Walt Mcdonald First-book Series in Poetry – serie
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Burning Wyclif
Inbunden, 2006
267 kr
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'This is probably the best book to come out this year. Not only is this the most beautifully bound book of poetry I think I've ever seen, but Thom Satterlee is obviously a master at his craft' - Suite101.com. 'Thom Satterlee has fashioned a new genre, a contemporary hagiography in verse, primarily …
Skin
Häftad, 2013
190 kr
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Haven’t we all been told how beauty is thin as truth? And don’t we believe and disbelieve this “lie we’d carve and starve for. / We’d suck it till the juice ran down our arms”? Skin compels us, repels us. Beauty may be only skin deep, a fine covering—sensuous, at times Translatorlucent, almost …
Glad Hand of God Points Backwards
Poems
Inbunden, 2014
283 kr
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In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman’s relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and different future. These poems celebrate ritual, love and female sexuality; they bear witness to a …
Your Blue and the Quiet Lament
Poems
Av Lubna Safi
Inbunden, 2022
281 kr
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Your Blue and the Quiet Lament records the textures of grief after a cousin's murder at the hands of the Syrian state reaches the poet through a long-distance phone call. The poems trace a narrative of arrest, imprisonment, and torture in Syria and interweave the difficulties a family experiences …
Lena
Poems
Av Cassie Pruyn
Häftad, 2022
235 kr
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Cassie Pruyn's Lena asks new questions: why we love, why we grieve. We've read elegies before, but not like this. A lush and unsparing first book, Lena asks readers to understand love--crucially, a first love, an erotic love-in the context not of a love lost but instead of an identity gained: we …
Glad Hand of God Points Backwards
Poems
Häftad, 2022
235 kr
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In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman's relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and different future. These poems celebrate ritual, love, and female sexuality; they bear witness to a …
Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees
Poems
Av RK Fauth
Inbunden, 2024
297 kr
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A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees is a collection of poems made of natural imagery, queer metaphors, personal observations, and historical circumstances surrounding honeybees. In the aftermath of a fictional bee extinction, these poems are presented to the post-bee reader as "artifacts." …
Lyme Letters
Poems
Häftad, 2025
213 kr
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The Lyme Letters is epistolary verse that spells out a memoir. R, a non-binary femme character, narrates their experience of disease and recovery through recurrent letters to doctors, pets, family members, lovers, and a "Master." R, in letter form and repurposed religious texts, also explores the …
Overburden
Poems
Av Jolene Brink
Häftad, 2026
217 kr
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On the surface of a mine, overburden is the excess landscape—soil, stone, roots—excavated and pushed aside to get to the valuable material below. But what accumulates when we displace and disrupt? Inside the language of extraction, what can we undercover in that overlooked excess?Jolene Brink's …
Animal of the Sixth Day
Av Laura Fargas, Walter McDonald
Inbunden, 1996
233 kr
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There is such excitement and joy in the poems of Laura Fargasa rush to embrace the earth, an exuberant 'giddy greed' for life. 'I like the voice, the spirit I find in her poems', says Walter McDonald. 'She accepts and celebrates the rich possibilities and, even with the risks and limitations of …
Into a Thousand Mouths
Av Janice Whittington, Robert A. Fink
Inbunden, 1999
249 kr
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In the bone-dry land of mesquites and drought, Janice Whittington has found images that allow her to explore womans place in West Texas and the world from the perspectives of daughter, wife, friend, and mother. Filled with fear and fire, joy and sorrow, dust and water; the poems risk stepping into …
Heartwood
Av Miriam Vermilya, Robert A. Fink
Inbunden, 2000
249 kr
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Miriam Vermilya was a retired grade school teacher and a well known painter and writer in Greenville, Ohio, where she lived. When she died unexpectedly in January of 1999, the Greenville Writers Group, of which she was a founding member, collected these poems into what became the winning manuscript …
Setting the World in Order
Av Rick Campbell, Robert A. Fink
Inbunden, 2001
249 kr
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Rick Campbells journey from the banks of the Ohio to the beaches of Florida is a rhapsody, and the music he makes in ordering his world takes us with him, to the headwaters of a new river. 'Rick Campbells poems leave some sweet dirt under your fingernails proof of hard, honest work when the longing …
Strange Pietà
Av Gregory Fraser, Robert A. Fink
Häftad, 2005
184 kr
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The twelfth volume of poems in the ""Walt McDonald First-Book Series"", Gregory Fraser's ""Strange Piet"" is a compelling exploration of illness and family life, memory and desire, friendship and loss. A major focus of the collection is the poet's relationship to his brother Jonathan, who was born …
Slag
Poems
Inbunden, 2005
249 kr
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'Poignant poems about moments of grace, light beaming through darkness, and beauty found in unexpected places. Sullivan employs a consistently investigative approach that immediately draws readers in. His curiosity and humility are disarming, and readers will willingly follow his path of discovery, …
Keeping My Name
Häftad, 2006
184 kr
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This title is the winner of 2005 Poets' Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and Booklist Editors' Choice 2004. 'For formalists, this author comes as a gift, a poet fully in charge of her forms, subtle and controlled. She embraces the villanele, Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets, the …
Wild Flight
Inbunden, 2008
281 kr
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Soaring across extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture; from the European landscape of World War II to the current war in Iraq, Christine Rhein opens her personal world to the world at large. In poems that explore the historical, social, and …
Leap
Poems
Inbunden, 2009
281 kr
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Leap is a book about not looking away. These poems focus on the hard subjects: a child's life-threatening illness, a mothers struggle with the serious illnesses of all her children, the ends of marriages, the deaths of lovers, the slow demise of parents, ones own mortality, humanity's physical and …
Andrew Poems
Häftad, 2009
184 kr
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On a soft summer Virginia evening Shelly Wagner was pushing her five-year-old son in a tire swing in the backyard, idling away the hours between dinner and bedtime. She left him only for a moment, but when she returned Andrew had disappeared. He was found later that night, drowned in the river …
Vanitas
Poems
Av Jane McKinley, Robert A. Fink
Inbunden, 2011
281 kr
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vanitas: A still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre incorporating symbols of mortality or mutability. —The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Jane McKinley weaves together memories, myths, and interior worlds to create a vanitas of her own. With an oboist's mastery of rhythm and form and a …
Horse and Rider
Poems
Inbunden, 2010
281 kr
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The redeeming power of love, amid the causes and casualties of violence.
Elsewhere
Poems
Av Kyoko Uchida
Inbunden, 2012
281 kr
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In Elsewhere, Kyoko Uchida unravels the landscapes of childhood migrations and later passages across oceans and continents, seasons and languages—spoken or otherwise—mapping the geographies of longing, loss, grief, and conflict. These poems are preoccupied with itineraries and distance, while at …
Horse and Rider
Poems
Häftad, 2013
233 kr
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Horse and Rider takes its title from a passage in the book of Exodus: “Sing unto the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has cast into the sea.” Melissa Range’s poems explore violence and power, particularly as those concepts relate to religion and to the natural world. Her …
Tour of the Breath Gallery
Poems
Inbunden, 2013
281 kr
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In Tour of the Breath Gallery, Strong explores how our subtlest gestures articulate our most passionate concerns. She maps the intricacies of the body—the fingers of a hand, the work of breathing—with the same dexterity she brings to investigating what inspires a mother to demolish a kitchen wall …
Lena
Poems
Av Cassie Pruyn
Inbunden, 2017
281 kr
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Cassie Pruyn’s Lena asks new questions: why we love, why we grieve. We’veread elegies before, but not like this. A lush and unsparing first book, Lenaasks readers to understand love—crucially, a first love, an erotic love—inthe context not of a love lost but instead of an identity gained: we must …
Prospect
Poems
Inbunden, 2019
281 kr
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The Twenty-Sixth Winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry.Prospect comprises poems about vantage points, country and personhood, and the difficulty of understanding what is true. Through meticulously articulated explorations of knowledge, truth, language, and science’s explanatory …
