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Tupelo Press, Incorporated Ex-Voto: Poems by Adelia Prado
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£15.20
Dzanc Books True Believer
Book SynopsisIn True Believer, Jeff Kass intertwines fiction with reality as he delves into the origins of the Marvel superheroes, explores how the Marvel saga informed his own worldview, and implores us all to continue to believe in the forces of goodThrough lyric and narrative poems, formal and informal verse, and even a trio of limericks, Kass's poems both retell classic comic book tales and recall his personal experiences being a True Believerattending New York City Comic-Con with his childhood friends, wishing he could control the weather while coaching his son's baseball team, and growing up reading about the Jewishness of The Thing, the Golem-like member of The Fantastic Four, which impacted Kass's understanding of his own identity. An ode to what Stan Lee called his devoted readers, True Believer is a call to arms and an invitation to discover the heroic in ourselves. If we can't be super-powered heroes, we can endeavor to be what those heroes embody: perseverance despite personal doubt, determination in the face of calamitous odds, and faith in the notion that humanity is worth saving.
£14.36
Black Ocean There Must Be a Reason People Come Here
Book SynopsisA philosophical-minded and syntactically experimental book of poetry.The philosopher Catherine Malabou once asked: “What should we do so that consciousness of the brain does not purely and simply coincide with the spirit of capitalism?” There Must Be A Reason People Come Here by Brian Foley is a collection of poems that attempts to answer this question by broadcasting the indirect effects of the lived condition of a subject squeezed under the structures of late capitalism. Lines like, “Hope is a chemical, not a dream ignited in the eye / that can be heard sober.” And “There is no sun here, / just habits of light” work through the contradictions of what it means to be negatively capable. It is a collection of poems that refuses to conform to the norms of what poetry is and how it must say things.
£10.19
Black Ocean The Fastening
Book SynopsisThe fifth book of poetry by a true poet's poet with a unique mastery of language and experimentation.In Julie Doxsee’s The Fastening, the permanent imprints of love, childhood, death, and pleasure are elongated, handled delicately, celebrated, puzzled over, all while underpinned by hauntingly vicious origins. Landscapes in the book shift and jolt, melt into snowman slush or gash the flesh with matter-of-fact craters, thorns, rope burns, and rocks.The poet wants to scrub the sharp peaks with steel wool but recognizes how millions of these violence-borne imprints have ganged up to keep her alive. In The Fastening, bodies are soft sketches that could detonate at the pop of a flashbulb, diffuse into a cloud of vapor, or escape into a small recess with just enough space to breathe.Trade Review“The Fastening posits time as an oil, a sap, a skin, a river (of course), as blood—whatever sustains or poisons, muffles or protects, fossilizes or commodifies us. A barb that pierces through to the raw nerve, or a balm that sheaths it. Its poems still the past, present, and future in Doxsee’s crystal ball, her amber deposits, which we must then chuck from the sea cliff. That's a life. Moments released bleed together in the sea, and we go through all this before the rest of the world wakes up. I'm obsessed with this book of days. Oh, baby. These days are golden in their perversity, outwardly blowing wide and returning.”—Danielle Pafunda, author of Spite
£10.19
Black Ocean Applause for a Cloud
Book SynopsisSayumi Kamakura’s Applause for a Cloud uses the haiku form to attend to everyday life with a cosmological acuteness, invoking wonder on miniature and maximum scales. Sayumi Kamakura’s poems marry accessible language with complex images, inviting readers to participate in their meaning. She often juxtaposes a surreal dailiness with a cosmological acuteness, invoking wonder on both miniature and maximum scales. The paradoxical frictions in her work resolve into moments of lucidity just as often as they perplex. Although she writes in the haiku tradition, her poems detour from the conventional parameters for haiku, such as syllabic restrictions and the use of a fixed seasonal reference. Her flexible approach to the long-standing form allows her to explore new emotional frequencies across a range of subject matter. The book’s four sections—everyday life in Japan, experiences in Morocco and Italy, her husband’s cancer diagnosis, and reflections on the pandemic—reveal the preoccupations of a poet invested in rendering her experiences with a mix of traditional and contemporary motifs alongside a subtle wit. The natural world is always close at hand. Yet, Kamakura uses environmental phenomena not merely to depict the world, but to create moments of stillness that usher the reader into her inner world.
£12.34
Wave Books My Private Property
Book SynopsisUnlike many Wave titles, this paperback edition follows the hardcover by one year and will arrive in the market enjoying a year's worth of very strong publicity and word-of-mouth, attracting new readers with the new format and lower price. All of Mary Ruefle's books are continually among Wave's topselling titles. We expect this newest collection to sell similarly to her Trances of the Blast hardcover. My Private Property is comprised entirety of short prose pieces, similar to her prose poetry collection The Most of It, which is a very high seller and received glowing praise. The collection is a light, pleasant read, offering a more casual reading experience but with a similar appeal to Ruefle's most recent collection of prose, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures. Madness, Rack, and Honey was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. The book also received a full-page write-up in the January 16, 2013 New York Times Book Review. Ruefle is the recipient of numerous high profile awards, including the William Carlos Williams award for her Selected Poems in 2011, and fellowships, including a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.Table of ContentsLittle Golf Pencil Keys Please Read Lucky Observations on the Ground Blue The Woman Who Couldn’t Describe a Thing If She Could Pause Lullaby Take Frank Recollections of My Christmas Tree Purple Black One Girl’s Theory To a Magazine Milkshake Gray Red Among the Clouds My Private Property Old Immortality Green Pink In the Forest The Hooded Dream of Dining Like a Scarf Orange Yellow Wild Forest Blood Inky Flourish Personalia Outcast Towards a Carefree World Self-Criticism White Brown They Were Wrong The Gift The Invasive Thing The Sublime A Strange Thing
£12.34
Wake Forest University Press,U.S. Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of
Book SynopsisBone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern is the most inclusive and comprehensive anthology of Irish-language poetry to date. Impressive in its breadth and scholarly in its depth, this collection casts a wide net, and in tracing Irish history since the sixth century to the present day, it makes evident that so much of the bone and marrow of Irish history and culture is poetry. Across the turbulent and often traumatic centuries, poets witnessed and gave witness to a multiplicity of Irish experiences; the rich and multifaceted tradition they created is both a reckoning with Irish, European, and global realities, and an imaginative response to them.Capturing the power and beauty of this diverse tradition, this indispensable volume reveals poetry’s centrality to Irish history and culture. Meticulously researched by a team of twenty-two renowned international scholars, it features many new translations, introductory essays, and explanatory headnotes. This bilingual anthology should prove of inestimable value to students, academic, educators, and all those interested in Ireland’s ever-evolving poetic traditions and culture.
£30.56
Button Poetry Socially Acceptable Breakdown
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£15.29
White Pine Press As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and
Book SynopsisA career-spanning volume drawn from forty years of work and a selection of new poems.Stephen Corey’s work is intelligent, moving and engaging. Poem after poem is beautiful, effortless, and thought-provoking. The range of style and subject matter, the depth of thought and emotion, the elegance and resonance and simplicity of language, the affectionate voice and tone—all work to make this a truly important and memorable book.“Here is a life, and a life, and / a life,” Stephen Corey writes in the opening poem’s instructions to on how find the faded leaf—also a metaphor for the end of life—that one must imagine still colored after he is “gone.” The poem is echoed near the end of this stunningly rich and encompassing book in a poem addressed to his four daughters about what he has missed during his life. In between we encounter a world we thought we knew but have not seen in this way before: things as varied as Monarch butterflies, telephones, calligraphy, and bread, as well as other writers and texts that become lenses to show us “How we are growing undoes what we are” and see.Like the glassblower’s art in one of these major poems, “Breath makes another world.” And like his Michelangelo in a sequence that masterfully covers centuries, we see “the way a life we love can be steered, / beyond our control, beyond us.” And so, thanks to this important and needed book we too can live beyond ourselves; that, indeed, is the highest praise for any art.”—Richard Jackson, author of Broken Horizons and Where the Wind Comes From“Stephen Corey’s, As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them, is sometimes bookish, in the best ways, and in addition to welcoming many of the stars in our pantheon (Shakespeare, O’Keeffe, Keats, Ginsberg, Woolf, and Whitman for example) there’s also the dual elegy for the poet’s father and Dickinson (the latter also has her own baseball poem), Emerson ‘at the moment of his first masturbation,” and a sequence in which Li Po and Tu Fu hop on a jet and tour America. What this means is that when Corey forays into “the real world” —keeping a hospital death watch, exploring and exalting carnal love, or delighting in his young daughter “playing Beethoven on my chest” — the poems are informed by both of his masters… by the “shelves of books” that are “the bones of my brain.””—Albert GoldbarthStephen Corey worked at the Georgia Review for thirty-six years in various positions including thirteen year as Editor before retiring in 2019. His first two poetry collections, The Last Magician (Water Mark Press, 1981) and Synchronized Swimming (Swallow’s Tale Press, 1984), were winners of national competitions. All These Lands You Call One Country (University of Missouri Press, 1992) and There Is No Finished World (White Pine Press, 2003) followed, and a half-dozen poetry chapbooks were interspersed along the way. His first prose collection was Startled at the Big Sound: Essays Personal, Literary, and Cultural (Mercer University Press, 2017), and a second is in process.Trade Review“Stephen Corey’s poems never forget the cost of mortality. What we do for a living, and what living does to us, matter in these poems, whose characteristic stance is a wry, faithful, and intelligent attentiveness to what binds us to each other.”—Margaret Gibson
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Ugly Duckling Presse Read Me: Selected Works
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£14.40
Seagull Books Terminal Surreal
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£14.00
The University Press of Kentucky The Girl Singer: Poems
Book SynopsisIn Girl Singer, poet Marianne Worthington often blurs the lines between the historical and the romantic, much like the artists to whose songs and stories she pays careful attention and homage. Locals or country music fans will recognize the names and histories documented here, but even those unfamiliar with these references will understand the intricacy and intimacy with which they are woven together. From Tom Dula to The Carters to Patsy Cline, Girl Singer not only documents this wealth of stories with care and accuracy, but it also dares to venture into the subjects' innermost thoughts.The speaker places her personal life on the same level of importance as the subjects of local stories, elevating the collection from a simple report of facts into a work of art. Her own family history dances among those of celebrities. The collection is as invested in the poet's own life as it is in Appalachia as a whole. With poems about birds and the moon, the collection also harbors an abundance of natural imagery that highlights the dramatic details of the speaker's daily life, even within the mundane. Skillfully divided into three distinct yet harmonious parts, cantillating local, familial, and personal histories, Girl Singer is a collection of lyrical and descriptive poems that offer unique insight on famous and infamous Appalachian tales from this life and the next.
£25.65
Monkfish Book Publishing Company Sonnets to Orpheus
Book Synopsis“Rilke''s voice from the last tumultuous young century reaches tenderly into ours. But his lush German is a language of its own. Mark Burrows has a rare gift to coax it faithfully into English. I am delighted, and so very grateful for this book.” —Krista Tippett, host of “On Being”On the centennial of the first appearance (1923) of Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, award-winning translator Mark Burrows reveals their depth and meaning with a brilliant new introduction and translation.This new translation captures the lyric beauty of Rilke''s poems, honoring their syntactic peculiarities and grammatical complexities as few translators have dared to do. Burrows’ versions maintain the essential strangeness of language and abruptness of metaphor by which the sonnets attain their distinctive character in German. Burrows'' approach replicates what one reviewer describes as the poems’ “dazzling obscurity,” refusing to resolve the deliberate difficulties Rilke’s formulations present. The effect invites readers to linger with these sonnets, allowing themselves to be shaped in their encounter with them.
£14.24
Winter Editions What Just Happened
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£15.20
Winter Editions The Mirror of Simple Souls
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£15.20
BOA Editions, Limited come from
Book Synopsisjanan alexandra’s debut poetry collection, COME FROM, weaves from English to Arabic, exploring the joint projects of longing and belonging. Part love song for the speaker’s mother and part grief song for ongoing postcolonial loss, this book reaches for, around, underneath, and through language—feeling for its limits and possibilities. Drawing on both narrative and lyric impulses, alexandra invites readers into a world bristling with family, memory, home, and inheritance—all in the wake of dislocation and fracture. In one section of the book, we follow the speaker “back home” after years of separation; later, we encounter a series of parables in the form of an Arabic abecedarian, through which the speaker recovers parts of her mother tongue—probing the gifts and wounds of language, invoking personal and communal histories marked with the long-durée of empire. This book searches for what might be possible if we dislodge our practices of belonging from the myth of wholeness, divest from nation and state, and instead turn deeply toward each other. Here is a collection that pulses with warmth and vitality, heralding the arrival of a fresh and vibrant voice on the poetry scene. Clear and concise, accessible yet profound, COME FROM investigates what is deeply interior while reaching toward the world with tenderness and generous attention.
£13.29
Catalyst Books Oh Give Me A Home
Book SynopsisFrom Author Jane Kurtz, winner of the school Library Journal Best Of The Year and numerous other awards. In verse, Oh Give Me a Home relates the story of a girl’s inside-out view of America as she journeys from Ethiopia, searches for friends and belonging. In elementary school, Jane knows that Maji, Ethiopia, cool and green, perched on a mountainside of waterfalls and monkeys, is the perfect place to live. Or it would be perfect if she had a pet or a best friend. Jane is full of ideas that include schemes for an animal to play with. A real pet, not the dik dik that dies, the monkey that tries to bite her fingers, nor the elusive cat that lives in the shed and has just absconded with her litter of kittens. But her plans are derailed as Jane learns she is to move back to America with her family. America and Africa collide as Jane tries to answer the simple question, “Where am I from?” Entering grade school in suburban America for the first time, will she find a best friend a continent away from her real life in Africa? Or is America-where she meets her relatives for laughter and frolicking and big holiday meals-her real home?
£14.20
Clash Books Séance of the Bees
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£16.88
Metatron Press How Do I Look?
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£10.50
Otago University Press To the Occupant
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£14.24
Daraja Press Elsewhereness
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£12.59
Offord Road Books Votive
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£9.50
Mondadori Inferno
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£22.44
Double 9 Booksllp The Light of Asia
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£11.69
EduCart Through the Brazilian Wilderness
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£15.19
Double 9 Books Crime And Punishment
Book SynopsisFyodor Dostoevsky's psychological book Crime and Punishment examines the ethical and psychological consequences of committing a crime. The plot centres on Rodion Raskolnikov, an underprivileged young student from St. Petersburg who decides to murder a pawnbroker in order to get her money. Raskolnikov battles guilt and paranoia after the crime, and as he seeks to avoid the repercussions of his conduct, his mental and physical health suffers. Several individuals with connections to Raskolnikov, including as his family, acquaintances, and the police officer looking into the murder, are also followed throughout the story. Dostoevsky explores topics like poverty, morality, redemption, and the essence of justice via his short stories. Raskolnikov finally confesses to the crime and accepts his penalty, which results in his ultimate redemption as he becomes more and more isolated and tortured by his guilt. The book explores the human mind and the effects of moral failings in a nuanced and thoughtful manner. Ultimately, Crime and Punishment is a fascinating and challenging book that explores human nature and the effects of our choices, captivating and challenging readers in the process. It is regarded as a masterwork of psychological realism and one of the finest literary works in the Western canon.
£18.69
Double 9 Books The Jew Of Malta
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£10.79
Double 9 Books Agamemnon
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£10.44
Double 9 Booksllp The Merry Wives Of Windsor
Book SynopsisShakespeare's merry wives are Mistress Ford and Mistress Page of the town of Windsor. The two pull-down tricks on Mistress Ford's desirous spouse and a meeting knight, Sir John Falstaff. Happy spouses, desirous husbands, and ruthless knights were normal in a sort of play called citizen comedy or city comedy. In such plays, subjects, courteous fellows, or knights utilize social prevalence to tempt residents' wives. The Windsor spouses, however, don't follow that example. All things considered, Falstaff's proposal of himself as darling rouses their torture of him. Falstaff answers with the very etymological office that Shakespeare gives him in the set of experiences plays in which he shows up, making him the legend of the play for some crowds.
£10.44
Independently Published Van Dyke Parks
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£6.64
Independently Published O Poema da Alma monocromática
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£6.67
Andrews McMeel Publishing Moon Garden
£15.28
Austin MacAuley Publishers Fze Victims and Perpetrators
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£6.99
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Softness and Steel A Poets Way
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£6.99
Austin Macauley Moving Day
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The Coming of the Train
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Somnambulist Chronicles
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Rearview
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Free Admission to My Mind
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Winter Afternoon and Other Poems
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£6.99
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Stories Poems Happiness
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC We The People
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Why
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Serenity
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Poems of the Fire
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Aint This a Bitch
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Prose and Conflicts
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