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American poets continuum volume no. 194
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"In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic"--
3) Buffalo girl
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American poets continuum volume 199
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"In these hybrid poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother's fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of war through the lens of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale. Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women's bodies. Interspersed throughout this hybrid work are a series of collaged photographs, featuring Stark's mother's...
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American poets continuum volume no. 191
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English
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"A master of documentary poetry, Erika Meitner takes up the question of desire and intimacy in her latest poetry collection"--
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American poets continuum volume 21
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English
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Brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton's personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.
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American poets continuum volume 110
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From the Bible to the Quaraan, the fortieth day symbolizes the last moment before deliverance, a moment in time when a supplicant or prophet or stormbeaten passenger knows there is no state "after," but finally accepts the present state as a permanent one. In The Fortieth Day, Kazim Ali follows the fractured narratives and moving lyrics of his debut collection, The Far Mosque, with a deeply spiritual and meditative book exploring the rhetoric of prayer....
7) Copia: poems
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American poets continuum volume 144
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English
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"Started as a VQR documentary-project, Copia examines the now-bankrupt city of Detroit, once the thriving heart of the American Dream. "--
"This is a volume of original American poetry"--
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American poets continuum volume 15
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Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "Clifton mythologizes herself: that is, she illuminated her surroundings and history from within in a way that casts light on much beyond."-The Women's Review of Books
9) Tenderness
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American poets continuum volume 187
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"The insights of a young, queer Black man from the South surviving depression and building a poet's life in modern-day America"--
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American poets continuum volume no. 147
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English
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An "unleashed love song" to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown's collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, mile-long false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny is not your typical granny rocking in a chair. Instead, think of a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but darkened with a shadow of Flannery O'Connor. A cross-genre...
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American poets continuum volume 202
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English
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"In his twentieth book, most of which was first composed on the backs of medical forms while on break as a third-shift medical technician, Sean Thomas Dougherty brings us a memoir-like prose sequence reflecting on disability, chronic illness, addiction, survival, love, and parenthood"--
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American poets continuum volume no. 179
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English
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"With wry humor and acute attention to detail, John Gallaher's latest poetry collection captures the pain and joys of caretaking"--
"In Brand New Spacesuit, John Gallaher writes with honesty, humor, and tenderness about what fades and what remains. These poems offer snapshots of the poet's memories of his adoption and childhood, his father's heart attacks, his mother's progressing Alzheimer's disease and stroke, raising his own children, and his...
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American poets continuum volume no. 138
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English
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"These poems throw into question sex, the law, identity, sentiment, and power, shifting between lyric and narrative, hyper-realism and magical realism, fact and fiction."--from publisher's description.
14) Night angler
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American poets continuum volume 172
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English
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"[The author's] second collection of poems reads as an evolving love letter and meditation on what it means to raise an American family. In poems that express a deep sense of gratitude and wonder, Davis delivers a heart-strong prayer that longs for home, for safety for black lives, and for the messy success of breaking through the trauma of growing up during the crack epidemic to create a new model of fatherhood. Filled with humor and tenderness,...
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American poets continuum volume 178
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English
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"A Latina feminist chronicle of the Vietnam War era in documentary poems that highlights the voices of women relegated to the margins of history"--
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American poets continuum volume 193
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English
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"In pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship"--
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American poets continuum volume 188
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English
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"A modern poetic retelling of a Biblical flood, a ship of refugees, a changing climate, and the struggle to survive"--
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