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    A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

    Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon" and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus...
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    Sho

    2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney's Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of...
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    Hoarders
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    Hoarders

    A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021 An NPR Best Book of 2021 An Electric Literature Best Poetry Book of 2021 A Dennis Cooper Best Book of 2021In Hoardersreality television as a medium, Durbin conjures an uncanny space of attachments that reflects our...
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    Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile
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    Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile

    Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile explores the role of silence in a time of war.The war Hussain Ahmed accounts here is both physical and psychological, and the survivor within these poems uses his voice as a way to tell the stories of those who were lost...
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    For the Shrew
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    For the Shrew

    With global climate disasters in the news every day, Glazova offers riveting insights into the natural world and is an important voice for ecopoetry.Readers see the Russian and English poems on facing pages.Glazova received the Andrei Bely Prize, one of...
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    The World's Lightest Motorcycle
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    The World's Lightest Motorcycle

    A major avant-garde feminist poet and essayist, and a "successor" to Kim Hyesoon ("Autobiography of Death") and other groundbreaking Korean feminist poets;Bilingual (Korean and English) on facing pages;Blurbs by Don Mee Choi and Joyelle McSweeney;Yi Won...
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    Came the Lightening
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    Came the Lightening

    'Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.' - Olivia HarrisonOlivia Harrison presents Came the Lightening a book of...
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    Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Collector's Edition)
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    Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Collector's Edition)

    The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day...Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard has been loved and admired throughout the centuries. First circulated to a select group of friends, it was rushed to official publication in 1751 in order to...
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    The Sorrow Festival
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    The Sorrow Festival

    This collection of poetry interrogates the impact of grief and partner violence on a family lineage, as well as the connections between sorrow and joy as they relate to poetry, women's writing, and the process of the "confessional."Inextricably woven...
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    The Necessity of Wildfire
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    The Necessity of Wildfire

    Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for poetryWinner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limn, Caitlin Scarano's collection wrestles with family violence, escaping home, unraveling relationships, and the complexity of sexuality.The...
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    Cry Perfume
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    Cry Perfume

    Lyrical poems that engage with grief and loss and the toll of overdose and addiction with an activist bent.The title of Cry Perfume is an imperative to bottle sorrow in a beautiful vessel and shed the chemicals that cloud your sight. Written over a...
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    Tideline
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    Tideline

    Recent books translated by the translators have won or been finalists for the Man Booker International Prize, the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the PEN Poetry in Translation Award, the Northern California Book Award, and other notable prizes...
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    Nayler & Folly Wood
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    Nayler & Folly Wood

    A comprehensive selection of poetry from a poet whose worknothing is what it seems to be. Modern spaces are haunted by the past and the unreal. We cannot tell the encroacher from the encroached. Discontinuities in time and space and playful...
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    The Hopeful Hat
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    The Hopeful Hat

    The Hopeful Hat is a posthumous collection from a poet whose work is informed by her keen eye for social injustice and, equally, by the breadth of her compassion.Poignantly, these late poems are also Satyamurti'snuanced poetic response to having her...
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    Ox-Eye
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    Ox-Eye

    Anne Rouse is a keenly observant writer of spiky satirical portraits and shapely lyrics of the ordinary and the bizarre.Her perspective in Ox-Eye the term for a small cloud presaging a storm is one of apprehension in poems relating to personal and social...
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    Fairoz
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    Fairoz

    Fairoz is a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl's susceptibility to extremism. The book's fragmented, collaging narrative draws together fairytale elements, glimpses of Fairoz's thoughts, and pieces of...
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    A God at the Door

    An exquisite collection from a poet at the peak of her powers, A God at the Door spans time and space, drawing on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to elevate the marginalised. These poems, taken together, traverse history, from the...
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    The Conversation

    In The Conversation, Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, the past and present and character and writer. Shaped through both speech and storytelling, these visual, sensuous and imaginative poems celebrate friendship, even...
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    How to burn a woman
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    How to burn a woman

    Second collection by young Scottish poet whose debut collection was shortlisted for four major first collection awards. These new poems concern witches, outsiders, and women who do not fit into society. The settings range from London buses and Edinburgh...
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    Stone Fruit
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    Stone Fruit

    A collection of three distinct parts, the poems in Rebecca Perry's Stone Fruit nonetheless speak across their many common preoccupations: memory, grief, the fallibility of the physical form, our connection to and place in the world, natural and otherwise...
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    Lyonesse

    The submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of Cornwall, according to myth and the oral tradition, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but now an emblem of human frailty in the face of climate change. And there was indeed a Bronze Age...
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    Five Books
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    Five Books

    Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism. Her numerous international awards include the Lgion d'Honneur in 2009 and the Griffin Trust Lifetime Recognition Award in 2018 (she traveled to Canada to...
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    Witness Back at Me
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    Witness Back at Me

    In Witness Back at Me, Weyman Chan continues to explore themes of dislocation and belonging by drawing on biography, myth, science, and the everyday. Chan's poetry is suffused with a collage-like immersion of stream-of-conscious voices, approximating the...
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    The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven
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    The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven

    A timely reissue, the typographical experiments of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven make visible the hidden experience of chronic pain and illness. During uninsured and ineffectual medicalization, Teare turns to the work of writer and abstract...
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    stemmy things
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    stemmy things

    FINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy.This flirty collection traces unruly paths of becoming; its sprawling poems build...
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    Ante body
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    Ante body

    Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in PoetryAn incisive poetic sequence that tracks the relationship between migration and complex traumas in this unsparing critique of the unjust conditions that brought us the global pandemic.Ante body is a poetics...
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    Mama Phife Represents
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    Mama Phife Represents

    Mama Phife Represents is an arresting document of the body's lowest depth of hurt, from a poet and mother who suddenly loses her son to Type 1 diabetes at the height of his musical career. It is a love letter from a grieving mother to her child.
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    Worldly Things
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    Worldly Things

    Finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry A New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy Poetry" Selection A Library Journal "Poetry Title to Watch 2021" A Chicago Review of Books "Poetry Collection to Read in 2021" A Reader's Digest "14...
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    Vapor
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    Vapor

    Sara Eliza Johnson's much-anticipated second collectiontraces human emotion and experience across a Gothic landscape of glacial and cosmic scale.With a mind informed by physics, and a heart yearning for sky burial, Vapor's epic vision swerves from the...
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    Lying In
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    Lying In

    A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief."All my life all I've wanted was to be myself / and someone else," writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the shadowy perspective of confinement, where the presence of...
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    A Fire in the Hills
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    A Fire in the Hills

    In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the world and the writing of spirit through those...
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    instead, it is dark
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    instead, it is dark

    Following her husband's massive heart attack, Cynthia Hogue began writing poems based on dreams and memories that he, born during WWII in occupied France, had as a child growing up in a time of vast postwar food shortages. Hogue embarked on a quest to...
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    A Brilliant Loss
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    A Brilliant Loss

    Eloise Klein Healy's A Brilliant Loss is a poetic journey into the loss of language and the reclaiming of it. Healy had Wernicke's aphasia in 2013 when she was the first poet laureate of the City of Los Angeles, and the virus hit her the night of her...
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    I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom
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    I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom

    2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist! Kim Dower's poetry has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache," and by O Magazine as "unexpected and sublime." Acclaimed for combining the...
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    The Discarded Life
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    The Discarded Life

    In these moving and meditative poems, Adam Kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood. Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in Los Angeles, Kirsch uses Gen X landmarks-from Devo to Atari to the...
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    Breaking into Air
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    Breaking into Air

    Poet Emily Wall began collecting birth stories after the birth of her third child, Lucy. She realized that women were always quietly sharing their stories-in living rooms with a mug of tea, or whispered at the preschool playground. She saw the intensity...
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    Call It in the Air
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    Call It in the Air

    Somewhere between elegy and memoir, poetry and prose, Ed Pavli's Call It in the Air follows the death of a sister into song.Pavli's collection traces the life and death of his elder sister, Kate: a brilliant, talented, tormented woman who lived on her...
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    Philomath
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    Philomath

    Winner of the 2022 Levis Reading Prize Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's 2021 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book "Top Ten Pick" for Fall 2021 Poetry Titles "Poetry Title to Watch" for 2021 "Must-Read Book of September 2021"Selected by...
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    Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World

    Kathryn Cowles's Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is a collection that lingers in memory and place, in the unsettled distance between reality and its transcriptions. "I take seven photographs turning / in a circle, a panorama, / but how will I...
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    Late Wonders
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    Late Wonders

    "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 BooksWesley McNair's story-like...
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    Old Poets

    "Old Poets is an indispensable jewel." -Washington Post"An astonishing array of encounters...Hall's observations are shrewd and generous." -Boston GlobeIntimate portraits of great poets in old age, giving new insight into their work and their lives, and...
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    Village
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    Village

    Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement.In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage,...
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    The Wet Hex
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    The Wet Hex

    The Wet Hex is Sun Yung's fourth book of poetry with CHP. She is beloved and respected for her own award-winning writing as well as for her work as the editor of several anthologies, including A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota (Minnesota...
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    Indecency
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    Indecency

    Winner of the 2018 US National Book Award for PoetryIntricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood. Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and...
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    To 2040
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    To 2040

    It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single worm, to hear soil breathe-in Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, you do.Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, To 2040louder than speech, and...
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    Skeletons
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    Skeletons

    Witty and glam, Skeletons is a prismatic collectionwhich shrugs off even the most disillusioned nihilist with humor and intimacy.Existentialism takes on a glamorous flair in Deborah Landau's dazzling new collection. Through a series of poems preoccupied...
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    Selected Books of the Beloved
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    Selected Books of the Beloved

    An expansive, lyric testament to the formidable mystery of love, spanning several previous volumes all in dedication to the beloved.For more than a decade, Gregory Orr has been writing toward "the Book:" an imagined tome containing every poem and song...
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    Event Horizon
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    Event Horizon

    With poems that contemplate the everydayerrands, gardening, dog walksor confront the white-body supremacy of local sunbathers, Cate Marvin reckons with the hurt of our patriarchal world, facing her own past, toxic relationships and pondering what we can...
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Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss