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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

Morgan Parker - Tin House Books
Format: Print book

"This is a marvelous book. See for yourself. Morgan Parker is a fearlessly forward and forward-thinking literary star." -- Terrance HayesPublishers Weekly's Ten Best Poetry Collections of Spring There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonc uses political and pop-cultural...
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Nature Poem

TOMMY PICO - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback

Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Poetry Collections of SpringA Buzzfeed Most Anticipated BookA book-length poem about how an American Indian (or NDN) writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity...
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I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

Eileen Myles - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover

A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favorites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of Chelsea Girls.Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. Her work opens readers to astonishing...
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Paterson

William Carlos Williams - New Directions
Format: Paperback

Long recognized as a masterpiece of modern American poetry, WIlliam Carlos Williams' Paterson is one man's testament and vision, "a humanist manifesto enacted in five books, a grammar to help us life" (Denis Donoghue) . Paterson is both a place -- the New Jersey city in whom...
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The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems form her last years.
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong - Copper Canyon Press
Format: Print book

Winner of the 2016 Whiting AwardOne of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2016"One of Lit Hub's "10 must-read poetry collections for April"Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: "The poems in Mr. Vuong's new collection, Night Sky With...
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Selected Poems

Frank O'Hara - Knopf; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover

Frank O’Hara (1926–1966) was one of the most original and influential American poets of the twentieth century. Although he grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts, O’Hara developed into the quintessential poet of mid-century Manhattan; soon after his arrival in New York in 1951...
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