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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author BEAUTIFUL ALIENS ' STEVE ABBOTT READER early essential queer writing;New narrative father and co-originator, Steve Abbott continues to twinkle and inflame our senses long after his death. Transcending divine illuminations and oblique views, Jamie Townsend has ardently composed the proper altar for a pure San Francisco seraph ---Ryan Nepantla An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color Christopher Soto Here are reasons to sing, to shiver, to cry, to snap, to bark, to love, to feel-- in resonance. Words to keep near your pillow, and to read on the train, and to keep on your tongue. EVERY POEM HERE IS GOOD. --Recommended by Jared, City Lights Booksellers Of Poetry and Protest From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin This extraordinary volume collects the poems of forty-four of America's most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize– winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other luminaries such as Elizabeth Alexander, Ishmael Reed, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez. RESISTENCIA ' POEMS OF PROTEST & REVOLUT Tina Escaja Poems of Protest and Revolution is an extraordinary collection, rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today. Every Day We Get More Illegal Juan Felipe Herrera A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope. FINNA: POEMS Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular—its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy --recommended by Paul Natch City Lights Spotlight Series No. 20 Sophia Dahlin Queer pastoral lyrics take on the romantic sublime in a stunningly assured debut collection. Facing You City Lights Spotlight Series No. 19 Uche Nduka From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. A Portrait of the Self as Nation New and Selected Poems Marilyn Chin Now in paperback, A Portrait of the Self as Nation is a selection from one of America's most original and vital voices. MEMORIAL DRIVE: A DAUGHTER'S MEMOIR At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. The Complete Works of Alberto Caerio Bilingual Edition Fernando Pessoa A bilingual companion to The Book of Disquiet. Here, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari's splendid new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary "heteronym" coterie created by Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese modernist master... Country, Living Ira Sadoff Cultural forces and conventions―repression, prejudice, power regimes― frame feelings of powerlessness, and are explored deeply in this new collection from award-winning poet Ira Sadoff. Seeing the Body Poems Rachel Eliza Giffiths Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss. Great Clod Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia Gary Snyder From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet of Turtle Island a meditative, scholarly memoir of Asia--"a book . . . not quite like any other but trademark Snyder" (Kirkus Reviews). 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>