Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
lucky wreck	Ada Limón	Poetry by Ada Limón. The winner of the 2005 Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by Jean Valentine. "Ada’s new book has a smart clip of anger to some of the poems, edgy parameters of disappointment…	OL13673168W
Bright Brave Phenomena	Amanda Nadelberg	By turns disarmingly droll and hysterically sad, Amanda Nadelberg's singular use of everyday language transports us into a world where uncanny juxtaposition and unabashed repetition engender entirely…	OL16003111W
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
Iatrogenic	Danielle Pafunda	Poetry. Danielle Pafunda's third collection <em>Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies</em> is a glittering gloaming sci-fi pregnancy epic. It takes place in half-light and lullaby, blaze and shiver. The poem…	OL17762157W
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
Ivory Cradle	Anne Marie Macari	Poetry. Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Anne Marie Macari's tender poems have drawn warm praise from Thomas Lux, Jean Valentine, and the contest judge Robert Creeley. The wonders here a…	OL17806804W
The Groundnote	Janet Kaplan	The Groundnote, Janet Kaplan's first collection of poetry, explores violence in the twentieth century, both in the family and in the larger world. The poems range over difficult subjects - the Jewi…	OL1812681W
Goest	Cole Swensen	“One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry.” —<em>Library Journal</em> “[Goest] explodes the assumption of the ’empty’ portion of the page, while equally exploring the nature of the ‘…	OL1988785W
Firekeeper	Pattiann Rogers	One of America’s major contemporary poets, Pattiann Rogers is known for her penetrating perception, striking imagery, and intricate sense of the often elusive connections between humankind and their …	OL2001351W
Crime Against Nature	Minnie Bruce Pratt	Poetry. LGBT Studies. The first title from Sapphic Classics, a co-edition between Sinister Wisdom Magazine and A Midsummer Night's Press to reprint seminal works of lesbian poetry. "In spare and f…	OL2346736W
Apology for Want	Mary Jo Bang	There is a keenness in the poems of <em>Apology for Want</em> that one rarely encounters in a first collection, an unfailing and unflinching exactitude—of language, of metaphor, of emotion. Mary Jo B…	OL2622416W
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
An Ark of Sorts	Celia Gilbert	Winner of the 1997 Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award “These meticulously crafted poems unfold with a narrative drive and thematic unity worthy of a great novel. The spareness of Gilbert’s language, a…	OL2724866W
Alma, or The Dead Women	Alice Notley	Alice Notley's <em>Alma, or The Dead Women</em> is a cross-genre book, poem/novel, poetry/prose, comedy/tragedy, that submits to no discipline but its own and was conceived by the author in a state o…	OL2732603W
Close to Me & Closer... (The Language of Heaven) and DéSamèRe	Alice Notley	Notley transgresses conventional contemporary categories of genre; rather than genre, the form of the writing is the mind's inner sense and motion.	OL2732625W
Waltzing Matilda	Alice Notley	This book demonstrates Alice Notley's early-on success playing with longer poetry/prose structures, and marks the book-length debut for Notley's engrossing experiments with voices, inside and outside…	OL2732629W
Ladder Music	Ellen Doré Watson	“It is precisely Watson’s poetic willingness to be subverted, both emotionally and formally, that makes this collection so valuable. One finishes it with the impression of a fiery, intrepid voice tur…	OL3280858W
Yin	Carolyn Kizer	The American poet's Pulitzer prize-winning volume focuses on themes of feminine perceptions and creativity.	OL502279W
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
33	Marjorie Fletcher	". . . arranged with the wrenchingly careful displacement of a cubist painting . . . [33] leads women's writing away from the cash-in commercial perception of an Erica Jong. Honest as kitchen knives …	OL7091994W