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The dirt riddles
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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… |
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Touch
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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… |
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Gutted
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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 … |
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Not here
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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.… |
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Poems of the black object
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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… |
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Company
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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… |
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Boss Cupid
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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… |
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Under sleep
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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… |
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The Rest of Love
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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… |
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The room where I was born
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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… |
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Source
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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… |
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