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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This collection begins with personal poems that deal with a specific loss, then moves on to other poems that take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from disbelief at the accumulation of losses and at having to rule things out as one ages. There are also elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter intensifies his idiosyncratic struggle against the plague of nonsense, banality, and lies. Set against the rise of authoritarianism, the poems contend with Eastern Europe's complex communal history to reveal the individual's yearning for an absent hero - be it angelic messenger, police detective, beloved, or the protean poem himself - who might be able to rescue us from our hopelessness." -- Provided by publisher....
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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Description
"An elegiac and moving meditation on the ways in which we witness "bodies" of grief and healing. Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss. In radiant poems-set against the evocative and desperate backdrop of contemporary events, pop culture, and politics-Rachel Eliza Griffiths reckons with her mother's death,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A vivid, affecting portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian (bilingual edition). The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a mesmerizing, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal, cinematic images that pan wide as deftly as they narrow into intimate focus....
6) Dictee
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Dictee is the best-known work of the multidisciplinary Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. This restored edition features the original cover and high-quality reproductions of the interior layout as Cha intended them. Produced in partnership with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, this version of Dictee faithfully renders the book as an art object in its authentic form. A formative text of modern Asian American literature,...
Author
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
These incandescent poems by Cuban American poet Victoria María Castells explore how we can salvage our notion of paradise in an overspent Eden. In thwarted homes located in Havana and Miami, Rapunzel and her prince, persecuted nymphs, Morgause, and Bluebeard’s wife speak to us directly, all in need of returning to safety. Confronting machismo, illness, heartbreak, and isolation, the poems depict how women are at the mercy of men, either husband...
Author
Publisher
Button Poetry/ Exploding Pinecone Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem Explaining My Depression to My Mother has become a cultural phenomenon with over 5,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Benaim's wit, empathy, and gift for language...
Author
Publisher
Persea Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the Field Between Us is comprised of letters in verse between Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison, which ponders disability and the possibility of belonging in the aftermath of lifelong medical intervention"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"In Jeffrey Yang's vision for this brilliant new collection, the essence of poetry can be broken down into line and light. Dispersed across these poems are luminous centers, points of a constellation tracing lines of energy through art, myth, and history. These interconnections create vast and dynamic reverberations. As Yang asks in one poem, "What vitality binds a universe?" One long series explores through shadow and play the ancient Malay kingdom...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Collects the best poems from the author's award-winning books, along with new poems that confront America's historical and contemporary racism and injustices while urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it.
Author
Publisher
TRP, the University Press of SHSU
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In The Book of Wounded Sparrows, his second full-length collection of poetry, Octavio Quintanilla sifts through the wreckage left in the pursuit of the American Dream. This is a book within a book, a memory within a memory, a future within a past, and most urgently--a journey to reclaim the self for what it was and to proclaim what it could be. Nested within one another, the English and Spanish, the poetry and art, create layers of obscuration and...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
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Description
"Told through an ever-queer lens, Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s fourth collection, Winter of Worship, is a patchwork of the pastoral and the “litter swirled around us”—a pandemic, global warming, a hometown hit by storms of fentanyl and Oxycontin scripts. A book of elegy told in ghazals, “Marble Runs,” and other forms, these poems reckon with loss: of climate, of fathers, of youth. Candrilli writes, “We are so young / to know so much about...
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Karisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a cultural reckoning of past and present. James Booker speaks to Ringo Starr, a phone "Autocorrects 'Nigga' to Night'," If Beale Street Could Talk is recast with characters from The Odyssey. In these pages there is grief, there is absence, there is violence--"We...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
In this stunning volume, acclaimed poet Kwame Dawes explores the mythic, ancestral, and spiritual journeys that make up a life. The site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes's family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, a metaphor of the journeying that has taken him from Ghana, through Jamaica, and to the United States. The poet ranges through time, pursued by...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Glass Hearts & Unspoken Goodbyes is here to guide readers through the transformative magic that lies buried in heartbreak and the pain that arises when love spills over into unrequited. From suffering to self-empowerment, this collection is broken into chapters along the journey that remind you to embrace the storm, the hurt, and the rescue, on your way to finding hope in tomorrow."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"A book-length sequence of poems that dares to affirm the vast variety of emotional colors in loss and rejuvenation. After her husband's death, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow's mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems--joyful, furious, mournful, bewildered, sexy, devastated, whimsical and above all, moving--composed in sonnet sequences and in open forms, designed...
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