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Wells
Av Jenna Butler
Häftad, 2012
267 kr
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Jenna Butler draws on her own experiences of her grandmother's disappearance into senile dementia to reassemble a sensual world in longpoem form that positively crackles with imagery and rhythm. Identities and memories flow and flicker as she strings together fragments of narrative into stories …
Last Temptation of Bond
Av Kimmy Beach
Häftad, 2013
261 kr
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you can't stop it. everyone's expendable, James. everyone's replaceable. even you. especially you. In a penetrating, violent, sexy, and often hilarious apocalypse, a world-famous superspy meets his demise at the hands of an audacious, painstaking poet. Kimmy Beach fuses popular culture and …
You Haven’t Changed a Bit
Stories
Häftad, 2013
267 kr
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Through mesmerizing forays into characterization, voicing, and narrative technique, and with a clean economy of style rare even in short fiction, Astrid Blodgett conjures the moral and existential freight of her fully fledged characters in the throes of realistic moments. From the fascinatingly …
abecedarium
Häftad, 2014
267 kr
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would you believe me when i make consorts of alphabet runaways & stayathomes i have rounded up where they wandered all over the page Dennis Cooley masterfully extends the genre of the abecedary to explore his curiosity of the limitlessness of human communication. With linguistic wit and complexity, …
Most Beautiful Deception
Häftad, 2014
390 kr
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Melissa Morelli Lacroix explores the love and longing, loss and pain, grief and healing found in the music of Frédéric Chopin, Clara Schumann, and Claude Debussy in a series of poetic cycles that respond to each composer’s work. Lacroix writes with her ear finely tuned to the music of death and …
Shy
An Anthology
Av Naomi K. Lewis, Rona Altrows
Häftad, 2013
343 kr
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"We're not exactly scene-stealers, so you don't hear much from us shy folk-and that's usually how we like it." -Elizabeth Zotova, "My Dear X" The pages of this anthology are filled with personal essays and poems of thoughtful musings, raw memories, and humorous self-examinations by authors and …
At the limit of breath
Poems on the films of Jean-Luc Godard
Häftad, 2013
246 kr
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"I wanted this to be a narrative. So finally Jean-Luc went all the way: every line in the script a quotation from somewhere else. Every blessed line. Love doesn't die. It's people who die. Love just goes away." -from "NOUVELLE VAGUE / New Wave (1990)" Stephen Scobie celebrates "the greatest film …
Massacre Street
Av Paul Zits
Häftad, 2013
261 kr
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Merging poetry and historical records, Zits masterfully (re)creates a poetic view of the Frog Lake Massacre of April 2, 1885. His collage and cut-up techniques challenge the histories penned by the event’s recorders and reflect upon the difficult and painful complexities of past and present. He …
as if
Häftad, 2014
267 kr
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as if there could be no other memory a tree invisible remembering itself In as if, E.D. Blodgett takes readers on journeys of contemplation in which he re-imagines the lyric form. Each line leaves the reader breathless as it runs into the next to form a continuous cycle, a continued breath. The …
Trying Again to Stop Time
Selected Poems
Häftad, 2015
267 kr
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“It’s a losing battle:my words have no chance against time.Sometimes,unable to catch up with imagination,I leave the battle, candle in hand,in complete darkness.”— from “Trying Again to Stop Time"Jalal Barzanji chronicles the path of exile and estrangement from his beloved native Kurdistan to his …
Year of Days
Av Myrl Coulter
Häftad, 2015
317 kr
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“As soon as she was gone from this earth, I felt an overwhelming need for more of her. I had to find her again. But how do you find someone after they’re gone for good?”After her mother succumbed to a rare form of dementia, Myrl Coulter turned the eulogy she had written for the funeral into a …
Standard candles
Av Alice Major
Häftad, 2015
261 kr
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Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major’s earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle wonders in form and subject. Her voice resonates through experiments with old and new poetic forms as she imbues observed and imagined phenomena—from the …
100 Days
Häftad, 2016
403 kr
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100 days... 100 days that should not have been... 100 days the world could have stopped. But did not. For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem—each poem recalling the senseless loss of life and of innocence. Okot Bitek draws on her own …
Sleeping in Tall Grass
Häftad, 2016
267 kr
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"My emptiness will not befrenetic with the frictionof my father's silencesbut still as the unmarked gravesof his many forgotten selves"—From "Salt"A cycle of poems, Sleeping in Tall Grass takes an unsparing look at a painful, sometimes abusive, yet strangely redemptive family story enfolded within …
Believing is not the same as Being Saved
Av Lisa Martin
Häftad, 2017
259 kr
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Lisa Martin’s new poetry collection seeks the kind of lyric truth that lives in paradox, in the dwelling together of seeming opposites such as life and death, love and loss, faith and doubt, joy and sorrow. Here readers will find a range of moods, tones, and subjects, as well as both traditional …
Little Wildheart
Häftad, 2017
261 kr
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By turns quirky, startling, earthy, and hope-filled, Micheline Maylor’s poems slip effortlessly through topics ranging from what we give up as we age to regrets for love that has passed, the interplay between the animal world and human thought, and the myths we append to ourselves and others. An …
Listen. If
Häftad, 2017
267 kr
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first snow falling slowhangs in the aira curtain drifting therethickening sight—“Winter”In this new collection, Douglas Barbour experiments with what he calls “rhythmically intense open form.” Listen. If presents technically innovative poetry that invites the reader to join in some serious play. …
Rising Abruptly
Stories
Häftad, 2016
343 kr
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Gisèle Villeneuve’s short stories test the elastic pull between passion and terror. For inspiration, Villeneuve turned to her personal history to examine what lures urban dwellers outdoors, to test themselves against peaks and valleys. Using the overarching metaphor of mountain climbing, she plays …
Nuala
A Fable
Av Kimmy Beach
Häftad, 2017
267 kr
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“Shh, my Nuala. I am with you. Today I shall teach you the newness of you.”As the Engine breathes life into Nuala, her gaze falls on Teacher-Servant, the chosen one. He alone will be able to hear her thoughts and interpret her emotions. But soon Teacher-Servant starts to worry that Nuala will be …
Annie Muktuk and Other Stories
Häftad, 2017
403 kr
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I woke up with Moses Henry’s boot holding open my jaw and my right eye was looking into his gun barrel. I heard the slow words, “Take. It. Back.” I know one thing about Moses Henry; he means business when he means business. I took it back and for the last eight months I have not uttered Annie …
Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories
Av Myrl Coulter
Häftad, 2017
267 kr
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Secrets aren’t good for families. — from “Big Luck Island”In The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories—a collection of new, delightful, distinctive short stories—everyone is missing something or someone; every family is riven by secrets and absences. From “The Remedy,” a tale of revenge and …
Welcome to the Anthropocene
Av Alice Major
Häftad, 2018
403 kr
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Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major’s most persistent question—“Where do we fit in the universe?”—is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, …
Rain Shadow
Häftad, 2018
259 kr
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Rain Shadow is a collection of poetry that explores the fraught relationship between the natural world and humans yearning to connect with something greater than themselves. The poems range through destabilized lives and landscapes, fathoming presence and absence, transformation and oblivion. They …
Waiting
An Anthology of Essays
Häftad, 2018
471 kr
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Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting—for birth, death, appointments, acceptance, forgiveness, redemption. This collection of thirty-two personal essays is as much about hope as it is about waiting. Featuring literary voices from the …
There Are Not Enough Sad Songs
Häftad, 2019
267 kr
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There is beautyin the teacuplike dressesrequiring crinolineor beaded pursestoo small to carryanything but anger.—from “Inheritance”Marita Dachsel’s third poetry collection explores parenthood, love, and the grief of losing those both close and distant. In the tradition of Karen Solie and Suzanne …
To float, to drown, to close up, to open
Häftad, 2020
244 kr
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In this collection, E. Alex Pierce enters the territory of memory embedded in landscape where “language tied to the land” evokes the cadence of tidal rivers and creates a fluid world. She traces the fragmented childhood beginnings that lead to the formation of a young artist who moves from music, …
Ghosts Still Linger
Av Kat Cameron
Häftad, 2020
244 kr
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In the arena, she shot cigarettes and coins from her trusting husband’s hand. Some women wished she would miss.—from “Little Sure Shot”Kat Cameron’s poetry illuminates the unsung perspectives of the women of the West, creating a compelling narrative that reflects the poet’s own struggles with …
I Am Still Your Negro
An Homage to James Baldwin
Häftad, 2020
363 kr
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Social Justice PoetrySpoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. Her narratives range from the beginnings of the African Diaspora to the story of a stowaway on the Windrush, from racism and sexism in Trump’s America to …
Fields of Light and Stone
Häftad, 2020
244 kr
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You lie awake,needlessly fingeringthis patchwork guilt.Remorse, a codeyou live by; distress callsfor someone to blame.—from “Threads” Following the deaths of her Mennonite grandparents, Angeline Schellenberg began exploring their influence on her life. Her elegiac love letter to them articulates …
You Look Good for Your Age
An Anthology
Av Rona Altrows
Häftad, 2021
473 kr
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“I returned to the same respiratory therapist for my annual checkup. I told her that her words to me, ‘You look good for your age,’ had inspired a book. ‘Wow!’ she said. ‘You wrote a whole book about that?’ ‘Twenty-nine kick-ass writers wrote it,’ I said. She gave me a thumbs up.” From the …
