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  • Beyond Measure
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    Beyond measure

    Rachel Z. Arndt

    A fascinating inquiry into the metrics, rituals, routines, and expectations through which we attempt to quantify and comprehend our lives.

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  • Limber
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    Limber

    Angela Pelster

    Startling, lyrical essay collection focused on trees. Moves from author’s childhood in rural Canada to Niger, the Philippines, and Greece.

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  • White Blood
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    White blood

    Kiki Petrosino

    White Blood contemplates the complex legacies of slavery and discrimination in the Upper South.

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  • This Is Not Your City
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    This is not your city

    Caitlin Horrocks

    In 11 darkly comic stories, women isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace.

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  • Paper Concert
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    Paper concert

    Amy Wright

    In her opening, Amy Wright explains: “This essay anchors a central thread of dialogue over a dizzying divide. It weaves a decades-plus-worth of questions and answers from a range of discussions I’ve had with artists, activists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, priests, musicians, and other r...

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  • All the Fierce Tethers
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    All the fierce tethers

    Lia Purpura

    A trailblazer of the contemporary essay, Purpura meditates on existential subjects as diverse as eagles, irony, racially divided neighborhoods, and the idea of beauty.

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  • Entire Dilemma
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    Entire dilemma

    Michael Burkard

    A lean collection by a "poet's poet" who writes of existential possibility in plain English.

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  • Epistles
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    Epistles

    Mark Jarman

    The ninth poetry collection from the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize-winner.

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  • Fragment of the Head of a Queen
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    Fragment of the head of a queen

    Cate Marvin

    The second collection from the winner of Kate Tufts Award and 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

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  • The Unrequited
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    The unrequited

    Carrie St. George Comer

    Winner of the 2002 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Stephen Dunn.

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  • Planet On The Table
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    Planet on the table

    Sharon Bryan, William Olsen

    Essential reading for the student of creative writing, and all writers

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  • Torn Sky
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    Torn sky

    Debra Nystrom

    Moving, unsentimental portraits of Native Americans and other South Dakotans.

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  • Left Wing of a Bird
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    Left wing of a bird

    Arthur Vogelsang

    Daring new collection from the editor of The American Poetry Review.

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  • Lost River
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    Lost river

    James Tate

    New poems by Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Yale Prize winner.

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  • Pushed to Shore
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    Pushed to shore

    Kate Gadbow, Rosellen Brown

    Winner of the 2001 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Rosellen Brown.

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  • Water
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    Water

    Alyce Miller

    The winner of the 2006 Mary McCarthy Prize, selected by Norman Rush.

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  • The Preacher
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    The preacher

    Gerald Stern

    The sixth edition in the Quarternote Chapbook series by chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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  • If You Knew Then What I Know Now
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    If you knew then what i know now

    Ryan Van Meter

    Coming-of-age is complicated by coming-out in personal essays leavened with humor, generosity, and all the awkward indignities of growing up.

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  • Other Electricities
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    Other electricities

    Ander Monson

    Uncompromising, hypnotic and darkly humorous, Other Electricities charts a new and strange direction in American fiction.

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  • To the Green Man
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    To the green man

    Mark Jarman

    Eighth collection by master of the narrative poem and editor of The Reaper.

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  • Air Fare
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    Air fare

    Judith Taylor, Nickole Brown

    The perfect flying companion: an anthology of poems, stories and essays on flying.

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  • Subject Matter
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    Subject matter

    Baron Wormser

    Sixth collection from this "fiction writer in a poet's body"--each poem in loose sonnet form!

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  • Mending

    Sallie Bingham

    Mending collects stories from four books and includes six new ones, representing the best of Bingham's 50-year career.

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  • Where the long grass bends

    Neela Vaswani

    Debut collection from a lyrical writer of Indian and Irish descent

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  • Bloody mary

    Sharon Solwitz

    Debut novel by National Jewish Book Award finalist and longtime Sarabande author.

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  • Something in my eye

    Michael Jeffrey Lee, Francine Prose

    Michael Jeffrey Lee writes like a redneck Samuel Beckett, sketching dystopias of life along the margins in contemporary New Orleans.

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  • Rough likeness

    Lia Purpura

    Lyric essays that examine the smallest things imaginable--beach glass, the color "gunmetal," a mushroom--as well as states of being.

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  • Three Poets of Modern Korea
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    Three poets of modern korea

    Hahm Dong-seon, Choi Young-mi, Yi Sang, James Kimbrell

    An eclectic sampling of modern Korean poetry, superbly translated by husband and wife team.

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  • The name of the nearest river

    Alex Taylor

    Stories confronting the unfailing constant of blood in the rough woods of western Kentucky.

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  • Greetings from below

    David Philip Mullins, David Means

    Set in Vegas, these Mary McCarthy Prize-winning stories chronicle what becomes of a man contorted by grief and sexual regret.

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  • You have given me a country

    Neela Vaswani

    A multi-genre memoir exploring the author's Irish-Catholic, Sindhi Indian, and American identities.

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  • Transgressions

    Sallie Bingham

    A wise and sexy new collection from one of the most important feminist writers of her generation.

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  • Season of the Body
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    Season of the body

    Brenda Miller

    A memoir in essay form, with the body as its central reference point.

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  • Passing the word

    Jeffrey Skinner, Lee Martin

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  • The City of Poetry
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    The city of poetry

    Gregory Orr

    Orr imagines poetry as a city constructed of its forms and forebears, its terrain all that can be imagined.

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  • The Children
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    The children

    Paula Bohince

    Poems of a lived-in landscape, where beauty is the afterimage of loss, and grief is staunched by the changing seasons.

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  • Hoodwinked
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    Hoodwinked

    David Hernandez, Amy Gerstler

    Hernandez' third collection is blunt and undeceived. His odes to mortality are laced with wit and sadness rising like helium.

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  • White Sea
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    White sea

    Cleopatra Mathis

    Strong, unsentimentally emotional new collection from this highly respected poet

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  • Ghost Pain
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    Ghost pain

    Sydney Lea

    Eighth poetry collection by the founder of New England Review

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  • The Wrong End of the Rainbow
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    The wrong end of the rainbow

    Charles Wright

    Fourth edition of the highly successful Quarternote Chapbook Series by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

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  • The Coronary Garden
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    The coronary garden

    Ann Townsend

    Poems of love and morality, with subjects as varies as sex, babies, illness, and saints.

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  • In Medias Res
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    In medias res

    Karen An-hwei Lee

    Chosen by Heather McHugh as winner of the 2003 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry

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  • Goodbye to the Orchard
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    Goodbye to the orchard

    Steven Cramer

    Poetry that finds sense in life through a confrontation with death.

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  • Hustle
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    Hustle

    David Tomas Martinez

    Hustle documents the author's Latino youth in San Diego, California, an inferno of stolen cars, silent sex, and murdered valedictorians.

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  • If a stranger approaches you

    Laura Kasischke

    Kasischke's surreal stories verge on sci fi -- ghost girls in the backyard and changelings in the kitchen.

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  • Rise

    L. Annette Binder

    Contemporary fairy tales where the strange and surreal exist on the fringes of everyday life.

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  • The 6.5 practices of moderately successful poets

    Jeffrey Skinner

    Everything you wanted to know about being a moderately successful poet, but were too tired to ask.

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  • The Guyanese Wanderer
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    The guyanese wanderer

    Jan Carew, Austin Clarke

    First-ever story collection from this distinquished post-colonial writer with international reputation.

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  • Making the New Lamb Take
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    Making the new lamb take

    Gabriel Fried

    Winner of the 2006 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, judged by Michael Ryan.

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  • Tarumba
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    Tarumba

    Jamie Sabines, Philip Levine, Ernesto Trejo

    Mexico's most beloved poet, Jaime Sabines, translated by America's most honored poet--Philip Levine.

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