Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
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
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
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
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
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
Winter Tenor Winter Tenor Kevin Goodan In Goodan’s second collection, nature is equally cruel to all, and yearning is subsumed by an acceptance as terrible as it is beautiful. These poems are ecstatic, musical prayers, finding God in the … OL5710456W
Beloved Idea Beloved Idea Ann Killough “This brave and remarkable debut functions as one long poem and achieves extension through Stein-like repetition, and meaning through accretion and excess. In seeking a metaphorical ideal, Killough’s… OL6031985W
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
The Chime The Chime Cort Day “Post-narrative poetry requires of its makers an extraordinary ear and agility with language: as a storyline emerges, transforms, or disintegrates, only a voice supremely confident can unify what rem… OL7798362W
Equivocal Equivocal Julie Carr “Deeply concerned with her relationship with her mother, children, and god, the speaker in the poems returns again and again to the mysteries, frailties, and intensities of all three of these relatio… OL8332915W