Fence Books
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The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor
$18.95 Add to cartThe Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor by Kathryn Cowles was selected for the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series Prize.
Eleanor Eleanor and Kathryn Cowles were spooled side by side like thread until
- Series: Fence Modern Poets
- Author: Cowles, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798989978533
- Language: English
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Mercury
$16.95 Read moreComposed in the direct, accessible, consciousness-piercing style, Mercury comprises a group of long poems. These interlocking works speak to the substance and essence of what is said, transmitted, tra
- Author: Reines, Ariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1934200476
- Language: English
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On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies
$17.99 Add to cartOn the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies, by poet and historian of early modern art Jennifer Nelson, makes exquisite trouble. These poems give voice to Nelson’s encounters with turbulent surfac… [more below]
- Series: Ottoline Prize in Poetry
- Author: Nelson, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Maafa
$18.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2023 PEN America Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection.
Maafa is an epic poem about reparations and the female body. Maafa undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity. Maafa
- Author: Holiday, Harmony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 194438023X
- Language: English
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Coeur de Lion
$15.95 Read moreNow that I am not addressing you
But the “you” of poetry
I am probably doing something horrible and destructive.
But this “I” is the I of poetry
And it should be able to do more than I can do.Just a few m
- Author: Reines, Ariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1934200484
- Language: English
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The Cow
$15.95 Read moreThis text is filthy and fertilized, filling and emptying, filling and emptying, atrocious and politic with meaning. The Cow is a mother, a lover, and a murdered lump of meat, rendered in the strongest
- Author: Reines, Ariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 107
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0977106470
- Language: English
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Mopes: A Book in Three Acts
$17.00 Add to cart
Straddling the wreckage of late capitalist America, the poems in Kenneth Reveiz’s MOPES arc urgently toward utopia–or at least they do their best.
The intimate eros of liberated queerness is interrup… [more below]- Series: Fence Modern Poets
- Author: Reveiz, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1944380248
- Language: English
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The Black Automaton
$17.00 Read more“Douglas Kearney’s innovative new collection makes me tremble like a ‘mouth and mind full of fish hooks.’ . . . These poems literally vibrate with Kearney’s precocious intellect and passion. They hum,
- Series: National Poetry Series Books (Paperback)
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 95
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 193420028X
- Language: English
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Buck Studies
$15.95 Add to cart“[Douglas Kearney] is at the other end of the century, using a multicultural voice inflected with the concerns of what it means to be a young black man at this time and at this place.”–The Los Angele
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0986437379
- Language: English
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Hollywood Forever
$17.95 Add to cartHoliday curates poems-as-text and image-as-impression, lyricism and activism. The “legacies” of Miles Davis and MLK and Billie Holiday and other icons collide, harnessing taboos they upheld triumphant
- Author: Holiday, Harmony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0986437301
- Language: English
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Phantom Captain
$18.00 Add to cartPhantom Captain explores the poetry of psychoanalysis, feminism and gender, questions of the 21st century self, and the accelerating pressures of standardizing capitalism upon the human mind.
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- Series: Ottoline Prize
- Author: Rosenfield, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1944380272
- Language: English
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Thieves: A Novel
$17.00 Add to cart“Sly, witty, and utterly compelling, Valerie Werder’s Thieves illuminates how we create and examine our selves in thrall to late capitalism–and how we’re all thieves of one kind or another. This nove
- Series: Fence Modern Prize in Prose
- Author: Werder, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1944380213
- Language: English
