University of Akron Press
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The Deletions
$18.00 Add to cartSarah Green’s The Deletions is a spiritual and psychological reckoning with ecological grief, infertility grief, and the loss of a marriage. These poems live at the intersection of ode and elegy, simu… [more below]
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Green, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 55
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 162922300X
- Language: English
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Native Americans of the Cuyahoga Valley: From Early Peoples to Contemporary Issues
$32.00 Add to cartNative Americans of the Cuyahoga Valley presents an accessible distillation of the complex history of Native peoples of the region, from precontact times to today. Essential to anyone seeking a fuller… [more below]
- Series: Ohio History and Culture
- Author: Bobel, Peg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 211
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1629222887
- Language: English
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Instructions Between Takeoff and Landing: Poems
$15.95 Read moreThe poems in Instructions between Takeoff and Landing take place in the middle of myriad journeys: tracking the twin Voyager satellites as they vanish into the unknown, reckoning with a troubling nati… [more below]
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Jensen, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1629222240
- Language: English
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Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems
$29.95 Read moreMarbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems was conceived from a poetic dialogue on how to shed light on the art and science behind the material construction of a poetry collection, and to g
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Konchan, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222542
- Language: English
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Something about Living
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time, but Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s gorgeous and wide-ranging new collection … [more below]
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Khalaf Tuffaha, Lena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 81
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1629222739
- Language: English
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True Tales from the Campaign Trail, Vol. 3
$19.95 Read moreTrue Tales from the Campaign Trail finds Democratic and Republican political consultants putting aside their differences to offer entertaining and honest insights into the art of the political campaig
- Series: Bliss Institute
- Author: Austin, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222631
- Language: English
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Doe
$15.95 Read moreWinner of the 2018 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize
Doe began as author Aim e Baker’s attempt to understand and process the news coverage of a single unidentified woman whose body was thrown from a car- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Baker, Aimée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1629220841
- Language: English
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Taking the Plunge Into Ethiopia: Tales of a Peace Corp Volunteer
$24.95 Read moreFrom 1968 until 1970, William Hershey served as the only Peace Corps volunteer in a small Ethiopian town. Hershey taught seventh and eighth grade students the English that they would need to continue … [more below]
- Series: Bliss Institute
- Author: Hershey, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222666
- Language: English
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Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with the Legacy of a Crayon Company
$25.00 Read moreThis is the story of the crayon. Following the Civil War, three entrepreneurial families took their innovative ideas for school chalk from the kitchen stove and transformed them into the American Cray… [more below]
- Series: Ohio History and Culture
- Author: Kropf, John Whitworth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1629222275
- Language: English
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The Music of My Life: Finding My Way After My Mother’s MS Diagnosis
$24.95 Read moreThe Music of My Life: Finding My Way After My Mother’s MS Diagnosis follows the life of Steve McClain after his mother is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis early in his childhood. He recounts the stor… [more below]
- Series: Ohio History and Culture
- Author: McClain, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 123
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222577
- Language: English
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Reck: Poems
$16.95 Read moreFifteenth-century theologian and philosopher Nicholas Malebranche said that attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul. The title of this third collection by National Book Award finalist Harrison… [more below]
- Author: Harrison, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 97
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222348
- Language: English
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Velvet Hounds: Poems
$15.95 Read moreWinner of the 2020 Akron Poetry Prize
Velvet Hounds is a completely combustible collection of poetry. In extravagant, shape-shifting imagery and mythic-meets-black-leather vernacular, Seu takes reader- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Seu, Aimee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 73
- Publish Date: March 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1629222216
- Language: English
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A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers
$16.95 Add to cartA Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers offers multiple perspectives and vital insights on caring for the artist behind the creative work. Julie Brooks Barbour and Mary Biddinger ha… [more below]
- Series: Akron Contemporary Poetics
- Author: Brooks Barbour, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 91
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1629222798
- Language: English
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If I Could Give You a Line: Poems
$16.95 Read moreWhat does it mean to make something to share publicly when you are unsure of your own presence? If I Could Give You a Line cultivates the strangeness of presence in motherhood when the self is hyper-a… [more below]
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Oeding, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 61
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222410
- Language: English
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Dear Outsiders: Poems
$16.95 Read moreSet in a small tourist town, two siblings attempt to navigate and survive an unfamiliar landscape after their parents’ deaths while trying to simultaneously forget and remember them. Dear Outsiders ex
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Sadre-Orafai, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222380
- Language: English
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The Boy in the Labyrinth: Poems
$19.95 Read moreIn a long sequence of prose poems, questionnaires, and standardized tests, The Boy in the Labyrinth interrogates the language of autism and the language barriers between parents, their children, and t… [more below]
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: de la Paz, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1629221724
- Language: English
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Everwhen: Poems
$16.95 Read moreEverwhen is an anxious, verdant poetry collection that is preoccupied with a chthonic era–when the secrets of long ago catch up to now, and when the past, present, and future collapse into what’s lon
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Barngrover, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222445
- Language: English
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The Beginning Was the End: Devo in Ohio
$35.95 Read moreThe Beginning Was the End is the definitive account of DEVO’s vibrant early history, from the authors of the first-ever book about the band. The Beginning Was the End features more than eighty never-b… [more below]
- Series: Ohio History and Culture
- Author: Dellinger, Jade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 285
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222518
- Language: English
