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1) Hip logic
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
At the First Clear Word -- emcee -- Touch -- The things-no-one-knows blues -- Ars poetica #789 -- Hip logic -- Sonnet -- Mr. T- --Shaft & the enchanted shoe factory or -- Ars poetica: The epic quest for language -- Squawk -- Butter -- Origin of the days -- Gospel of the two sisters / A Gram of &s -- abductor -- although -- ambulance -- apothecary -- beckoned -- bowling -- breathe -- careless -- corporal -- example / Conjure -- Friday poem -- For Paul...
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Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Using the Character of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb," as a jumping-off point, The Cloud That Contained the lightning explores the kinds of ethical choices we face as individuals and as a society with respect to the innovations and inventions we pursue. How are our fears, obsessions, prejudices, and cultures manifested in the ways we apply new technologies? In exploring our tendency for selective amnesia, this collection asks...
Author
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"Selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett's mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience. What animates these poems is a desire to assert life, and interiority, where there is said to be none. Figures as widely divergent as Bobby Brown, Martin Heidegger,...
4) Madness
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition. In this powerful debut collection, Sam Sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet's personal and family histories as...
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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men "only touch when they fuck in a backseat." Its landscape is scarred by violence: done to it, done on it, done for it. Under the cover of deepest night, sleeping men are run over by trucks. Navajo bodies are deserted in fields. Resources are extracted. Lines are crossed. Men communicate through beatings, and football, and sex. In this place, "the closest men become is when they are covered in blood / or nothing...
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Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This collection of poems is an act of remembrance of a speaker looking back on a community of Mexican-American boys who are grappling with the impulse to assimilate while at the same time trying to create something new for themselves through graffiti."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Poet, artist, filmmaker, and curator Heid E. Erdrich explores the indigenous experience in multifaceted ways-personal, familial, biological, cultural. These poems, written from the perspective of an Ojibwe woman, reveal what sustained harassment does to people, especially to women, children, and Native and Indigenous people, how it can lead to the oppression of others and even ourselves, and how experiencing misogyny and sexual abuse can make a person...
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Series
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Extinction Theory is a collection of pseudoscience poems that try to provide rationales for some of life's most salient mysteries. Where is God? What does it mean to belong? Who killed the dinosaurs? Kien Lam creates new worlds with new rules to better answer these perennial questions. His poetry is that of discovery, of looking at the world as if for the first time. Lam exposes the transitory and transcendent nature of things and how we find meaning....
11) Tender headed
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Series
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The irony of transformation often is that we mistake it to have occurred long before it does. Tender Headed takes its time in asserting the realization that growth remains ever ahead of you. Examining the themes of Black identity, accountability, and narration, we encounter a series of revealing snapshots into the role language plays in chiseling possibility and its rigid command of depiction. Olatunde Osinaike's startling debut sorts through the...
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