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By: Cording, Robert
In the Unwalled City
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In the Unwalled City takes its title from Epicurus, who wrote: “Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death, we human beings all live in an unwalled city.” This

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- Author: Cording, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1639821147
- Language: English
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By: De'von, Na'tosha
Quiet As it’s Kept
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_{Na’Tosha De’Von’s inaugural book of poetry highlights Black girl joy, trauma, love and loss. With an emphasis on healing, she takes the reader on a journey of true vulnerability and s}

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- Author: De’von, Na’tosha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218147938
- Language: English
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By: Niziolek, Shilo
atrophy
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On the heels of her memoir, FEVER, Niziolek’s debut poetry collection, atrophy, continues pulling even further at the same threads: desire, grief, trauma, love, and illness. However, the primary beast

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- Author: Niziolek, Shilo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1959118676
- Language: English
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By: Clark, Jeremy Michael
The Trouble with Light
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In The Trouble with Light, Jeremy Michael Clark reflects on the legacy of familial trauma as he delves into questions about belonging, survival, knowledge, and self-discovery in unflinching lyrical po… [more below]
- Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize
- Author: Clark, Jeremy Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: March 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1682262499
- Language: English
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By: Ahl, Liz
A Case for Solace
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Liz Ahl’s second full-length collection contemplates grieving and the quests for solace that guide – for better and for worse – living in the face of loss. The losses in this book – of life, of health

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- Author: Ahl, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: October 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1957755059
- Language: English
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By: Luehmann, Laurel
Clarion Hope
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dare to dream that there’s more than this broken road,

and that beauty may lie on tomorrow’s edge…

A sequel of sorts to the author’s debut collection, Clarion Hope takes the spark of courage held out

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- Author: Luehmann, Laurel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987451601
- Language: English
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By: Stawowy, Margaret
Storms of the Inland Sea: Poems of Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregiving
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Poets Margaret Stawowy and Jim Cokas both experienced a personal metamorphosis while caring for a parent with dementia. While answering a higher calling to care for someone with grace, forbearance, an… [more below]
- Author: Stawowy, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1956056408
- Language: English
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By: Berkeley, Sara
Some of the Things I’ve Seen
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In her newest collection, Sara Berkeley follows a number of sightlines: watching the landscape from the window of a plane, contemplating the effects of climate change, witnessing human vulnerability a… [more below]
- Author: Berkeley, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1943667055
- Language: English
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By: Jackson, Jennifer Ruth
Domestic Bodies
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Domestic Bodies delves into the physicality of mundane and life-altering moments as told by a narrator disabled from birth. This collection deals with themes of cancer, family, death, disability, and

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- Author: Jackson, Jennifer Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1959118560
- Language: English
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By: Tillquist, K. H.
My Dad’s Alzheimer’s: A Tribute
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K. H. Tillquist’s beautifully written poem describes the gradual and inescapable loss of her father, Dale C. Hart, to Alzheimer’s. Photographs from his childhood, World War II, and beyond document the

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- Author: Tillquist, K. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218199371
- Language: English
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By: Hirsch, Edward
100 Poems to Break Your Heart
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100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning

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- Author: Hirsch, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0544931882
- Language: English
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By: Lord, Ellen
Relative Sanity: Poems
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An 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

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- Author: Lord, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997679
- Language: English
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By: Schulman, Grace
Mourning Songs: Poems of Sorrow and Beauty
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Who has not suffered grief? In Mourning Songs, the brilliant poet and editor Grace Schulman has gathered together the most moving poems about sorrow by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Wi… [more below]
- Author: Schulman, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0811228665
- Language: English
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By: Gerard, L.
The After: Poems that explore the emotional experiences of life after love and loss.
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“The After” is a collection of poems that explore the emotional landscape after love and loss. The selection of these poems reflect the navigation through life after it is forever altered. Love is why

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- Author: Gerard, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: December 26 2022
- ISBN10: 9798987516706
- Language: English
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By: McCann, Anthony
I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me
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With tender attention and a keenly embodied curiosity, the poems in I am the dead, who, you take care of me are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead.

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- Author: McCann, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268888
- Language: English
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By: Pence Aka Gpb, Robert A.
Tranquility Teetering on Tears: Tears of Sorrow Tears of Joy An Incident in Faith, Hope, and Love
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Tranquility Teetering on Tears is an insightful observation of a nontraditional society and written by a nontraditional student formed and scripted in a traditional Lutheran University that is current

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- Author: Pence Aka Gpb, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1662466978
- Language: English
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By: Pack, Robert
Searching for Home
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Searching for Home, Pack’s splendid twenty-second collection of poems, written largely during his last year of life, centers on the search for meaning. At its heart are sequences of poems about three

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- Author: Pack, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821473
- Language: English
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By: Schomburg, Zachary
Fjords Vol.2
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“The thing about killing is, like everything else, it feels as bright as love for just a flash.” The second volume in Zachary Schomburg’s Fjords series of evocative prose poetry, this is a collection … [more below]
- Author: Schomburg, Zachary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1939568374
- Language: English
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By: Starik, F.
The Lonely Funeral: Poets at the Gravesides of the Forgotten
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Every year, people living in our towns and cities – the homeless, suicides, old people living alone – are found dead. Their funerals are held without relatives or friends. In Amsterdam in 2002, F Star

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- Author: Starik, F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1910345520
- Language: English
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By: Traci Brimhall
Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod
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Written during the trial for a close friend’s murder, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod exposes that the whimsical, horrible, and absurd all sit together. In this ambitious fourth collection, Tr
- Author: Brimhall, Traci
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: March 31, 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595808
- Language: English