Stahlecker Selections
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Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
$16.95 Add to cartJohn Murillo’s second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjuga… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Murillo, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1945588470
- Language: English
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Burn Me Back
$17.95 Add to cart“My Spanglish,” Peggy Robles-Alvarado declares, “drops the -s and makes it ma’ o meno’,” replaces accent marks with side-eye, “has a T?a sin papeles,” and recognizes that “there is no other way to say… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Robles-Alvarado, Peggy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1961897660
- Language: English
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Someone Else’s Hunger
$17.95 Add to cartDislocated in her own skin after a sexual assault, Isabella DeSendi wrestles with the thorny border between desire and appetite in her incandescent debut collection. Poised between her Cuban matriline… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Desendi, Isabella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 196189758X
- Language: English
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Tranz
$17.95 Add to cartIn her debut collection, TRANZ, Spencer Williams writes equally riotous and vulnerable poems, penning a love letter to trans people and their audacity to exist in a world that constantly endangers the… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Williams, Spencer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 123
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1961897164
- Language: English
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Red Wilderness
$17.95 Read moreIn defiance of life’s intractable march forward, Red Wilderness by Aaron Coleman (Winner of the 2020 GLCA New Writers Award) sounds the strange fathoms of the past, weaving a living song beyond what h… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Coleman, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 135
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1961897245
- Language: English
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Reality Checkmate
$17.95 Read moreA dynamic and philosophical debut collection, Daniel Ruiz’s Reality Checkmate choreographs the endless wrestling match between lyrical sensibility and ontological principles taking place on the mind’s… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Ruiz, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1961897385
- Language: English
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Greater Ghost
$17.95 Add to cartIn Christian Collier’s debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost, this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move b… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Collier, Christian J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1961897105
- Language: English
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Saints of Little Faith
$17.95 Read moreThe energies animating Saints of Little Faith, Megan Pinto’s electrifying debut in poetry, are a forceful quiet, a loud stillness, the caesura between a lightning strike and the sound of thunder. Eve
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Pinto, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1961897148
- Language: English
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Indirect Light
$17.95 Add to cartReliving the overdoses of beloved friends, Malachi Black closes this book’s opening poem with a resuscitating command: “Doctor, / turn back. One of us lives.” Indirect Light is a testament to and apo
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Black, Malachi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1961897121
- Language: English
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Ignatz
$15.95 Read moreIgnatz takes the form of a cycle of love poems–in radical variations–based on Ignatz Mouse, the rodent anti-hero and love-object of George Herriman’s classic comic strip Krazy Kat. For decades, Kraz
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Youn, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 193553601X
- Language: English
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So Long
$17.95 Read moreAnticipating and then grieving the death of her father, Jen Levitt’s So Long fleshes out a full elegiac register, sitting with the mourning of farewell while holding onto gratitude, remembrance, and
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Levitt, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245505
- Language: English
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For the Love of Endings
$15.95 Read moreHow does it feel to lose your planet, your lover, yourself? Ben Purkert’s debut collection, For the Love of Endings, tests what connects us to this earth and to each other. His brilliantly crafted poe… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Purkert, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1945588055
- Language: English
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Previously Owned
$17.95 Read moreIn his daring sophomore collection, Nathan McClain interrogates his speaker’s American heritage, history, and responsibility. Investigating myth, popular culture, governance, and more, Previously Owne… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: McClain, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1954245262
- Language: English
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Fantasia for the Man in Blue
$16.95 Read moreIn his debut collection Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the black, queer body as a site of desire an… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Blount, Tommye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1945588497
- Language: English
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Bastards of the Reagan Era
$15.95 Read moreBastards of the Reagan Era is a challenge, confronting realities that frame an America often made invisible. Within these poems, we see the city as distant lover, we hear “the sound that comes from al… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Betts, Reginald Dwayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1935536656
- Language: English
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When I Reach for Your Pulse
$17.95 Read moreIn this electrifying debut, lyric works to untangle slippery personal and political histories in the wake of a parent’s suicide. “When my father finally / died,” Vyas writes, “we […] burned, / like
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Vyas, Rushi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245548
- Language: English
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Muse Found in a Colonized Body
$17.95 Read moreIn the book’s eponymous poem, Yesenia Montilla writes, “How do you not love yourself when you / constantly survive your undoing just by being precious?” Muse Found in a Colonized Body answers this rhe
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Montilla, Yesenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1954245327
- Language: English
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Muscadine
$17.95 Read moreA. H. Jerriod Avant’s debut collection, Muscadine, cultivates the vine of familial memory, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life, how the native grape’s “thick … [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Avant, A. H. Jerriod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 81
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 195424570X
- Language: English
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The Disordered Alphabet
$17.95 Read moreCintia Santana’s virtuoso debut collection, The Disordered Alphabet, reckons with the emotional anarchy of our lives, baring the difficulty of wrestling experience into language. She surveys a cosmic … [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Santana, Cintia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245629
- Language: English
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When There Was Light
$17.95 Read moreWhile Hoffman’s debut collection interrogated the mythos built around grief, inhabiting an Alaska of the mind, her stunning sophomore collection When There Was Light looks at the past for what it was
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Hoffman, Carlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954245424
- Language: English
