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A little white shadow
Mary Ruefle,An exquisite art book of gentle and elegant found poetry.
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The cloud corporation
Timothy Donnelly,The long-awaited second collection by a central literary figure, Columbia University professor, and poetry editor of the Boston Review.
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Leadbelly
Tyehimba Jess,National Poetry Series winner makes compelling poetry from the tumultuous life of blues singer Leadbelly.
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Sunny wednesday
Noelle Kocot,Poems of exquisite pain and conciliation from one of Brooklyn's most devoted and dynamic poets.
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So we have been given time or
Sawako Nakayasu,Ann Lauterbach's experimental and compelling choice for the 2003 Verse Prize merges dramatic forms and poetry with dazzling results.
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Moongarden
Anthony McCann,Forceful, fractured, clear poems weave through an apocalyptic contemporary landscape: fear, irreverent humor and deep sadness.
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Prose architectures
Renee Gladman,Ink drawings by writer Renee Gladman in which language, architecture, narrative, and visual art dissolve into uncanny and innovative forms.
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What is poetry? (just kidding, i know you know)
Anselm Berrigan,A selection of interviews and rare photos from the legendary St. Mark's Poetry Project for its 50th anniversary season.
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Awe
Dorothea Lasky,An unforgettable debut: Dorothea Lasky is a seductive prophet who delights as well as terrifies.
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The pedestrians
Rachel Zucker,A tense and personal account of a life as a woman, wife, and mother, in and out of New York.
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Surrounded by friends
Matthew Rohrer,Matthew Rohrer at his best. Humorous, quotidian, urban, and conversational poems about family and friendship.
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Thing music
Anthony McCann,Resounding poems of being as being-in-the-world, with personhood inextricable from landscape, language, and culture.
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Sorry, tree
Eileen Myles,Sexy, cool, and uncompromising--secures Myles' eminence as America's most fearless poet.
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Supplication
John Wieners, CAConrad, Robert Dewhurst, Joshua Beckman,A necessary selection of work, out-of-print or never published, by a seminal mid-century poet.
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Of mongrelitude
Julian Talamantez Brolaski,Classic literature and pop culture converge to break apart formal linguistics in a never-before-seen lyric.
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Names of the lion
Ibn Khalawayh, David Larsen,Inspiring horror, laughter, and awe, a catalog of nearly 400 Arabic epithets for lions. A fascinating work of lexicographical scholarship.
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Take it
Joshua Beckman,One of poetry's genuinely necessary voices, Beckman offers a magnanimous vision of the world.
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Notes from irrelevance
Anselm Berrigan,"A vortex, a nexus, and a weather system all to himself."—Small Press Traffic
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Advice from 1 disciple of marx to 1 heidegger fanatic
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Cole Heinowitz, Alexis Graman,Fierce and visceral, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro's poem is as canonical to Infrarealism as Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" was to the Beats.
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Poems (1962-1997)
Robert Lax, John Beer,A collection of out-of-print and previously unpublished work from a lesser known yet highly influential American poet.
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Museum of accidents
Rachel Zucker,A brutally honest epic of domestic proportions.
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Profane halo
Gillian Conoley,A rich, thoughtful investigation of this political/historical moment that both illuminates and transcends that moment.
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Selected poems
Mary Ruefle,A career-defining retrospective by a much-beloved contemporary master.
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Winter sex
Katy Lederer,Interest in this debut poetry collection will surge with the release of her new memoir (Poker Face).
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Poem for the end of time and other poems
Noelle Kocot,A brutal and apocalyptic New York epic in the beat tradition.
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The verse book of interviews
Brian Henry, Andrew Zawacki,Fascinating conversations with contemporary poets from around the world.
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Retrievals
Garrett Caples,Ten years of poet and critic Garrett Caples’s writing on neglected figures of art and poetry.
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Soul in space
Noelle Kocot,An electric new collection, built from the rubble and strangeness of daily life.
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Poemland
Chelsey Minnis,Poems both punishing and radiant. No one is writing like Minnis, and no one should dare.
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Trances of the blast
Mary Ruefle,A much-anticipated new collection from celebrated poet Mary Rueflemoving, authoritative, generous.
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Touché
Rod Smith,Poems that deconstruct class, culture, and language with intentionally jolting moves of irreverence and silliness.
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Red juice: poems 1998-2008
Hoa Nguyen, Anselm Berrigan,A collection of early poems, rare or out-of-print, by Hoa Nguyen, a poet who tersely cracks the shell of dailiness.
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Snowflake / different streets
Eileen Myles,New poems that hurtle through time and space from an irrefutable force in American poetry.
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Christopher sunset
Geoffrey Nutter,Poetry as a complete reinvention of the known world, converting attention into rituals of unfolding spectacle.
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Thin kimono
Michael Earl Craig,The third collection of deadpan absurdist poetry by a Certified Journeyman Farrier from Montana.
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You good thing
Dara Wier,[Wier’s] directed and charged language is a reminder of how vital and vivid poetry can be.”American Poet
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As long as trees last
Hoa Nguyen,Large-hearted, hip, and hooky poems as sculpted as they are sensory.
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Into the snow
Gennady Aygi, Sarah Valentine,It's possible to be an experimental humanist.
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Cities at dawn
Geoffrey Nutter,Opulent and lush poems inspired by Japanese, Chinese, and Elizabethan poets.
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Calamities
Renee Gladman,Thinking collapses and remerges in this metafictional collection of essays following a writer and artist at work.
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Terrain vague
Richard Meier,In his debut volume, Richard Meier risks "an affront to the personal" by dismantling and reassembling the lyric "I." His poems demonstrate a dizzying grace while uncovering a terrain less vague than tremendously powerful. The emotional tenor of Meier’s poems work with the strong intellect behind ...
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City of corners
John Godfrey,John Godfrey IS New York, and these poems gaze unflinchingly into the city's dark heart.
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The inside of an apple
Joshua Beckman,Joshua Beckman's poems of emotional curiosity invite the reader to a quiet, familiar space.
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Micrograms
Jorge Carrera Andrade, Alejandro de Acosta, Joshua Beckman,Deliberately anachronistic and delightfully extractable, the microgram is a metaphor itself for that which is well worth the digging.
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I heart your fate
Anthony McCann,LA-based poet returns with humor, irreverence, and sincere longing to sever the distinction between dream and reality, person and animal.
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No real light
Joe Wenderoth,Wave's most popular author presents his first poetry collection since Letters to Wendy's.
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Wallless space
Ernst Meister, Graham Foust, Samuel Frederick,The final collection of Ernst Meister, one of the great neglected lyric poets of post-war Germany.
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Something i expected to be different
Joshua Beckman,Of Beckman’s follow-up collection to his APR-Honickman award winning first book, Tomaz Salamun writes: "There are no similarities with Apollinaire or Ginsberg, except with what they were doing to Time while they were young." The contemplative poems of this collection unfurl in startling and beaut...
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A roll of the dice
Stéphane Mallarmé, Jeff Clark, Robert Bononno,A contemporary and authentically designed translation of one of Stéphane Mallarmé's most famous poems.
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Olio
Tyehimba Jess,With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Jess presents the sweat and story behind America’s blues, worksongs and church hymns.
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