Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The dirt riddles The dirt riddles Michael Walsh This powerful first collection and winner of the inaugural $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize is literally rooted in the earth and in the world of animal husbandry. You can taste these poems about l… OL15518183W
Touch Touch Henri Cole Henri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics―a mothe… OL16262700W
Gutted Gutted Justin Chin While trying to make sense of this ever-churning, terror-filled world, poet Justin Chin found himself traveling repeatedly home to Southeast Asia—a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian … OL1953212W
Not here Not here Hieu Minh Nguyen Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book.… OL19739796W
Poems of the black object Poems of the black object Ronaldo V. Wilson Poetry. African American Studies. Asian American Studies. LGBT Studies. Winner of the Publishing Triangle's 2010 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the 13th Annual Asian American Literary Award for P… OL19936114W
Company Company Sam Ross The poems of Company navigate misperception, memory, and threat while engaging with an electrifying sense of possibility: "What I want is you to see what is backlit, behind me. Not the silhouet… OL21798687W
Boss Cupid Boss Cupid Thom Gunn A great poet's freshest, most provocative book. *He dreams at the center of a closed system, Like the prison system, or a system of love, Where folktale, recipe, and household custom Refer back… OL35493W
Under sleep Under sleep Daniel Hall,Hall, Daniel An extended meditation on how death affects those left behind, Under Sleep is a skillfully understated, beautifully rendered elegy for the poet’s partner. Formally inventive and technically sophistic… OL510458W
The Rest of Love The Rest of Love Carl Phillips,Carl Phillips In The Rest of Love, his seventh book, Carl Phillips examines the conflict between belief and disbelief, and our will to believe: Aren't we always trying, Phillips asks, to contain or to stave off fa… OL58307W
The room where I was born The room where I was born Brian Teare An architecture equally poetry, fairy tale, autobiography, and fiction, The Room Where I Was Born rebuilds the house of the lyric from fragments salvaged from experience and literature. Though the po… OL6027581W
Source Source Mark Doty This bold, wide-ranging collection -- his sixth book of poems -- demonstrates the unmistakable lyricism, fierce observation, and force of feeling that have made Mark Doty's poems special to readers o… OL8026476W