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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Glass Age The Glass Age Cole Swensen “Inspired by postimpressionist painter Pierre Bonnard . . . Swensen crafts poems that incorporate language play and collage.” —<em>Library Journal</em> “Swensen’s recent thematic book-length sequ… OL1988784W
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… OL2648913W
Makars' dozens Makars' dozens Paul Trachtenberg,Robert Peters,Robert Peters,Barbara Hauk **MAKARS' DOZENS** stands for a baker's dozen meaning sandwiched between the covers of this book you get the verses of three distinctive voices: poet Robert Peters(the best known among three), Paul … OL2907303W
The Devotion Field The Devotion Field Claudia Keelan “Charged with negative capability, Keelan’s avant-garde collection plays in multiple dimensions….Like a linguistic ethicist—like a mad, social-science hybrid with a knack for transcending—Keelan wond… OL2955865W
Self and Simulacra Self and Simulacra Liz Waldner **2002 PEN Center USA West Literary Award in Poetry Finalist** **2001 Beatrice Hawley Award** “. . .a highly intelligent and literate poetry….While the I exists because it desires (I want therefo… OL504970W
Matadora Matadora Sarah Verdes Gambito “Every once in a while a poetry book bursts onto the scene—heavy with luggage tagged from all manner of airports—just begging to be unpacked… *Matadora* introduces us to a fearless new talent, whose … OL5714022W
Landscapes I & II Landscapes I & II Lesle Lewis “This is a bar-raising kind of collection. In future reviews and poetry readings I may sign-off or leave the room immediately with a ‘Feh! Not as good as Lewis.'” —<em>Stride Magazine</em> “Lewis… OL5836974W
Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form Matthea Harvey “. . .Mournfully comic and syntactically inventive, Harvey’s poems are both pleas for attentiveness. . .and elegies for the images we try, but fail, to capture.” —<em>The New Yorker</em> “Many po… OL6041680W
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