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  • Wait for God to Notice
    Wait for God to Notice

    Wait for god to notice

    Sari Fordam

    Wait for God to Notice is a love letter to an adopted country with an unstable past and an undeniable endurance to heal.In 1975, Uganda’s Finance Minister escaped to England saying, “To live in Uganda today is hell.” Idi Amin had declared himself president for life, the economy had crashed, and U...

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  • American Amnesiac
    American Amnesiac

    American amnesiac

    Diane Raptosh

    The sustained dramatic monologue of John Doe describes and enacts the formidable struggles of ordinary Americans in this book-length poem.

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  • 50 Miles
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    50 miles

    Sheryl St. Germain

    Fifty Miles is of addiction and alcoholism; recovery; grief; healing; the challenges of living with a son who is a substance abuser.

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  • The Last Orgasm
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    The last orgasm

    Nin Andrews

    The Last Orgasm continues the journey of Nin Andrew’s first collection, The Book of Orgasms, which became a cult classic that has been translated into Turkish, performed in Prague and has readers around the globe. In both books the orgasm is an ethereal presence, puzzled by humanity in general an...

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  • Silk Road
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    Silk road

    Daneen Wardrop

    In unbidden moments, Donata Polo, wife of Marco Polo, turns to perceive a Venice accelerating from Mediterranean port to global hub. In peripatetic visits to market she reflects upon the erotics and economics of interactions between continents East and West, recognizing camaraderie with people fr...

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  • Triptych
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    Triptych

    Peter Grandbois, James McCorkle, Robert Miltner

    Triptych is of lyric emergencies, love, self, and rediscovering one’s muse through the timelessness of art, song, and poetry.

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  • Bestiality of the Involved
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    Bestiality of the involved

    Spring Ulmer

    What does it mean to want to become a mother, as children around the world die of treatable diseases, are killed by bomb or bullet, are held in cages? In Bestiality of the Involved, Spring Ulmer lives this question out loud, refusing any easy answer.

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  • Variations in the Key of K
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    Variations in the key of k

    Alex Stein

    Variations in the Key of K: Stories, concerning the inner lives and passions of artists, and the distortions of history, framed through the lens of biography.

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  • Dear Z
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    Dear z

    Diane Raptosh

    Dear Z traces the origins—and potential end(s)—of the species while it makes fine music of the 21st-century din.

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  • Clay and Star: Selected Poems of Liliana Ursu
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    Clay and star: selected poems of liliana ursu

    Liliana Ursu, Mihaela Moscaliuc

    Clay and Star transcends place and time as it searches obsessively for essence, truths, self-knowledge, and the divine within.

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  • Demonstrategy
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    Demonstrategy

    H. L. Hix

    Demonstrategy shows that in an ever more technologized, globalized, militarized, racialized, monetized, privatized world, poetry is more important, not less.

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  • Ill Angels
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    Ill angels

    Dante Di Stefano

    Ill Angels explores love, music, death, language, and the idea of American self-hood in an era of increasing political divides.

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  • Topographies
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    Topographies

    Stephen Benz

    The essays that comprise Topographies take an interest in the stories—particularly forgotten, overlooked, or misunderstood stories—that landscapes have to tell.

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  • Museum of Stones
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    Museum of stones

    Lynn Lurie

    The unnamed narrator in Museum of Stones carries the name of every mother who has stared into the face of her newborn, having no idea of what is about to unfold.

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  • Wattle & daub
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    Wattle & daub

    Brian Coughlan

    The world of Wattle & daub is inhabited by mysterious and peculiar creatures. A woman who fears the living thing in her apartment walls. An office-based streaker with an axe to grind. Automatons that finally recognise their creator. A disgraced crusader. A terminally ill man resorting to hy...

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  • Sixteen
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    Sixteen

    Auguste Corteau

    A famous Soviet composer kills himself upon the announcement of Stalin’s death, leaving behind a symphony that provokes mass defections. A haunting tale of love, loss and obsession, Sixteen is also a literary thriller centered around the mystery that is music. But can music on its own bring about...

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  • The Confessions of Doc Williams & Other Poems
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    The confessions of doc williams & other poems

    William Heyen

    The National Book Award finalist's eighteenth volume of nearly sixty poems.

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  • Shadows of Houses
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    Shadows of houses

    H. L. Hix

    H.L. Hix's measured crystalline particles of everyday life melt, moment by moment, into song.

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  • Incident Light
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    Incident light

    H. L. Hix

    Testament to the many lives that converge on one life, infusing it with beauty and mystery.

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  • Nahoonkara
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    Nahoonkara

    Peter Grandbois

    Nahoonkara moves between poetry and prose, relying on the alchemy of images to open up the magic within the story.

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  • White Vespa
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    White vespa

    Kevin Oderman

    Does art clarify or obscure love? With a photographic eye, Kevin Oderman probes family secrets on an exotic island.

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  • Body of a Dancer
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    Body of a dancer

    Renee D'Aoust

    Using the stage and the bedroom, Renée E. D'Aoust interweaves dance history with the stories of contemporary dancers' muscle and

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  • The Burning House
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    The burning house

    Paul Lisicky

    This witty and astute novel explores loss, desire, and moral choice, as a recession-era family and community disintegrate into chaos.

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  • The Fugitive Self
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    The fugitive self

    John Wheatcroft

    Life works--1964 to present--by major living American poet, contemporary of Lowell, Wilbur, and Warren.

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  • Toucans in the Arctic
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    Toucans in the arctic

    Scott Coffel

    An inspired truant from any number of poetical schools.

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  • Lies Will Take You Somewhere
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    Lies will take you somewhere

    Sheila Schwartz

    A Jewish family saga.

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  • Wild and Whirling Words: A Poetic Conversation
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    Wild and whirling words: a poetic conversation

    H. L. Hix

    What would poets say about each other's poems if they were really honest?

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  • Shoah Train
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    Shoah train

    William Heyen

    A National Book Award finalist collection of more than seventy poems on the Holocaust.

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  • Cinder
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    Cinder

    Bruce Bond

    A collection of poems by one of America's most celebrated 'formalists.'

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  • Free Concert: New and Selected Poems
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    Free concert: new and selected poems

    Milton Kessler

    Selected poems representing the life work of one of the most important Jewish American poets.

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  • One Turn Around the Sun
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    One turn around the sun

    Tim Seibles

    This panorama of poems defines the twilight when a caretaker of parents realizes that life is too short.

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  • Human Directional
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    Human directional

    Diane Raptosh

    Following her big hit, American Amnesiac, Raptosh's Human Directional zigzags across consciousness, searing through old patterns of thought and offering.

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  • Romer
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    Romer

    Robert Eastwood

    The distance of Romer’s climb through life is not spatial, but psychological, the acquisition of insight, the search for the better.

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  • The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down
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    The dog looks happy upside down

    Meg Pokrass

    Funny, hungry, brave, strange, sexy, and edgy collection of quirky gem-like stories by a master of the flash fiction form.

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  • The Candle
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    The candle

    William Heyen

    A compilation of half a century's poetic meditation on the holocaust and its causes and consequences.

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  • Mr. Either/Or
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    Mr. either/or

    Aaron Poochigian

    Mr. Either/Or is an account of an undercover agent saving New York City and the world.

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  • Poems and Their Making
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    Poems and their making

    Philip Brady

    Anthology of poems and essays honoring John Wheatcroft, delving into the origin and development of poetic thought, line, and structure.

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  • The Other Sky
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    The other sky

    Aron Wiesenfeld, Bruce Bond

    In dialogue between poetry and visual art, The Other Sky probes the depths of the psyche: childhood roots, reveries, tensions.

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  • Scything Grace
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    Scything grace

    Sean Thomas Dougherty

    Experimental in outlook, yet gritty and streetwise, the collection renders stories of loss and redemption as especially evocative and unforgettable.

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  • The Casanova Chronicles
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    The casanova chronicles

    Myrna Stone

    Voices chafe against circumstances of love, sex, loss, and longing with sometimes humorous, sometimes disasterous results.

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  • So Late, So Soon
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    So late, so soon

    Carol Moldaw

    Moldaw's "lyric junctures of shivering beauty" illuminate and transform the life within us all.

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  • Venison
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    Venison

    Thorpe Moeckel

    At stake are no less than the origins and mysteries of flesh and touch---food.

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  • Cannot Stay
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    Cannot stay

    Kevin Oderman

    In Cannot Stay, Oderman explores the reasons we travel in searching essays about trips to Indonesia, SE Asia and Europe.

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  • Crave
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    Crave

    Laurie Jean Cannady

    This memoir chronicles a young girl's journey through abuse, impoverishment, and a continuing search for sustenance that will not die.

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  • Surrendering Oz
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    Surrendering oz

    Bonnie Friedman

    Surrendering Oz is about giving up the safety of emotionally zoning out – about learning to think with the body.

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  • Aard-vark to Axolotl
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    Aard-vark to axolotl

    Karen Donovan

    A unique compendium of tiny stories, essays, fables, scenarios, and allegories suggested by vintage images drawn from an old dictionary.

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  • The Gambler's Nephew
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    The gambler's nephew

    Jack Matthews

    With a literary style reminiscent of Mark Twain, this historical novel captures the colorful riverboat culture of 1850s Ohio.

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  • Coronology [and Other Poems]
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    Coronology [and other poems]

    Claire Bateman

    Claire Bateman explores the odd too-muchness/not-enoughness of imaginative experience—is this the neighborhood we signed up for?

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  • Rain Inscription
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    Rain inscription

    H. L. Hix

    Rain Inscription gives vivid testimony to the paradox that human making is both lasting and fleeting.

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  • First Fire, Then Birds
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    First fire, then birds

    H. L. Hix

    Already at work rewriting and recontextualizing the language of others, H. L. Hix keeps at the task, renewing his own poems.

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