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A duration
In the poem-essays that comprise A Duration, writing is a physical act where writing and lived experience support one another in bodies—animal, plant, mineral, and word bodies—that are injured and heal, that die and continue in new forms, playing new roles. Here, in his fifth book, Richard Meier ...
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A guide for making fragments from diaries
Joshua Beckman’s new book, A Guide for Making Fragments from Diaries, gathers poems found or made in various forms—chapter summaries of non-existent books, body poems, an assemblage of his mother’s remarks while painting his portrait, lists of thoughts and things (one of all the uninvited animals...
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Birthstones in the province of mercy
Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, a tender, yearning collection of poems that pieces together identity with the different shapes absence can take.“Blurry eyes mean a longing for home,” writes Bo Hee Moon in her prize-winning collection, “but we’re unsure what home means.” A South Korean adoptee...
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Blush / river / fox
A raw, sweeping debut collection that interrogates the limits of the human animal and confronts the boundary between fear and freedom.The startling English-language debut of Swedish polymath Anna Nygren is at once a domestic autistic ethnography, a more-than-human erotic pastoral, and an illustra...
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Book of dog
Cleopatra Mathis's best bookpoems that counter absence with dogs, ducks, and spiders in the wilderness just beyond her back door.
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Czeslaw milosz
The first book about the Nobel Laureate's transformative but conflicted time in the Golden State."There is much to learn from this book about Miłosz and California, yes, but also about poetry and the world."—Ilya KaminskyCzesław Miłosz, one of the greatest poets and thinkers of the past hundred y...
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Dementia, my darling
As with Constantine's previous titles, Dementia, My Darling can be enjoyed at random or in order. However, when taken in sequence, the poems construct a thesis on life as we remember it from moment to moment. What is your first memory of love? How soon will you forget answering that question?
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E
Like a game of telephone gone haywire, these mischievous mishearings and homophonic translations remix a classic of 20th Century American poetry.C’mon, take the E pill (is it estrogen? ecstasy? something else entirely?). E practices mishearing as a bodily reworking of language alongside the poet’...
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Glove money
A hymn to perversity, a lyric pledge to desire and risk, Glove Money pages through the canon to “seed its sugar in your dreams.” In this joyful and irreverent exploration of the role of poet-as lover, Sophia Dahlin plays Sappho, O’Hara, romantics and troubadours, assembling a self seaworthy of ro...
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J walking through the alphabet
A much-anticipated collection of poet and visionary artist julie ezelle patton’s experiments with text and image. It’s here! The first ever collection of legendary poet and performer julie ezelle patton collected works. patton, who came into her own as a multidisciplinary artist between the late...
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Mercury
Ariana Reines returns with more of her elegant, blisteringly direct attention to culture, lovers, and the deep image.
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Mother
Dorothea Lasky’s stunning new collection of poems presents an unfurling, terrifying, and fiercely loving embodiment of motherhood as a force of creation.Inspired by Bernadette Mayer’s The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, Lasky writes from the inner realm of a third pregnancy and gu...
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Nocturama
A dazzling second collection from “an immensely gifted poet” (Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine).Spanning Appalachia to California, Will Brewer’s new poems attempt to make sense of some of life’s darkest turns: a father’s bout with leukemia, the slog of mental illness, a friend’s early deat...
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Opera fever
The poems in Chelsey Minnis’s Opera Fever read like a dangerous bodice-ripper, glamorous and haunted. From the covid claustrophobia in which they were written, these poems sharply maneuver from steamy observations to gravitas (and then some groaning under the fur coats../Let's be very hard on vei...
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Padam padam
A posthumous celebration of the poet and provocateur Kevin Killian, Padam Padam pulses with camp, pop culture, and pleasure.Kevin Killian—the puckish poet, playwright, novelist, scholar, and impresario of the Bay Area arts community—channeled the charisma of the pop stars. Pulled from his legenda...
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Perverts
Perverts traverses the psychic landscapes of Kay Gabriel and her community of friends, writers and organizers, piecing together a collective dream that both mirrors and transforms waking life. Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Perverts explores desire as a political problem. It asks t...
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The negroes send their love
An extraordinary new work, epic in scale and lyrical in flight, by the award-winning author of Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. “How big is a home?” “What is space without reaching?” “You ever think about being remembered?”Posing questions that belie their simplicity, Sean Hill’...
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Transitions
New and selected sonnets from a treasured poet who “insists upon the rawness of experience and the metamorphosis of form with equal fervor and makes them both speak with the same voice” (W. S. Merwin). Over the course of her celebrated fifty-year career, Marilyn Hacker has continuously proven to ...
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