Poetry / Poems
Wakefield Press The Dice Cup
Book SynopsisThe most important prose-poem collection of the 20th century, available in a trade publication for the first time Max Jacob’s role in French modernity was essential, and with this second volume of his work from Wakefield Press, it can now be fully and properly assessed. First published in 1917, The Dice Cup stands alongside Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen, Rimbaud’s Illuminations and Pierre Reverdy’s Prose Poems as one of the most important and foundational books of prose poetry. Jacob has been identified as a “cubist poet,” but this collection and its shifting style escape any such easy definition: dream accounts are rendered in playful prose that thumbs its nose at the fabular tradition of Baudelaire and Mallarmé and the Romantic disorder of Rimbaud, and subverts both poetic and narrative expectations in favor of dream logic, allusion, transformed autobiography and nonsensical parody. At once mystical and burlesque, the prose poems of Dice Cup are consciously constructed, yet as unstable and unfixed as both Jacob’s personality and our own. Max Jacob (1876–1944) was a French poet, painter, writer and critic. A key figure of bohemian Montmartre and the Cubist era, he rubbed shoulders with Apollinaire and Modigliani and was a lifelong friend to Picasso, Gris and Cocteau. Jacob converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1915. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, he died in a deportation camp of pneumonia. Rosanna Warren's critically acclaimed biography of Jacob was published in 2020.
£16.10
Madhat, Inc. The Plume Anthology of Poetry 5
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Harvard Square Editions Handbook for Literary Analysis Book II: How to
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£49.99
D2C Perspectives Shades of Life (A Collection of Poems)
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Gold Wake Press Collective Who Are We
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Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC Midnight in a Perfect World
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£12.00
Brisance Books LLC Reflections: Poems of Life and Love
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£10.19
Flowstone Press Such Luck
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£12.00
Operating System The Science of Things Familiar
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£21.25
Glossarium: Unsilenced Texts In the Drying Shed of Souls / En al Secadoro de
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£11.90
Tupelo Press, Incorporated We Are Changed to Deer in the Broken Place
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Tupelo Press, Incorporated Tender Machines
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Acre Books HoodWitch
Book SynopsisThis riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them. HoodWitch tells the story of a young person who discovers that they are “something that can & will survive / a whole century of hunt.” Through a series of poems based on childhood photographs, Hicks invokes the spirits of mothers and daughters, sex workers and widows, to conjure an alternative to their own early deaths and the deaths of those whom they have already lost. In this collection about resilience, Hicks speaks about giving her child up for adoption, mourning the death of her fiancé, and embracing the nonbinary femme body—persevering in the face of medical malpractice, domestic abuse, and police violence. The poems find people transformed, “remade out of smoke & iron” into cyborgs and wolves, machines and witches—beings capable of seeking justice in a world that refuses them the option. Exploring the intersections of Christianity, modern mysticism, and Afrofuturism in a sometimes urban, sometimes natural setting, Hicks finds a place where “everyone everywhere is hands in the air,” where “you know they gonna push & pull it together. / Just like they learned to.” It is a place of natural magick—where someone like Hicks can have more than one name: where they can be both dead and alive, both a mortal and a god.
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Clare Songbirds Publishing House Itako
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Powerhouse Publishing The Rubaiyat of Rumi The Ergin Translations
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11:11 Press LLC Starving Romantic
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Spuyten Duyvil The Water Draft
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Wave Books Sho
Book Synopsis2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYEschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his “stove-like imagination,” Kearney has concocted poems that destabilize the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.Trade Review"Always playful, forever in dialogue, Kearney’s poems come at being from all sides. This book is the crowning achievement of Kearney’s body of work to date."—Judges' citation, Griffin Poetry AwardI think the book is anti-spectacle. It is asking the reader to see, to really see (not for show), and to reckon with the atrocities of our time. All the while, Kearney’s language is always new, is always about possibility and expansion, and always dazzling.—Victoria Chang, LARBTable of ContentsContents 1. Come Back Striking What’s Above Buck Well Property Values Do the Backseat Jam! Everyday (I Gets) Black Flight Sand Fire (or The Pool, 2016)— …Fox! Livestock Promissorry Note Dogged Close Borax The Post- Welter Demonology 2. A Negrocious Show of Feels Sho Static Do the Cruiseline-up Slowgrind-up! Negroes Are a Fatsuit, ♥ Hollywood, USA Just Wanna Be Like Deformation First, She Cuts the Stems The Shootout Having Drowned Our Lovers Do the Six-Foot Jump Down! The Drifters After School Eulogy for a Pair of Kicks Eulogy for an Afro Pick Fire “…say the magic words” Manesology Acknowledgments & Notes
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Wave Books Guard The Mysteries
Book SynopsisGuard the Mysteries is a compendium of five talks that the poet Cedar Sigo presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo plumbs the particulars of modern critique, identity politics, early influences, and poetic form to produce a singular ‘autobiography of voice.’ Across these lectures, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, while paying homage to revolutionary artists, teachers, and thinkers whom have shaped his poetic aesthetic. Simultaneously timeless and extremely timely, these talks ponder the presences that California Buddhism, LGBTQ+ experiences, and Native Nations occupy in the poetic world and the world at large.
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Stubborn Mule Press Heaven We Haven't Yet Dreamed
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McDougal & Associates Beyond the Woes of Me
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Dzanc Books Adult Night at Skate World
Book SynopsisThe poems in Adult Night at Skate World sift out the glitter in the gravel, unearthing both heartbreak and moments of transcendence in the seemingly mundane. These are songs of the anti-poetic, overlooked and assumed lost cause: Craigslist Missed Connections, getting snubbed at a rock show, middle-aged roller rink attendees, the class loser, a swan longing to mate with a paddleboat. But instead of scorn, they invite our laughter. Instead of dismissal, compassion. In place of cool cynicism, awe.
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BOA Editions, Limited Mother Country
Book SynopsisMother Country examines the intricacies of mother–daughter relationships: what we inherit from our mothers, what we let go, what we hold, and what we pass on to our own children, both the visible and invisible. As the speaker gradually loses the mother she has always known and upon whom she has always depended to early onset Parkinson’s disease and mental illness, she asks herself: “How do you deal with the grief of losing someone who is still living?” The caregiving of a child to her parent is further compounded by anxiety and depression, as well as the pain of a miscarriage and the struggle to conceive once more. Her journey comes full circle when the speaker gives birth to a son and discovers the gap between the myths of motherhood and a far more nuanced reality.Trade Review"Mother Country is in large part about the body. The body, like a country, holds so much, and all at once. So much doubt, joy, pleasure, power, uncertainty, pain, family, beloveds, the individual, the collective. There is life; there is loss; there is miracle. The collective has power to sustain the individual. The individual also harness their own power."—The Rumpus“Mother Country is a breathtaking and mythical account of the complex, everyday, and porous realms of death and birth. With lyrical, imagistic intelligence and unwavering precision, Bell writes the deaths of her unborn children, her grandmother, versions of herself and of her mother. The result is a steadfast and achingly clear record of a woman's mother-route, which, among other things, traces the shape of her own mother's life and illness. She writes: ‘Through the dark I feel my mother's wild eye.’ And: ‘My mother was a dead doll I held her / hand in the land of the dead / and did not turn away...’ Gravid with loss, Bell's is a haunting, vital, songful work, and it does not turn away.”—Aracelis Girmay, author of Kingdom Animalia, finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award“Mother Country provides us passage through the many portals of what it means to be, alternately, dependent upon or responsible for another’s nurture. And like the experience itself, these poems are both comforting and terrifying. Elana Bell has put to language an experience so intrinsic to its moments, I did not know how it might be brought to life in a poem. One leaves these poems changed, even healed, by their beauty and deep humanity. This book is not just for mothers. It’s for everyone.—Cate Marvin, author of Oracle and co-founder VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
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BOA Editions, Limited Ceive
Book SynopsisA poetic retelling of Noah’s Ark set in the near future, Ceive is a novella in verse that recounts a post-apocalyptic journey aboard a container ship. This contemporary flood narrative unfolds through poems following the perspective of a woman named Val, who is found in the wreckage of her flooding home by a former UPS delivery man. As environmental and political catastrophes force them to flee the Eastern Seaboard, Val and her rescuer take refuge alongside a group of pilgrims seeking refuge from the catastrophic collapse of a civilization destroyed by gun violence, climate crisis, and social unrest. The ship of cargo and refugees is run by the captain Nolan and his wife Nadia, who set sail for Greenland, now warmed to a temperate climate. The couple place Val in charge of caring for a neurodivergent young boy who holds knowledge of analog navigation. Mourning her missing daughter, Val experiences both isolation and a wellspring of compassion in survival, an indefatigable need to connect. She and the other pilgrims weather illness and peril, boredom and conflict, deprivation and despair as they set sail across stormy, unfamiliar waters. Drawing from the Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer, the Bible, and the Latin root word in receive, Ceive is a vision of eco-cataclysm and survival—inviting meditations on biodiversity, illness, social law, sustenance, scripture, menopause, sensory perception, human bonds, caregiving, and loss, all the while extending a call for renewal and hope.Trade Review“When the Flood comes for us, how do we recognize it as emergency? What from our old lives do we lack, and how do we make meaning out of formlessness and chaos? B.K. Fischer’s strikingly imaginative, wry yet tragic novella-in-verse tells the story of a contemporary Noah’s Ark set on a container ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a refuge from a world that’s been submerged. But as much as the apocalyptic drama drives Ceive’s overall plot, the engine of each of these poems remains always and unfailingly language itself, as Fischer delivers exquisitely layered word-machines, rich in overlapping textures of allusion and noise. This book is a wonder, and now is the moment we need it most.” —Monica Ferrell, author of You Darling Thing “We live in an unsustainable and contradictory age: ‘Left means what’s staying, and left means who went.’ Conceived in a period of undeniable ecological crisis compounded by a violent political climate and surging pandemic, Ceive could not be more timely. In a loose translation of the flood myth, Fischer transports her characters from a drowning world, conceivably but without certainty, to dry land via freight containers off the North American coast. Drawing from The Seafarer, Timothy Morton, Joan Miró, ancient myth, Hélène Cixous, and the deepest well of linguistic brilliance I’ve ever encountered, Fischer offers a future of possibility but no promise.” —Aby Kaupang, author of NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) Praise for B.K. Fischer’s Radioapocrypha: “Fischer remixes Scripture with 1980s nostalgia in a smart novella-in-verse that impressively balances high- and low-brow elements….Fischer handles the inherent power imbalance of this dynamic with wit, grace, and a complex yearning: ‘Each year my faith decays by half, then half again. / In this way it is infinite.’ Swapping the crucifixion for a ghastly car crash, Fischer produces a work as smart, satisfying, and nuanced in its climax as it is as a whole.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “The New Testament gets a remix in poet B. K. Fischer’s verse novella Radioapocrypha, a pagan rejoinder to the biblical story of redemption. An homage to a 1980s adolescence, it might also be one of the more necessary poetry collections for 2018: Fischer lends us nuanced ways of thinking about faith and fakes, secular shamans and sexual misconduct, deceit and devotion. In polyphonic lyrics and prose poems, she tells a story about a teenage girl that makes us come of age, all over again, and rethink our archetypes for prophecy and the divine.” —Los Angeles Review of Books Praise for Mutiny Gallery: “Self-assured, lyric, and deeply moving, B.K. Fischer is a mesmerizing [writer]. …Fischer pulls off an array of shifting tones, a complex and believable weave of voices. The shifts in tone are like the give-and-take of light when swimming in extraordinarily deep-water: peril is counterbalanced by fierce delight, then shot through with fear, and then steadied, despite all circumstance.” —Rattle
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Published by Parables A Blessing in the Message
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Wolf Rose Press Singing through my Wolf Bones: Poems of
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Spartan Press Beggar's Songbook
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£11.29
City of God Church Faith, Hope and Love: Poems of Christian
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Pierian Springs Press Glock
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£17.81
Rushmore Press LLC The Half Circle
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£9.77
Dulzorada Hope and the Sea by Magda Portal
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Ben Yehuda Press The Five Books of Limericks: A chapter-by-chapter
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£14.20
April Gloaming Publishing The World Black, Beautiful, and Beast
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£9.74
World Poetry Books Saint Ghetto Of The Loans: Grimoire
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£17.09
World Poetry Books The Poems from On the Consolation of Philosophy
Book SynopsisSince Boethius (480-524) wrote his On the Consolation of Philosophy imprisoned and in chains, he has been regarded as a consummate martyr of conscience who, fallen from political grace, rose above his personal agony to an impersonal magnanimity that shamed his murderers by its example. Chief among the text''s many translators are King Alfred the Great, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Elizabeth I. Glassgold''s startlingly original Boethius includes his collage translations along with the original Latin, an informative Preface, a Note on Texts, Method, and Pronunciation, as well as a thorough Glossary of Early English words. This new, expanded edition adds a Foreword by Charles Bernstein and an Afterword by Glassgold.
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World Poetry Books Book of Exercises II
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Stillwater River Publications Excuse Me While I Live My Life: Words to Reach
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Tall Pine Books Rhythms of Living Water: Space Poetry
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£15.99
Lily Poetry Review Books Keats in San Francisco
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Lily Poetry Review Books Helen of Bikini
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Tomis Press A Year Outside of Time
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Piscataqua Press Three Perch Swimming
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£12.01
Prime Seven Media Reflection of A Poet
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La Maison Publishing, Inc. The Lightning and the Gale
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WestBow Press United States History in Rhyme: A Child's First
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WestBow Press A Journey: Growth in Different Levels on Varying
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Balboa Press What Would You Do?
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Balboa Press A Star's Purpose
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