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Firespitter
Author: the collected poems of Jayne Cortez ; edited by Margaret Busby ; foreword by Sapphire
Year: 2025
ISBN: 9781643622323
Sight lines
Author: Arthur Sze
Year: 2019
ISBN: 9781556595592
Abstract: "From the current phenomenon of drawing calligraphy with water in public parks in China to Thomas Jefferson laying out dinosaur bones on the White House floor, from the last sighting of the axolotl to a man who stops building plutonium triggers, Sight Lines moves through space and time and brings the disparate and divergent into stunning and meaningful focus. In this new work, Arthur Sze employs a wide range of voices--from lichen on a ceiling to a man behind on his rent--and his mythic imagination continually evokes how humans are endangering the planet; yet, balancing rigor with passion, he seizes the significant and luminous and transforms these moments into riveting and enduring poetry." -- Provided by publisher.
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At the end of the world there is a pond : poems
Author: Steven Duong
Year: 2025
ISBN: 9781324086789
Abstract: At the End of the World There Is a Pond by Steven Duong is a poetry collection that examines the aftermath of various forms of rupture, including mental illness, addiction, migration, displacement, violence, familial conflict, and ecological disaster. Balancing despair with humor and irony, the poems explore the interplay between darkness and hope. Duong's writing pays meticulous attention to the unnatural aspects of the natural world, spotlighting its inhabitants--such as a betta fish in a jar, a forest overtaken by kudzu, and an elephant injured by a landmine. Through its unflinching scrutiny and care, the collection questions how to reconcile a profound love for life with an equally profound desire to abandon it.
G̲agaan X̲'usyee : = Below the foot of the sun
Author: X̲'unei Lance Twitchell
Year: 2024
ISBN: 9781646425549
Abstract: "A book of forty-five poems focused on human, Indigenous, Alaska Native, Tlingit identity, place, language, and time. Several Lingít language poems are included"-- Provided by publisher.
Poetry is not a luxury : poems for all seasons
Author: edited by the curator of @Poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram
Year: 2025
ISBN: 9781668062555
Abstract: "From the creator of the beloved @PoetryIsNotaLuxury Instagram account, a gorgeously wrought poetry anthology that is a gift and a guide for readers through every season of life"-- Provided by publisher.
Just about anything : new and selected poems
Author: Jonathan Aaron
Year: 2025
ISBN: 9780887487132
Abstract: "A poem uses words to try to get at what can't be put into words. The best poems remain just out of reach; something in or about them remains mysterious. A poem itself is an inquiry or a search, that is never finished, never fulfilled-- Provided by publisher.
Make believe : poems for hoping again
Author: by Victoria Hutchins
Year: 2025
ISBN: 9780593735718
Abstract: "They say you can't make yourself believe in things, and they might be right. But you can take a walk with optimism. You can hear her out when she tells you the universe is conspiring in your favor. You can keep your eyes peeled for signs that she's right. Somewhere in the future, the next version of you is waiting. Are you ready to stop hiding and go seek them? Viral poet Victoria Hutchins's first book, Make Believe, is a reclamation of childlike wonder and an invitation to stop hiding from your joy. These poems pave a path of reconnection to our bodies, our past, our wanting, and our wonder--ultimately asking, how do you find hope in a world full of pain? Make Believe is for anyone who is embarrassed about how long they've been hiding from themselves, who is one bad day away from thinking the world is a terrible place, whose body feels like an enemy to their soul, or who is struggling to stick around. Hutchins challenges readers to reimagine struggles as superpowers and uses the power of confession and nostalgia to create a world of hope. Make Believe will inspire readers to go out looking, heart in hand, for joy, purpose, and healing"-- Provided by publisher.
The moon that turns you back
Author: Hala Alyan
Year: 2024
ISBN: 9780063317475
Abstract: A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement. These poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body--and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity, and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations. Hala Alyan asks, What stops you from transforming into someone or something else? When you have lived a life in flux, how do you find rest?
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Modern poetry : poems
Author: Diane Seuss
Year: 2024
ISBN: 9781644452752
Abstract: "Diane Seuss's signature voice--audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude--has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond her reach. Many of the poems make use of the forms and terms of musical and poetic craft--ballad, fugue, aria, refrain, coda--and contend with the works of writers overrepresented in textbooks and anthologies and those too often underrepresented. Seuss provides a moving account of her picaresque years and their uncertainties, and in the process, she enters the realm between Modernism and Romanticism, between romance and objectivity, with Keats as ghost, lover, and interlocutor. In poems of rangy curiosity, sharp humor, and illuminating self-scrutiny, Modern Poetry investigates our time's deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean? "It seems wrong / to curl now within the confines / of a poem," Seuss writes. "You can't hide / from what you made / inside what you made." What she finds there, finally, is a surprising but unmistakable love"-- Provided by publisher.
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I love hearing your dreams : poems
Author: Matthew Zapruder
Year: 2024
ISBN: 9781668059807
Abstract: "I Love Hearing Your Dreams is a book of reveries, of failed elegies, of "the last time that things were real" and the moments that come afterward. These are dream songs for an age of insomnia, where the poet is always awake "at that oddest hour / that does not end, / the crooked, unnumbered one" and the future seems to be "just the past in a suit / that will never be in style." Yet dreams in Matthew Zapruder's poems are also a place of possibility, of reality envisioned anew-sleep shows us not merely what the world is, but what it could be. From a poet celebrated for his "razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture" (The New York Times), I Love Hearing Your Dreams is a startlingly beautiful and deeply vulnerable book where lives journey into a mystifying place and emerge transformed"-- Provided by publisher.