Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
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Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party
$17.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Chessy Normile’s debut collection, Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party, asks what would happen if we actually believed language to be a creative f… [more below]
- Author: Normile, Chessy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0986093823
- Language: English
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Chariot
$18.00 Read moreTimothy Donnelly’s fourth collection of poems, Chariot, ferries the reader toward an endless horizon of questioning that is both philosophical and deeply embodied.
“How did we get here?” he asks in hi… [more below]
- Author: Donnelly, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268772
- Language: English
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Firebird
$14.95 Read moreEnergetic, formally audacious poems by a recently rediscovered Polish writer, shining examples of art as resistance.
Zuzanna Ginczanka’s last poem, “Non omnis moriar…” (“Not all of me shall die”), w- Author: Ginczanka, Zuzanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377306
- Language: English
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Black Movie
$12.00 Add to cart2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner
“These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make ‘a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry Contest Winner #3
- Author: Smith, Danez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 194373500X
- Language: English
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Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
$14.99 Read moreFrom NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in Ame… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0358539412
- Language: English
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Selected Books of the Beloved
$18.00 Read moreAn expansive, lyric testament to the formidable mystery of love, spanning several previous volumes all in dedication to the beloved.
For more than a decade, Gregory Orr has been writing toward “the Bo… [more below]
- Author: Orr, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596537
- Language: English
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An Abundance of Caution
$24.00 Read moreA poetry collection lending a voice to finding grace in a time marked by environmental crisis, global pandemic, and personal loss, answering uncertainty with clarity, imagination, and compassion in li
- Author: Witte, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0991378067
- Language: English
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Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul
$19.99 Add to cart“A lyrical, radiant memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Ann Wroe, obituaries editor for The Economist, reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences
- Author: Wroe, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1400347939
- Language: English
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My Infinity
$17.95 Add to cartIn her second collection, My Infinity, Didi Jackson continues her exploration of the paradoxical meaning of a world where joy and sorrow simultaneously coexist.
These poems investigate both sacred and
- Author: Jackson, Didi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1636281605
- Language: English
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Deep Dive
$15.00 Add to cart- Author: Carter, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1963943104
- Language: English
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The Cloud Path: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartAn imaginative reworking of the elegy that focuses on the difficult work of being with the dying.
At the heart of The Cloud Path, celebrated author Melissa Kwasny’s seventh collection of poetry, lies t… [more below]
- Author: Kwasny, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1639550925
- Language: English
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Under This Roof
$18.00 Add to cartIn her thoughtful debut collection, Theresa Monteiro uses the scenery of domestic and daily life to call forth fear and loss: the magnitude of human experience seen through the details of the ordinary
- Author: Monteiro, Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1594981442
- Language: English
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Opium and Ambergris
$18.00 Add to cart- Series: Wick First Book
- Author: Dekeersgieter, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1606354833
- Language: English
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Middle Distance: Poems
$16.95 Read moreAfter a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the middle distance–looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future sha
- Author: Plumly, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882497
- Language: English
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Here, at the end.
$14.99 Add to cartAlice Teeter’s Book of Revelations is gentle and brutal, devoid of the supernatural and full of nature. Her poetry gives us a recipe, a warning, a hint at what is to come. Somehow she scares us and re
- Author: Teeter, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1665306149
- Language: English
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Who Am I: Mending a Lost Identity
$11.95 Add to cartAnvil Long was devastated to learn he had been conceived during a date rape incident. His lineage, which he had once believed to be an essential element of his being, was lost forever. The pain and in
- Author: Long, Anvil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218148218
- Language: English
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Relative Sanity: Poems
$28.95 Add to cartAn elegiac array of poems, with nostalgic themes of loss, longing, betrayal and forgiveness, Relative Sanity reflects on a lifetime in Michigan’s north country.
“This lovely collection is a kind of t
- Author: Lord, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997687
- Language: English
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The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide
$18.95 Add to cartThe only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in genre to the nonfictional novel. It is based not only o
- Author: Kaufman, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1630450812
- Language: English
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25 Poems on the Death of Ursula K. Le Guin
$12.00 Add to cartPortland-based writer M. F. McAuliffe was shocked by the death of Ursula K. Le Guin more than she could have imagined because she’d never imagined it at all. These twenty five unconventional elegies,
- Author: McAuliffe, M. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: November 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1684544718
- Language: English
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Otherlight
$18.00 Add to cartJill Mceldowney’s Otherlight plunges us into the rarefied limbo of grief. Suspended in time, in action, in ice, its speaker is halfway out the door of this world-is half-turned to follow the beloved w
- Author: McEldowney, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1936919958
- Language: English
