Wesleyan Poetry

  • America, a Love Story

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    New poems on love, family, and art from the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden

    America, A Love Story is Camille T. Dungy’s powerful testament to living and loving as a Black woman and

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Dungy, Camille T.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 081950226X
    • Language: English
  • Burning Oracle

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    A fierce, visionary book-length poem

    Burning Oracle is a visionary, book-length poem told from the fractures of a world on fire where myth, memory, and contemporary life collide. Cassandra–seer, mothe

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Simonds, Sandra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: February 17 2026
    • ISBN10: 0819502162
    • Language: English
  • Lola the Interpreter

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    The final book by the award-winning and celebrated writer Lyn Hejinian

    Lyn Hejinian’s Lola the Interpreter is a prose poem in which an ‘I’ and a series of quasi-characters (including Lola) interpret on

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Hejinian, Lyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: October 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 0819501972
    • Language: English
  • Chaotic Good

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    An evocative journey of self-discovery and reclamation in the wake of divorce

    UK edition of Chaotic Good was shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Poetry Collection

    This fresh, dynamic debut

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Baafi, Isabelle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 0819501808
    • Language: English
  • Paper Crown

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    First poetry collection in a decade from acclaimed author of The Crying Book

    Since Heather Christle published her last poetry collection a decade ago, her nonfiction works The Crying Book and In the Rh

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Christle, Heather
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: August 05 2025
    • ISBN10: 0819501697
    • Language: English
  • Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem

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    An inventive, poignant and witty collection that speaks to the intricacies of love, both domestic and wild

    Winner of the 2024 Cardinal Poetry Prize

    Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem is the i

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Trousdale, Rachel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 819501859
    • Language: English
  • The Museum of Unnatural Histories

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    Archiving stories of dissonance and curating connection inside the imagined museum

    This extraordinary debut poetry collection by Dena’ina poet Annie Wenstrup delicately parses personal history in the s

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Wenstrup, Annie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 0819501824
    • Language: English
  • Ars Poeticas

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    Lyric meditations on writing poetry in a time of ecological crisis and right wing populism

    During the time of an increasingly powerful alt-right which was also the time when species extinction was ever

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Spahr, Juliana
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 74
    • Publish Date: February 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 0819501522
    • Language: English
  • My Life and My Life in the Nineties

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    New edition of one of the founding works of Language writing

    Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Hejinian, Lyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: March 07 2013
    • ISBN10: 0819573515
    • Language: English
  • Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

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    An award-winning poet’s testimony of the war in Vietnam.

    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Komunyakaa, Yusef
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 188
    • Publish Date: April 30 1993
    • ISBN10: 0819512117
    • Language: English
  • Soon and Wholly

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    New poetry by the author of acclaimed 2023 novel Take What You Need faces the complexities of life on a swiftly heating earth.

    Idra Novey’s first collection in a decade, since Patricia Smith chose Exit

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Novey, Idra
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 081950128X
    • Language: English
  • Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021

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    Collected poems of pivotal Jewish lesbian activist

    Winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (2023)
    Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, Berru Award for Poetry, in m

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Klepfisz, Irena
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 296
    • Publish Date: December 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 081950016X
    • Language: English
  • In a Few Minutes Before Later

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    “[Hillman’s] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful.” –Harvard Review

    Finalist for the Four Quartets Prize, given by Poetry Society of America, 2023

    An iconoclastic ecopoet who has led t

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Hillman, Brenda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: February 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 0819501220
    • Language: English
  • Collected Poems

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    A collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.

    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Wright, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 596
    • Publish Date: June 01 2007
    • ISBN10: 0819568619
    • Language: English
  • Versed

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    A double collection from one of the most brilliant poets of her generation

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010)
    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009)
    Finalist for the National

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Armantrout, Rae
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: August 01 2010
    • ISBN10: 819570915
    • Language: English
  • Brother Poem

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    A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG

    At the heart of Brother Poem is a sequence addressed to a fictional brother. Through these fragments,

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Harris, Will
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 0819500526
    • Language: English
  • Un-American

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    Poems shimmering with lyricism ask who can inherit a country?

    2021 PEN Open Book Finalist
    2021 NAACP Image Award Finalist, Poetry
    2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, Longlist

    Dancing between lyr

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Geter, Hafizah Augustus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: September 08 2020
    • ISBN10: 0819579815
    • Language: English
  • Icelight

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    Set in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hope

    Icelight, Ranjit Hoskote’s eighth collection of poems, enacts the experience of standi

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Hoskote, Ranjit
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 0819500550
    • Language: English
  • Conjure

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    Like magic, these succinct poems reveal multiple realities

    Rae Armantrout has always taken pleasure in uncertainties and conundrums, the tricky nuances of language and feeling. In Conjure that pleasure

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Armantrout, Rae
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: September 08 2020
    • ISBN10: 0819579971
    • Language: English
  • Inquisition

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    How we answer to love beneath the lash of history

    During the 1982 air strikes on Beirut, Faiz Ahmed Faiz asked his friend Mahmoud Darwish “Why aren’t the poets writing this war on the walls of the city

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Ali, Kazim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 06 2018
    • ISBN10: 0819577626
    • Language: English
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