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Objects from a Borrowed Confession
As do lyric poems, the letters framing the book do double duty as the expressions...
$18.00A Passion According to Green
Irwin’s book is full of fables—a talking cat who meets an ancient and growing mouse,...
$16.00Meet Me Here at Dawn
It is a connection both chilling and intimate, when the speaker of these poems acknowledges...
$16.20Two Reviews: Community Garden for Lonely Girls and Ugly Time
Each collection firmly recites a laundry list of damages done to the body, as well...
$16.00Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems, 1997-2015
Bond is particularly adept in his ability to establish accessibility with a poem then, segueing...
$18.44Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare
Kornfeld and Massimilla want to be as thorough as possible with each recipe, including cultural...
$33.95Five Reviews: The Sobbing School; Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last; The Wug Test; Scriptorium; and Trébuchet
All these collections, however, share an intellectual restlessness, a capacity for rendering the associative leaps...
$ VariousIllusion of an Overwhelm
Resisting single interpretation and clear narrative, John Amen pushes against the conventional through poems that...
$15.81Partisan of Things
A necessary new translation of a book that looks deeply and astutely at the nonhuman...
$13.95Four Reincarnations
Along with tough images from someone facing the end of life, there are generosity and...
$14.95Cold Pastoral
These poems take careful note of the methods by which humans are destroying the Earth,...
$10.87Tender Omnibus
Tender Buttons Press is most suitably named for/after a text by that great poetry momma...
$30.00Take This Stallion
Duplan continues to probe authenticity throughout the book, specifically what it means to be a...
$12.81Fireworks in the Graveyard
Joy Ladin faces the relentlessness of our most vexing riddles with grace, musicality, and wry...
$10.00American Anger
Over the book’s ten sections Hix employs a slew of voices to do his bidding:...
$15.39Skeleton Coast
Where the speaker exposes her vulnerabilities, the reader must connect and piece together. There is...
$15.95An Ecology of Elsewhere
Meek takes risks with these poems, testing the boundaries of her sympathy, whether for the...
$10.96Ghost / Landcape
The reader walks a labyrinth, searching for clues, each chapter relinquishing a few while simultaneously...
$16.00Divinity School
Rabins reveals that our gestures allow us to know our bodies, and the emotional associations...
$14.45