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Polar Polar Dobby Gibson “Amid the middleness,/ there’s the feeling/ that anything can be seen/ and nothing reached.” And yet reach he does, and we can only be stunned by all within his grasp. “<em>Polar</em> can mean opposi… OL13640710W
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts “Betts doesn’t just have a powerful story to tell. He is a true poet who can write a ghazal that sings, howls, rhymes, and resonates in memory years after it was first read.” —Jericho Brown, <em>On … OL15535455W
Pageant Pageant Joanna Fuhrman “…some real poetic gems…we have the real poet.” — *Stride Magazine* “…moments of hilarity, illumination, solemnity and insight… Fuhrman’s delightfully weird and most penetrating moments are a joy… OL15626490W
How to Catch a Falling Knife How to Catch a Falling Knife Daniel Johnson “To enter the world of Daniel Johnson’s <em>How to Catch a Falling Knife</em> is to enter a playful, celebratory, real, and dangerous place…[Johnson’s] clean, pared down diction recreates real life t… OL15631819W
Hagar Before the Occupation, Hagar After the Occupation Hagar Before the Occupation, Hagar After the Occupation Alicia Ostriker,Amal Jubūrī “In spare, vivid, and poundingly heartfelt language, [al-Jubouri] shows us her country before the occupation by U.S. troops and afterward . . . these poems have a timeless, haunting quality, and they… OL15936702W
lie down too lie down too Lesle Lewis “A beautiful, odd little book… Lewis’s sentences brush up against both white space and one another in a sort of supple ricochet of associative sense… There is a fascinating mind at work here.” —<em>… OL16113918W
This Strange Land This Strange Land Shara McCallum “[In <em>This Strange Land</em>] McCallum crafts a world filled with marvelous ideas about the everyday reality of urban Jamaica, a world of contrasts in which romance and protest make strange bedfel… OL16121220W
Sudden Dog Sudden Dog Matthew Pennock “[Pennock’s] images are fierce, exact, and unsentimental, unburdened by ornament or exaggeration and often fashioned with dark humor. . . [His] poetry demonstrates that the pursuit of meaning in a cr… OL16319202W
The Glimmering Room The Glimmering Room Cynthia Cruz Cynthia Cruz’s second collection, <em>The Glimmering Room</em>, beckons readers down into the young speakers’ dark underworld, and because we are seduced by Cruz’s startling imagery and language rich… OL16499163W
Phantom Noise Phantom Noise Brian Turner “In <em>Phantom Noise</em>, the speaker recognizes the degree to which language is a co-creative of reality…and as such, these poems begin to interrogate the speaker’s entanglement in acts that he ha… OL16567600W
Tantivy Tantivy Donald Revell “Every word counts in Donald Revell. You must read him carefully— not because he’s difficult but because he’s profound. But that’s too inappropriate, that word; let me say sun-worthy, Sophoclean, God… OL16645975W
me and Nina me and Nina Monica A. Hand **2014 da Vinci Eye Finalist** **ForeWord Reviews‘ 2012 Book of the Year Award Finalist** **2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist** “The message in the so-sick-it muse ic is all on the cover… OL16679813W
Black Crow Dress Black Crow Dress Roxane Beth Johnson **33rd Annual Northern California Book Award Nominee** “*Black Crow Dress* is narrative, yet it subverts narrative in its deliberate cultivation of the fragment; its rhythms are those of the blues… OL17537165W
Obscenely Yours Obscenely Yours Angelo Nikolopoulos **San Francisco Book Festival 2013, Honorable Mention** **26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalist** “This is not just a great first book but a great book. Period.” —*The Kenyon Review Onlin… OL17584485W
We Come Elemental We Come Elemental Tamiko Beyer **2014 Green Book Festival – Poetry Runner-Up** **26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalist** “The poems in Tamiko Beyer’s *We Come Elemental*. . . float together, each buoyant image sinking a… OL17584990W
Rough Cradle Rough Cradle Betsy Sholl “Betsy Scholl’s poems are visual and fast moving, the whole book shot through vivid imagery…I was so dazzled by the gorgeousness of the writing…” ―<em>Stride Magazine</em> “As she upends perspect… OL17806794W
How to Catch a Falling Knife How to Catch a Falling Knife Daniel Johnson “To enter the world of Daniel Johnson’s <em>How to Catch a Falling Knife</em> is to enter a playful, celebratory, real, and dangerous place…[Johnson’s] clean, pared down diction recreates real life t… OL17806802W
Gloryland Gloryland Anne Marie Macari “Anne Marie Macari’s powerful poems make poetic speech seem an utterly natural act. She is the latest ambassador of a great lineage of strong poets whose subject is blood-knowledge. Sexual without ne… OL17806803W
Pennyweight Windows Pennyweight Windows Donald Revell “Donald Revell’s selected poems, *Pennyweight Windows*, contains some of the most interesting American poems written in the last twenty years. Revell at his best is a writer of unusual intellectual r… OL1867648W
A Thief of Strings A Thief of Strings Donald Revell “No poet so innovative now is more accessible, and no poet half so accessible in recent years has made the language so new.” —<em>Publishers Weekly</em>, starred review “Revell is a post-Romantic… OL1867650W
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