Poetry
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Be Holding: A Poem [Paperback]
Ross Gay (Author)
£13.00ISBN: 9780822966234
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Be Holding connects Dr. J’s famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage, to photograp... .... Learn More
The Body Wars: Poems [Paperback]
Jan Beatty (Author)
£13.00ISBN: 9780822966241
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Not yet published - available for pre-order
What would it take to be home in one’s body, to walk around the world as oneself, knowing the pain within and without us? Jan Beatty boldly answers that question by making a fire map of the body. These roiling poems smack into walls of medita... .... Learn More
Extra Hidden Life, among the Days [Paperback]
Brenda Hillman (Author)
£10.95ISBN: 9780819578945
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Brenda Hillman begins her new book in a place of mourning and listening that is deeply transformative. By turns plain and transcendent, these poems meditate on trees, bacteria, wasps, buildings, roots, and stars, ending with twinned elegies and po... .... Learn More
Death of the Poets, Thirty Polite Things to Say, and Dog Truths (Gift Set) [Paperback]
Kit Reed (Author); Joseph W. Reed (Author)
£11.95ISBN: 9780819578976
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Death of a Poet is rhyming couplets meet etched illustrations in this whimsically dark chapbook about poets and their deaths.
In hyperbolic fashion, the preface to Thirty Polite Things to Say reads, "There are times in the lives of u... .... Learn More
Atopia [Hardback]
Sandra Simonds (Author)
£21.95ISBN: 9780819579195
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Tallahassee. Tallahassee. Tallahassee.
Your mist today is incredible
as it settles on this rose garden!
When the largest rose shook off its dew
and looked at me like a cartoon, I smiled back
and promised not to break ... .... Learn More
The Trailhead [Paperback]
Kerri Webster (Author)
£11.95ISBN: 9780819579836
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Song of the Husbandsfor HenryAll winter the kind husbands hoverlike mortgaged angels. Onesmells gasoline in his sleep, wouldbe my lover. They want me<... .... Learn More
Un-American [Paperback]
Hafizah Geter (Author)
£11.95ISBN: 9780819579812
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Testimonyfor Tamir Rice, 2002-2014Mr. President,After they shot me they tackled my sister.The sound of her knees hitting the sidewalkmade my stomach ache. It wa... .... Learn More
Un-American [Hardback]
Hafizah Geter (Author)
£25.95ISBN: 9780819579805
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Testimonyfor Tamir Rice, 2002-2014Mr. President,After they shot me they tackled my sister.The sound of her knees hitting the sidewalkmade my stomach ache. It wa... .... Learn More
Forest of Names: 108 Meditations [Hardback]
Ian Boyden (Author)
£25.95ISBN: 9780819579942
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
July 30
Tiānwēi
Celestial Awe
He carried no iron into battle.
When he lifted his hand,
he brandished the sky.
How do we honor the dead? How do we commit them to memory? And how do we come ... .... Learn More
Forest of Names: 108 Meditations [Paperback]
Ian Boyden (Author)
£11.95ISBN: 9780819579959
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
July 30
Tiānwēi
Celestial Awe
He carried no iron into battle.
When he lifted his hand,
he brandished the sky.
How do we honor the dead? How do we commit them to memory? And how do we come ... .... Learn More
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