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Self-Mocking Humour and a Bellyful of Cider
by Shipley, Ian       
(Paperback - English - 9781803811482)
After the death of my wife Alison in July 2019,decided to handpick and publish a collection of my poetry and prose. Gathering together faded pencil-written verses and rediscovering older forgotten works was a joy and, if I'm honest, probably saved me from imploding. The majority of the work included here relates to daft husband-and-wife banter. From self-mocking humour and daft comical incidents, to silly, embarrassing misfortunes - it's all here! I've also included a few of my personal favourites, including my first ever poem, whichwrote whilst still at school, some 44 years ago. Significantly, there is a core of truth in each and every poem. The majority we ..
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Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works
by Ashbery, John    Lerner, Ben   
(Paperback - English - 9780062968869)
strong A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous book strong Renowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel Movement of the Hands gathers unpublished, book-length projects and long poems written between 1993 and 2007, along with one (as yet) undated work, to showcase Ashbery's diverse and multifaceted artistic obsessions and sources, from children's literature, cliffhanger cinema reels, silent films, and classical music variations by Beethoven's pupil Carl Czern ..
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Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
by Jones, Gayl       
(Hardcover - English - 9780807029909)
"Jones's great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them."--Anna Wiener, The New Yorker From the highly acclaimed author of Corregidora and The Healing --two epic poems, the love songs of fugitive slaves, set in 17th-century Brazil; continuing the unforgettable journey told in Gayl Jones's masterwork, Palmares (2021) Gayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discovered decades ago and Tayari Jones recently called her favorite writer, offers 2 books in one with this volume of poetry. Jones renders the saga of Palmares, a foundational tale in the annals of colonial terrorism and Black resistance, in v ..
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In All My Salt
by Le, Annie Sophie       
(Paperback - English - 9781777569648)
In All My Salt propels the reader through the examinations of the after-effects of abuse, the hardness of trauma, and the difficulties of ill-fated relationships. This poetry collection is sharp and biting, angry and raw, and unrelenting in its unflinching honesty. In All My Salt is a deeply personal collection written by a poet who gives voice to her hardness and experiences that emerge from trauma. ..
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The Tillable Land: Poems
by Priddy, Melva Sue    Howell, Rebecca Gayle   
(Paperback - English - 9781945049224)
"The Tillable Land is a heart-racing, heart-breaking lyric, a liberating coming of age for our stunted relationship to all that feeds us."-Rebecca Gayle Howell, Author of American Purgatory and Render An Apocalypse and Poetry Editor, Oxford American In The Tillable Land , Melva Sue Priddy's poetry tells the story of a girlhood made of both land and family in midcentury Kentucky. There is a growing up and a coming of age in these poems. Part memoir-in-verse, part praise song, The Tillable Land -through the story of one woman's hard-won Kentucky life and the physical and emotional work of growing up close to the land in a man's world-reminds us that it is pos ..
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What Kind of Woman: Poems
by Baer, Kate       
(Hardcover - English - 9780063087330)
strong An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller strong strong A Goop Book Club Pick strong strong "If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer."--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo strong br strong A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend. strong "When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands Little by little, mountains are climbed." So ends Kate Baer's remarkable poem "Things My Girlfriends Teach Me." In "Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels" she challenges her reader to consider the ..
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The Quotient of My Self Divided by Myself
by Coon, Miles A.       
(Paperback - English - 9781950413522)
It's a rare treasure that a debut collection is published in a poet's ninth decade, but this is exactly what Miles Coon has achieved with The Quotient of My Self Divided by Myself . Once a successful attorney and industrialist, he turned to poetry over twenty years ago, dedicating himself to the art wholeheartedly ever since, using it to approach the unstated question famously posed by T.S. Eliot in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" What is the meaning of my life? Cumulatively, these poems offer not just one but many answers to that question, telling the story of how to build an authentic self and grow into the person you're meant to be. ..
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Don't Drop Me, God: Poems
by Sellers, Lucy Bell       
(Paperback - English - 9798986565903)
The poems collected here span eight decades of writing in Kenya, Philadelphia, Maine, and other places. br Sellers makes use of multiple poetic forms and multiple voices to express a humane vision that is full of humor, love, and equal parts rueful acceptance and defiance. br ..
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Drive
by Sexton, Elaine       
(Paperback - English - 9781946830142)
strong Poems exploring our most fragile points of connectionóto lovers and family, to the living and the dead, and to oneself, one's own life's work--with the care and wisdom of one who knows these roads. strong br 'Silently pulling for itself, the will wants the body to give it what it wants, ' Sexton writes in 'Between the Car and the Sea, ' at once a description of a carís body propelling her onward, and of the poet herself, the one behind the wheel of this masterful fourth collection. In an extraordinary act of volition, the author does not stop at the trope of ambition, but powers instead toward the urgent concerns of the will, and intention. Poe ..
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Late Wonders: New & Selected Poems
by McNair, Wesley       
(Hardcover - English - 9781567927429)
"Wesley McNair, an unassuming, avowedly regional pastoral poet from Western Maine, is writing the best poetry of his life--poetry uniquely capable of, and interested in, addressing our larger moment."--Los Angeles Review of Books br Wesley McNair's story-like poems have long celebrated eccentrics and misfits, the hopeful and the lost, with a tenderness that transcends the everyday. This career-spanning collection brings together his very best poems from the past four decades alongside his newest poems. Since the publication of his first book in the early 1980s, Wesley McNair has earned a reputation as a poet of place, an intimate observer of the speech a ..
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Dominant Genes
by Sindu, Sj       
(Paperback - English - 9781625577177)
DOMINANT GENES, the new hybrid collection from Stonewall Honor author and Lambda Literary Award finalist SJ Sindu, is equal parts power and astonishing beauty, tenderness and shimmering anger, poetry and lyric essays interwoven in a gorgeous exploration of family, heritage, and the construction of nonbinary and queer identities. "We learn our anger through osmosis," Sindu writes of the inherited rage of South Asian women, "or maybe it's in the breast milk, spreading through our veins long before we learn how to look only at the floor and walk without showing our ankles." br There is hope in this collection, and the lead weight of expectation, and warm moments ..
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Date & Time
by Kaye, Phil       
(Paperback - English - 9781943735365)
Phil Kaye's debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and celebrations of the passing of time, as jagged as it may be. Kaye takes the reader on a journey from a complex but iridescent childhood, drawing them into adolescence, and finally on to adulthood. There are first kisses, lost friendships, hair blowing in the wind while driving the vastness of an empty road, and the author positioned in the middle, trying to make sense of it all. Readers will find joy and vulnerability, in equal measure. Date & Time is a welcoming story, which freezes the calendar and allows us all to live in our best moments. ..
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We Borrowed Gentleness
by Lopez, J. Estanislao       
(Paperback - English - 9781948579285)
We Borrowed Gentleness interrogates the innateness of pain and forms of destruction--through natural disaster, through God, through family, and through the power structures and patriarchal violence that embeds itself in language and cultural memory. Poems critique and challenge the patriarchal narratives that dominate American history. The poems leave the question open of whether man, men, a father and son, are redeemable after the surge of rising white nationalism in America. And yet, there are poems that find, still, bits of joy and perhaps a shred of hope. br By juxtaposing poems of louder narrative imagination with quieter poems that explore intimate fai ..
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The Things
by Oaks, Jeff    Cleary, Eileen   
(Paperback - English - 9781736599075)
Written in the wake of the poet's mother's Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, The Things tackles not only the keen anticipation of grief and loss but also its arrival and aftermath. These lyrical and searingly direct poems navigate through the empty spaces left behind by death and chart a path from sorrow back into the physical world. Oaks, the author of Little What (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2019), captures and honors his mother's irrepressible personality while recounting his own process of inheriting and letting go of her "things". br br br ..
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Dear Mother: Poems on the Hot Mess of Motherhood
by Laditan, Bunmi       
(Paperback - English - 9780778308461)
The first collection of poetry from Bunmi Laditan, bestselling author of Confessions of a Domestic Failure and creator of The Honest Toddler , capturing the honesty, rawness, sheer joy and total madness of motherhood. With the compassion and wit that have made her a social media sensation among mothers around the world, Bunmi Laditan puts into evocative and relatable words what so many of us feel but can't quite express. For mothers who love their children with a fiery fierceness but know what it is to feel crushed at the end of those long days, Dear Mother is like a warm hug that says, "I get it." ..
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Tap Out: Poems
by Kunz, Edgar       
(Paperback - English - 9781328518125)
Approach these poems as short stories, plainspoken lyric essays, controlled arcs of a bildungsroman, then again as narrative verse. Tap Out , Edgar Kunz's debut collection, reckons with his working-poor heritage. Within are poignant, troubling portraits of blue-collar lives, mental health in contemporary America, and what is conveyed and passed on through touch and words―violent, or simply absent. br br Yet Kunz's verses are unsentimental, visceral, sprawling between oxys and Bitcoin, crossing the country restlessly. They grapple with the shame and guilt of choosing to leave the culture Kunz was born and raised in, the identity crises caused by clas ..
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brave new mama
by Rivard, Vicki       
(Paperback - English - 9780995294806)
The first year of motherhood, unstitched and singing. ..
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Imagine Us, the Swarm
by Leung, Muriel       
(Paperback - English - 9781643620732)
WINNER of the 2022 Four Quartets Prize! br 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALIST! br Winner of the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, Imagine Us, The Swarm offers seven powerful texts that form a constellation of voices, forms, and approaches to confront loneliness, silence, and death. Following the death of the poet's father, Imagine Us, The Swarm contemplates vengeance, eschews forgiveness, and cultivates a desire for healing beyond the reaches of this present life. In this collection of essays in verse, Leung reconciles a familial history of violence and generational trauma across intersections of Asian American, queer, and gendered experiences. Moving bet ..
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Dead Dad Jokes
by Schminkey, Ollie       
(Paperback - English - 9781943735938)
Dead Dad Jokes is an unflinching take on family, loss and trauma. There is nothing quiet about Schminkey's debut. Every page is raw, honest and unforgettable. Dead Dad Jokes brings the impact of addiction into crisp focus while also shattering our simplistic TV preconceptions about it. Ollie never lets the reader slip into the easy sadness of cliche - instead they guide us through the realities and contradictions of losing someone you love and of death - reminding us that they need not be one and the same. ..
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The Returns: Collected Poems
by Corn, Alfred       
(Paperback - English - 9781950413416)
Alfred Corn began his career as a poet in 1972 with publications in SATURDAY REVIEW and POEM. Fifty years later, THE RETURNS: COLLECTED POEMS draws from nine of Corn's eleven volumes of poetry. ..
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