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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >>>     sort list by title | author In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys Poems Campbell Mcgrath In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys is a collection of dreams, visions, jibes, essays, arguments, and love songs, each of them transformed into poetry by one of our most honored and entertaining poets. Pitch Poems Todd Boss With poems about loss, home, marriage, and the inner music of our lives, Pitch is a series of variations on an overturned piano. The H. D. Book Robert Duncan, Michael Boughn This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America's most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. Citizen Aaron Shurin In Citizen, Shurin has collected vibrant new poems that are, by turns, romantic, visceral, edgy, and unabashedly beautiful. Califlora A Literary Field Guide Terry Beers Califlora is a playful literary exploration of the relationship between plant and human, drawing from our best writers and thinkers. Novelists, poets, farmers, naturalists, foragers, botanists, and mythmakers have long exulted in the Golden State's... At Sea A Poem for Pablo Neruda Lawrence Ferlinghetti EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE AT CITY LIGHTS! Exquisite handmade letterpress edition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's new poem, "At Sea". Songs of Unreason Jim Harrison Jim Harrison's compelling and provocative Songs of Unreason explores what it means to inhabit the world in atavistic, primitive, and totemistic ways. "This can be disturbing to the learned," Harrison admits. Kenneth Patchen A Centennial Selection Kenneth Patchen, Jonathan Clark Stickball on 88th Street Willis Barnstone Comic, tragic, colorful, and adventurous, Stickball on 88th Street is a sequence of thirty-four narrative poems that follows its speaker from boyhood to college. It's a memory book, bound with vignettes of school, family life, and the streets of New... Some Math Bill Luoma . In Some Math, the syncopations of poetry meet the (ir)regularity of mathematical equations. Consider the "story problems" of high school math class. When encountering the word "and," replace it with the addition symbol "+." When encountering the... Human Chain Poems Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities—between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now—inside an intently remembered present: the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to... Waifs and Strays Micah Ballard From the bayous of Louisiana to the pavements of San Francisco, Micah Ballard rounds up his haunting waifs and strays. Come, Thief Poems Jane Hirshfield A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms. Here and Now Poems Stephen Dunn Full of grace and masterful precision, the poems in Stephen Dunn's sixteenth book of poetry attest to the contradictions we live with in the here and now, both political and metaphysical, and the essential human comedy of getting through the day. <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >>>