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  • The Ubiquitous Big
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    The Ubiquitous Big

    You've heard of The Big Sleep, right? Well, it's sixty years later and time for The Ubiquitous Big. This book, the second from Calgary poet Ian Samuels, explores the language of certain influential aspects of early to mid-twentieth-century popular culture. Yes, folks, you get Arcana, based on the...

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  • Troubled
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    Troubled

    Everyone falls in love with their therapist at least a little. But what happens when the therapist not only loves you back but also acts upon it? Troubled is the poetic account of the true story of a patient/psychiatrist relationship gone horribly wrong. With his signature mix of scathing self-a...

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  • Unsleeping

    Unsleeping

    Michael Burkard's eighth and most experimental book of poetry.

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  • Whitman
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    Whitman

    Offers insight into Whitman’s quest for self-discovery, which involved an ongoing mystical experience of the world.

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  • Twice Removed

    Twice Removed

    A brilliant new collection by the winner of the James Laughlin Award.

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  • Haiku—The Sacred Art
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    Haiku—The Sacred Art

    Takes the mystery and intimidation out of beginning to write haiku as a spiritual practice. Provides helpful hints and step-by-step exercises to broaden and deepen both your haiku artistry and your appreciation of haiku as part of your spiritual life.

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  • Hello Serotonin
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    Hello Serotonin

    Contemporary Canadian poetry got you down? Well, we'd like to prescribe a little Hello Serotonin, the latest in mood-enhancing poetry anti-depressants. This new book of poems from Jon Paul Fiorentino operates within the constraints of what he terms 'synaptic syntax' - poetry that performs the ve...

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  • Probably Inevitable
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    Probably Inevitable

    "Matthew Tierney writes poems like a mad boy scientist." – Eye Weekly

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  • Otherwise Poems
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    Otherwise Poems

    The collected English-language poems of Oscar Mandel, the acclaimed Belgian-born poet, playwright, fabulist, and author.

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  • Hafiz
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    Hafiz

    This unique collection offers insight into the spiritual philosophy and carefree mysticism of the greatest Persian poet. His probing and joyful verse speaks to people from all backgrounds who long for divine love and harmony with all living things.

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  • I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent
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    I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent

    The #metoo movement, particularly the horrific Larry Nasser abuse, shows with frightening clarity the vulnerability of young women to male predators; all the Touchtone girls I encountered suffered similar or worse fates. The book is a pilgrimage, a quest story, divided into five sectio...

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  • Praeder's Letters
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    Praeder's Letters

    A daring literary experiment, and an engrossing read from Kentucky's Poet Laureate.

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  • The Gatehouse Heaven

    The Gatehouse Heaven

    Selected by Charles Wright as the 1997 Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

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  • Dark Familiar

    Dark Familiar

    A lush, noir-glamorous third collection from Norma Farber Award Winner.

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  • The Hayflick Limit
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    The Hayflick Limit

    Tierney’s collection concerns itself with boundaries of the cosmic and sub-atomic and the sadsack creatures in the nexus, human beings.

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  • Hopkins
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    Hopkins

    This Christian mystical poet is beloved for his fresh language and startling metaphors. Underneath this lovely verse lies a searching soul, wrestling with and yearning for God, that will speak to people of all faiths who seek a deeper experience of God.

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  • Monet's Broom
    Monet's Broom

    Monet's Broom

    This ambitious and immensely readable fifth collection from Helen Farish asks searching questions about the creative process and what it means to lead a fully creative life.  When Claude Monet died in 1926 he left behind over three thousand works of art, and in his last decade he was exploring as...

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  • The Mystery of Meteors

    The Mystery of Meteors

    Brilliant comeback after 25 years for an inaugural Juniper Prize-winner.

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  • Summons
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    Summons

    Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, judge Charles Simic.

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  • From Thunder to Sunrise
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    From Thunder to Sunrise

    Poetry for those whom are grieving for loved ones that lost their lives while serving in Vietnam.

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  • Entire Dilemma

    Entire Dilemma

    A lean collection by a "poet's poet" who writes of existential possibility in plain English.

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  • Lances All Alike
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    Lances All Alike

    Two of the twentieth century’s greatest art provocateurs, avant-gardists, and bohemians finally connect in the poetry of Suzanne Zelazo.

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  • Asbestos Heights
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    Asbestos Heights

    Asbestos Heights is the poke in the eye that misses and ends up somewhere else.

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  • Feeding the Fire

    Feeding the Fire

    Third, highly accessible collection by this lyric talent.

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  • Tagore
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    Tagore

    Offers insight into Tagore’s heavenly desires, his ongoing quest for Brahama Vihara, and illuminates the remarkable diversity that made him the most important bridge between the spirituality of the East and West in the first half of the twentieth century.

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  • Gin & Bleach
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    Gin & Bleach

    Poems sprung from the brain of Wallace Stevens after an erotic dream about Miss Dickinson and breakfast with Mother Goose.

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  • Goodbye to the Orchard

    Goodbye to the Orchard

    Poetry that finds sense in life through a confrontation with death.

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  • Solarium
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    Solarium

    With straightforward syntax and diction Zandi’s poems find their way to fresh sound and unexplored regions of the interior.

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  • White Sea
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    White Sea

    Strong, unsentimentally emotional new collection from this highly respected poet

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  • Present Vanishing
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    Present Vanishing

    A down-to-earth search for everyday Zen mindfulness from well-known master of formal poetry.

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  • The Unrequited

    The Unrequited

    Winner of the 2002 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Stephen Dunn.

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  • The New Year of Yellow
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    The New Year of Yellow

    Winner of the 2005 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Tony Hoagland.

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  • Feeler
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    Feeler

    In Feeler, McHugh takes on the fraught subject of empathy—how much we feel, and do, for the afflicted. 

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  • Summons
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    Summons

    Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, judge Charles Simic.

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  • Enter Invisible
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    Enter Invisible

    Possible love child of Wallace Stevens and Dorothy Parker; Wing's poems are playful, scrappy, witty, postmodern

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  • Multitudes
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    Multitudes

    A generous, retrospective edition of this African-American poet.

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  • The Day Before
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    The Day Before

    A stunning follow-up to Allen's award-winning New and Selected. Accessible and profound.

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  • The Preacher
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    The Preacher

    The sixth edition in the Quarternote Chapbook series by chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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  • The Unrequited
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    The Unrequited

    Winner of the 2002 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Stephen Dunn.

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  • Garden of Exile
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    Garden of Exile

    Selected by Marilyn Hacker as the 1998 Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

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  • The Darker Fall
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    The Darker Fall

    Winner of the 2001 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Stanley Plumly.

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  • Torn Sky
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    Torn Sky

    Moving, unsentimental portraits of Native Americans and other South Dakotans.

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  • Night Work
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    Night Work

    A gorgeous debut collection of poems by medical physician.

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  • Hammer
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    Hammer

    Debut collection by a working carpenter. Praised by Pinsky, Gunn, and others.

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  • The Mother on the Other Side of the World
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    The Mother on the Other Side of the World

    Mysterious, richly layered, new collection from an accomplished poet.

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  • Lampblack & Ash
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    Lampblack & Ash

    Winner of the 2004 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Carol Muske-Dukes

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  • Left Wing of a Bird
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    Left Wing of a Bird

    Daring new collection from the editor of The American Poetry Review.

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  • Flying Blind
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    Flying Blind

    A lexicon of poems on language and death.

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  • Dark Blonde
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    Dark Blonde

    A collection of worldly, graceful poems traveling among multiple settings and perspectives.

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  • Beasts for the Chase
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    Beasts for the Chase

    Winner of the 2007 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Jane Hirshfield

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  • Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected
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    Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected

    One of America's foremost poets of the transition generation illuminates the final half of the 20th century.

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  • Bad River Road
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    Bad River Road

    Poems of a family's struggle in South Dakota's big sky reservation territory.

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  • Equipoise
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    Equipoise

    A book of poems that reads like a two week vacation at the shore.

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  • Exceptions and Melancholies
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    Exceptions and Melancholies

    Exhilarating, dangerous new poems and a generous selection of previous work.

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  • The Sensual World Re-emerges
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    The Sensual World Re-emerges

    The fifth collection from Lenore Marshall Prize-winning poet, a writer at the absolute height of her powers.

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  • The Mother on the Other Side of the World
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    The Mother on the Other Side of the World

    Mysterious, richly layered, new collection from an accomplished poet.

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  • Bad Judgment
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    Bad Judgment

    Feminist poems forged with wit and wisdom.

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  • The Mystery of Meteors
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    The Mystery of Meteors

    Brilliant comeback after 25 years for an inaugural Juniper Prize-winner.

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  • Loves of Ricardo
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    Loves of Ricardo

    Poetry. As Yevgeny Yevtushenko recounts, Ricardo Sanchez was one of the creators of la poesia chicana and his voice was the concentrate of many silent voices. His written poetry was ambassador of the non-written sufferings of so many chicanos, whose barefoot feet were in the USA, but whose barefo...

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  • When
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    When

    Selected by Alice Fulton as the Winner of the 1996 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

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  • rife
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    rife

    An optimistic and compassionate second collection by a former Brittingham Prize winner.

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  • Ghost Pain
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    Ghost Pain

    Eighth poetry collection by the founder of New England Review

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  • I'm Always so Serious
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    I'm Always so Serious

     "I’m Always so Serious is brilliant.” —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead  Karisma Price’s stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City, these poems braid personal and public histories...

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  • In Medias Res
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    In Medias Res

    Chosen by Heather McHugh as winner of the 2003 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry

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  • Unsleeping
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    Unsleeping

    Michael Burkard's eighth and most experimental book of poetry.

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  • The Cold War
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    The Cold War

    Formally energetic poems grapple with a 20th Century hangover in this bracingly intelligent second collection.

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  • Feeding the Fire
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    Feeding the Fire

    Third, highly accessible collection by this lyric talent.

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  • Left Wing of a Bird
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    Left Wing of a Bird

    Daring new collection from the editor of The American Poetry Review.

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  • Master
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    Master

    Winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Terrance Hayes.The debut collection from Simon Shieh, Master is a stark, surreal, and imagistic reckoning with a traumatic past. Master follows the speaker's struggle with masculinity from a martial arts school in upstate New York ...

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  • White Sea
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    White Sea

    Strong, unsentimentally emotional new collection from this highly respected poet

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  • Ancient Algorithms
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    Ancient Algorithms

    In Ancient Algorithms, Katrine Øgaard Jensen mistranslates, rewrites, and remixes her award-winning translations of Danish Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s poetry based on a series of self-imposed rules and rituals in collaboration with poets Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, CAConrad, Baba Badji, Paul Cunni...

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  • Flying Blind
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    Flying Blind

    A lexicon of poems on language and death.

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  • Epistles
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    Epistles

    The ninth poetry collection from the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize-winner.

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  • The Day Before
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    The Day Before

    A stunning follow-up to Allen's award-winning New and Selected. Accessible and profound.

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  • Three Poets of Modern Korea
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    Three Poets of Modern Korea

    An eclectic sampling of modern Korean poetry, superbly translated by husband and wife team.

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  • The Children
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    The Children

    Poems of a lived-in landscape, where beauty is the afterimage of loss, and grief is staunched by the changing seasons.

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  • C+nto
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    C+nto

    Electrifying collection exploring the underground lesbian culture by a pioneer of the British spoken word scene.

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  • RORSCHACH ART
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    RORSCHACH ART

    “Each of these marvelous poems engages as instantly as a photograph: you read two or three words and you’re on the scene, recoiling in horror as Trotsky is murdered or twisting uncomfortably as your daughter buys her first bra. There’s no need to ‘develop’ Stephen Gibson’s pictures; they enter yo...

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  • Orange Crush
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    Orange Crush

    Fiercely intelligent tribute to the "orange girls" of London who sold oranges (and themselves) outside 19th-century theaters.

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  • Yoga Heart
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    Yoga Heart

    Poems derived from yogic practice, capturing the journey of the physical body to transcendent awareness.

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  • Twice Removed
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    Twice Removed

    A brilliant new collection by the winner of the James Laughlin Award.

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  • Neighbor Blood
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    Neighbor Blood

    Poetry with mature wit and a heavy debt to jazz.

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  • Lost River
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    Lost River

    New poems by Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Yale Prize winner.

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  • Song of Two Worlds
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    Song of Two Worlds

    From the author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams comes an illustrated verse-narrative—a profound scientific, philosophical, and spiritual adventure.

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  • Taking Eden
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    Taking Eden

    A haunting new voice--echoing Robert Frost, Garcia Lorca, and a dash of the Brothers Grimm.

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  • The Night We're Not Sleeping In
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    The Night We're Not Sleeping In

    This poetry debut details the death of the speaker’s father after brain surgery, confronting personal and political grief.

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  • Torn Sky
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    Torn Sky

    Moving, unsentimental portraits of Native Americans and other South Dakotans.

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  • My Heresies
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    My Heresies

    Behold My Heresies: the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu.Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, belief, longing, and grief, the poems of My Heresies catalog a personal and familial history originating in Bucharest, Romania and landing in Birmingh...

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  • Toucan Nest
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    Toucan Nest

    What happens when we enter unfamiliar realms, when we open ourselves to the unknown? Sometimes that not-knowing makes art possible. In Toucan Nest, the eighth book by Alaska State Writer Laureate Peggy Shumaker, her first vivid encounters with the rainforests of Costa Rica—with its basilisk lizar...

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  • Book of Potions
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    Book of Potions

    Winner of the 2023 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky.Written with tremendous urgency and ferocious candor, the prose poems of Book of Potions captures a woman caught in the middle of life: no longer young, not yet old, trapped between generations, locked in stereotyped ...

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  • Tarumba
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    Tarumba

    Mexico's most beloved poet, Jaime Sabines, translated by America's most honored poet--Philip Levine.

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  • The Gatehouse Heaven
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    The Gatehouse Heaven

    Selected by Charles Wright as the 1997 Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

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  • Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds
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    Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds

    Wise and humorous fourth collection from Juniper Prize winner and former stand-up comedy writer

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  • When
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    When

    Selected by Alice Fulton as the Winner of the 1996 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

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  • In Medias Res
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    In Medias Res

    “Lee’s strange and gemological arrangements are the measure of her gift. . . .”—from the Foreword by Heather McHugh Ambitious and original, Karen An-hwei Lee’s first book-length poem is in the form of an eccentric dictionary.  In Medias Res brings to mind the long poems of Anne Carson, though L...

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  • The Adventure
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    The Adventure

    The Adventure is an afterlife voyage like The Divine Comedy. Dante had the law of symbolic retribution and distinct places to put people. The Adventure has neither. If you seek a guiding principle, it’s more or less this: whoever you are, what you’ll get is—exactly and in detail—what you want.

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  • Smote
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    Smote

    A haunted American South as told by a boy hero In lush and comedic language reminiscent of Faulkner and O’Connor.

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  • Snake III
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    Snake III

    Snake—the Hunger Sutras is the third book in the Snake Quartet. By now snake has carried the lost voices—from the smallest single celled whisper to the bellow of more complex creatures as she wanders the empty Earth.

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  • Bone Fires
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    Bone Fires

    A striking collection that documents the spiritual and artistic maturation of one of our most distinguished poets.

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  • Epistles
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    Epistles

    The ninth poetry collection from the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize-winner.

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