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The Age of Phillis

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In the shadow of the American Revolution, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry, Poems on various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773). When Wheatley's book appeared, her words would challenge Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Her words would astound many and irritate others, but one thing was clear: this young woman was extraordinary. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of...

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The Age of Reasons

Ted Greenwald

The Age of Reasons

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This collection of Ted Greenwald's poetry, edited by Miles Champion, is a sampler of some of Greenwald's most breathtaking work. A New York poet with close ties to the New York School and the Language poets, Greenwald has written daily since the early 1960s, and none of the poems in this book are included in any of his books to date. These discrete works were written in advance of or alongside the extended explorations of a mutated triolet form that increasingly...

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Ted Greenwald

The Bad Wife Handbook

Rachel Zucker

The Bad Wife Handbook

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Rachel Zucker's third book of poems is a darkly comic collection that looks unsparingly at the difficulties and compromises of married life. Formally innovative and blazingly direct, The Bad Wife Handbook cross-examines marriage, motherhood, monogamy, and writing itself. Rachel Zucker's upending of grammatical and syntactic expectations lends these poems an urgent richness and aesthetic complexity that mirrors the puzzles of real life. Candid, subversive, and genuinely...

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Rachel Zucker

The Book of Landings

Mark McMorris

The Book of Landings

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The Book of Landings brings together the second and third parts of Mark McMorris's visionary trilogy «Auditions for Utopia,»—initiated in Entrep&#244;t—and marks two stages in the evolution of the poet's conception of space. The first stage of the collection is the entrep&#244;t, a space where disparate vectors of identity congregate, come into conflict, and finally merge into hybrid forms. The poetry follows a trajectory of diaspora, or exile,...

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Mark McMorris

The Collected Poems of Barbara Gues...

Barbara Guest

The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest

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Winner of the SFSU Poetry Center Book Award (2010)One of the most notable members of the New York School—and its best-known woman—Barbara Guest began writing poetry in the 1950s in company that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. And from the beginning, her practice placed her at the vanguard of American writing. Guest's poetry, saturated in the visual arts,...

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Barbara Guest

The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thom...

Lorenzo Thomas

The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas

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Lorenzo Thomas (1944-2005) was the youngest member of the Society of Umbra, predecessor of the Black Arts Movement. The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas is the first volume to encompass his entire writing life. His poetry synthesizes New York School and Black Arts aesthetics, heavily influenced by blues and jazz. In a career that spanned decades, Thomas constantly experimented with form and subject, while still writing poetry deeply rooted in the traditions of African American...

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Lorenzo Thomas

The Complete Poetry of Aimé C&...

The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire

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The Complete Poetry of Aim&#233; C&#233;saire gathers all of Cesaire's celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly established first editions of C&#233;saire's poetic &#339;uvre made available in French in 2014 under the title Po&#233;sie, Th&#233;&#226;tre, Essais et Discours, edited by A. J. Arnold and an international team of specialists. To prepare the English...

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The Couple

Mark Rudman

The Couple

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Mark Rudman

The Eagle’s Mile

The Eagle’s Mile

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A book of new poems by a major writer is an event. A book of new poems that marks a different, more powerful approach is cause for celebration. «What I looked for here,» James Dickey tells us about The Eagle's Mile, «was a flicker of light &#8216;from another direction,' and when I caught it –; or thought I did –; I followed where it went, for better or worse.» In this new work, Dickey edges away from the narrative-based poems of his...

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The Folded Heart

Michael Collier

The Folded Heart

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Michael Collier's poems are like a living film of the image of one's past. In rich detail, they bring to life the geography of childhood—commonplace events that have a unique texture of one's own—a dream of flying, a secret obsession, a school pageant, a jam session in the garage. The memories are folded into the heart, but with an inevitable sense of loss, a sense of capturing «the moment held in the air, the illusion of something whole, something...

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Michael Collier

The Front Matter, Dead Souls

Leslie Scalapino

The Front Matter, Dead Souls

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Leslie Scalapino

The Glory Gets

The Glory Gets

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Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018)In her three previous, award-winning collections of blues poetry, Honor&#233;e Fanonne Jeffers has explored themes of African American history, Southern culture, and intergenerational trauma. Now, in her fourth and most accomplished collection, Jeffers turns to the task of seeking and reconciling the blues and its three movements—identification, exploration, and...

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The Known World

Don Bogen

The Known World

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Turning bare description into a luxuriance, The Known World looks at the complex relationship of past and present, creating energetic juxtaposition between different historic periods to envision life at the end of our own century. Don Bogen calls the work an archeology, and uses details f life in past eras as a way of penetrating the surfaces of history. In his account, everything known is both encumbered with and defined by the past. Short poems in this collection cohere around...

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Don Bogen

the new black

Evie Shockley

the new black

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Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2012) Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley’s the new black integrates powerful ideas about “blackness,” past and present, through the medium of beautifully crafted verse. the new black sees our racial past inevitably shaping our contemporary moment, but struggles to remember and reckon with the impact of generational shifts: what seemed impossible to people not many years ago—for example, the election of an...

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Evie Shockley

The Original 1939 Notebook of a Ret...

The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

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Aim&#233; C&#233;saire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of C&#233;saire's quest for n&#233;gritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on C&#233;saire's work has often focused on its Cold War and anticolonialist rhetoric—material that C&#233;saire only added in 1956. The original...

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The Self-Dismembered Man

Гийом Аполлинер

The Self-Dismembered Man

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Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire wrote during those years: poems of nascent surrealism, of combat and of war-weariness. Here, too, is Apollinaire's last testament, «The Pretty Redhead,» a farewell to the epoch that he—as poet, convict, art-critic,...

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Гийом Аполлинер

The Sleep That Changed Everything

Lee Ann Brown

The Sleep That Changed Everything

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Offering both subtle and immediate pleasures, Lee Ann Brown's generous new book extends her unmistakable, original voice, every bit as Southern as it is avant-garde, gracious without being naive. Abounding in a playfulness of style, including songs and ballads, the poems in The Sleep That Changed Everything are by turns funny, serious, insightful and moving. Botanical and scientific language are used here as collage elements to chart cycles of desire and emotional...

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Lee Ann Brown

The Tatters

Brenda Coultas

The Tatters

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In this nuanced and moving new collection of poems, Brenda Coultas weaves a meditation on contemporary life and our place in it. Coultas, who is known for her investigative documentary approach, turns her attention to landfills and the odd histories embedded in the materials found there. The poems make their home among urban and rural detritus, waste, trinkets, and found objects. The title poem, for example, takes its cue from the random, often perfect, pigeon feathers found on...

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Brenda Coultas

The Wesleyan Tradition

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The Wesleyan Tradition

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Since issuing its first volumes in 1959, the Wesleyan poetry program has challenged the reigning aesthetic of the time and profoundly influenced the development of American poetry. One of the country's oldest programs, its greatest achievement has been the publication of early works by yet undiscovered poetry who have since become major awarded Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, National Book Awards, and many other honors. At a time when other programs are being phased out,...

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The Whole Motion

The Whole Motion

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For over three decades, James Dickey has been one of the nation's most important poets and a prominent man of letters. The Whole Motion collects his poetic oeuvre into a single volume: 235 poems from his first book, Into the Stone (1960), to The Eagle's Mile (1990), along with previously uncollected poems and unpublished «apprentice» works.

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