New Poetry
New arrivals added to the poetry collection in the last 7 days
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| A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure |
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Apr 12, 2021 |
| Can I Kick It? |
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Apr 12, 2021 |
| God I feel modern tonight - poems from a gal about town |
"Tragicomic verses by award-winning comedian and renaissance millennial woman. Catherine Cohen, the one-woman standup chanteuse who has electrified the downtown comedy scene in her white go-go boots, has been posting poignant, unfiltered poems on social media since before Instagram was a thing. A self-proclaimed self-obsessed millennial on the prowl with her beaded bag, she ponders good and bad dates, English-major dreams, the Lululemon employee who murdered her co-worker, and other weighty matt |
Apr 24, 2021 |
| Living nations, living words - an anthology of first peoples poetry |
"A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathersthe work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project t |
Apr 22, 2021 |
| Mule kick blues - and last poems |
"The final book of poems from a Beat Generation legend, Mule Kick Blues finds McClure restlessly innovating until the end. Completed over the last years of his life, Mule Kick Blues is the final book of poems by Beat Generation legend Michael McClure. Taking its title from an innovative sequence of homages to blues musicians like Leadbelly, Willie Dixon, and Howlin' Wolf, and evoking Kerouac's concept of "blues" poems, Mule Kick Blues contains stark meditations on the poet's mortality as well as |
Apr 19, 2021 |
| Now we're getting somewhere - poems |
"A no-holds-barred, dark, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet, veering between the poles of self and world. An essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kal-sarika¨nnit-drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out-Now We're Getting Somewhere charts a hazardous course through heartache, climate change, dental work, Dorothy Parker, John Keats, Outlander, semiotics, and more. The poems are sometimes confessional, sometimes philosoph |
Apr 26, 2021 |
| Outward - Adrienne Rich's expanding solitudes |
"The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich's full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships"-- |
Apr 12, 2021 |
| Smoking Lovely - The Remix |
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Apr 19, 2021 |
| The essential June Jordan |
"A collection drawn from June Jordan's previous books"-- |
Apr 19, 2021 |
| The Rinehart frames |
"The Rinehart Frames questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe upon monolithic categorizations of Blackness and what can be intersected with it"-- |
Apr 12, 2021 |
| Totem - America |
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Apr 16, 2021 |
| Tributary |
"Poems that seek to expose the struggles and failings of family and faith, the rigidity of conditional love and loyalty"-- |
Apr 12, 2021 |
| Vertigo & ghost - poems |
"Winner of the 2019 Forward and Roehampton Prizes, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into an "addictive, thrilling, sickening" (John Self, Guardian) sequence of graphic, stunning pieces about Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom woman are prey and sex is weaponized. These are frank, brilliant, devastating poems of vulnerability and rage. In the book's second half, acclaimed poet Fiona Benson shifts to an intimate and lyrical document of depression, family life, and early motherhood. Vertigo & Ghost i |
Apr 19, 2021 |
| Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey |
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Apr 19, 2021 |
| Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 |
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Apr 12, 2021 |
