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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author Calamities Renee Gladman In what I'd call 'metafictional literary essays', Renee Gladman references parts of her life and writing, with distance, as if she is an observable thing that we can spectate with wondrous glee. I 'nerd out' over the sentences she's meticulously crafted. It is clever, honest, entertainingly mundane, and so good. The Easy Body —Recommended by Ivy Sallies, Romps, Portraits and Send Offs Selected Prose 2000-2018 A delightful and cantankerous collection of essays and criticism about good poets and bad poets, homicidal musicians, obsessive music collecting and the eerie delights of San Francisco fog. A perfect introduction to the local bard's tender and curmudgeonly oeuvre. —Recommended by Micheal, City Lights Bookstore Holy Ghost City Lights Spotlight No. 15 David Brazil Anarcho-socialism meets Christian mysticism in an Occupy veteran's avant-garde poems. In Memory of an Angel David Shapiro The first full-length collection in fifteen years from New York School prodigy and master of lyrical abstraction David Shapiro. Selected Poems 1962-1985 Clark Coolidge Clark Coolidge is a revered figure in the world of American and world experimental poetry. This Selected Poems will be how Coolidge's revolutionary early works will be read for generations to come. The volume includes an Introduction by Bill Berkson, who writes: "From the heights each poem appears to take its own peculiar plunge. mary wants to be a superwoman Erica Lewis Being of African American, Native American, and white descent, erica lewis' poems recount her friends and family's—especially the women's—complex history with race, gender, and class in America, what it means to live with your own history, and how to move on. Each poem is framed by phrases from the lyrics of Stevie Wonder’s Motown records... Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry Pocket Poets Series Number 17 Malcolm Lowry, Earle A. Birney First collection of Lowry's poetic canon, including most of the Mexican verses related to his novel, Under the Volcano. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce Morgan Parker Unrelentingly feminist, tender, ruthless, and sequined, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments and deja vu, and a time of wars over bodies and power. These poems celebrate and mourn. They are a chorus chanting: You're gonna give us the love we need. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings Poems Joy Harjo More than a book. More than poetry. These are the words.—Recommended by Ryan Collected Lyrics 1970 - 2015 Patti Smith Initially published in 1998, Patti Smith's Complete Lyrics was a testimony to her uncompromising poetic power. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the release of Horses, Smith’s groundbreaking album, Collected Lyrics has been revised and expanded with more than thirty-five additional songs and liberally illustrated with... A Poet's Dublin Eavan Boland Written over years, the transcendent and moving poems in A Poet's Dublin seek out shadows and impressions of a powerful, historic city, studying how it forms and alters language, memory, and selfhood. The poems range from an evocation of the neighborhoods under the hills where the poet lived and raised her children... Mephistos and Other Poems Michael McClure Eco-poetic innovations and ecstatic meditations from a founding member of the Beat Generation. and then we became devorah major Reaching from the kitchen table to the stars, ruminations on who we are, and how we became who we are. 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>