Poetry
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Bright Thorn: Poems 2000-2026
$24.00 Add to cartThe selected poems of Devin Johnston, a poet who can “change the way you breathe” (Maureen N. McLane).
Why call this plant a weed? Some flowers
evince no difference between
giving and taking, all their- Series: Fsg Poetry
- Author: Johnston, Devin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0374608830
- Language: English
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August, September, October
$19.00 Add to cartAugust, September, October is a deep, vulnerable meditation on fatherhood, time passing, and survival in a world reshaped by crisis. In two long, diaristic poems and a constellation of lyrical reflect
- Author: Teicher, Craig Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1968507000
- Language: English
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Axe in Blossom: Last Poems & Fragments
$28.00 Read moreThe Pulitzer Prize winner’s final written work: poems of penetrating acceptance and humor, whose soul-sweeping gaze encompasses his own autobiography and the broken world he nonetheless gives thanks f… [more below]
- Author: Wright, Franz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0307962059
- Language: English
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Distant Water: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartAn exquisite debut poetry collection exploring the way Nez Perce language embodies the inseparable connection of land, sound, and spirit.
Drawing its title from the Nez Perce word for ocean, distant wa
- Author: Piatote, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1639551689
- Language: English
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Material
$18.00 Add to cart“…it’s better for all of us to be amazing than for just one me to be amazing / I wasted my youth on the flat breath of others / Until all of a sudden I stopped performing.” Material is a book with n
- Author: Caballero, Ana MarÃa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1949487733
- Language: English
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Poems: [third Edition]
$35.00 Add to cartJ.H. Prynne is Britain’s leading late Modernist poet. His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a different… [more below]
- Author: Prynne, J. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 694
- Publish Date: April 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1780371543
- Language: English
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Clayboy
$18.00 Add to cartA CABARET IN TWO ACTS, CLAYBOY IS…
Raising the curtain and lowering its eyelids.
Sacred, monstrous, clinical, confessional.
The earnest young devil your mother warned you about.
Undeniably Gurlesque. Sy
- Author: Avery, Fez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1949342832
- Language: English
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Loosestrife for Porcupines
$17.00 Add to cartFinalist, 2025 Blue Light Book Award
“Loosestrife for Porcupines is a beautifully crafted reflection of the intimacies of the natural world. Here, fiddler crabs raise their machine-gun claws like tiny
- Author: Gordon, D. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: February 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1421836009
- Language: English
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Reflections
$15.95 Add to cartSince tomorrow is not promised for anyone, the importance of spending time and making memories with people who truly matter is what life is all about. It’s not about your job, your income, your home,
- Author: Searcher, Soul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798894273068
- Language: English
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Goddess of Swizzle
$14.99 Add to cartGoddess of Swizzle invites the reader to “a feast for here and now.”
A recurring theme, given voice in the title poem, is a call to focus on and value the
present moment-with its beauty and sorrows-rat
- Author: Brewer, Shirley J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1627206248
- Language: English
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Tristia
$18.00 Add to cartIn Tristia, Carmen Bugan tests the lyric against loss once again, as everything collapses around her, but this time much closer to home. These are poems about forging a stronger self in the fires of h
- Author: Bugan, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1848619669
- Language: English
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The Dance: Poems
$18.00 Read moreA new book of poetry from the celebrated poet and essayist, who has “wrestled eternity onto the page” (The New York Times).
Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God th- Series: Fsg Poetry
- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0374617406
- Language: English
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I Carry my Ancestors in my Bones
$25.00 Add to cartIn this deeply personal and transformative debut collection, queer Mexican immigrant scholar, professor, and mother Dra. Hortencia Jimenez invites readers on a journey of healing, reclamation, and rad
- Author: Jimenez, Hortencia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: February 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798994549421
- Language: English
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Cantares
$18.95 Add to cartPoems and micro-essays intertwine in this poetically attuned adaptation of the mid-sixteenth century Nahuatl-language Cantares Mexicanos
Cantares is a multipart engagement with the poetics and history
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Garcia, Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0819502383
- Language: English
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The Dinner Party: A Book about Love
$13.95 Add to cartCat Fitzpatrick delights in this post-pandemic follow-up to her debut verse novel of present-day manners, The Call-Out—
The Dinner Par
a trans community celebration of mores, gender theory, and rhyme.- Author: Fitzpatrick, Cat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1644215489
- Language: English
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Selected Poems American Classics Edition
$20.00 Add to cart“When Miss Brooks. . . writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then she induces almost unbearable excitement.” — New York Times
In celebration of t
- Series: HarperCollins American Classics #8
- Author: Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0063484234
- Language: English
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Midsummer Night’s Toast: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartMidsummer Night’s Toast is a collection that answers to no one, a freedom we learn the speaker has finally afforded herself after a half-life spent under the glaring light of tradition, fear, of men,
- Series: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
- Author: Morgan, Mamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0821426680
- Language: English
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Tread Upon
$17.00 Add to cartTread Upon–by turns tender and furious, and wholly original–attempts to depict the various scales upon which climate change unfolds around us.
Bold, incisive, and wholly original, Christopher Kondric
- Author: Kondrich, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 155659724X
- Language: English
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Practices in Apparition
$22.95 Read moreThe second title from author Gabi Abr?o is at once a steel radio tower singular in the earth and the spectral waves that beam into it from realms invisible.
Practices in Apparition is an offering to gh
- Author: Abrão, Gabi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1945649607
- Language: English
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The Drag Gospel of Queer Jesus
$18.00 Add to cartRescuing biblical language from misuse by those who would persecute queerness and subjugate the natural world, The Drag Gospel of Queer Jesus contemporizes and enlivens Biblical mysteries, exploring q… [more below]
- Author: Watkins, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1947817965
- Language: English
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