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3) Vexations
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
50 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Viewed from a distance, interdisciplinary artist and poet Annelyse Gelman's Vexations could be described as a long poem-a book-length narrative work in the tradition of epic or romance. Vexations is fragmentary and dreamlike, however, chipping away over time at the very foundation on which such a narrative tradition typically rests. The central drama of Vexations is centered around the journey of a mother and her daughter through a speculative world...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
135 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A formally brilliant and powerful volume from "one of the most extraordinary innovative poets writing today" (Carol Muske-Dukes, Los Angeles Times). Moving from Paris to Beirut and back, Calligraphies is a tribute to exiles and refugees, the known and unknown, dead and living, from the American poet Marie Ponsot to the Syrian pasionaria Fadwa Suleiman. Award-winning poet Marilyn Hacker finds resistance, wit, potential, and gleaming connection in...
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English
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Description
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion -- both toward and away from us--and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limon reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbage...
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Language
English
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"In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes while guiding readers further, toward a life lived authentically, intuitively, and in harmony with others. In these rapidly changing times, it is more important than ever to know ourselves well and fully, even and especially in the face of turmoil. The Way Forward encourages readers to connect more deeply to their intuition, using it to remain focused...
Author
Publisher
Able Muse Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 117 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The poems in Strong Feather center on a Native American Indian female character of the author's creation. She is a poet/prophet/warrior of sorts. All of the poems are in form, but they vary in tone and content. Many use the Strong Feather character, but there are also personal poems, and translations and tales from actual Cherokee and other indigenous traditions"--
11) Suddenly we
Author
Series
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shockley repurposes literary and musical modes from across centuries of African American and diasporic traditions. Given the choice between formal flawlessness and page-spanning sprawls, between autobiographical revelation and collective outcry, she welcomes the self-contradictions of being all the above."--
"Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream-and work-toward a more capacious 'we'. In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes us through stories of his parents: from being awkward newlyweds in the sticky Chicago summer of 1967, to the sometimes-confusing ways they showed their love to each other, and for him. Alexander attempts to deal with the unraveling of his marriage and the grief of his mother's recent passing while sharing the solace he found in learning how to perfect her famous fried chicken...
13) Our music
Author
Publisher
Gunpowder Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
76 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"What joys of discovery lie in wait for readers here, in Dennis Schmitz's final collection. There is no falling off: the same lancing wit prevails, along with the psychological and spiritual acuity which has always marked his work. His poetic canon, first to last, here rounded out, inspires delight and reverence. His originality is our treasure, a gift we scarcely know how to celebrate adequately." -David Young, author of books including Field of...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xviii, 343 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Asking opens with new and urgent poems by Jane Hirshfield, in which she faces again the contradictions that have shaped her work: "Some take/ in witnessed suffering, pleasure," she writes. "Some make, of witnessed suffering, beauty." The volume then returns to the beginning, carrying us from her earliest volumes (including Of Gravity and Angels; Given Sugar, Given Salt; and After), up through the important recent work (Come, Thief; The Beauty;...
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xix, 426 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive collection featuring over 150 poems, including works that explore joy, love, origin, race, resistance, and praise.
In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance...
16) Floaters: poems
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 75 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief, and love. In this collection, Martín Espada bears witness to confrontation with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents playing soccer in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He knows that times of hate also call for poems of love--even in the voice of a Galápagos...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
100 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement. These poems take stock of who...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an "ongoing quest"; Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lynx House Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Body Turn to Rain brings together work from Robbins' five previous collections, plus forty new poems that continue his wise meditation upon the American experience in this time"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Autumn House Press
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
ix, 71 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The poems in Lucky wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television, road trips ending in traffic accidents, and homes that become sites of infestation, Ada Limón finds threads of hope amid an array of small tragedies and significant setbacks. Open, honest, and grounded, the poems in this collection seek answers to familiar questions and teach us ways...
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