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Some girls walk into the country they are from
Audacious and highly innovative collection that cunningly engages with the assumptions and boundaries around translation, identity, and gender.
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Mad world, mad kings, mad composition
A wonderfully expansive collection of writings that capture daily practice and attention.
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Keeping / the window open
From Dada to translation, from conversations to collage, this book chronicles the artistic antics and profoundly original minds of Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop.
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The lives of the poems and three talks
Lectures that meander, accumulate, and adjust in an echolocating search for the in-between places where poetry lives.
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Sprawl
New edition of a breathless prose work with a unique vision of suburbia.
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Orlando
Simultaneously a scathing critique of consumer culture and a heartbreakingly manic narrative of obsession and reckoning.
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Baby, i don't care
A playful collection of poems reconfiguring iconic dialogue from classic American films to upend notions of love, wealth, gender, and consumption.
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Milk
New, electrifying poems that challenge ideas about creativity and motherhood.
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To float in the space between
A rare glimpse inside the mind of a National Book Award–winning, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellow poet as he considers his influences and larger surrounding poetic history.
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Xoeteox
Electric poems from a long-time performance and visual poet delivered through innovative layouts and designs.
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Optic subwoof
Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative NonfictionWinner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry CriticismOptic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Douglas Kearney presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2020 and 2021.As kinetic on the page ...
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I am the dead, who, you take care of me
With tender attention and a keenly embodied curiosity, the poems in I am the dead, who, you take care of me are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead. Following the poet’s recent prose work on the historical and ecological conflicts of the American West, the...
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Ascent of the mothers
Noelle Kocot’s ninth collection, Ascent of the Mothers, is a sagacious testament to the ways in which poetry can shape personhood. “I am nothing” they write, “Or else I have made myself / Too big for words.” The scope of this book is marked by Kocot’s psychic journey punctuated by a near-fatal ca...
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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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Iggy horse
In Michael Earl Craig’s sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar.Whether he is writing about the cadaver that Hans Holbein the Younger used as a model, Montana as the “Italy of God,” or the milking rituals in Kelly Reichardt’...
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Proses
In the grand tradition of poet’s fiction, Proses: Incomparable Parables! Fabulous Fables! Cruel Tales! is a collection of nine phantasmagorical stories by beloved poet and City Lights editor, Garrett Caples.Resolutely turning its back on the ethos of traditional narrative, Proses draws on Marcel ...
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Four lectures
Four Lectures by Lisa Jarnot is the seventh book in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, comprising autobiographical essays that form an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry.Across the lectures, or talks, given between October of 2020 and December of 2021, ...
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All about you
Written with keen perception and insatiable curiosity, Chris Nealon's fifth book of poetry, All About You, is both a study of personhood and a diary of release from it. “You almost let your ego go,” he writes, “but oh—/maybe tomorrow.” Revolving through moments of sociability and passages of inwa...
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Translation of the lilies back into lists
From poet, novelist, and teacher Laynie Brown comes Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists, an homage text to the poet C. D. Wright.
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Plans for sentences
Plans for Sentences is the latest interdisciplinary work of genius from poet, novelist, editor, and artist Renee Gladman.
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Copy
From Mexican-born poet Dolores Dorantes, Copy is a book-length prose poem examining extrication, refuge, and reintegration, presented in English for the first time by award-winning translator Robin Meyers.
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Uncollected later poems (1968–1979)
In these skillful new translations by poet Graham Foust and scholar Samuel Frederick, whose work has previously been shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry, each line is gnomic yet ample, opening spaces of reflection on mortality and infinity. Now preserved in this portable, Eng...
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Furniture music
In Furniture Music, Montreal legend Gail Scott chronicles her years in Lower Manhattan during the Obama era, in a community of poets at the junction between formally radical and political art. Immersing herself in a New York topography that includes St. Mark’s Poetry Project and the Bowery Poetry...
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The poetics of wrongness
The Poetics of Wrongness is a collection of essay/talks that the poet Rachel Zucker, expanded from lectures presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2016.Devastating in their revelations, yet hopeful in their endurance, these are lectures of protest and reckoning. Zucker declares “I writ...
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Perennial fashion presence falling
“some ekphrastic evening, this’ll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seems like in between.” So writes poet, critic, theorist, and MacArthur fellow Fred Moten in his latest poetry collection perennial fashion presence falling. Much like the poems found in The Feel...
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Triptychs
Sandra Simonds’s Triptychs is a brilliant intersection of poetic form and the passage of time.Crafted initially in strips handwritten on rolls of receipt paper obtained at a dollar store, then assembled into three textual columns that sit side-by-side on the page, these triptychs are joined or di...
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Slight return
In her new collection, renowned publisher and poet Rebecca Wolff voyages in the myopia of American consumer consciousness—erotic regard, spiritual FOMO, gentrification, branding—without destination. Labyrinthine in their paradoxical musings and incisive in their witty recriminations, these poems ...
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Blood snow
Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer PrizeListed in The Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books of 2022Longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in PoetryAmerican Book Award–winning poet dg okpik’s second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion,...
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New life
In her latest book, New Life, Lambda Award–winning poet Ana Božičević writes, “For my birthday I want a cake/revealing the color of my soul.” Never saccharine, these poems are by turns cheeky and heartfelt, grounded and wistful, and above all—surprising. New Life is a book that is Dantesque in it...
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Tolstoy killed anna karenina
In her latest collection, Tosltoy Killed Anna Karenina, Dara Wier brings poems that are by turns heartbreaking and jubilant—and ultimately always gratifying.
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And those ashen heaps that cantilevered vase of moonlight
And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight, Lynn Xu's book-length poem, is a brilliant embodiment of time's effect on languages and histories.
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Lovers of today
From esteemed City Lights editor and poet Garrett Caples, Lovers of Today is not only a tender tribute to departed artists, it is a veneration of the evanescence of life.
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Amanda paradise
Winner of the 2022 PEN Josephine Miles Award for PoetryWinner of the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry PrizeFormer United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propr...
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Sho
An experiment and experience in language, surveying the junction of violence, entertainment, race, and folklore.
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Guard the mysteries
The fourth book in Wave’s Bagley Wright Lecture Series presenting the cerebral voice of Native American poet Cedar Sigo.
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Tomaž
Assembled using recorded conversations with the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun, this book-length poem by Joshua Beckman spans the first forty years of Šalamun’s life in his own words.
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Giant moth perishes
A resplendent collection that reshapes the landscape of the imagination.
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All this time
Cedar Sigo’s fourth collection evoke ancestors and mentors in ways that speak to the devotional practice of writing itself.
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Hoarders
Tender, witty, and heartbreaking, Hoarders is an exploration into personal and cultural attachments, inspired by the reality television show of its namesake.
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Letters to wendy's
Cult favorite Letters to Wendy's has sold thousands of copies through web, direct and special orders, and will appeal to a wide variety of readers at independent and chain stores.
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Your time has come
Famed for his long poems, award-winning poet Beckman returns with 150 very very short poems.
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The city keeps: selected and new poems 1966-2014
A retrospective of 50 years worth of poems by New York poet John Godfrey.
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Superior packets
A collection of thirty-five years of poems by a late New York School poet. Witty, surprising, and continuously modern.
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New exercises
Beautiful truths in experimental form: assertive, fresh, and wise.
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Thunderbird
Echoes of Plath amplify and eviscerate in this thunderous third collection.
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In the still of the night
Arrestingly direct and emotionally sophisticated poems of mourning, loss, and absence.
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Destroyer and preserver
The world’s enduring struggles fuse with a family’s tiniest gestures in this popular NY-based poet’s most recent collection.
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Isn't it romantic
This important anthology full of fresh voices includes a CD of original love songs by well-known independent recording artists.
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Power ballads
A collection of candid, surreal, and wickedly funny poems and prose.
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Black life
Infused with dark, tumultuous, and urgent feeling--emotion recollected not in tranquility, but in intensity.
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