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Joy Ride
$15.95 Read morePoems that navigate the intersection of history and memory, family lore, and world events.
The poems of Joy Ride look for the connections and listen for the echoes between world events, family lore,- Series: Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry
- Author: Slate, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0887486908
- Language: English
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Brute: Poems
$17.00 Read moreSelected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing s- Author: Skaja, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1555978355
- Language: English
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Coal Mountain Elementary
$22.00 Add to cartA singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue t
- Author: Nowak, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1566892287
- Language: English
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Late Summer Ode
$17.00 Read more“The balance of rigidity, rhyme and ruin . . . makes an Olena Kalytiak Davis poem extraordinarily distinct. Even when she’s alluding to Dante and Rilke and Chekhov, her voice is like no one else’s.”-
- Author: Davis, Olena Kalytiak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596472
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
$16.95 Read moreHurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secul… [more below]
- Author: Howe, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337340
- Language: English
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Whitman: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
$20.00 Read moreThe Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Whitman contains forty-two of the American master’s … [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets #0
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 1994
- ISBN10: 0679436324
- Language: English
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The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartHaunted by the voices of those committed to the notorious Virginia State Colony, epicenter of the American eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century, this evocative debut marks the … [more below]
- Author: Brown, Molly McCully
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0892554789
- Language: English
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Mother Winter
$12.00 Read moreA poetic personification of the winter season, Mother Winter goes walking “on the longest cold night,” inviting the reader along to experience chill winds, icy ponds, white snowdrifts, and other quiet… [more below]
- Author: Carroll, James Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1682770907
- Language: English
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Doe
$15.95 Read moreWinner of the 2018 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize
Doe began as author Aim e Baker’s attempt to understand and process the news coverage of a single unidentified woman whose body was thrown from a car- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Baker, Aimée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1629220841
- Language: English
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Bread from a Stranger’s Oven
$16.00 Read more“Through her fervent lyrics, delightful odes and image-rich narratives, Janlori Goldman invites us into her world–and it is a deeply moving one. With fluid, vivid clarity, she valiantly stares at the
- Series: White Pine Press Poetry Prize #22
- Author: Goldman, Janlori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1945680067
- Language: English
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The Iron Tonic: Or, a Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley
$15.00 Add to cartIt’s difficult to say what The Iron Tonic is about, although it is “known the skating pond conceals a family of enormous eels,” and that “the light is fading from the day. The rest is darkness and dis… [more below]
- Author: Gorey, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: October 13 2000
- ISBN10: 0151004374
- Language: English
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The Portable Walt Whitman
$22.00 Read moreA comprehensive collection of Whitman’s most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories
When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437689
- Language: English
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A Dog Runs Through It: Poems
$18.95 Read moreReflecting on her long and celebrated career in poetry, two-time National Book Award finalist Linda Pastan was struck by the number of dogs that have appeared in her poems–whether as the primary subj
- Author: Pastan, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0393651304
- Language: English
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Works and Days
$15.95 Read morePart springtime journal (“why are there thorns?”), Works and Days meditates on the first wasps and chipmunks of the season, times’ passage, grackle hearts, and dandelions, while also collecting dozens… [more below]
- Author: Mayer, Bernadette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0811225178
- Language: English
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Anybody Home?
$16.00 Read moreThe poems in Kay Cosgrove’s first collection, Anybody Home? are driven by curiosity – about herself, the world, and her place in it. Witty and elegantly restrained, they ask the question: how do we li
- Author: Cosgrove, Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985435726
- Language: English
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Quiver: Poems
$21.95 Read more“Luke Johnson cements his title as the uncontested master of shadow… Quiver will change the way you see.”
“Quiver is a rare creation full of song and
—Patricia Smith, author of Unshuttered: Poems- Author: Johnson, Luke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 105
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1680033204
- Language: English
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What Narcissism Means to Me
$17.00 Add to cartAn eagerly awaited new collection of poems by contemporary favorite Tony Hoagland, author of Donkey Gospel
How did I come to believe in a government called Tony Hoagland?
With an economy based on flatt- Author: Hoagland, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: November 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1555973868
- Language: English
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Stag’s Leap
$20.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – From one of today’s best poets–a stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.
In th… [more below]- Author: Olds, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0375712259
- Language: English
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Engine Empire
$17.99 Add to cartEngine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the future… [more below]
- Author: Hong, Cathy Park
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 05 2013
- ISBN10: 039334648X
- Language: English
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Trilogy
$15.95 Read moreAs civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy‘s three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” and Ezra Pound’s “Pisan Cantos.” The first book of the T… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Doolittle, Hilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: September 17 1998
- ISBN10: 0811213994
- Language: English
