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Couplets : A Love Story
by Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner’s captivating, seductive debut is a love story in poems that explores obsession, gender, identity, and the art and act of literary transformation. In rhyming couplets and prose vignettes, Couplets chronicles the strictures, structures, and pitfalls of relationships—the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments—and how the people we love can show us who we truly are.
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Lvoe : Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms
by Atticus
His fourth poetry collection, LVOE., is a study into himself. Using his instantly recognizable lyrical style, gorgeous black-and-white illustrations, and relatable themes, Atticus will once again dazzle readers, inspiring them to also look within.
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Grocery shopping with my mother : poems
by Kevin Powell
A poet, journalist, civil rights activist and author describes in verse how he got to hear his mothers true voice and stories in a new way when she became ill and he had to take her grocery shopping every week.
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Draw me after
by Peter Cole
Peter Cole’s luminous new book is in many ways his freest and most moving to date. In Draw Me After, Cole evolves a supple, singular music that charts regions of wonder and danger, from Eden as a place of first response and responsibility to modern sites of natural and political catastrophe.
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Notes on Shapeshifting
by Gabi Abrao
Abrāo's work has been described by The Outline as "an existential funhouse of familiar thoughts" that "publicly grapples with pillars of its own existence within the influencer economy." Alongside The Outline , her work has been featured in publications such as The Atlantic , Dazed , The Harvard Crimson , and The Face , among others.
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Promises of gold = : Promesas de oro
by José Olivarez
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love-self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural-is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on. Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, Promises of Gold explores many forms of love and how "a promise made isn't always a promise kept," as Olivarez grapples with the contradictions of the American Dream laying bare the ways in which "love is complicated by forces larger than our hearts."
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Nothing stays put : the life and poetry of Amy Clampitt
by Willard Spiegelman
With the publication of her first book of poems, at the age of sixty-three, Amy Clampitt rose meteorically to fame, launching herself from obscurity to the upper ranks of American poetry all but overnight, and living a whirlwind eleven years until her death in 1994. Here we have the first full-length study of this patron saint of late bloomers-of her poetry, and of the lifetime it took her to find the true form for her words.
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Quiet : poems
by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
A thrilling Black British poet making her American debut explores the importance of "quiet" in producing forms of community, resistance, and love.
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Musical tables : poems
by Billy Collins
In this new collection of more than 125 small poems, the former poet laureate of the U.S. writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity and love as he channels his unique voice into a new phase of his exceptional career.
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Spoken word : a cultural history
by Joshua Bennett
A fascinating history of the art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for Barack and Michelle Obama, at the same White House "Poetry Jam" where Lin Manuel-Miranda declaimed the opening bars of a work-in-progress that would soon revolutionize American theatre.
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And yet : poems
by Kate Baer
Kate Baer shot into the literary stratosphere with the publication of her debut poetry collection, What Kind of Woman, which became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Kate's second full-length book of traditional poetry, And Yet, dives deeper into the themes that are the hallmarks of her writing: motherhood, friendship, love, and loss.
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Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years
by Joy Harjo
In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo's inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth.
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