Oracle: Poems
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| Author | Beth Ann Fennelly |
| ISBN | 0393356485 |
Deaf Republic: Poems
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 1555978312 |
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?
Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...
Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression
| Author | Teresa Wong |
| ISBN | 1551527650 |
A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter
| Author | Nikki Giovanni |
| ISBN | 0062399454 |
The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer,...
Life on Mars
| Author | Tracy K. Smith |
| ISBN | 1555975844 |
To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What
Would your life say if it could talk?
—from...
| Author | W.S. Merwin |
| ISBN | 1556592841 |
Featured on NPR's "Fresh Air" and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS.
Honored as one of the "Best Books of the Year" from Publishers Weekly.
"In his personal anonymity, his strict individuated manner, his defense of the earth,...
| Author | Jakob Crane |
| ISBN | 1939017335 |
In Salem's dark days of 1692 and 1693, young girls pointed fingers and accused others of witchcraft, sentencing them to torture or even death. When the cloud lifted, and the accusations...
| Author | Mary Ruefle |
| ISBN | 1933517735 |
"What a civil, undomesticable, and heartening poet is Mary Ruefle . . . any Ruefle poem is an occasion of resonant...
| Author | Sjohnna McCray |
| ISBN | 1555977375 |
plainly. Because I always stutter
politely. Because there's always the chatter
before the kiss.
--from "In Need of Subtitles"
In this award-winning debut, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother...
| Author | Mary Jo Bang |
| ISBN | 0802137601 |
| Author | D.A. Powell |
| ISBN | 1555976050 |
symbolic death, my backward glance.
The way the past is a kind of future
leaning against the sporty hood.
—from “Bugcatching at Twilight” In D. A. Powell’s fifth book of poetry, the rollicking line...
| Author | Diana Khoi Nguyen |
| ISBN | 1632430525 |
| Author | Mai Der Vang |
| ISBN | 1555977707 |
When I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter what
the current gives. When we reach the camp,
there will be thousands like us.
If I make it onto the plane, you must...
| Author | Jenny Xie |
| ISBN | 1555978029 |
L'étranger
| Author | Jacques Ferrandez |
Louis parmi les spectres
| Author | Fanny Britt |
| ISBN | 2897770007 |
The Carrying: Poems
| Author | Ada Limon |
| ISBN | 1571315128 |
Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the...
Indecency
| Author | Justin Phillip Reed |
| ISBN | 1566895146 |
Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity...
Prelude to Bruise
| Author | Saeed Jones |
| ISBN | 1566893747 |
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i need to say, first off, that poetry in english is really hard for me. i can do poetry in italian, but poetry in english, tough, man.
but a friend of mine agreed to read this with me, and the experience...
Tout Seul
| Author | Christophe Chabouté |
| ISBN | 2749304296 |
This graphic novel is stunning.
First published in France in 2008, Alone was just translated into English this year, and I'm grateful I had the chance to read this beautiful book. It's about a disfigured man who lives alone in...
Alay-Oop: Life and Love Among the Acrobats, Told Entirely in Pictures
| Author | William Gropper |