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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author Lunch Poems 50th Anniversary Edition Frank O'Hara Just arrived! 50th anniversary hardcover gift edition of the groundbreaking poetry collection by the leader of the "New York School" of poetry. The Divine Kiss An Exhibit of Paintings and Poems in Honor of David Campagna Carolyn Kleefeld Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, painter, poet, writer, in this her 16th book, expresses in paintings and poetry the sacred merging of love into the Beloved. Peter Orlovsky, A Life in Words Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer Peter Orlovsky, Bill Morgan Until now, the poet Peter Orlovsky, who was Allen Ginsberg s lover for more than forty years, has been the neglected member of the Beat Generation. Because he lived in Ginsberg's shadow, his achievements were seldom noted and his contributions to literature have not been fully recognized. Now, this first collection of Orlovsky s writings traces... How a Mirage Works Beverly Burch "In one of Beverly Burch's poems, the speaker announces 'I'm ordinary. Like an old dreamer . . .' But there is nothing ordinary in this collection. Over and over, the world is rendered in the most exacting of visual details. But it isn't just the world that is scrutinized. Even individual words, like rejection, must withstand this poet's particula The Tranquilized Tongue City Lights Spotlight No. 11 Eric Baus Latest in the City Lights Spotlight series: If a picture paints 1000 words, "each letter contains 100 films" in the surrealist wordscape of The Tranquilized Tongue. Out now! Language Arts Cedar Sigo Language Arts, like Cedar Sigo, is playfully spontaneous. Sigo uses poetry as a way to record his own adventures as a reader, traveler, lover, poet, friend, and he welcomes the reader to share the experience. The pleasure he gets in writing these poems is infectious, and the resulting collection is absorbing for its movement... Tender Buttons The Corrected Centennial Edition Gertrude Stein, Seth Perlow We present a centennial edition of the modernist classic featuring over 100 corrections by Stein herself. The Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions has designated it an MLA Approved Edition. Congrats to editor Seth Perlow! Sun Bear Matthew Zapruder Matthew Zapruder's poems begin in the faint inkling, in the bloom of thought, and then unfold into wide-reaching meditations on what it means to live in the contemporary moment, among plastic, statistics, and diet soda. Written in a direct, conversational style, the poems in Sun Bear display full-force why Zapruder is one of the most popular... Haiti Glass Lenelle Moïse New poetry from City Lights/Sister Spit! With rhythmic poetry and intimate prose, Haiti Glass offers an unflinching look at disaster, desire, and death-defying love. Book of Hours` Poems Kevin Young A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. "In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor," he tells us, in one of the collection's piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement ("Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me"), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates... Patter Douglas Kearney For a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death attend. But when the war is won, and life stares, hungry, in the parents' faces, where does that violence, anxiety, and shame go? The poems in Patter re-imagine miscarriages as minstrel shows, magic tricks, and comic strips... Bogeyman Dawn Raina J. León In Boogeyman Dawn, Raina Leon explores the space between some of our worst nightmares and the awakening of hope. Leon does not look away from even the rawest of wounds in the psyche, the flesh, and the social body, but it is through carefully wrought images and patiently distilled language that she entices us to follow her gaze and trust that dawn Pagan Selected Poems Kaye McDonough Kaye McDonough's Pagan reverberates with a loving touch that spares nothing. Within its pages the impressions of a poet who focuses on lovers, friends and family comes to life. The deft artistry of Vermeer, the splendid pathos of Beat legend Bob Kaufman, and the lives of many women are among the themes handled with grace and craftsmanship. Blasts Cries Laughter Lawrence Ferlinghetti A new, shorter collection by America's preeminent living poet and social activist, who is just as fiery and provocative as ever at 94 years old. Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Blasts contains blasts, blessings, and curses in the vortex of today, taking its cues from the original little magazine, Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis with Ezra Pound... 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>