Alice James Books
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Thief in the Interior
$15.95 Add to cartRecipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for Poetry
2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner
Nominated for the 2017 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry
2016 INDIES Book of the Year Award… [more below]- Author: Williams, Phillip B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1938584171
- Language: English
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The Palace
$21.95 Add to cartFrom Puerto Rico to mythological forests, The Palace charts a family’s journey to build a life and home in a world that is often violent and rife with economic instability, as the speaker must also co
- Author: Cerpa, Andrés
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1949944875
- Language: English
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A Holy Dread
$20.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2024 Alice James Award
“…the holy dread with which we face that which we love most, or that which loves us the most…”
–Mary Ruefle, “On Fear”In this highly anticipated second collect
- Author: Villanueva, R. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1949944867
- Language: English
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Let the Moon Wobble
$19.95 Add to cartIn poems born of intense loneliness, grief, anger, and uncertainty at a convergence of apocalypses: a raging pandemic, a worsening climate crisis, and numerous global uprisings, Ally Ang’s Let the Moo
- Author: Ang, Ally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1949944883
- Language: English
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Saint Consequence
$21.95 Add to cartMichael M. Weinstein’s debut poetry collection, Saint Consequence, meditates on the body as a site of continuous change–both painful and beautiful, elected and imposed–to explore the often tangled j
- Author: Weinstein, Michael M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1949944743
- Language: English
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The Seeds
$21.95 Add to cartThe Seeds confronts the ecological paradox of homemaking in an environment domesticity rejects–one of mess, disease, and everyday violence–to explore the equal distress and delight entangled in cari
- Author: Parks, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1949944891
- Language: English
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When the Horses
$24.95 Add to cartIn her award-winning debut, When the Horses, Mary Helen Callier explores the rich inner terrain of an imaginative childhood through deep and curious poems set against the uncanny beauty of the America
- Author: Callier, Mary Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1949944719
- Language: English
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All the Possible Bodies
$21.95 Add to cartSteeped in the myths we spin about self, family, and nation, the poems of All the Possible Bodies attend to the complexities of violence in America, racial justice, and the intersection of personal an
- Author: Pollock, Iain Haley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1949944905
- Language: English
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If Nothing
$24.95 Add to cartIf Nothing is an honest reckoning with the grip of addiction, the expectations of masculinity, and the tug of family.
When mid-life collides with the precariousness of alcoholism, the vulnerability of
- Author: Nienow, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1949944697
- Language: English
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Constellation Route
$17.95 Read moreConstellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American society: the environment, race, love, grief, friendship, violence, and spirituality. The book is larg… [more below]
- Author: Olzmann, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1948579235
- Language: English
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Mothersalt
$24.95 Add to cartDrawing from the sticky, milk-drenched reality of childbirth and pregnancy, Mothersalt explores the intimacies and bewilderment of early motherhood, illuminating the myriad ways in which the self, rec… [more below]
- Author: Malhotra, Mia Ayumi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1949944727
- Language: English
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Cold Thief Place
$24.95 Add to cartCold Thief Place speaks of the experiences of an undocumented American, her parents who fled Communist China and found safety in fundamentalist Christianity, and how she tried to understand them and h… [more below]
- Author: Lin, Esther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1949944700
- Language: English
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The Dead Peasant’s Handbook
$17.95 Read moreFollowing the loose series of Turner’s other recent 2023 publications, The Wild Delight of Wild Things and The Goodbye World Poem, this third book in this “collection” serves as a poetic guide to help… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1949944557
- Language: English
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Odes to Lithium
$17.95 Add to cartCaptivating poems and visual art seek to bring comfort and solidarity to anyone living with Bipolar Disorder. In this remarkable debut, Shira Erlichman pens a love letter to Lithium, her medication fo
- Author: Erlichman, Shira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1948579030
- Language: English
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The Holy & Broken Bliss
$24.95 Add to cartHow can we find meaning in the face of aging, illness, and the inevitability of death? How can we respond to the double plague of a fierce pandemic and a divided society? The keenly observant and urge
- Author: Ostriker, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1949944670
- Language: English
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American Treasure
$17.95 Read moreFrom the perspective of a teacher in a youth detention center, these hard-hitting poems have a unique blend of dark humor and realism.
In a composition of both compassion for America’s unheard voices- Author: McDonough, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1948579294
- Language: English
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Sand Opera
$16.95 Add to cart“Sand Opera is what political poetry must be like today in our age of seemingly permanent war.”–Mark Nowak
Sand Opera emerges from the dizzying position of being named but unheard as an Arab American
- Author: Metres, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1938584090
- Language: English
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We Borrowed Gentleness
$17.95 Read moreWe Borrowed Gentleness interrogates the innateness of pain and forms of destruction–through natural disaster, through God, through family, and through the power structures and patriarchal violence th… [more below]
- Author: Lopez, J. Estanislao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1948579286
- Language: English
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Inheritance
$18.95 Add to cartInheritance is a black sensorium, a chapel of color and sound that speaks to spaciousness, surveillance, identity, desire, and transcendence. Influenced by everyday moments of Washington, DC living, t… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1948579138
- Language: English
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I Don’t Want to Be Understood
$20.95 Add to cartA transsexual woman pieces together fragmented details of a repressive religious childhood and an unsupportive family, drawing from autobiographical experiences of the poet’s life.
I Don’t Want To Be- Author: Espinoza, Joshua Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1949944638
- Language: English
