Lily Poetry Review

  • Shepherd’s Hour

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    2023 Ohio Poet of the Year Rikki Santer’s new poetry collection, Shepherd’s Hour showcases Santer’s poetic virtuosity as it explores her cultural inheritance as a Jewish woman raised in the mid 20th c

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    • Author: Santer, Rikki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 26 2025
    • ISBN10: 1957755539
    • Language: English
  • Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree

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    In this striking collection of poems, Jennifer Martelli delves deep into the human psyche, exploring themes of desire, self-destruction, and the complexities of human existence. From suffocation to sn

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    • Author: Martelli, Jennifer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: December 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 1957755423
    • Language: English
  • It Will Have Been So Beautiful

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    With urgency and compassion, humor and wonder, Amanda Shaw’s It Will Have Been So Beautiful implores us to consider what “home” means, particularly in the midst of an ever-worsening climate emergency.

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    • Author: Shaw, Amanda C.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 92
    • Publish Date: March 21 2024
    • ISBN10: 1957755350
    • Language: English
  • Little What

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    Lyric narrative poetry that explores relationships, queer poetry, LGBQ. sapphics, sonnets.
    Little What is a collection of poems focused around narratives of childhood and trauma and the subsequent lab

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    • Author: Oaks, Jeff
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 74
    • Publish Date: September 16 2019
    • ISBN10: 1733768335
    • Language: English
  • Seeking Grace

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    Seeking Grace is a verse memoir narrated by the mother of a daughter in a religious cult. Based on a true experience in the ’80s, each poem reveals the choices and dilemmas of parents rescuing a child

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    • Author: Snider, Faye
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 48
    • Publish Date: December 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 195775527X
    • Language: English
  • The Palace of Unbearable Feeling

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    Equally resonant as visual chants or textual mandalas, these 18 poems emerge from the international lineage of concrete poetry. Written during the pandemic in response to prolonged isolation and the p

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    • Author: Riesenberg, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: February 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957755156
    • Language: English
  • Relative Hearts

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    How does a family heal from brutal trauma? The speaker in Relative Hearts faces the burdens of both his namesake and his past by digging to uncover personal details while there are still witnesses to

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    • Author: Mohring, Ron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 34
    • Publish Date: November 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957755342
    • Language: English
  • How Many Miles to Babylon?

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    “These clear-eyed, haunting poems map complex and intertwining responses to the question

    Anne Pluto’s collection poses about desire, endurance, and the search for home. This journey en-compasses world

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    • Author: Pluto, Anne Elezabeth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 76
    • Publish Date: September 29 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957755288
    • Language: English
  • Hive

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    In Hive, a book-length poem that explores the poetics of the apiary, Suzanne Mercury creates a meadow: a world, a microcosm, a universe which invites the reader into a renewed sense of the world.

    Draw

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    • Author: Mercury, Suzanne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 62
    • Publish Date: October 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957755326
    • Language: English
  • Aquamarine

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    These poems, like an aquamarine, are transparent, iridescent, and evoke both sea and light-whether it’s the blinding light off a surface, or kaleidoscope images spilling like waves in the rearview mir

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    • Author: Duff, Valerie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 70
    • Publish Date: October 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957755253
    • Language: English
  • The Things

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    Written in the wake of the poet’s mother’s Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, The Things tackles not only the keen anticipation of grief and loss but also its arrival and aftermath. These lyrical and searingly

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    • Author: Oaks, Jeff
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 90
    • Publish Date: March 16 2022
    • ISBN10: 1736599070
    • Language: English
  • Sleeping in the Dead Girl’s Room

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    Sleeping in the Dead Girl’s Room yearns for a truth that eludes knowing. These poems grapple with the presumed suicide death of an aunt and with the poet’s mental health history and hospitalization. T

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    • Author: Bargar, Cynthia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 76
    • Publish Date: January 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1737504332
    • Language: English
  • People Once Real

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    People Once Real redefines elegy. Elegy for the present of our failing democracy, our failing planet, our failing bodies. Elegy for the futures we had imagined would be. Elegy for the past of our forg… [more below]

    • Author: Hoffman, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: April 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957755113
    • Language: English
  • Apocalypse on the Linoleum

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    Apocalypse on the Linoleum grapples with big stuff – religious and cultural identity, climate change, motherhood, death, history – with an unflinching eye and a paradoxical, active hope. Gutsy, raw, a

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    • Author: Akresh-Gonzales, Josette
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: March 08 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957755210
    • Language: English
  • Going There

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    A deeply moving meditation on place, space, childhood, fatherhood, and family, Going There is also a profound study of arrival and departure, natality and mortality, and gifts of inheritance-from Thor

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    • Author: Heinegg, Max
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 78
    • Publish Date: September 13 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957755245
    • Language: English
  • View from a Borrowed Field

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    Ranging across the past and the present, Sterling, asks us to not only examine what home means to us but to dream in View from a Borrowed Field

    • Author: Sterling, Meghan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 08 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957755199
    • Language: English
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