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Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction
$16.00 Read moreWith work that ranges from the laugh out loud funny to the silence of rage and loss, Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction is a must read.
This is a collection of work that asks itself … [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Singer, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1943735611
- Language: English
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Singer Come from Afar
$18.95 Add to cartThe five sections in Kim Stafford’s Singer Come from Afar hold poems that summon war and peace, pandemic struggles, Earth imperatives, a seeker’s spirit, and forge kinship. The former poet laureate of
- Author: Stafford, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1597098884
- Language: English
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The Girl Singer: Poems
$19.95 Read moreSkillfully divided into three distinct yet harmonious parts, cantillating local, familial, and personal histories, Girl Singer is a collection of lyrical and descriptive poems that offer unique insigh
- Author: Worthington, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1950564193
- Language: English
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Sprawl: Poems
$19.95 Read moreSprawl is a reconstruction of the constantly shifting landscape of metropolitan Detroit, which extends over six counties and is home to over four million people, from the perspective of a single paren… [more below]
- Series: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
- Author: Collard, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0821425285
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Tides
$15.95 Add to cartA poetry chapbook that reflects on shifting time and tides through the language of the shoreline.
Pattie McCarthy’s extraordinary tides occupies a space in the intertidal, the in-between place of not- Author: McCarthy, Pattie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1632431173
- Language: English
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Slows: Twice
$18.95 Read moreSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 A.M. KLEIN PRIZE FOR POETRY
CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN SPRING 2023
Backward and forward: a double book of mirrored poems about identity in all its for
- Author: Liem, T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1552454614
- Language: English
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Pots and Other Living Beings
$19.95 Read morePots and Other Living Beings is a literally and visually compelling first poetry collection by upcoming Indigenous artist annie ross. The text combines socially conscious poems with geographically gro
- Author: Ross, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 177201236X
- Language: English
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Postscripts
$12.99 Add to cartPostscripts makes many travels, from the landscapes and cultures of foreign travels, to the long journey through grief. Thrown also into relief is home-for this poet, West Virginia, in the heart of Ap
- Author: Nicholson, Ren?e K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1958531774
- Language: English
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The Bamboo Wife
$18.00 Add to cartLeona Sevick’s The Bamboo Wife captures the experiences of an imperfect woman held up against the standard of “good” wife and mother. Sevick is a master of metaphor and imagery, depicting, for example
- Author: Sevick, Leona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1949487296
- Language: English
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At the Corner of Fantasy and Main: Disneyland, Midlife, and Churros
$19.95 Read moreAt The Corner of Fantasy and Main is about more than Disneyland, midlife, and churros. It’s about how our heart is sometimes more reliable than our memory and how places that are touchstones in our li… [more below]
- Author: Mason, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1735769134
- Language: English
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Waiting for Scotland: Poems and Meditations
$15.95 Add to cartWaiting for Scotland is a poetry collection about reconciling the past with hopes for the future. Within these pages is the direct confrontation between youthful expectations and sobering realities. B… [more below]
- Author: Borders-Shoemaker, S. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1958754021
- Language: English
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Never Catch Me
$18.00 Add to cart2023 Midwest Book Award Winner
2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalistDarius Simpson’s debut collection Never Catch Me centers on Black boyhood in the midwest and familial disintegration ov… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Simpson, Darius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 163834048X
- Language: English
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North American Stadiums
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about grace–the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we a
- Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
- Author: Chambers, Grady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1571315357
- Language: English
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Metabolics: Poems
$17.00 Read moreIn this debut poetry collection, a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navigating identities, impulses, and relationships that are often… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Jessica E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1946724572
- Language: English
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Glimpses beyond the Mirror
$11.95 Add to cartGlimpses Beyond The Mirror Poems of Pilgrimage: Searching For What Lasts Past Today Nature and especially mountains are places of beauty and life – naturalist-writer John Muir knew them better than an
- Author: Kennedy, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1665306750
- Language: English
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Mitochondrial Night
$16.95 Add to cartTaking mitochondrial DNA as his guide, Lee explores familial and national legacies, and their persistence across shifting boundaries and the erosions of time. In these poems, the trait of an ancestor
- Author: Lee, Ed Bok
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1566895324
- Language: English
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Moon Grammar
$29.00 Add to cartIn the opening poem of Matthew Porto’s dazzling debut collection, we hear the voice of the recurring angel figure for the first time, commanding us to “Get used to the light.” That light-blinding, mys
- Author: Porto, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821570
- Language: English
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Poems of Paris
$20.00 Add to cartA beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems from across the ages inspired by the City of Light
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as has Paris. Poems of Pa- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Fragos, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1101908122
- Language: English
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Justa’s Escape
$21.00 Add to cartIn this real-life adventure, Justa, youngest of ten children in a Mennonite family in WWII era Ukraine, revisits a childhood in totalitarian Stalinist USSR. When authorities swoop down in the middle o… [more below]
- Author: Neufeld, Justina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: May 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1666795267
- Language: English
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Helen of Bikini
$18.00 Add to cartHelen of Bikini examines the way humans inhabit the world, both in beauty and in conflict. How do the twinned human forces of domestication and domination, rage and mediation, witness and culpability,
- Author: Reeves, Phoebe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1957755075
- Language: English
