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Imaginary Present
Essays in Quantum Poetics
Häftad, 2025
296 kr
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19th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards Poetry FinalistThe Imaginary Present by award-winning poet and professor Amy Catanzano explores cutting-edge scientific fields such as particle physics and astrophysics, and branches of physics such as quantum theory and relativity, through a poetic …
To Go Into the Words
Häftad, 2023
512 kr
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To Go Into the Words is the latest book of critical prose from renowned poet and scholar of Jewish literature Norman Finkelstein. Through a rigorous examination of poets such as William Bronk, Helen Adam, and Nathaniel Mackey, the book engages the contemporary poetic fascination with transcendence …
How to Draw a Circle
On Reading and Writing
Häftad, 2024
373 kr
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What is it to write a poem? What work do words do when placed with care and vision into the intensely charged space of poetic effort? How to Draw a Circle does not seek to answer those questions, but to encounter them as fully and honestly as one can. The thread running through the essays is an …
Spiral of Memory
Interviews
Häftad, 1995
373 kr
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With the recently-published The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, Joy Harjo has emerged as one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation. Over the past two decades, Harjo has refined and perfected a unique poetic voice that speaks her multifaceted experience as Native American, woman …
Sound of Listening
Poetry as Refuge and Resistance
Häftad, 2018
443 kr
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Philip Metres stakes a claim for the cultural work that poems can perform—from providing refuge to embodying resistance, from recovering silenced voices to building a more just world, in communities of solitude and solidarity. Gathering a decade of his writing on poetry, he widens our sense of …
You Must Revise Your Life
Häftad, 1986
212 kr
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Stafford reflects on the writing process and on the influences on his art
Windows and Doors
A Poet Reads Literary Theory
Av Natasha Saje
Häftad, 2014
443 kr
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Windows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Sajé’s nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of …
Yes, There Will Be Singing
Häftad, 2014
408 kr
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Yes, There Will Be Singing brings together Marilyn Krysl’s essays on the origins of language and poetry, poetic form, the poetry of witness, and poetry’s collaboration with the healing arts. Beginning with pieces on her own origins as a poet, she branches into poetry’s profound spiritual and …
Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition
Toward a 21st Century Poetics
Häftad, 2017
512 kr
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Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition gathers Rigoberto González’s most important essays and book reviews, many of which consider the work of emerging poets whose identities and political positions are transforming what readers expect from contemporary poetry. A number of these voices represent …
Mirror Diary
Selected Essays
Häftad, 2017
443 kr
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A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.The Mirror Diary tracks the emergence of an original poetic voice and a learned …
Someone Shot My Book
Av Julie Carr
Häftad, 2018
443 kr
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Approaching the practices of reading and writing from a feminist perspective, Julie Carr asks vital ethical questions about the role of poetry—and of art in general—in a violent culture. She addresses issues such as the art of listening, the body and the avant-garde, gun violence, police brutality, …
Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls
Essays on the Cultural Life of Poetry
Häftad, 2019
443 kr
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The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls collects 16 essays by late Tony Hoagland. Gathered by Hoagland himself into a volume for the Poets on Poetry series, these pieces grapple with an expansive range of poetic and cultural concerns—and the surprising and necessary knowledge …
Beat Beyond
Selected Prose of Major Jackson
Häftad, 2022
303 kr
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In this collection of essays, talks, and reviews, Major Jackson revels in the work of poetry not only to limn and assess the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of poets, but to amplify the controversies and inner conflicts that define our age: political unrest, climate crises, the fallout from …
Ghosts and the Overplus
Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2024
373 kr
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Finalist: 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Essays | March 6, 2025Ghosts and the Overplus is a celebration of lyric poetry in the twenty-first century and how lyric poetry incorporates the voices of our age as well as the poetic “ghosts” from the past. Acclaimed poet and award-winning …
Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)
poetry & parenting
Häftad, 2024
373 kr
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Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It), the first book of nonfiction by poet Nathaniel Perry, is a group of essays that considers poetry in the context of parenting—what poems and poets might teach us about parenting, what parenting might teach us about poetry, and also, what either of those things …
Radical Poetics
Essays on Literature & Culture
Häftad, 2025
399 kr
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Literature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers and theorists, poet and professor Khadijah Queen observes questions of life and literature, human …
Nothingism
Poetry at the End of Print Culture
Häftad, 2025
296 kr
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2026 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism Winner!What is the internet doing to poetry? Good question! In Nothingism, Jason Schneiderman grapples with the way that digital culture has begun to reshape America’s poetry landscape, examining this profound shift in the way that poetry is written, read, …
Dispatches from the Land of Erasure
Essays and Conversations
Häftad, 2025
399 kr
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2026 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism FinalistDrawn from a decade of writing and conversations by Arab American poet and writer Philip Metres, Dispatches from the Land of Erasure redefines the writer’s role as a catalyst for justice and a resister of empire. Gathering together a wide range of …
Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds
Form, Futurity, and Documentary Desire
Av Wendy Xu
Häftad, 2025
296 kr
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2025 Foreword INDIES Finalist for EssaysMoving freely between essay, close-reading, ekphrasis, memoir, travelogue, lecture notes, poetry, and even monologue, Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds presents a series of “thinking-throughs” of formally innovative and politically oriented poets …
What the Mirror Said
The Necessity of Black Women in Poetry
Häftad, 2026
250 kr
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When did you feel the pull of poetry? For Ashley M. Jones, the moment she knew she would be a poet was at seven years old—reciting “Harriet Tubman” by Eloise Greenfield. That moment, that poem, showed her there was a place for her in the world of literature as her full Black self. As she continued …
Trajectories
Crossing the Map of Poetry
Häftad, 2027
337 kr
Kommande
In Trajectories, poet, translator, human rights advocate, and world traveler Carolyne Wright maps her poetic path in the crossing of cultural, linguistic, and national boundaries. From her origins in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest through Latin America (Chile, Brazil) and South Asia (India, …
Becoming Hybrid
Häftad, 2027
337 kr
Kommande
Becoming Hybrid offers an intimate exploration of creative process and hybrid poetics. Weaving together essays, interviews, personal narrative, and pedagogical reflections, this book explores what it means to be “hybrid” in the twenty-first century, as artists increasingly produce work that …
Poetics of Dislocation
Häftad, 2009
391 kr
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Poetics of Dislocation sets the work of contemporary American poetry within the streams of migration that have made the nation what it is in the twenty-first century. There are few poets better qualified to muse on that context than Meena Alexander, who spent her life studying at prestigious …
First Loves and Other Adventures
Häftad, 2010
373 kr
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Grace Schulman's acclaimed poetry is often about joy, the celebration of the miraculous, and the birth of beauty from adversity. In her new prose collection, she explores the passion for reading and other disciplines that led her to exult in her craft.In First Loves and Other Adventures Schulman …
Martian Muse
Further Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Av Reginald Shepherd, Robert Philen
Häftad, 2010
356 kr
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Those who have read Orpheus in the Bronx, Reginald Shepherd's previous collection of essays about the act of creating poetry, and those who take on the task, can immediately understand why it was a national finalist for a prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. Shepherd was candid and …
Unauthorized Voices
Essays on Poets and Poetry, 1987-2009
Häftad, 2010
478 kr
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Praise for Marilyn Hacker:"How piercing the duet we're offered between Marilyn Hacker and the reality principle. Reality saying, it’s impossible, something's always sacrificed: you can't be so merry and so raw; so learned and earthy; so gut-wrenching, so danceable at once. Can you? To which, …
Orange Alert
essays on poetry, art, and the architecture of silence
Häftad, 2010
478 kr
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"Orange Alert is a poetic and yogic salvo across the bows of our defensive imperial posturing. Kazim Ali's essays leap deftly from homages to avant-garde artists (Yoko Ono, Agnes Martin, John Cage) to awestruck meditations on ancient architecture, from analyses of poets (Jane Cooper, Agha Shahid …
Two Minds of a Western Poet
Av David Mason
Häftad, 2011
443 kr
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Praise for David Mason“. . . richly evocative and rare . . .”—Publishers Weekly“David Mason has succeeded in restoring to poetry some of the territory lost over recent centuries to prose fiction.”—Paul Lake, First ThingsIn this new collection of essays, award-winning poet David Mason further …
Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive
Essays and Commentaries
Häftad, 2010
443 kr
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Prior praise for Martín Espada:"Political poetry at its finest…with his soaring lyrics, Espada broadens our appreciation not only of poetry but of resistance itself."---The Progressive "(Espada) writes beautiful poems about terrible realities."---San Francisco Chronicle A volume in the Poets on …
Diary of a Poem
Häftad, 2011
408 kr
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Praise for Andrew Hudgins"Hudgins . . . [is] one of the few poets of the American South who can be both solemn and sidesplitting in a single poem."---Publishers Weekly"Andrew Hudgins is a natural storyteller . . . The surface[s] of Hudgins's poems---their quirky economy, the sheer music of his …
