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Catching Light
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch in the... Read more >
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch in the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Catching Light
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $29.95
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch in the... Read more >
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $29.95
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch in the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Great Ledge
Written by Peter Davison
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison's last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, ' Davison will not let things break him. His voice is his; he has earned it and can use it, and as a result is surely one of our better poets.' That sense of this... Read more >
Written by Peter Davison
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison's last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, ' Davison will not let things break him. His voice is his; he has earned it and can use it, and as a result is surely one of our better poets.' That sense of this... Read more >
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Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
Poems
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society. Read more >
Poems
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society. Read more >
Monolithos
Poems '62-'82
Written by Jack Gilbert
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $12.99
This is Jack Gilbert's first book since the now-legendary Views of Jeopardy appeared as the 1962 entry in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Beat poetry was much in vogue at the time, a discursive poetry that rages against things as they are. Perhaps it was for this reason the strict... Read more >
Poems '62-'82
Written by Jack Gilbert
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $12.99
This is Jack Gilbert's first book since the now-legendary Views of Jeopardy appeared as the 1962 entry in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Beat poetry was much in vogue at the time, a discursive poetry that rages against things as they are. Perhaps it was for this reason the strict... Read more >
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Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well
Poems
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 72 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
This collection of thirty-six poems is, once again, eloquent evidence of Maya Angelou's continuing celebration of life: Here are poems of love and memory; poems of racial confrontation; songs of the street and songs from the heart. Read more >
Poems
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 72 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
This collection of thirty-six poems is, once again, eloquent evidence of Maya Angelou's continuing celebration of life: Here are poems of love and memory; poems of racial confrontation; songs of the street and songs from the heart. Read more >
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Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 44 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities. Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 44 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities. Read more >
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Coral Road
Poems
Written by Garrett Hongo
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $17.00
Garrett Hongo’s long-awaited third collection of poems is a beautiful, elegiac gathering of his Japanese-American ancestors in their Hawaiian landscape and a testament to the power of poetry, as it brings their marginalized yet heroic narratives into the realm of art.
In Coral Road Hongo explores the history of the impermanent homeland... Read more >
Poems
Written by Garrett Hongo
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $17.00
Garrett Hongo’s long-awaited third collection of poems is a beautiful, elegiac gathering of his Japanese-American ancestors in their Hawaiian landscape and a testament to the power of poetry, as it brings their marginalized yet heroic narratives into the realm of art.
In Coral Road Hongo explores the history of the impermanent homeland... Read more >
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April Twilights and Other Poems
Written by Willa Cather
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $13.50
Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded... Read more >
Written by Willa Cather
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $13.50
Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded... Read more >
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Kindertotenwald
Written by Franz Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $17.00
A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose... Read more >
Written by Franz Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $17.00
A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose... Read more >
Kindertotenwald
Written by Franz Wright
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $12.99
A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose... Read more >
Written by Franz Wright
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $12.99
A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose... Read more >
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A Walk with Jefferson
Written by Philip Levine
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 13, 2013
Price: $14.99
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Written by Philip Levine
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 13, 2013
Price: $14.99
Read more >
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Seven American Deaths and Disasters
Written by Kenneth Goldsmith
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $19.95
What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of passionate description. Taking its title from the... Read more >
Written by Kenneth Goldsmith
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $19.95
What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of passionate description. Taking its title from the... Read more >
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The Oldest Word for Dawn
New and Selected Poems
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $27.95
New and Selected Poems
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $27.95
From one of our most universally admired poets: a generous selection from his five acclaimed books of poetry, and an outstanding group of new poems.
From the outset, Brad Leithauser has displayed a venturesome taste for quirky patterns, innovative designs sprung loose from traditional forms. In The Oldest Word for...
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eBook.
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The Oldest Word for Dawn
New and Selected Poems
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $14.99
New and Selected Poems
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $14.99
From one of our most universally admired poets: a generous selection from his five acclaimed books of poetry, and an outstanding group of new poems.
From the outset, Brad Leithauser has displayed a venturesome taste for quirky patterns, innovative designs sprung loose from traditional forms. In The Oldest Word for...
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Come, Thief
Poems
Written by Jane Hirshfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $16.00
A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms.
Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into a moment’s essence and exchange something of herself with its finite music—and... Read more >
Poems
Written by Jane Hirshfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $16.00
A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms.
Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into a moment’s essence and exchange something of herself with its finite music—and... Read more >
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night thoughts
70 dream poems & notes from an analysis
Written by Sarah Arvio
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $26.95
70 dream poems & notes from an analysis
Written by Sarah Arvio
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $26.95
In this remarkable and unique work, award-winning poet Sarah Arvio gives us a memoir about coming to terms with a life in crisis through the study of dreams.
As a young woman, threatened by disturbing visions, Arvio went into psychoanalysis to save herself. The result is a riveting sequence of dream...
Also available as an
eBook.
night thoughts
70 dream poems & notes from an analysis
Written by Sarah Arvio
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $13.99
70 dream poems & notes from an analysis
Written by Sarah Arvio
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $13.99
In this remarkable and unique work, award-winning poet Sarah Arvio gives us a memoir about coming to terms with a life in crisis through the study of dreams.
As a young woman, threatened by disturbing visions, Arvio went into psychoanalysis to save herself. The result is a riveting sequence of dream...
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Border Kingdom
Written by D. Nurkse
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $13.99
In a collection of urgent and intimate poems, D. Nurkse explores the biblical past and the terrifying politics of the present with which it resonates, the legacy of fathers and the flawed kingdoms they leave their sons.
In “Ben Adan,” a stunning poem in the opening sequence of the collection, we witness... Read more >
Written by D. Nurkse
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $13.99
In a collection of urgent and intimate poems, D. Nurkse explores the biblical past and the terrifying politics of the present with which it resonates, the legacy of fathers and the flawed kingdoms they leave their sons.
In “Ben Adan,” a stunning poem in the opening sequence of the collection, we witness... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Blood, Tin, Straw
Poems
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
Winner of the 2000 Paterson Poetry Prize
"She has written without embarrassment or apology, with remarkable passion and savagery and nerve, poems about family and family pathology, early erotic fascination, and sexual life inside marriage."
--Amy Hempel
Sharon Olds divides this new book into five sections--"Blood," "Tin," "Straw," "Fire," and "Light"--each made up of... Read more >
Poems
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
Winner of the 2000 Paterson Poetry Prize
"She has written without embarrassment or apology, with remarkable passion and savagery and nerve, poems about family and family pathology, early erotic fascination, and sexual life inside marriage."
--Amy Hempel
Sharon Olds divides this new book into five sections--"Blood," "Tin," "Straw," "Fire," and "Light"--each made up of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Dead and the Living
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $13.99
The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $13.99
The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Father
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $12.99
The Father is a sequence of poems, a daughter's vision of a father's illness and death. It chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The poems are impelled by a passion to know and a freedom to... Read more >
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $12.99
The Father is a sequence of poems, a daughter's vision of a father's illness and death. It chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The poems are impelled by a passion to know and a freedom to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Gold Cell
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
A new collection by the much praised poet whose second book THE DEAD AND THE LIVING, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
A new collection by the much praised poet whose second book THE DEAD AND THE LIVING, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Unswept Room
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $15.99
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the... Read more >
Written by Sharon Olds
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $15.99
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Darlington's Fall
A novel in verse
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 21, 2012
Price: $18.99
The hero of this one-of-a-kind novel is Russel Darlington, a born naturalist and an unlikely romantic hero. We meet him in the year 1895—a seven-year-old boy first glimpsed chasing a frog through an Indiana swamp. And we follow this idealistic, appealing man for nearly forty years: into college and over the... Read more >
A novel in verse
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 21, 2012
Price: $18.99
The hero of this one-of-a-kind novel is Russel Darlington, a born naturalist and an unlikely romantic hero. We meet him in the year 1895—a seven-year-old boy first glimpsed chasing a frog through an Indiana swamp. And we follow this idealistic, appealing man for nearly forty years: into college and over the... Read more >
