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1) Karankawa
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 74 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Karankawa is a collection that explores some of the ways in which we (re)construct our personal histories. Rich in family narratives, myths, and creation stories, these are poems that investigate passage--dying, coming out, transforming, being born--as well as the gaps that also reside in our stories, for, as Rocha suggests, the opportunity to create myths is provided by great silences. Much like the Karankawa Indians whose history works in omissions,...
2) Door
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
94 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Ann Lauterbach's eleventh collection, the image of a Door recurs across several poems, as she considers the perpetual dialogue between what is open and what is shut for each of us. The Door is a threshold between the inner landscape of memory, thought, imagination and dream and the outer so-called real world, which increasingly comes to us through technology's lens, displacing and distorting our sense of intimacy, presence and relation. What is...
4) Poems
Author
Series
Altemus' illustrated vademecum volume no. 230-231
Publisher
Henry Altemus
Pub. Date
between 1890 and 1899?
Physical Desc
2 volumes : illustrations ; 16 cm.
Language
English
5) Skeletons
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xi, 74 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Through a series of poems preoccupied with loneliness and mortality, Skeletons flashes with prismatic effect across the persistent allure of the flesh. Initiated during Brooklyn's early lockdown, the book reflects the increasingly troubling simultaneity of Eros and Thanatos, and the discontents of our virtual lives amidst the threats of a pandemic and corrosive politics"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Black Ocean
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pulver Maar is a collection of poems written between 2014 and 2018. Some of the poems are long, and some of them are short. These are every bit the poems you've come to dream of, long for, and expect from Schomburg, where clouds fall in love and Bob the Buoy bobs in the center of the sea. They are playful but not all play; they carry a humanity and an acute awareness of what it is to try to make a life, whether you're a mountain or dust or just a...
7) Twelve moons
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
1979.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 77 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mary Oliver continues to explore the alluring, yet well-nigh inaccessible kingdoms of nature and human relationships, and man's profound, persistent desire for a joyous union with them"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
93 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Hayan Charara comes a candid new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good-a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father"--
Author
Series
Sidebrow books volume 016
Publisher
Sidebrow Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
76 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In a clear-cut voice "as simple as ink," Mathias Svalina's The Wine-Dark Sea vocalizes the urge to write oneself alive. Through this lyric journal of taut poems, each titled "The Wine-Dark Sea," Svalina breathes life into overlooked places: the driveway a car turns into at the end of a workday, how a tree holds the dirt, the edge of a page on which "I'd always assumed / I'd die alone." Every poem is a baffled drop, a pulse trying not to be dead, and...
10) Tap out: poems
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
95 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Approach these poems as short stories, plainspoken lyric essays, controlled arcs of a bildungsroman, then again as narrative verse. Tap Out, Edgar Kunz's debut collection, reckons with his working poor heritage. Within are poignant, troubling portraits of blue collar lives, mental health in contemporary America, and what is conveyed and passed on through touch and words, violent, or simply absent. Yet Kunz's verses are unsentimental, visceral, sprawling...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
102 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away-- loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it -- that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard.
Author
Publisher
Madville Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
83 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Heartbreak Tree is a poetic exploration of the intersection of gender and place in Appalachia. "There is a road, but the road is still inside you," the mature Hansel tells the girl she was, encouraging her: "You are trying. Remember." This book does the work of that remembering, honoring the responsibility of the poet to speak the forbidden stories of her own and other women's lives"--Publisher's website.
14) All souls: poems
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
86 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In All Souls, Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the highest order. Judgment is suspended as the poems and lyric fragments make an inventory of truths that carry us through night's reckoning with mortal hope into daylight.
15) Venice
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
129 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of poetry by Ange Mlinko"--
16) Wastoid
Author
Publisher
Big Lucks Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Wastoid’s dystopian landscape of desire, lovers love trampolines, lamp-makers, the sound of cars driving in the rain, anonymous tips that send innocent men to the electric chair, toil, silence, etc. Tender & nonsensical, foolish & profound, Svalina explores love’s endless variety & illogical boundaries. Merging renaissance sonnet traditions with the serial explorations of Cortazar & Calvino, Wastoid speaks of love & pain & ecstatic failure,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the late 60s, Ntozake Shange was a young student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school's literary journal, and finding her unique voice. By the time she left us in 2018, Shange had scorched blazing trails across countless pages and stages, redefining genre and form as we know it. Sing a Black Girl's Song is a new posthumous collection of unpublished works from throughout the life of this seminal...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I've spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men; my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages, and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what's been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness"--
Author
Publisher
Blazevox [Books]
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With no recollection of how or when he received the beautiful brown leather-bound notebook, Lazer's Pieces is at once a book-length meditation in brief fragments and a response to the first page that had already been written in the found notebook. That first page describes a ritual for speaking to God; it was written by Lazer's uncle, Stan Goodman, a neurosurgeon and Biblical scholar. Pieces, in part a homage to Robert Creeley's short-line poems,...
20) To 2040
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
95 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of poems by Jorie Graham"--
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