Natural Selections

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Whether wandering the paths of the imagination, driving through sparsely populated countryside, or listening for the voices of animals, Joseph Campana's poemsattend to the ways we are indelibly marked by habitat. Shot full of accidental attachments and reluctant transience, "Natural Selections"produces from vibrant contradiction potent song. In poems both lyric and expansive, "Natural Selections "finds in the simplicity and strangeness....

City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry

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Chicago has served as touchstone and muse to generations of writers and artists defined by their relationship to the city's history, lore, inhabitants, landmarks, joys and sorrows, pride and shame. The poetic conversations inspired by Chicago have long been a vital part of America's literary landscape, from Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks to experimental writers and today's slam poets.....

Sweet Spot: Poems

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Classical deities and down-and-out junkies, high school sweethearts and the inner life of JFK--these are the coordinates of J.T. Barbarese's terrain. The poems in "Sweet Spot "set up shop where average lived experience meets American history. Masterfully evokes both the specific land- and cityscapes of his poems as well the psychological types of the varied characters that populate them, "Sweet....

Grand & Arsenal

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From the intersection of public and private fear, Kerri Webster's award-winning collection speaks of anxiety and awe, vanishings and reappearances. A city both rises and falls; worlds are simultaneously spoken into being and torn down by words. "This is how time sounds," Webster writes; this is the hum and click of bodies "desirous of believing we're all vehicle, every....

New Collected Poems

By Wendell Berry(Hardback)

In Wendell Berry's upcoming "The New Collected Poems," the poet revisits for the first time his immensely popular "Collected Poems," which "The New York Times Book Review" described as "a straight-forward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament and family life" that "affirms a style that is resonant with the authentic," and "[returns] American....

Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems

By Gail Carson Levine(Hardback)

Unbeelievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings

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The buzz is big for Douglas Florian's new poetry collection about the unBEElieveably unique lives of honeybees--and the vital role they play in our ecosystem.Come inside the honeycomb--a busy, buzzy, bee-filled home--and learn about the unexpected wonders of these tiny insects' lifestyles, families, and communities. In fourteen funny, fact-filled honeybee poems and paintings, Douglas Florian explores the natural history of....

The Apple Speaks

By Becca J R Lachman(Hardback)

"Lachman's poetry offers rare glimpses into contemporary Swiss Mennonite life and engages issues of community, negotiating daily life, family, humanitarianism, race and gender, Mennonite life, and more" --Provided by publisher.

A Shropshire Lad

By A. E. Housman(Hardback)

Collects poems that are evocative of the blue hills of the poet's youth. In this half-imaginary land of lost content, the recurring theme is one of the helplessness of man against an achingly beautiful countryside.

The Auroras: New Poems

By Professor David St John(Hardback)

Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam': A Reading Guide

By Anna Barton(Paperback)

Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem.

The Dark Room

By Sue Rose(Hardback)

Part a meditation on the formative experiences that make us who we are and a celebration of life in the face of death, this title refers to the womb with all its potential, and to death, not only the black despair felt by the bereaved but also the darkness that may wait beyond our 'reach of light'.

John Ashbery and English Poetry

By Ben Hickman(Hardback)

A study of how we should read one of America's most important poets

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Love: An Index

By Rebecca Lindenberg(Hardback)

A man disappears. The woman who loves him is left scarred and haunted. In her fierce, one-of-a-kind debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the story--in verse--of her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who disappeared in 2009 while hiking a volcano in Japan. Lindenberg's billowing, I-contain-multitudes style lays bare the poet's sadnesses, joys, and longings in poems that are lyric....

Who Travels Down This Narrow Road

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There's time ahead I always thought... but there isn't and there wasn't.' Henry Pluckrose died shortly before this book was sent for publication. He was in the process of selecting and ordering the poems during his final weeks.

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

By Mary Oliver(Paperback / softback)

Widely regarded as the "rock star" of American poetry, Mary Oliver is a writer whose words have long had the power to move countless readers. Regularly topping the national poetry best-seller list and drawing thousands to her sold-out readings across the coutnry, Oliver is unparalleled in her impact. As noted in the "Los Angeles Times," so many "go to her....

Rust Fish: Poems

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"Maya Zeller's American Northwest is a land of verdant sensuality, insistent yet fragile and intimate as it was in the eyes of Roethke, storied in mossy and weathered details, human ruin and hard won grace as it was in the heart of Kesey. With extraordinary veracity and empathy she inhabits the body and emerging consciousness of a girl and young....

Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite

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The environment may surround us, but when that environment is a natural wonder like Yosemite National Park, it also reaches what's inside us. For Mark Liebenow, Yosemite did just that, and did so when he needed it most. In "Mountains of Light," winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Liebenow takes us deep into the heart of this wilderness,....

Holding Company: Poems

By Major Jackson(Paperback)

"A devastatingly beautiful collection of strange and wonderful poems." Poetry Daily

Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems

By Billy Collins(Paperback / softback)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of poetry, which covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, youth and aging, solitude and union, Collins's verbal gifts are on full display.....