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Prelude to Bruise

Saeed Jones - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback

Praise for Saeed Jones:"Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed." -- FlavorWire"This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should." -- ElevenEleven"I get shout-happy when I read these poems; they...
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Archeophonics

Peter Gizzi - Wesleyan University Press
Format: Print book

Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds and shapes of languages in the tradition of the art,...
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Poems That Make Grown Women Cry

Anthony Holden - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears?The poems chosen range from the eighth...
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Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again

Roger Housden - Harmony; 1 edition
Format: Deckle Edge]

Every great poem invites us to step beyond what we know, what we think we can dream or dare. Great poetry is a catalyst for change: a change of mind, a change of heart, a change of life- and yes, over and over, again and again, with each new reading, and each new phase of our journey.That’s...
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World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time

Katharine Washburn - W.W. Norton

The one necessary book of poetry for every home and library. This long-awaited, indispensable volume contains more than 1600 poems drawn from dozens of languages and cultures, and spans a period of more than 4000 years from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century. World Poetry...
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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

Alice Walker - Atria / 37 INK
Format: Hardcover

Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple - "an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle) - crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving.Presented...
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She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

Anthony Holden - Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young...
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I Know Your Kind: Poems

William Brewer - Milkweed Editions
Format: Paperback

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limn, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia. In Oceana, West Virginia, fatal overdoses of heroin have spiked to three times the national average. In these...
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You Come Too: My Journey with Robert Frost

Lesley Lee Francis - University of Virginia Press, 2015.
Format: eBook

Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live "a life that goes rather poetically." The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several generations. In You Come Too, Frost's granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, combines priceless personal...
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Contemporary Black American Poets and Dramatists (Writers of English: Lives and Works)

Harold Bloom - Chelsea House Publications
Format: Library Binding

Profiles fourteen writers.
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Morning Song: Poems for New Parents

Susan Todd - St. Martin's Press; First Edition
Format: Hardcover

Poignant, inspiring, and full of wisdom, Morning Song celebrates the joy a new child brings to the life of parents and family. With sources ranging from the Bible, Sappho, and traditional songs to Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and our outstanding contemporary poets, this beautiful collection...
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Just Saying

Rae Armantrout - Wesleyan
Format: Hardcover

In Just Saying, improbable and even untenable speakers are briefly constituted--only to disappear. The result is part carnival, part nightmare. A television pundit's rhetoric segues into an unusual succulent with writhing maroon tongues. When the world suddenly becomes legible, is that...
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Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems

Allen Ginsberg - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. - Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M.The first new Ginsberg collection in over fifteen years, Wait Till I'm Dead is a landmark publication, edited by renowned Ginsberg scholar Bill Morgan. Ginsberg...
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Make Me Rain

Nikki Giovanni - William Morrow
Format: Print Length

One of America's most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.For more than thirty years, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has inspired, enlightened,...
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Whiskey Words & a Shovel III

R H SIN - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Paperback

Bestselling poet r.h. Sin completes the trilogy with Whiskey Words & a Shovel III! His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in this final book in the series.r.h. Sin's final volume in the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series expands...
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Adultolescence

Gabbie Hanna - Atria/Keywords Press
Format: Paperback

Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry.In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children's verses to a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores what it means to feel like a kid and an adult...
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Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology

Robert Pinsky - W.W. Norton
Format: Print book

A unique anthology by the editors of the bestseller Americans' Favorite Poems.Poems to Read is a welcoming avenue into poetry for readers new to poetry, including high school and college students. It is also meant to be a fresh, valuable collection for readers already devoted to the art....
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Jazz Poems

Kevin Young - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover

Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them.From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York...
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