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Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Come sail with I. We're not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod's American voyage steers its course across the curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone at the helm. We are leaving one man and his madness on shore. Our ship overflows with glorious plurality multiracial, visionary, queer, conflicted, polyphonic, playful, violent. But on this voyage something is different. Today we sail headless...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Whether he draws for inspiration on American blues, Serbian folktales, or Greek myths, Simic's words have a way of their own. Each of these forty-four poems is a powerful mixture of concrete images. Each records the reality and myth of the world around us-and in us. "Short, perfectly shaped, Simic's poems float past like feathers, turning one way, then another" (Village Voice).
Author
Publisher
Logan Reardon
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
" 'the things I didn't say in therapy' explores my raw, unedited emotions regarding grief, abuse, mental illness, love, and the road to recovery. After many sleepless nights, I found the strength to share my story. My wish is that you find the strength to do the same. -- Logan" --
5) Ward toward
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
""There are places," Cindy Juyoung Ok writes, "where shaking is expected, loss is / assumed." In the 118th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Ok moves assuredly between spaces--from the psych ward to a prison cell, from divided countries to hospice wards. She plumbs these institutions of constraint, ward to ward, and the role of each reality's language, word to word, as she uncovers fractured private codes and shares them in argument, song,...
7) Death styles
Author
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A record of daily bewilderments and accidental concessions to hope after a momentous loss.In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writing a poem a day and accepting a single icon as her starting point, however unlikely-River Phoenix, Mary Magdalene, a backyard skunk-McSweeney follows each inspiration...
Author
Series
Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Follow the story of a little bird who brings joy to everyone through his song. When a storm hits, the little bird's song is diminished, but he never gives up, and when the storm passes he is there to give joy again as people rebuild"--
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023 is an "ode and homage to nuestra querencia, our beloved homeland." More than two hundred poems explore themes such as community, culture, history, identity, landscape, and water. From a diverse group of poets, the poems are introspective and personal; reflective and astute; steady and celebratory. Including poignant, unique, even humorous perspectives on life in New Mexico influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, this...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A vivid chronicle of friendship and loneliness amid the precarity of life in late capitalism, when every day is a fight for survival. In poems bursting with narrative power, Disease of Kings explores the tender yet volatile friendship between two young scammers living off the fat of society. Here are stories of an odd couple who scrounge, con, hustle, and steal, alternately proud of their ability to fabricate a life at the margins and ashamed of...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"First, you must realize you’re homesick for all the lives you’re not living. Then, you must commit to the road and the rising loneliness. To the sincere thrill of coming apart. So begins Joy Sullivan’s Instructions for Traveling West—a lush debut collection that examines what happens when we leave home and leap into the deep unknown. Mid-pandemic, Sullivan left the man she planned to marry, sold her house, quit her corporate job, and drove...
Author
Series
Wave books ; 115
Publisher
Wave Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Following their book Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry), CAConrad's Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return shifts its attention from the previous book's focus on communing with animals who are extinct toward communicating and caring for animals still living among us"--
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When I have wandered long enough what am I still beholden to? Ifá. Nature. Illness. Love. Loss. Misogyny. Aging. Africa. Our wounded planet. In this sweeping yet intensely personal collection, Lauren Martin tells the untold stories of the marginalized, the abused, the ill, the disabled-the different. Inspired by her life's experiences, including the isolation she has suffered as a result both of living with chronic illness and having devoted herself...
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