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Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Kaveh Akbar's exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf... With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar's second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to wake early.
Author
Publisher
ANAK Publishing Worker Cooperative Ltd
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Super Important Filipina Thoughts is a collection of hilariously irreverent poetry by Filipina comedian, Alia Ceniza Rasul. The collection reflects Rasul's musings on identity, family, navigating relationships and friendships, and growing up Filipina. There is more than one poem about suman."
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from "perhaps the best public poet we have" (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives Matter, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect...
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive collection featuring over 150 poems, including works that explore joy, love, origin, race, resistance, and praise.
In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion -- both toward and away from us--and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limon reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbage...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his thirteenth collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic melds folklore and black magic with everyday life.
Hamlet's ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection.
"Few contemporary poets have
...18) Why? Why? Why?
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Addressing everything from the darkest moments of despair to the long and arduous journey toward healing, Why Why Why is the culmination of Cockerham's experiences as a grieving mother--an honest and heartfelt collection of poetry fro anyone enduring the isolation and inconsolable pain of losing a child.
19) The sky position
Author
Publisher
Marriage Records Publishing House
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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