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1 - Punks: New & Selected Poems (Song Cave)

John Keene - The Song Cave

A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, PUNKS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, PUNKS weaves...
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2 - Floaters: Poems

Martín Espada

From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief and love.Martn Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest...
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3 - DMZ Colony

Don Mee Choi

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of personal and political reckoning set over eight acts. Evincing the power of translation as a poetic device to navigate historical and linguistic borders, it explores Edward Said's...
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4 - Sight Lines

Arthur Sze - Copper Canyon Press

Winner of the 2019 National Book Award "The sight lines in Szes 10th collection are just that -- imagistic lines strung together by jump-cuts, creating a filmic collage that itself seems to be a portrait of simultaneity." -- The New York Times From the current phenomenon of drawing...
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5 - Indecency

Justin Phillip Reed - Coffee House Press

Winner of the 2018 National Book Award in PoetryIndecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social...
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6 - Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

Frank Bidart - Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The collected works of one of contemporary poetry's most original voicesGathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers,...
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7 - The Performance of Becoming Human

Daniel Borzutzky - Brooklyn Arts Press

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Following in the path of his acclaimed collections THE BOOK OF INTERFERING BODIES (Nightboat, 2011) and IN THE MURMURS OF THE ROTTEN CARCASS ECONOMY (Nightboat, 2015) , Daniel Borzutzky returns to confront the various ways nation-states and their bureaucracies...
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8 - Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems

Robin Coste Lewis - Knopf Publishing Group

A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction...
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9 - Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems

Louise Glück - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for PoetryA luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poetLouise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as "a major event...
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10 - Incarnadine: Poems

Mary Szybist - Graywolf Press; First Edition edition

Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry An NPR, Slate, Oregonian, Kansas City Star, Willamette Week, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Amazons Best Book of the Year in Poetry 2013 In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new color....
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