National Poetry Series – serie
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Nigger Heaven
Häftad, 1999
351 kr
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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 …
Harbinger
Poems
Häftad, 2022
187 kr
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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 …
Palladium
POEMS
Av Alice Fulton
Häftad, 1986
330 kr
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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
Av Paul Zimmer
Häftad, 1989
298 kr
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"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 …
Stubborn
POEMS
Av Roland Flint
Häftad, 1990
276 kr
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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 …
My Alexandria
POEMS
Av Mark Doty
Häftad, 1993
281 kr
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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 …
Broken World
POEMS
Häftad, 1996
298 kr
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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 …
Nine Skies
POEMS
Häftad, 1997
298 kr
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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; …
So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until It Breaks
POEMS
Häftad, 1999
282 kr
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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 …
Renunciation
POEMS
Av Cory Marks
Häftad, 2000
298 kr
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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 …
Manderley
POEMS
Häftad, 2001
298 kr
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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 …
Theory of Devolution
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Av David Groff
Häftad, 2002
276 kr
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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 …
Rhythm & Booze
POEMS
Av Julie Kane
Häftad, 2003
298 kr
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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 …
Shiva's Drum
Häftad, 2004
298 kr
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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 …
Michelangelo's Seizure
Av Steve Gehrke
Häftad, 2007
298 kr
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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 …
Spring
Av Oni Buchanan
Häftad, 2008
297 kr
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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 …
Scriptorium
Poems
Häftad, 2016
183 kr
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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 …
Exit, Civilian
Poems
Av Idra Novey
Häftad, 2012
317 kr
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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 …
Monograph
Poems
Av Simeon Berry
Häftad, 2015
317 kr
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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, …
Trébuchet
Poems
Häftad, 2016
312 kr
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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 …
Thaw
Poems
E-bok, 2017
386 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, …
What It Doesn't Have to Do With
Poems
Häftad, 2018
317 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, …
What It Doesn't Have to Do With
Poems
E-bok, 2018
386 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, …
Valuing
Poems
E-bok, 2019
386 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 …
Survival Strategies
Poems
Häftad, 2023
307 kr
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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, …
Blue Loop
Poems
Av AJ White
Häftad, 2025
263 kr
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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 …
Cloud Builder
Häftad, 2026
296 kr
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What do we owe the dead? This is the question at the heart of Cloud Builder, in which Weston Morrow interrogates the burden of legacy and the ever-watchful gaze of our deceased loved ones. His search takes him from the landscapes of the late Romantics to the soccer fields and baseball diamonds of …
