BOA Editions

  • Splashed Things

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    “In my new life, I must learn everything again,” begins Splashed Things, Leigh Lucas’s dark humored and deeply moving debut that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide of a former

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    • Author: Lucas, Leigh
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 101
    • Publish Date: April 07 2026
    • ISBN10: 1968507035
    • Language: English
  • The Appendectomy Grin

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    As a second-wave veteran of the form, Charles Rafferty has emerged as one of America’s greatest living prose poets. Rafferty’s new collection, The Appendectomy Grin, is a model of the sort of bemused,

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    • Author: Rafferty, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 101
    • Publish Date: November 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960145800
    • Language: English
  • The Museum of Future Mistakes

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    Gruesome scenarios take a tender turn; beautiful moments become sources of derision. Winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize, The Museum of Future Mistakes is packed with inventive narrative choices and

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    • Author: Gapinski, James R.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 162
    • Publish Date: October 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 196014586X
    • Language: English
  • Green of All Heads

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    The Whiting Award-winning poet returns.

    Written over the span of a decade, GREEN OF ALL HEADS is a work of formal range and emotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood,

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    • Author: Girmay, Aracelis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 124
    • Publish Date: September 16 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960145711
    • Language: English
  • Radical Red

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    As income inequality soars, as industries become further mechanized, as the populace cries out for some semblance of a social safety net and corporations complain of too much regulation, we are long o

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    • Author: Dixon, Nathan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 206
    • Publish Date: June 10 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960145495
    • Language: English
  • Blue on a Blue Palette

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    Lynne Thompson’s Blue on a Blue Palette reflects on the condition of women–their joys despite their histories, and their insistence on survival as issues of race, culture, pandemic, and climate threa[more below]

    • Author: Thompson, Lynne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 122
    • Publish Date: April 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1960145142
    • Language: English
  • Fanny Says

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    A raucous, bawdy, and hilarious investigation of the South through the unforgettable voice of Fanny, Nickole Brown’s fierce, tough-as-new-rope grandmother.

    • Author: Brown, Nickole
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: April 14 2015
    • ISBN10: 1938160576
    • Language: English
  • Second Nature

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    Winner of the 23rd annual
    A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize

    Chaun Ballard’s gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences,
    historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that
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    • Author: Ballard, Chaun
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 126
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960145525
    • Language: English
  • Second Nature

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    Winner of the 23rd annual Poulin Prize, Chaun Ballard’s gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that celebrates t

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    • Author: Ballard, Chaun
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 126
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960145657
    • Language: English
  • Lonely Women Make Good Lovers

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    The daring and deeply
    sexy poems in Lonely Women Make Good Lovers are bold with the
    embodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual.

    These
    unforgettable love poems–queer, complicated, and almost always
    comprom

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    • Author: Kuipers, Keetje
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 08 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960145452
    • Language: English
  • Transfer

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    One of America’s most beloved poets returns with a new collection

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Nye, Naomi Shihab
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: August 23 2011
    • ISBN10: 1934414522
    • Language: English
  • Documents

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    “As a Filipino-American conscious of his multiple identities and the trove of experiences and external forces that shaped him, Gray uses the unfettered landscape of poetry to release himself and other

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    • Series: New Poets of America
    • Author: Gray, Jan-Henry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 16 2019
    • ISBN10: 194268374X
    • Language: English
  • Sons of Salt

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    Volcanic eruptions and waves collide in Yaccaira Salvatierra’s explosive debut collection Sons of Salt, which explores the duality of personal and political landscapes as well as legacies of violence [more below]

    • Author: Salvatierra, Yaccaira
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 139
    • Publish Date: September 17 2024
    • ISBN10: 1960145274
    • Language: English
  • One Wild Word Away

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    When tensions veer between hope and despair, the ensuing fracture can swing like a scythe and cut a ragged seam between past and present. In One Wild Word Away, Geffrey Davis weaves a deft set of poem… [more below]

    • Author: Davis, Geffrey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 75
    • Publish Date: April 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 1960145169
    • Language: English
  • The Dug-Up Gun Museum

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    Traveling the nation, Matt Donovan examines the paradox of a country plagued by gun violence yet consumed with protecting the right to bear arms.

    Matt Donovan’s The Dug-Up Gun Museum confronts our coun… [more below]

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Donovan, Matt
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1950774759
    • Language: English
  • The Second O of Sorrow

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    A lyric narrative that celebrates the struggles, the joys, and the dignity of working-class life in the Rust Belt cities.

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Dougherty, Sean Thomas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: April 10 2018
    • ISBN10: 1942683553
    • Language: English
  • Yard Show

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    Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington’s Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern U[more below]

    • Author: Harrington, Janice N.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 107
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1960145312
    • Language: English
  • The Last Song of the World

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    Joseph Fasano’s The Last Song of the World delves into the chaos of the modern world, and searches for resilience in the face of environmental and societal devastation. Dripping with images of ancient

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    • Author: Fasano, Joseph
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 178
    • Publish Date: November 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1960145339
    • Language: English
  • Little Mr. Prose Poem: Selected Poems of Russell Edson

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    A baby that keeps losing its brain, a cow in a wedding gown, a woman whose chest is a radio — bizarre and whimsical figures populate this collection of dreamlike prose poems from Russell Edson (1935-[more below]

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Edson, Rusell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: October 25 2022
    • ISBN10: 1950774732
    • Language: English
  • Erika Meitner’s previous collection, Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA, 2018), won the National Jewish Book Award in Poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and for the Library of V
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    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Meitner, Erika
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: April 05 2022
    • ISBN10: 1950774538
    • Language: English
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