Repair
10 best books like Repair (C.K. Williams): There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, Deaf Republic: Poems, Dicey's Song, Life on Mars, Practical Gods, Failure, My Love Is A Dead Arctic Explorer, Shattered Sonnets Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities, In Search of Small Gods, The Power of Love: Sermons, Reflections, and Wisdom to Uplift and Inspire
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
| Author | Morgan Parker |
| ISBN | 1941040535 |
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave between personal...
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 1555978312 |
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
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...
| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
| ISBN | 0689863624 |
"I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore."
3.5 ⭐️
This was a wonderful second installment to the Tillerman Cycle.
When we last left Dicey, James, Maybeth and Sammy - they were beginning new lives, living on their grandmothers farm.
This novel has...
| Author | Tracy K. Smith |
| ISBN | 1555975844 |
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself
To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What
Would your life say if it could talk?
—from...
| Author | Carl Dennis |
| ISBN | 0141002301 |
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.Practical Gods is the eighth collection by Carl Dennis, a critically acclaimed poet and recent winner of one of the most prestigious poetry awards, the Ruth Lilly Prize. Carl Dennis has won acclaim for "wise, original, and often deeply moving" poems that...
| Author | Philip Schultz |
| ISBN | 0151015260 |
First a disclaimer. I'm not much for LONG poems. I struggle with them because I have to focus and slow myself down with poetry. Doing that over 50 pages seems cruel if not unusual. No wonder my Paradise Lost class in college was such a devilish disaster!
When I picked up Schultz's failure, I didn't...
| Author | Paige Ackerson-Kiely |
| ISBN | 1934103276 |
Poetry. Poems of a loneliness that quarrels with itself from the far edge of love, this is a collection of would-be love poems chastened by experience. "I was a Promethean dilettante disabused of tinder," says the speaker, who later observes, "After you reach adulthood / no one bets you'll set this world...
| Author | Olena Kalytiak Davis |
| ISBN | 1582343527 |
In her stunning second collection, poet Olena Kalytiak Davis confirms her reputation as a breathtaking verbal acrobat, a daredevil on the high wire of life and love. Her deeply personal poems echo everything from nursery rhymes to classics, revealing poetry buried in ordinary speech. Whether remonstrating...
| Author | Jim Harrison |
| ISBN | 1556593007 |
“Jim Harrison has probed the breadth of human appetites—for food and drink, for art, for sex, for violence and, most significantly, for the great twin engines of love and death. Perhaps no American writer better appreciates those myriad drives; since the publication of his first collection of...
The Power of Love: Sermons, Reflections, and Wisdom to Uplift and Inspire
| Author | Michael B. Curry |
| ISBN | 0525542892 |
"Love is the way. Love is the only way. Those who follow in my way follow in the way of unconditional, unselfish, sacrificial love. And that kind of love can change the world."
--Bishop Michael Curry
Two billion people watched Bishop Michael Curry deliver his sermon on the redemptive...
| Author | Forrest Gander |
| ISBN | 0811226050 |
WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Book of 2018
Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical...
| Author | John Daniel |
| ISBN | 0983997594 |
Reflecting Daniel’s deep affinity for the land and lives of the given world, Of Earth offers poems of praise that do not deny suffering and death but find them essential to the vast, intricate and mysterious territory of being. “Nature,” he writes in his introduction, “means having been born—microbes,...
At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807007005 |
One of the astonishing aspects of Oliver's work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets. --Stephen Dobyns, New York Times Book Review
Mary Oliver has published...
from "Ozone Journal"
Bach’s cantata in B-flat minor in the cassette,
we lounged under the greenhouse-sky, the UVBs hacking
at the acids and oxides and then I could hear the difference
between an oboe and a bassoon
at the river’s edge under cover—
trees...
Divine Impassibility: Four Views of God's Emotions and Suffering
| Author | Robert J. Matz |
| ISBN | 0830852530 |
Does God suffer? Does God experience emotions? Does God change?
How should we interpret passages of Scripture that seem to support one view or the other? And where does the incarnation and Christ's suffering on the cross fit into this?
This Spectrum Multiview volume brings together...
These poems are intense, David Ignatow says she is, "The hardest-hitting poet of her generation." The book starts with a poem after the 92 riots, and includes persona poems after the likes of Marion Berry, Jack Rudy, Edger J. Hoover... reading made me wonder about my own knowledge of history. Times I...
From Nancy Thompson to Sidney Prescott, horror movies have used the “final girl” trope to tell survival stories that center the violent tendencies of men. But in Lauren Milici’s debut chapbook, Final Girl upends the narrative devices associated with the formulaic archetype and subverts them:...
| Author | Sonia Sanchez |
| ISBN | 0807069108 |
This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez, her first in over a decade, is music to the ears: a collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. In her verses, we hear the sounds...
