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In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the...
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"[This book] details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we've become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness,...
5) Balladz
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2022.
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English
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"A new poetry collection from Pulitzer and T. S. Eliot Prize winner Sharon Olds. "At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror," writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of quarantine poems, and at its center boasts what she calls Amherst Balladz (whose syntax honors Emily Dickinson: "she was our Girl - our Woman - / Man enough - for me") and many more in her own contemporary, long-flowing-sentence...
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English
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"In his third collection of poems, Atticus takes us on an adventure to discover the truth about magic. Through heartbreak and falling in love, looking back and looking forward, he writes about finding ourselves, finding our purpose, and the simple joys of life with grace, wit, and longing. Whether it's drinking wine out of oak barrels, laughing until you cry, dancing in old barns until the sun comes up, or making love on sandy beaches, Atticus reminds...
11) Milk and honey
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English
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Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing...
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"In this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty, power, and meaning. By turns polyphonic and deeply personal, these poems range from Kansas highways and sunbaked baseball fields to secondhand memories of a World War II foxhole. They zoom in on a welder's truck, a Walmart on Black Friday, and a record store, where a chance encounter offers radiant kindness in the...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century. Selecting from the canon of American poetry throughout the 20th century, Dove has created an anthology that represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities--from styles and voices to themes and cultures--while balancing important poems with significant periods of each poet. 800 pp. 35,000 print.
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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The first major gathering of May Swenson's poems in a decade, this posthumous collection concentrates on her nature poems. Drawn from nearly fifty years of her work, Naturecontains 182 poems, many never before published. With Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore, May Swenson ranks among the foremost poets of this century. All who love nature and poety will relish this work.
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Pocket poets volume no. 4
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English
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Ginsberg's 1956 collection of poems created a sensation, becoming the subject of an obscenity trial and changing the literary landscape forever.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1991.
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English
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In her first book of poetry in seven years Maya Angelou, bestselling author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, demonstrates her unique gift for capturing the triumph and pain of being black and the struggle to be free. Filled with bittersweet intimacies and ferocious courage, these poems are gems--many-faceted, bright with wisdom, radiant with life.
18) Viper rum
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Penguin Poets
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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Most readers know Mary Karr as the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling memoirs The Liars' Club and Cherry. But before those two books, Karr won praise as a poet whose "bracing, tight-lipped" poems "take on the bedevilments of fate and grief with a diabolical edge of their own" (Poetry). Karr's third collection portrays personal catharsis in many guises -- sexual, familial, spiritual. Various beloveds are birthed and buried in precise, touching...
19) Saint friend
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McSweeney's poetry volume 8
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McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Here is a singular book that speaks in the voice of a generation. Saint Friend, Carl Adamshick's second collection, is a freewheeling carnival of celebrations, elegies, narratives, persona poems (one in the voice of Amelia Earhart), and a handful of short lyrics spiked with a desperate humor"--Page 4 of cover.
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Poetry's archives are incomparable, and to celebrate the magazine's centennial, Don Share and Christian Wilman combed them to create a new kind of anthology, energized by the self-imposed limitation of one hundred poems. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive or definitive--or even to offer the most familiar works--they have assembled a collection of poems that, in their juxtapositions, echo across a century of poetry.
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