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You Will Remember Me: Ekphrastic Poems
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn You Will Remember Me, Barbara Lydecker Crane’s masterful sonnets illuminate the work and lives of artists from medieval through contemporary times. We visit a lustful duke of Milan in “His Last Mis
- Author: Crane, Barbara Lydecker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: October 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1773491261
- Language: English
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By: Melnick, David
Nice: Collected Poems
$22.95PaperbackRead moreCollected for the first time, four landmark works of queer experimental poetry by reclusive cult poet David Melnick, known for his prowess with invented language and sound poetry.
David Melnick’s Nice:
- Author: Melnick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621572
- Language: English
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By: Addonizio, Kim
Tell Me
$14.95PaperbackAdd to cartPoems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss.
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Addonizio, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1880238918
- Language: English
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By: Valentine, Jean
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe collected works of one of America’s most innovative poets.
Winner of the National Book Award in Poetry (2004)
Since the 1965 publication of her first book, Dream Barker, selected for the Yale Younge
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Valentine, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0819567132
- Language: English
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By: Marilyn Nelson
Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartConjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selec
- Author: Nelson, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 12, 2012
- ISBN10: 0807147346
- Language: English
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Love Letter To Who Owns The Heavens
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartLove Letter to Who Owns the Heavens considers the way that the absence of touch-in acts of war via the drone, in acts of love via the sext, in aesthetics itself-abstracts the human body, transforming … [more below]
- Author: Van Landingham, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1946482617
- Language: English
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By: Gysin, Brion
Permutations
$20.00PaperbackRead moreThe first collection of the Beat mentor’s long-influential permutation poems–one of the earliest examples of computer-generated literature
Written between 1958 and 1982, Brion Gysin’s “permutation poe
- Author: Gysin, Brion
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1734681772
- Language: English
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By: Alison Pelegrin
Our Lady of Bewilderment: Poems
$20.95PaperbackAdd to cartWinner of the Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award
Whether by way of visitations from secular saints, hauntings from childhood, or back talk from “indelicate broads,” a complicated world spea- Series: Barataria Poetry
- Author: Pelegrin, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 09, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176796
- Language: English
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By: Dorn, Edward
Gunslinger
$27.95PaperbackAdd to cartFiftieth Anniversary Edition
“Gunslinger is a fundamental American masterpiece.”—Thomas McGuane This fiftieth anniversary edition commemorates Edward Dorn’s masterpiece, Gunslinger, a comic, anti-ep- Author: Dorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1478000856
- Language: English
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Fever of Unknown Origin: Poems
$29.00HardcoverRead moreA collection of profound and piercing poems from a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize about navigating the modern world in search of beauty that will endure
Fever of Unknown Origin opens at a remote cros- Author: McGrath, Campbell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0593535723
- Language: English
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By: Howe, Marie
New and Selected Poems
$28.99HardcoverAdd to cartCharacterized by “a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions” (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie
- Author: Howe, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075031
- Language: English
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By: Spicer, Jack
Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer
$26.95PaperbackRead moreIndispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an American master
Be Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his blistering int
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Spicer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500968
- Language: English
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By: Rosaldo, Renato
The Day of Shelly’s Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartThis deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo’s sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had … [more below]
- Author: Rosaldo, Renato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0822356619
- Language: English
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By: Groves, Daniel
The Lost Boys: Poems
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartDaniel Groves presents a debut collection of tightly rhymed poems that, through adherence to form, unlock a power in language to surprise and illuminate–a power too often dormant in writing that esch
- Series: VQR Poetry
- Author: Groves, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0820336793
- Language: English
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By: Snyder, Gary
Regarding Wave: Poetry
$14.00PaperbackAdd to cartA collection of poems that marks Gary Snyder’s golden years which would culminate with the Pulitzer Prize winning Turtle Island.
- Author: Snyder, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: December 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0811201961
- Language: English
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By: Ron Smith
That Beauty in the Trees: Poems
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartMoving effortlessly from Virginia to Italy and beyond, Ron Smith’s new volume responds with a range of emotions from humor to horror and with a variety of forms from the sonnet to visually expressive
- Series: Southern Messenger Poets
- Author: Smith, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: April 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807177989
- Language: English
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Newly Not Eternal
$20.95PaperbackAdd to cartEqual parts elegy and ode, Newly Not Eternal explores the startling suffering and sentiment implicit in human mortality. At the heart of this collection, a son has died on the cusp of his first breath
- Author: Clark, George David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: January 31, 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181277
- Language: English
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By: Cooper, Dennis
The Dream Police: Selected Poems, 1969-1993
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cartWith each new novel, Dennis Cooper’s reputation as the most daring and distinctive writer working in America today is cemented. To anyone familiar with this writer — whom the New York Times calls “ta… [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0802134572
- Language: English
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By: Hahn, Kimiko
The Narrow Road to the Interior
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cartKimiko Hahn, “a welcome voice of experimentation and passion” (Bloomsbury Review), takes up the Japanese prose-poetry genre zuihitsu–literally “running brush,” which utilizes tactics such as juxtapos… [more below]
- Author: Hahn, Kimiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330273
- Language: English
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By: Gilbert, Jack
Refusing Heaven: Poems
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartMore than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. I… [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 037571085X
- Language: English
















