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America, a Love Story
$16.95 Read moreNew 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
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Dungy, Camille T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 081950226X
- Language: English
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Burning Oracle
$16.95 Add to cartA 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
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Simonds, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0819502162
- Language: English
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Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols, 1650-1815
$39.95 Read moreThe classic study of gravestone art
In Puritan New England, with its abiding concern for things not of this world and its distrust of forms and ceremonies, one art flourished: the symbolic art of mortu
- Author: Ludwig, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: February 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0819560405
- Language: English
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Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities
$35.00 Add to cartA two part book reimagining dark matter and the dark
Transtraterrestrial is an experimental book that documents Sage Ni’Ja Whitson’s groundbreaking performance pieces, blending African Diasporic practi
- Author: Whitson, Sage Ni’ja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501999
- Language: English
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Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer
$40.00 Add to cartCollected correspondence showcases the dazzling intelligence of an iconic American writer
The more than 300 letters collected in Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared are a crucial component of Jack Spicer
- Author: Spicer, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501905
- Language: English
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Lola the Interpreter
$18.95 Add to cartThe 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
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hejinian, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501972
- Language: English
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Chaotic Good
$16.95 Add to cartAn 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
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Baafi, Isabelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501808
- Language: English
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Paper Crown
$16.95 Add to cartFirst 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
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Christle, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501697
- Language: English
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Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, for and about One Mr. Komunyakaa
$24.95 Read moreAnthology of new work honoring the legacy of a celebrated African American poet
This carefully and generously curated mosaic of essays, letters, and poems reveals the profound impact that poet Yusef Ko
- Author: Murillo, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0819501344
- Language: English
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Africa’s Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States
$24.95 Add to cartClassic work of black study indicating a place for African people within Western history
Originally published in 1959 and revised and expanded in 1989, this book asserts that Africans had contributed m
- Author: Rogers, J. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 081957516X
- Language: English
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Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic
$30.00 Add to cartCreative visions of Arctic geography from Indigenous perspectives
Grounded in the spatiality of Indigenous existence, Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic is an innova
- Author: Finbog, Liisa-R?vn?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501883
- Language: English
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Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem
$15.95 Add to cartAn 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
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Trousdale, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 819501859
- Language: English
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The Museum of Unnatural Histories
$16.95 Add to cartArchiving 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
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Wenstrup, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501824
- Language: English
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Ars Poeticas
$26.00 Add to cartLyric 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
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Spahr, Juliana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501522
- Language: English
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Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study
$50.00 Add to cartA multivoiced dance history book, authored by twelve diverse choreographers
In an effort to deepen our understanding of what dance is and how it has functioned throughout human history, this prismatic
- Author: Defrantz, Thomas F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0819500909
- Language: English
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My Life and My Life in the Nineties
$16.95 Add to cartNew 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
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hejinian, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0819573515
- Language: English
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Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
$18.95 Read moreAn 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
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Trophic Cascade
$14.95 Read morePoems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and power
Winner of the Colorado Book Award in Poetry (2018)
In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positio
- Author: Dungy, Camille T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0819578568
- Language: English
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Silence: Lectures and Writings
$26.95 Add to cartSilence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, “to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not abo
- Author: Cage, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0819573655
- Language: English
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Soon and Wholly
$26.00 Add to cartNew 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
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Novey, Idra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 081950128X
- Language: English
