Poetry / Poems
Wave Books Dunce
Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A finalist for both the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award and a the LA Times Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award. Through her many projects across numerous genres, Mary Ruefle has proven herself a singular artist, drawing many fans from around the world to her unique vision. With Dunce she returns to the practice that has always been at her core: the making of poems. With her startlingly fresh sensibility, she enraptures us in poem after poem by the intensity of her attention, with the imaginative flourishes of her being-in-the-world, which is always deep with mysteries, unexpected appearances, and abiding yearning.Trade ReviewRuefle delivers a giddy, incisive ode to failure, fragility, and unknowing in her 12th book. "It may be our heads/ are filled with feathers/ from the stuff/ we don't know," she hazards, tiptoeing through one after another outlandish scenario sketched with uncanny delicacy. Many of these poems conceal sly fragments of lyric allusion or history: "I loved to wander, utterly alone"; "The fourteenth way of looking at/ a blackbird is mine." Rhymes abound as though refusing resistance to such play, and a poem that opens in euphoria ("What a beautiful day for a wedding!") ends, just a few lines later, in despair ("I hate my poems"). However, the poet reassures the reader that such states are kindred, even twinned. Ruefle celebrates the world's imagination and mystery: "I want to thank my clothes for protecting my body. I want to/ fold them properly—I want/ the energy that flows from my hands/ to engulf the world./ Upon reflection, this is not/ possible. Upon reflection/ it is I who am pummeled by/ the world, that vast massage/ machine." These poems grace the readers with wonder, wisdom, and whim "conducted/ without compromise," securing Ruefle's reputation among poets as the patron saint of childhood and the everyday.—Publishers Weekly, starred review"Ruefle has shown a talent for elevating her acute observations and narrative inclination well above mere anecdote to create quietly disquieting moments—a literature of barbed ambiguity and unresolved disruption."—Albert Mobilio, Bookforum "Straightforward in form, comic and companionable in tone, blessed with the Martian gift of seeing the strange in the ordinary and vice-versa. . . "—Joel Brouwer, Poetry"Ruefle’s speakers muse in a very deliberate, declarative syntax in a lot of universalities, generalities, and absolutes, speaking often for all of us."—Adrien Blevins, Ploughshares"For more than thirty years, she has freshened American poetry by humbly glorifying both the inner life and the outward experience."—Rodney Jones, Poetry Society of America"[She is] a poet of visionary imagination, abiding sensitivity, and melancholy humor."—Publishers Weekly"Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness."—Tony Hoagland, On the Seawall"Ruefle is the Poet Laureate of the City of Ideas — surreal and lyrical and deeply moving at the same time."— Michael Klein, Los Angeles Review of Books"The ostensible occasions of Ruefle’s poems are minor: not the funeral, but the bath. They record small moments with sweeping scope, moments in which the speed of thought seems to outpace real time."—Elisa Gabbert, The New York TimesTable of ContentsContents Apple in Water Long White Cloud Solomon Dunce The Good Fortune of Material Existence Maria and the Halls of Perish Crackerbell Resin A Late Dense Work Midnight Express General Direction Earthly Failure Tuna and a Play Suddenly Unbeknownst Dark Corner Attention! Little Stream Meditation on My Skull North Wind Happiness Lorraine The Eventualist Are You Talking about a Funeral? The Friend Sent to the Monk Bath Time Searchlight I Cannot Be Quiet an Hour Interlude for a Solitary Flute Muguet des Bois Dispirited While Packing My Books… The Death of Atahualpa at the Hands of Pizarro’s Men Singular Dream Patience Lightly, Very Lightly Inglenook Super Bowl Jewelweed The Unfurl Sequoia The Note Special Delivery A New Dawn Nixie Little Travel Book Grandma Moses The Heart of Princess Osra Lillian Wintersault Destination Happy Birthday Origin Myth The Cake A Morning Person Vow of Extinction How We Met Errand The Butter Festival 30 March Halloween Boutonniere Genesis The Leaves Acknowledgments
£999.99
Button Poetry New American Best Friend
Book SynopsisOne of the most recognisable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut collection.
£999.99
Button Poetry Helium
Book SynopsisThe debut poetry collection by internet phenom Rudy Francisco, whose work has defined poetry for a generation of new readers.
£14.39
Button Poetry Date & Time
Book SynopsisA debut poetry collection meditating on joy and vulnerablity from an outstanding new voice.
£14.39
Ugly Duckling Presse Defense of the Idol
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Ugly Duckling Presse Ova Completa
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Ugly Duckling Presse Harm Eden
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Ugly Duckling Presse Late Human
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Ugly Duckling Presse Dream Pattering Soles
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Acre Books Our Cancers: Poems
Book SynopsisOn the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11—an event that caused their downtown apartment to become “suffused with the World Trade Center’s carcinogenic dust”—Dan O’Brien’s wife discovers a lump in her breast. Surgery and chemotherapy soon follow, and on the day of his wife’s final infusion, O’Brien learns of his own diagnosis. He has colon cancer and will need to undergo his own intensive treatment over the next nine months. Our Cancers is a compelling account of illness and commitment, of parenthood and partnership. This spare and powerful sequence creates an intimate mythology that seeks meaning in illness while also celebrating of the resilience of sufferers, caregivers, and survivors. As O’Brien explains in an introduction, “The consecutiveness of our personal disasters, with a daughter not yet two years old at the start of it, was shattering and nearly silencing. At hospital bedsides, in hospital beds myself, and at home through the cyclical assaults of our therapies, these poems came to me in fragments, as if my unconscious were attempting to reassemble our lives, our identities and memories . . . as if I were in some sense learning how to speak again.”Trade Review"Our Cancers is an excellent example of Shelley’s secret alchemy, which turns 'to potable gold the poisonous waters which flow from death through life.' . . . [O'Brien's] skillful enjambments give a hypnotic effect to the stream of poems; lacking titles and punctuation, they lull the reader into a trance-like state which alone, perhaps, makes their content bearable. . . . Writing the truth, he says, 'saved him.' And it has produced an exquisite and terrible beauty in these pages." * Times Literary Supplement *"O’Brien explains that his obligation as a writer is 'To tell others the truth, as skillfully as possible. To make art out of pain. To heal.' Our Cancers tells his truth not only skillfully but masterfully, making from pain a lasting chronicle of art that traces fragmentary moments of healing over time." * North American Review *"[A] powerful [meditation] on being a husband, a father, and a human while dealing with the very real possibility that it could all come to an end." * Katie Couric Media *"Deeply personal and touching. . . . A testament to resilience during ongoing trauma, these poems carve out snippets of wonder and remembrance to eulogize twin disasters. This collection reminds us that there are moments in any given day, even the bad ones, that are worth remembering." * The Fiddlehead *"The title of this new volume of poems by playwright Dan O’Brien is heartbreaking. Our Cancers is an account of the illnesses suffered by both by O’Brien, and his wife, Jessica. In an especially harrowing twist of fate, O’Brien discovers he has colon cancer on the very day his wife receives her final treatment of chemotherapy. . . . The reader is called to witness, to hold the sorrow, to understand. . . . We might wince, look away, or we might gaze and offer a hand. I think that is O’Brien’s message for his readers: anyone one of us can be so afflicted at any time in our lives. Our Cancers then becomes universal, a quiet warning. " * The Key Reporter *"Like all those who write about their own illness and suffering, O’Brien offers up the deepest recesses of his pain for the rest of us to pick over and examine. These are sparse and beautiful poems to live by." * Magma Poetry *"O’Brien’s books are raised far above the run of subjective accounts of recovery." * Wild Court *"Twenty years after the events of 9/11, the dust continues to settle—in the Battery Park apartment and surrounding neighborhoods where Dan O’Brien and his wife lived and worked, in their breath and bodies, and in the brief 24 hours in which the one cancer journey concludes only to find another lying in wait. Love and nothingness curl around the enjambments and white space of these 101 terse lyric poems, each of which finds O’Brien acknowledging in new ways that 'I must find / my way / to live here.'” * Sugar House Review *
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Monkfish Book Publishing Company Now is the Hour of Her Return: Poems in Praise of
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Beehive Books THE INFERNO
Book SynopsisAn oversized, slipcase-housed, elaborately illustrated art book edition of THE INFERNO, one of the great towering texts of world literature. Welcome to a strange new Hell. Abandon all expectations, you who enter here. British linocut artist Sophy Hollington brings her singular vision to Dante Alighieri's manificent funnel of retribution and suffering. And in that strange upside-down city, abandoned by God, she finds hope and humor amidst the darkness. This vivid and gorgeous edition features Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetic translation of the landmark Italian poem, alongside a visionary suite of illustrations depicting Hell's vast architecture, an exclusive introduction from the renowned Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky, and an original essay from the Dante scholar Kristina Olson. A stunning new entry in Beehive Books award-winning Illuminated Editions series, this volume is housed in a shimmering die-cut sculpturally embossed slipcase, printed on uncoated acid-free paper, and published in an oversized 9x12 trim format.
£60.34
Wave Books Hoarders
Book SynopsisA Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021An NPR Best Book of 2021An Electric Literature Best Poetry Book of 2021A Dennis Cooper Best Book of 2021In Hoarders, Kate Durbin deftly traces the associations between hoarding and collective US traumas rooted in consumerism and the environment. Each poem is a prismatic portrait of a person and the beloved objects they hoard, from Barbies to snow globes to vintage Las Vegas memorabilia to rotting fruit to plants. Using reality television as a medium, Durbin conjures an uncanny space of attachments that reflects our cultural moment back to the reader in ways that are surreal and tender. In the absurdist tradition of Kafka and Beckett, Hoarders ultimately embraces with sympathy the difficulty and complexity of the human condition.Trade Review“Durbin’s work has what the A&E show lacks: a capacious sense of humanity, a nuanced understanding of how consumerism might shape compulsions, and a deeply expressed empathy for the subtleties of life under capitalism…In this reinvention, each character’s own narration takes precedence over the more salacious details of their disorder, bringing us into their personal, sometimes painful, worlds. Each poem consists of connected fragments, little piles. Each stanza reads like a conversation between the person and their stuff…The poems themselves are cluttered, yet their vibrancy is hard to overstate. Durbin astutely marries content and meaning, overwhelming the reader while dialing into our internal monstrous consumer.” —Alyse Burnside, The Atlantic“It’s Durbin’s exquisitely fine-tuned attention that is thrown into new relief in Hoarders, a book that chronicles the lived experiences of people who cannot let go of things, and the things that “glow” under the attention of being witnessed and inventoried by Durbin’s vivid and heartbreaking renderings.” —Emily Skillings, The Believer“Hoarders, Durbin’s newest collection, is a look at and through the documentary series of the same name, to the the secret life of American objects. It shows how we are formed with, by, and through our relationships with our stuff — which haunts and is haunted in equal measure. It is a powerful, beautiful, and deeply unsettling book.” —Kyle Williams, Full Stop“Television wants to provide a tidy narrative—dirty home transformed into clean home, sad changed to happy. But Durbin’s curations, inventions, and re-imaginings allow this material to transcend its form, and the result is a fascinating collection about connection, desire, and what it means to be American.” —Chelsea Hodson, Lit Hub“In centering imperfect, struggling shopaholics more likely to amass cheap dresses from TJ Maxx than hit up Rodeo Drive, Durbin provides insight into the most dysfunctional realms of consumer culture…” —Sandra Simonds, Poetry Foundation“Though the swift-moving spectacle of the television show invites viewers to cast easy judgment on these hoarders, Durbin employs poetry's slower speed to show a more complicated picture. Instead of using [their stories] to make us feel better about ourselves for not being hoarders, she indicts aspects of American culture we all participate in—religion, capitalism—and reveals our complicity, all the while dropping a lot of sight gags in the process.” —Rich Smith, The Stranger“From what I presume is an abundance of hoarded material on the reality TV show, [Durbin] isolates these stunning and evocative tableaux that feel very moving, memento mori, and in a way treat the hoarded material with the care and dignity that many of the hoarders espouse.” —JoAnna Novak, Los Angeles Review of Books“Like another marvelous Wave book, Chelsey Minnis’s Baby, I Don’t Care, Durbin’s Hoarders is energized by the joyous single mindedness of the poet and her subjects. Ronnie from Las Vegas sums it up: ‘I feel sorry for so-called normal people chair with a paper sign taped to it that says Seat Where Buzz Aldrin Sat in blue Sharpie.’” -David Starkey, California Review of Books“An absurd, bracingly funny depiction of the misery of consumerism—but also something tenderer, about the attachments that make up a life.” —Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2021“Hoarders is…spare and…heartbreaking.” —Katharine Coldiron, BOMB “It's by zooming into objects and slowing down time that Durbin makes her book so different from what you see on TV. In the show Hoarders, it can feel like the goal is to fix everyone really quickly, by the end of each episode. But with her poems, Durbin doesn't want to resolve anything for the reader. She simply wants to stop and listen to whatever the people and their objects have to say.” —NPR, Morning Edition“Hoarders reckons with the collective alienation that is part of our culture. [It] is a striking union of cultural critique with poetic meditation. The poems here offer an unflinching view of a culture centered around consumption and spectacle, while imploring us to move with kindness through the world.” —CD Eskilson, The Arkansas InternationalTable of ContentsCONTENTS Marlena Chuck Linda Shelley Craig Cathy Noah & Allie Jim Alice Dorothy Hannah Ronnie Gary Greg Maggie
£999.99
Wave Books A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
Book Synopsis2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYA collection inspired by Hoa’s mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam’s diaspora.Hoa Nguyen’s latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. In turns lyrical and unsettling, her poetry sings of language and loss; dialogues with time, myth and place; and communes with past and future ghosts.Trade Review"I come back to Hoa Nguyen’s poems all the time and every single time I find a new world of meaning" —Gabrielle Calvocoressi, PEN AmericaNguyen remains one of the most powerful, vivid, and even visceral contemporary poets working today. —Dan Shewan, The RumpusTable of ContentsCONTENTS Seeds and Crumbs Ask about Language As If It Forgets Naming Assembles You “Language Points” Autonomous Song We Run on Trash Grass The Flying Motorist Artist Red She Broke the Cup Netting (Language Ghost) Napalm Notes Learning the Đàn Bầu Diệp Before Completion Less Than Slash Three Tryouts for the Flying Motorist Artist Team, 1958 German Tightrope Acrobat Group Paid a Visit to the Vietnamese Hùng Việt Female Flying Motorist Artist Group Tones in the Vietnamese Language Mud Matrix Why This Haunted Middle and Door Hung with Haunted Girl Bones from Vogue Magazine 1970 Sing Ding (Ghostly) Vietnam Ghost Story: High School Clock Tower Revenge Poem Red Shoes Girl Song from On “New Music” (Tân Nhạc): Notes Toward a Social History of Vietnamese Music in the Twentieth Century Crow Pheasant Exercise 14 Oxbow Lake Mother’s River Moon (Traveling with the Traveling Circus, Lower Mekong, 1959) Notes on Operation Hades Mexico Warm Rain Feast of the First Morning of the First Day Last Letter Durian Sonnet Dang You Then a Dang Unrelated Future Tense
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Wave Books Giant Moth Perishes
Book SynopsisWith exquisite detail and humble sensibilities, Geoffrey Nutter’s sixth collection of poetry offers myriad delights in language and the imagination. In cityscapes, nature, books, and color, we find respite in the complexities of the commonplace—from clocks to teardrops to moths. The poems in Giant Moth Perishes teach us how to live in the world with curious attention. And at the heart of this daydreaming is a spectacular earnestness, firmly embedded in the idea that the landscape of poetry is limitless and wild.Trade ReviewFor years now, Nutter has been quietly writing some of the most beautiful poems in America. —John Ebersole, Kenyon ReviewThank goodness for Geoffrey Nutter, whose poetry seems to be powered equally by sunlight, virtue, wonder, and humility. —Nate Pritts, Rain Taxi
£22.49
Wave Books AMANDA PARADISE
Book SynopsisFormer United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious.” The poems in AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration reach out from a (Soma)tic poetry ritual where CA flooded their body with the field recordings of recently extinct animals. Foundational here are the memories of loved ones who died of AIDS, the daily struggle of existing through the Corona Virus pandemic, and the effort to arrive at a new way of falling in love with the world as it is, not as it was.Trade ReviewCAConrad always argues (from the inside of their poems) for a poetry of radical inclusivity while keeping a very queer shoulder to the wheel. Their kind of queerness strikes me as nonpolarizing, not intentionally but because of the fullness of their exposition, a kind of gigantism that seems to me to be most deeply informed by love, and a tenderness for the ravages and tumult of existence. —Eileen MylesAt a time when I don’t always know how to make sense of what’s going on, CAConrad serves as a cleareyed seer. —Jillian Steinhauer, New York TimesTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS GOLDEN IN THE MORNING CRANE OUR NECKS ON ALL FOURS I AM A SEAT FOR THE WIND ACCLIMATING TO DISCOMFORT OF THE SYSTEM BREAKING BENEATH US 900 CHOCOLATE HEARTS A MINUTE AT THE CANDY FACTORY AUGURIES CAST ASIDE ONLY IN STACKING BOOKS CAN THE TREE FEEL ITS WEIGHT AGAIN DEATH WILL SET YOUR DAY RIGHT BATHE THE DOOR WITH BLOOD OF THE CENTAUR FOR THE FERAL SPLENDOR THAT REMAINS ALTERED AFTER TOO MANY YEARS UNDER THE MASK EMBEDDED SIGNAL TO SHAKE THE DAY NO ONE HOLDING IT SHUT YOU CANNOT RETURN A STRETCHED MIND GLITTER IN MY WOUNDS WE VANISH INTO ONE ANOTHER AS NEEDED IMPALED BY SHARP POINTS OF WONDERMENT DIVING INTO THE PREMONITION THE ASKING PRICE ENCIRCLING THIS DAY WITH CENTIPEDE COORDINATION CAMISADO ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF AMERICA’S ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT WHILE THE WARS RAGE ON MEMORIES OF WHY I STOPPED BEING A MAN 45 MINUTES TO RESCUE THE PHOTO ALBUM BEFORE THE GARBAGE TRUCK ARRIVES MURDER IS AGAINST A RULE SOMEWHERE THAT IS NOT AMERICA !! ! VISIT A LIVING BEING TO EAT WHAT FALLS FROM THEIR BODY 72 CORONA TRANSMUTATIONS The (Soma)tic Poetry Ritual: Resurrect Extinct Vibration ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Wave Books Translating the Lilies Back into Lists
Book SynopsisLaynie Browne's latest poetry collection, Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists playfully employs the list poem and delivers poems which evade genre and subvert the quotidian material of daily life. These poems consider elegy, absence and bewilderment while allowing associative logic to make poetic leaps in imagination and mood that belie convention. This book explores the myriad ways one could attempt to categorize a lived experience with its dizzying infinitudes by marking it in finite language, and ultimately shows how poetry is an experiment for that translation Browne's exquisite collection considers language, time, and poetics in a way that is as electrifying as it is elusive. In homage to poet C.D. Wright, her title is inspired by Translations of the Gospel Back into Tongues.Trade ReviewIt's everybody's biography, always "not yet begun," as well as the list of directions, questions, and observations for provoking an investigation into the interior of a life keenly attentive to the resonance of other lives. The reader recognizes herself as the I, the you, the character in a novel, someone missing, someone alive again—illuminated, self-conscious, caught in the act. Like C.D. Wright, whose work inspires the title, Laynie Browne is hilarious at a slant, provocative, and touching. Her language, which makes everything happen, has an incomparably swervy brilliance.—Forrest Gander
£14.24
Wave Books The Shining
Book SynopsisAs labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky’s The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that shapes an entirely unique feminist psychological landscape. Here, Lasky guides us through the familiar rooms of the Overlook Hotel, both realized and imagined, inhabiting characters and spaces that have been somewhat flattened in Stephen King’s text or Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptations. Ultimately, Lasky’s poems point us to the ways in which language is always haunted—by past selves, poetic ancestors, and paradoxical histories. Trade ReviewLaugh, cry, or shake your head, Lasky cuts to the chase. —Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Brooklyn RailIf the essence is not in what she says, Lasky’s poignancy is the result of subtle insights, both endearing and intuitive, suggested by what language leaves out. —Sophie Sills, Jacket2She will force you to acknowledge the blackness of the blood pumping underneath your skin or the claustrophobia of loneliness, but she will not allow you to forget there is light, and that it can exist in knowing another person. —Kristen Evans, Rain TaxiTable of ContentsContents Self Portrait in the HotelPoetry Hates You TooStrange HumorA LionHigh CeilingsOld PhotoFood CourtThe Gold BallroomTimeJeansThe TrumpetMarriageBlue ChristmasOld TVTwinsHungerThe MirrorRed AirplaneVisionRugsSwimming PoolMan in the WindowRed RumMazePerfumeBlue HallwayThe BearSnow MazeA Lovely WorldThe AxThe Green MazeAfter The PartyFramed PicturesClosing SceneGoing Through a Mountain
£12.34
Cameron & Company Inc An Earth Song (Petite Poems)
Book SynopsisDiscover the power and joy of poetry in this simple, modern introduction to Langston Hughes, featuring an ode to spring and long-awaited new beginningsIn this illustrated adaptation of a beloved Langston Hughes poem, a child delights as the world around him awakens from winter and comes to life with the long-awaited arrival of spring and new beginnings of all kinds.Trade Review“Like springtime, worth the wait.” * Kirkus Reviews *
£999.99
World Poetry Books Abyss And Song: Selected Poems
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£17.09
World Poetry Books Before Wisdom: The Early Poems of Paul Verlaine
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£17.09
World Poetry Books Kochanie, Today I Bought Bread
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£17.09
World Poetry Books Houston, I'm The Problem
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£17.09
World Poetry Books In the Glittering Maw
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World Poetry Books O
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World Poetry Books The Light That Burns Us 2nd Edition
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World Poetry Books The Escapades
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World Poetry Books Day Lasts Forever Selected Poems
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£17.09
Hat & Beard Fresh Failure New Poems
Book SynopsisThe eagerly anticipated new volume of poetry by acclaimed author and artist John Tottenham. Tottenham''s previous collections - The Hate Poems; Antiepithalamia & Other Poems of Regret and Resentment; The Inertia Variations (a multi-media interpretation of which was released by Matt Johnson, otherwise known as The The, in 2017) - established him as this day''s leading contemporary poet maudit. Fresh Failure features a deepening and broadening of Tottenham''s trademark Magical Cynicism and Magnanimous Misanthropy. With hilariously ruthless ruminations on the artistic ego and the romantic id, Tottenham gives voice to the kind of thoughts most people prefer not to express but will automatically relate to and be entertained by. It''s the kind of poetry that is accessible to people who don''t read poetry (i.e., everybody). Fresh Failure is ultimately a Triumph of Failure, and proves, as Jean-Luc Godard said, that poetry really is ''a game of loser take all.''
£16.19
New World Library Ten Poems for Difficult Times
£15.29
Sarabande Books, Incorporated Reader I
Book SynopsisA brand new collection from multi-award winning poet Corey Van Landingham. Reader, I draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: “Reader, I married him.” Spanning the first years of a marriage, the speaker in Reader, I both courts and eschews nuptial myths, as its speaker—tender and callous, skeptical and hopeful, daughter and lover—finds a role for herself in marriage, in history, in something beyond the self. While these poems burn with a Plathian fire, they also address and invite in a reader who is, as in Jane Eyre, a confidant. Steeped in a world of husbands and fathers, patriarchal nations and power structures, Reader, I traverses bowling alleys and hospital rooms, ancient Troy and public swimming pools, to envision domestic life as a metaphor for civic life, and vice versa.
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Sarabande Books, Incorporated My Heresies
Book SynopsisBehold My Heresies: the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu.Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, belief, longing, and grief, the poems of My Heresies catalog a personal and familial history originating in Bucharest, Romania and landing in Birmingham, Alabama. Whether through sardonic takes on old Bible myths or homage paid to French-Romanian poet Paul Celan, Stefanescu's poems are laden in subtext, in imagery sometimes abstract and lush, at other times stark and shocking. My Heresies probes the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, and the result is a hauntological mapping of life, love, family, and womanhood.
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Monkfish Book Publishing Company Wild Grace: Poems
Book SynopsisNamed a Best Spiritual Book of 2023 by Spirituality and Practice“Wild Grace is Chelan Harkin’s most moving collection of poetry yet… These poems are deeply nourishing. It’s impossible to read them without feeling something long dormant stir inside you.” —Eric Weiner New York Times Best-selling author of The Geography of Bliss “There’s a Vedic saying: ‘Thy gifts, my Lord, I surrender to Thee.’ Chelan has indeed received a Divine gift. I don’t think ordinary human intelligence could express such depth in words..” —Rick Archer, host of podcast Buddha at the Gas Pump: Conversations with “Ordinary” Spiritually Awakening People In Wild Grace, Chelan Harkin uses ecstatic poetry to redefine our relationship with the divine. She targets a tipping point happening in the souls of many that shifts a conceptual relationship with God into a genuine, direct, and satisfying experience. These are visions of the present, speaking into the future. They are openings of the heart and awe-filled possibilities for a life of honesty and joy.
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Winter Editions The Gone Thing
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Winter Editions The Everyday Life of Design
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£18.05
Winter Editions Transcendental Factory
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Winter Editions Fires Seen from Space
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BOA Editions, Limited Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE ISABELLA GARDNER AWARD The daring and deeply sexy poems in Lonely Women Make Good Lovers are bold with the embodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual. These unforgettable love poems—queer, complicated, and almost always compromised—engage a poetics of humility, leaning into the painful tendernesses of unbridgeable distance. As Kuipers writes, love is a question “defined not by what we / cannot know of the world but what we cannot know of ourselves.” These poems write into that intricate webbing between us, holding space for an “I” that is permeable, that can be touched and changed by those we make our lives with. In this book, astonishingly intimate poems of marriage collide with the fetishization of freedom and the terror of desire. At times valiant and at others self-excoriating, they are flush with the hard-won knowledge of the difficulties and joys of living in relation.
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BOA Editions, Limited Second Nature
Book SynopsisWinner of the 23rd annual Poulin Prize, Chaun Ballard’s gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that celebrates the landscape of Black America, both rural and urban. Riddled with the ghostly voices of family and friends, Second Nature is fearless in its wrestling with America’s fractured past and troubled present. In these poems, W.E.B. DuBois and Fredrick Douglas have a conversation, Michael Brown meditates on the nature of the cosmos, Johnnie Taylor’s guitar sings in sonnets, and the road Walt Whitman set out upon comes alive for a new generation. Through innovative re-imaginings of the sonnet, the pastoral, and the contrapuntal, Ballard engages with popular culture while examining the intricacies of all that is wedded together—form and content, mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, husband and wife, and a nation long dependent on created binaries that serve to maintain structures of oppression. Interspersed with quotations and inspired by the rich legacy of poets who came before him—including poet Matthew Shenoda who provides an insightful Foreword to the collection—Second Nature is a testament to interconnectedness, a love letter to the deep roots that we come from, and a reminder of the myriad ways in which one’s identity is shaped by community and country.
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Hatherleigh Press,U.S. Healing with Haiku
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Monkfish Book Pub Co Leaving the Shore
£18.38
WestBow Press A Father's Dreams, a Daughter's Scenes: Poems
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£14.20
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Washing My Mothers Body
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£14.39
At Bay Press Through Disassembled Houses of Perfect Stones
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£17.99
Metatron Press Knot Body
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£10.50
Metatron Press Para-Social Butterfly
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£11.00
Daraja Press Palestine Wail
Book SynopsisPalestine is personal for writer, Yahia Lababidi. His Palestinian grandmother, Rabiha Dajani- educator, activist & social worker - was forced to flee her ancestral home in Jerusalem, at gunpoint, some eighty years ago. As an Arab-American, Lababidi feels deeply betrayed by the USA''s blind support of Israel''s genocide of Palestinians. In Palestine Wail, he reminds us that religion is not politics, Judaism is not Zionism, and to criticize the immoral, illegal actions of Israel is not antisemitism - especially since, as an Arab, Lababidi is a Semite, himself. Using both poetry and prose, Lababidi reflects on how we are neither our corrupt governments, nor our compromised media. Rather, we are partners in humanity, members of one human family.
£14.24
At Bay Press Siteseeing
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