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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Reproduction of Profiles	Rosmarie Waldrop	Do Wittgenstein and water mix? Philosophy and the facts of everyday life? The remarkable prose poems in Rosmarie Waldrop’s <em>The Reproduction of Profiles</em> prove that startling new insights are …	OL15197706W
Acts of Love on Indigo Road	Jonis Agee	No one is better than Jonis Agee at capturing the bone-deep desire and big-eyed longing of a hardscrabble, small-town life. This major collection, highlighting Agee’s astonishing literary achievement…	OL15221631W
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
Depleted Burden Down	Deborah Meadows	Poems.	OL16266607W
Fair Copy	Rebecca Hazelton	<em>Fair Copy</em> by Rebecca Hazelton is a meditation on the difficulties of distinguishing the real from the false, the copy from the original. It is in part an exploration of the disparity between…	OL16626858W
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
Animals	Alice Mattison	“Mattison has written the best poems I know about the ‘Bodiliness,’ the sheer physicality of pregnancy and motherhood. The poems are about much more than this; but they start from here. There is a wo…	OL16992W
Surface Tension	Elaine Equi	"Equi is that rarity—someone with natural comic talent who is also capable of delicacy and lyricism." —David Lehman, Newsday	OL17197760W
Grave of Light	Alice Notley	Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experimental diaries, traditional genres, the post…	OL17503933W
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
Personal Effects	Helena Minton,Robin Becker,Marilyn Zuckerman	“Robin Becker’s first collection of poems show a controlled ironic intelligence and a steadfastness of vision. The grandmother poems, the self as child, the self as adult female, the poems of travel …	OL17806771W
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	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
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
Gathering the Tribes	Carolyn Forché	The language and images of Carolyn Forché’s poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body’s functioning, that it is surprising to realize how many of h…	OL2091396W
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
Body Clock	Eleni Sikélianòs	Lauded by Michael Ondaatje as an “unforgettable” writer and praised by The Washington Post for her ability to capture “the subtlest shades of the emotional palette,” Eleni Sikelianos now charts the…	OL2681172W
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
Selected Poems of Alice Notley	Alice Notley	Poetry. "Entertaining, moving, Notley's work engages ever-deepening areas of division and isolation while settling for nothing less than a restoration of wholeness" —Joseph Donahue.	OL2732620W
Signal::Noise	Miriam Goodman	“Goodman at her best finds the precise images which give concrete meaning to abstractions like exploitation or alienation…Her attempts are orignal and ambitious in the best sense of the word.” —*San …	OL3002828W