and endurance in this stunning debut collection. At turns fervent and elegiac, dishy and sly, these poems confront the effect of AIDS and HIV on a brotherhood that dealt firsthand with grief and loss and, later, the tenuous prospect of survival. Peopled with the spirits of dead gay men, uncertain lovers, mortal parents, and spectral friends and brothers, Groff's poems are unified by their preoccupation with what erodes us and what we can hold onto when life and love devolve. Theory of Devolution is a book of balances: alternately passionate and restrained, headlong and meditative, engaged and knowingly detached. David Groff's territory is Chelsea and Fire Island, at the end of a nightmare crisis but nowhere near the end of an epidemic. How, in such times, to speak? These pages give voice to an ‘always-dying particular man,' examining the evidence of loss and pleasure and the deep bonds of affection in poems alive with ‘an odd crabbed pulse of beauty they refine to true detail.'" –- Mark Doty "David Groff's poems open our attention by a subtle, unflinching love of human being. The live, known past spins sharp and fine in and out of the now of his vision. His language exhilarates." –- Marie Ponsot
Rhythm & Booze
POEMS
AvJulie Kane
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
296 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Arranged in four parts--each associated with a particular Louisiana city--the poems in Rhythm & Booze trace the hardships and uncertainties, as well as the moments of unexpected sublimity, of a life lived in a continuous struggle between fresh starts and destructive old patterns. Mirroring the music of New Orleans, Kane's poems combine traditional form with improvisational flourishes. Rhythm & Booze charts her progress as she undertakes a number of journeys, from youth to experience, from blues bars to college classrooms, from city to country, from chaos to something approaching peace.
Shiva's Drum
AvStephen Cramer
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
296 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Departing from simple observations of the people and setting around him-- neighbors, friends, and lovers in New York City--Stephen Cramer's Shiva's Drum explores personal and familial relationships set to the rhythms of jazz in an urban landscape. Though comfortable at the edge, these poems deal with reality and move forward by transforming pain into beauty.
Welcome
AvDavid Friedman
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
276 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
Fables for the modern age
Michelangelo's Seizure
AvSteve Gehrke
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
296 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Providing poetic entry into the visual artsIn Michelangelo's Seizure, Steve Gehrke seizes the lives of several classic and contemporary painters--from Caravaggio and Magritte to Francis Bacon and Jackson Pollock--to demonstrate how these artists transformed physical, psychological, and political suffering into art. Mirroring the brushstrokes in long, metaphor-laden sentences, Gehrke moves freely through the canvas, into and out of the artists' lives, into the public realm, into history, to capture the way the creative mind can transform even the most violent surroundings--a prison cell, a battlefield, a madhouse--into a masterpiece
Spring
AvOni Buchanan
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
291 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
2009 Massachusetts Book Awards WinnerRepresenting nothing less than a tour-de-force of formal invention and emotional intensity, Oni Buchanan’s Spring encompasses radically contrasting work. Ecstatic, visually intricate rhapsodies are juxtaposed with tight, sonnet-like poems, and wispy columns of verse brush up against large-scale epics and kinetic text. This collection’s point of departure is the paradox of existence as an individual in a political and violent world. All of the formal innovations in this book have in common an urgent need for texture and polyphony, and the poems attempt to discover how to fulfill the individual human responsibility of surviving as a resiliently loving and hopeful living creature. An accompanying multimedia compact disc offers a full Flash-animated version of the printed kinetic work, “The Mandrake Vehicles.”
DIARY
Work
AvYi Wei
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
279 kr
Kommande
Del 1 - National Poetry Series
Scriptorium
Poems
AvMelissa Range
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
183 kr
Skickas
National Poetry Series Winner A collection of poems exploring religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary Appalachia—with a foreword by Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith The poems in Scriptorium are primarily concerned with questions of religious authority. The medieval scriptorium, the central image of the collection, stands for that authority but also for its subversion; it is both a place where religious ideas are codified in writing and a place where an individual scribe might, with a sly movement of the pen, express unorthodox religious thoughts and experiences. In addition to exploring the ways language is used, or abused, to claim religious authority, Scriptorium also addresses the authority of the vernacular in various time periods and places, particularly in the Appalachian slang of the author’s East Tennessee upbringing. Throughout Scriptorium, the historical mingles with the personal: poems about medieval art, theology, and verse share space with poems that chronicle personal struggles with faith and doubt.
Exit, Civilian
Poems
AvIdra Novey
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
308 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
In her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century. From the beeping doors of a prison in New York to cellos playing in a former jail in Chile, she looks at prisons that have opened, closed, and transformed to examine how the stigma of incarceration has altered American families, including her own. Novey writes of the expanding prison complex that was once a field and imagines what’s next for the civilians who enter and exit it each day.On BafflementWe drew a prison in the sand and it wouldn’t go away.Not even beneath the foam of the biggest waves.The torn leg of a starfish clung to the door.A piece of seaweed clung to the bars over the windows.The tide came in higher and we thought, So much for the prison.Somebody asked why did we draw that thing,And were we growing old watching it this way.We felt compelled to make love in the sand a few feet off.Then we drew another one, just to see if we’d make love again.
Monograph
Poems
AvSimeon Berry
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
308 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Written in narrow sections that blur the distinction between flash fiction and prose poetry, between memoir and meditation, Monograph veers from the elliptical to the explosive as it dissects the Gordian knot of a marriage’s intellectual, sexual, and domestic lives. Invoking Raymond Chandler, Pythagoras, Joan Didion, and Virginia Woolf as presiding spirits, Simeon Berry curates the negative space of each wry tableau, destabilizing the high seriousness of every lyric aside and slipping quantum uncertainty into the stark lineaments of loss.
Trébuchet
Poems
AvDanniel Schoonebeek
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
306 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Trébuchet is the much-anticipated follow-up to Danniel Schoonebeek’s debut book of poems, American Barricade, which was named one of 2014’s ten best books of poetry by Poets & Writers and hailed as a “groundbreaking first book that stands to influence its author’s generation” by Boston Review.The poems in Trébuchet—which takes its name from the catapult used to break down walls and barriers during medieval wars—are at once combative and incendiary, tackling contemporary politics in a more direct, personal way than Schoonebeek ever has before. Addressing gun violence, poverty, fascism, surveillance, white privilege, the protest movement, censorship, American history, torture, and net neutrality, Schoonebeek’s writing is marked by a unique use of slang and jargon, manipulation of white space, and precise rhythm on the page. His poems have been praised by many critics for their momentum, obsession with weird language, and the precision of their enjambments and end-stopped lines.Though American Barricade and Trébuchet speak to one another and map an evolving poetics, Schoonebeek’s second collection is a departure from the aesthetics and obsessions that defined his first, which was invested in the politics of family dynamics and the insistence in this country on obtaining power and wealth. If American Barricade was the book that wanted to kick open the door, Trébuchet is the book that wants to tear the door off its hinges.
Thaw
Poems
AvChelsea Dingman
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
378 kr
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Thaw delves into the issues at the core of a resilient family: kinship, poverty, violence, death, abuse, and grief. The poems follow the speaker, as both mother and daughter, as she travels through harsh and beautiful landscapes in Canada, Sweden, and the United States. Moving through these places, she examines how her surroundings affect her inner landscape; the natural world becomes both a place of refuge and a threat. As these themes unfold, the histories and cold truths of her family and country intertwine and impinge on her, even as she tries to outrun them.Unflinching and raw, Chelsea Dingman’s poems meander between childhood and adulthood, the experiences of being a mother and a child paralleling one another. Her investigation becomes one of body, self, woman, mother, daughter, sister, and citizen, and of what those roles mean in the contexts of family and country.
What It Doesn't Have to Do With
Poems
AvLindsay Bernal
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
308 kr
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Lindsay Bernal’s What It Doesn’t Have to Do With explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality. The elegiac meditations throughout this collection link the objectification of women in art and life to personal narratives of heartbreak, urban estrangement, and suicide. Haunted by the notions of femininity and domesticity, the protagonist struggles to define the self in shifting cultural landscapes. Ezra Pound, Louise Bourgeois, and Morrissey coexist within the unruly, feminist imagination of these poems. Through quick turns and juxtapositions, Lindsay Bernal navigates the paradoxical states of grief and love, alternating between vulnerability and irony, despair and humor. Her wry, contemporary voice confronts serious subjects with unpredictable wit.
What It Doesn't Have to Do With
Poems
AvLindsay Bernal
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
378 kr
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Lindsay Bernal’s What It Doesn’t Have to Do With explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality. The elegiac meditations throughout this collection link the objectification of women in art and life to personal narratives of heartbreak, urban estrangement, and suicide. Haunted by the notions of femininity and domesticity, the protagonist struggles to define the self in shifting cultural landscapes. Ezra Pound, Louise Bourgeois, and Morrissey coexist within the unruly, feminist imagination of these poems. Through quick turns and juxtapositions, Lindsay Bernal navigates the paradoxical states of grief and love, alternating between vulnerability and irony, despair and humor. Her wry, contemporary voice confronts serious subjects with unpredictable wit.
Valuing
Poems
AvChristopher Kondrich
E-bok
Engelska, 2019
378 kr
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In his second collection, Christopher Kondrich navigates the link between what we see as our inner value and the external world that supplies it. Valuing’s deeply personal poems explore faith, love, ethics, and mortality from a variety of angles and through a variety of poetic forms as a means of questioning the origination of one’s own value system. Does it come from the belief in a god, from the love one gives or receives, or from the diminution of the self and its desires? If “you cannot sneak through your life,” as the speaker of one of Valuing’s poems proclaims, then how might one ensure that the noise a life inevitably makes is an echo of the values one holds dear?
Survival Strategies
Poems
AvTennison S. Black
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
298 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Survival Strategies is a love story wrapped in a reckoning. Arranged in three parts, this collection of poems follows a narrative arc.The speaker, who is returning to the Sonoran of her birth after many years away, takes us with her on a journey of enlightenment. In the course of the first section, "The Sunniest Place on Earth," we learn that the speaker has developed a deep hatred of the desert (a reflection of herself) due to the way she was treated and what she witnessed while being raised there. As we move through to part 2, "Estivate So You Don't Die," we see the speaker grappling with her past as a sensitive person amid the rugged realities of life in the Southwest. As this section closes, there is a long-form prose poem assembled as a mythopoetic fable titled, "The Mother and the Mountain," that explores her mother's childhood. This section brings revelation to some of what precedes it and reveals the speaker as the buttress of this family who, though an outsider, walks a path first laid by her mother. The final section is titled simply, "After," and as its title suggests, is a short set of poems that wrap up the arc and bring peace to our speaker as she comes to realize she never hated the desert, nor herself, as she is set free by the ocean of the Pacific Northwest.
Blue Loop
Poems
AvAJ White
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
258 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Blue Loop is composed of poems about addiction and recovery, using meditation as a lens through which memories of loss and harm might begin to be processed and accepted. It seeks to prioritize—and demonstrate—dwelling with the self in the present moment, avoiding the tendency to do what those in the recovery community call future tripping: our innate, strong desire to visit things not yet come to pass through the mode of anxious attachment. In fact, these poems are against attachment, in the Buddhist sense, accepting and appreciating the beneficial gifts of calm from loved ones and community of all kinds but in search of release from the need to rely on such connections completely. Therefore, often, they are lonely poems.Despite searching for connection, the speaker remains most faithful to—and finds grounding in—the self. The goal of Blue Loop is to provide potential strategies and modes of thought for readers navigating any form of recovery or in search of more balanced being.
Good Thief
AvMarie Howe
Häftad, Engelska, 1988
194 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

National Poetry Series – serie

Harbinger

Palladium

GREAT BIRD of LOVE

Stubborn

Surface

My Alexandria

Broken World

Nine Skies

So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until It Breaks

Nigger Heaven

Renunciation

Manderley

Theory of Devolution

Rhythm & Booze

Shiva's Drum

Welcome

Michelangelo's Seizure

Spring

DIARY

Scriptorium

Exit, Civilian

Monograph

Trébuchet

Thaw

What It Doesn't Have to Do With

What It Doesn't Have to Do With

Valuing

Survival Strategies

Blue Loop

Good Thief