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  • Exile in Guyville

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    In the stories of Exile in Guyville, probable futures and alternate realities take aim at unruly women, and show how they refuse to be ruled.

    With a speculative and surreal style, Amy Lee Lillard’s pr… [more below]

    • Author: Lillard, Amy Lee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 138
    • Publish Date: May 21 2024
    • ISBN10: 1960145207
    • Language: English
  • The Naomi Letters

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    Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters chronicles the relationship

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    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Mennies, Rachel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 27 2021
    • ISBN10: 1950774295
    • Language: English
  • The Book of Things

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    The first US edition of rising world-poetry star Ales Steger’s most acclaimed book. The most prominent Slovenian poet of his generation.

  • Fuel

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    Poems that find meaning in a world where we are “so tired of meaning nothing.”

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Nye, Naomi Shihab
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 65
    • Publish Date: June 01 1998
    • ISBN10: 1880238632
    • Language: English
  • Book of My Nights

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    The long-awaited new poetry collection from one of the world’s most acclaimed young poets.

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Lee, Li-Young
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: September 01 2001
    • ISBN10: 1929918089
    • Language: English
  • Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton

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    This long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets–Lucille Clifton.

    Black Buffalo Woman is a deep, comprehensive dive into Clifton’s work t

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    • Author: Ali, Kazim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 294
    • Publish Date: September 24 2024
    • ISBN10: 1960145355
    • Language: English
  • A Tinderbox in Three Acts

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    Selected by Aracelis Girmay, A Tinderbox in Three Acts is at once elegy and exegesis, fact and invention.

    In her fourth poetry collection, Cynthia Dewi Oka performs a lyric accounting of the anti-Comm… [more below]

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Oka, Cynthia Dewi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: October 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 1950774716
    • Language: English
  • A Season in Hell with Rimbaud

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    In pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship.

    The poems in Dustin Pearson’s A Season in Hell with Rimbaud form

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    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Pearson, Dustin Kyle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: May 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 1950774597
    • Language: English
  • Four in Hand

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    Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found te… [more below]

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Mountain, Alicia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: April 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 1950774864
    • Language: English
  • The Black Maria

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    Timely and necessary poems investigate the historical and current realities of blackness in America, elegizing and celebrating human life.

    • Author: Girmay, Aracelis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: April 12 2016
    • ISBN10: 1942683022
    • Language: English
  • Brand New Spacesuit

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    With wry humor and acute attention to detail, John Gallaher’s latest poetry collection captures the pain and joys of caretaking.

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Gallaher, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: April 21 2020
    • ISBN10: 1950774031
    • Language: English
  • Trouble the Water

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    Profound, lyric poems interrogate what it means to be fully human as a “queer, black body” in 21st century America.

    • Author: Austin, Derrick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 12 2016
    • ISBN10: 1942683049
    • Language: English
  • A Shiver in the Leaves

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    Nestled against the backdrop of Seattle’s flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes’ debut poetry collection wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from t[more below]

    • Series: New Poets of America
    • Author: Hughes, Luther
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: September 27 2022
    • ISBN10: 1950774678
    • Language: English
  • Kingdom Animalia

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    This highly anticipated second collection is the winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award.

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Girmay, Aracelis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: September 20 2011
    • ISBN10: 193441462X
    • Language: English
  • Tell Me

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    Poems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss.

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Addonizio, Kim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: July 01 2000
    • ISBN10: 1880238918
    • Language: English
  • Desire Museum

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    Consumed with the accumulation of lost time and unfulfilled longing, Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen is an intricate exploration of things left unfinished or unsatisfied.

    Divided into four sec

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    • Series: American Poets Continuum #202
    • Author: Cadena Deulen, Danielle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1960145002
    • Language: English
  • Cenzontle

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    A lyrical debut exploring the emotional fallout of immigration, childbirth, queer desire within a heteronormative marriage, and, ultimately, belonging.

    • Series: A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America
    • Author: Castillo, Marcelo Hernandez
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 10 2018
    • ISBN10: 1942683537
    • Language: English
  • Buffalo Girl

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    In these hybrid poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother’s fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of war through the lens of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.

    Told thr… [more below]

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Stark, Jessica Q.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: April 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 1950774880
    • Language: English
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