Subjects & Themes - Family
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The Things
$18.00 Add to cartWritten in the wake of the poet’s mother’s Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, The Things tackles not only the keen anticipation of grief and loss but also its arrival and aftermath. These lyrical and searingly
- Author: Oaks, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: March 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1736599070
- Language: English
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A Socially Acceptable Breakdown
$18.00 Read more2022 Eric Hoffer Awards – Poetry Finalist
A poetry collection pulling from the author’s personal narrative to take the reader on a journey through family, mental health, grief, pop culture, body image
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Roche, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 1943735980
- Language: English
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Don’t Drop Me, God: Poems
$11.99 Add to cartThe poems collected here span eight decades of writing in Kenya, Philadelphia, Maine, and other places.
Sellers makes use of multiple poetic forms and multiple voices to express a humane vision that i
- Author: Sellers, Lucy Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986565903
- Language: English
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This Far North
$16.95 Add to cart“In a world of distraction, Jason Tandon’s This Far North sings: be here now. Tandon is a master at collecting the overlooked splendor of the daily world and turning the common into the complex. Each … [more below]
- Author: Tandon, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 85
- Publish Date: March 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1625570481
- Language: English
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A Peculiar People
$18.00 Add to cart2023 The Black Caucus of the American Library Association – Poetry Winner
2022 Heartland Bookseller Awards FinalistA Peculiar People creates an entire microcosm within these poems. Steven Willis craf… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Willis, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1638340234
- Language: English
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Birthright
$16.00 Add to cart2021 Arab American Awards – George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Winner
2021 Lambda Literary Awards – Bisexual Poetry Finalist
2020 Big Other Awards – Poetry Winner
2020 Big Other Awards – Readers’ Choice F… [more below]- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Abraham, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1943735670
- Language: English
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Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
$8.95 Read moreVoted Britain’s favourite poem in 1996, ‘Warning’, written in 1961, is known and loved the world over. Its declaration of defiance, so vividly and cleverly expressed, appeals to the rebel in all of us… [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1788168186
- Language: English
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Dancing Room Only
$21.95 Add to cartDancing Room Only is a wild romp into the forgotten center of our people. With his signature rollicking style, a keen sense of humor, and an acute ear for dialect and voice, Reese archives the sinners
- Author: Reese, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1630450731
- Language: English
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Composition
$21.00 Read moreIn his debut full length collection, Junious ‘Jay’ Ward dives deep into the formation of self. Composition interrogates the historical perceptions of Blackness and biracial identity as documented th… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Ward, Junious
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1638340471
- Language: English
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Nocturne
$24.99 Add to cartLonglisted for Laurel Prize 2023. Set in a technicolour world of dreams, ghosts, classical music, and Key West storms, Jodie Hollander’s compelling second collection charts the emotional journey of th
- Series: Pavilion Poetry Lup
- Author: Hollander, Jodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1802078134
- Language: English
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Milk Tongue
$17.95 Add to cartAn exploration of what we inherit or pass on, illuminating the gray area between ubiquitous human desires and overconsumption.
Ir鐺grave;ne Mathieu’s third collection, milk tongue, refers to the layer… [more below]
- Author: Mathieu, Irène
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052668
- Language: English
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Lying in: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartA devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief.
“All my life all I’ve wanted was to be myself / and someone else,” writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the sh
- Author: Metzger, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639550100
- Language: English
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Gods of Four Mile Creek: Poems, Essays and Photographs by Phillip Howerton
$18.95 Add to cartGods of Four Mile Creek explores the inescapable ambivalence we hold toward the places of our upbringing. In 68 exquisitely detailed poems, 19 photographs, and two essays, Phillip Howerton considers a… [more below]
- Author: Howerton, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 195223283X
- Language: English
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Rock Stars
$18.00 Read moreWitty, nostalgic, rhythmic and forlorn, Matt Mason’s poetry calls on the classic rock music that shaped him. Mason laments on his childhood in the 80s and addresses the graduating preschool class of 2… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Mason, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 163834065X
- Language: English
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Date & Time
$16.00 Add to cart2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Honorable Mention Winner
Phil Kaye’s debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and celebrations of the passing of ti… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Kaye, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1943735360
- Language: English
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Cut to Bloom
$18.00 Add to cartWhat does it take to unlearn the survival instinct of trauma? What does it take to choose our tools instead of wearing down the ones we’ve been handed? In Cut to Bloom, Noah Arhm Choi attempts to forg… [more below]
- Author: Choi, Noah Arhm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1949342212
- Language: English
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The Truth Is
$8.99 Add to cartThe voice behind the collection of poems, The Truth Is, knows well the complicated relationships children have with their parents, especially the relationship daughters have with their mothers. In poe… [more below]
- Author: Shalom, Vivienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: July 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988563105
- Language: English
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How to Maintain Eye Contact
$16.00 Read more2022 Button Poetry Prize Runner-Up
How to Maintain Eye Contact takes readers through a journey of uncertainty and what we make of it.
Set in three sections, Robert Wood Lynn explores interior uncer… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Lynn, Robert Wood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1638340463
- Language: English
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Heirloom
$18.00 Add to cartAshia Ajani is the product of migration. From Bentonia, Mississippi to Detroit, Michigan to Denver, Colorado, Ajani’s family has carved out small sanctuaries for themselves among roses, concrete and u… [more below]
- Author: Ajani, Ashia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1949342492
- Language: English
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Tap Out: Poems
$14.99 Add to cart“Charts the gritty, physical terrain of blue-collar masculinity.”―New York Times New & Noteworthy
“[A] gritty, insight
“Kunz arrives with real poetic talent.”—The Millions, “Must Read Poetry”- Author: Kunz, Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1328518124
- Language: English
