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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author Mexico in My Heart New & Selected Poems Willis Barnstone Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems Robin Coste Lewis A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. I Must Be Living Twice New and Selected Poems Eileen Myles A collection of thrilling new and beloved past work from one of America's most celebrated poets, Eileen Myles, a cult icon and modern favorite The Pawnbroker's Daughter A Memoir Maxine Kumin From Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Maxine Kumin comes a timeless memoir of life, love, and poetry. Barbaric Vast & Wild A Gathering of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present: Poems for the Millennium Jerome Rothenberg Citizen An American Lyric Claudia Rankine So groundbreaking is Rankine's work that it's almost impossible to describe; suffice it to say that this is a poem that reads like an essay (or the other way around) — a piece of writing that invents a new form for itself, incorporating pictures, slogans, social commentary... Gabriel A Poem Edward Hirsch Selected Works Justin Chin, Jennifer Joseph Justin Chin's fearless and fierce voice was resolute in relating his worldview, whether directly or through metaphorical language. As a queer Asian American, born and raised in Southeast Asia within a devoutly Christian, ethnically Chinese family of medical professionals, Chin's early life experience informed his writing and framed his point of... Save Twilight: Selected Poems Pocket Poets Number 53 Julio Cortázar Newly expanded edition of a classic: the first and only collection of Cortázar's poetry to appear in English. Jane A Murder Maggie Nelson Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Collected Poems Marie Ponsot Marie Ponsot's Collected Poems is the stunning lifework of the prizewinning poet, gathered in one volume: the world she has made of life’s fire for sixty years. The present celebratory volume covers nearly all of her published work, from True Minds (1956), which was number five in the famous City Lights Pocket Poets series... Old Angel Midnight Jack Kerouac "The only book I've ever written in which I've allowed myself to say absolutely anything I want."—Jack Kerouac Afterlives Poetry Micah Ballard AFTERLIVES, or SEVILRETFA as the reversed lettering on the back cover presents it, is the third full-length collection by Micah Ballard. As with recent work, Ballard continues the precarious yet successful envisioning of the spirited haunts of his native Louisiana amidst the streets of his long adopted San Francisco. Of Poetry & 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>