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Witty, intriguing, and self-effacing poems that pick up overheard conversations and the accidental encounters of everyday life.

Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent for coaxing out the world's ghosts and then fixing them in personal landscapes of fear and uncertainty....Smoothed by nuances of sound and rhythm, her poems exude an ambiguous wisdom, an acceptance of the sad magic that returns us constantly to the lives we might have led". -- Library Journal

A powerful, nuanced look at service in the Iraq War through the eyes of a veteran turned poet.

An unflinching, open-hearted inquiry that encompasses religion, disaster, resilience, infertility, adoption, parenthood, and what it means to love one's neighbor.

The long-awaited tenth collection of poetry from the Shelley Memorial Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton.

"...seamlessly, miraculously, [Hicok's] eye imbues even the dreadful with beauty and meaning."--The New York Times Book Review

A medley of voices in dialogue with each other, this book-length poem underscores the destructiveness and hypocrisy of American venture.

In this rich continuation of Beasley's soul-quest, Gnostic Gospels collide with shaman belief, Buddhist treatises, Schopenhauer's philosophical nihilism, and fatherhood.

Hungry for home and belonging, these poems re-imagine real and ideal experiences of immigration and displacement through Asian American perspectives.

Prose poems that turn conventional thought on its head, allowing magic to spring from mundane details of middle age life.

A master of neo-confessional poetry, Craig Morgan Teicher charts new territory in his fierce exploration of family, fatherhood, and poetry.

Ira Sadoff's ninth book shows a seasoned poet at the height of his powers: class, religion, politics with sharp wit.

Reyes's unapologetic intersectionally feminist "tough love" poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.

Selected poems from celebrated poet Lucille Clifton's 50-year career selected by Whiting Award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.

LAST COPIES. Poetry. Memoir. African American Studies. A landmark collection by one of America's major black poets, GOOD WOMAN includes all of Lucille Clifton's previously published books of extraordinarily vibrant poetry, as well as her haunting prose memoir GENERATIONS.

A collection of postcard poems 'sent' from varied places and states of heart and mind.

Established poet Sharon Bryan debuts ten years of poems blending themes of biology, astronomy, and music.

Inspired by Lowell's Life Studies, Teicher explores troubled spaces between loved ones as a son becomes a husband and father.

Poems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss.

A major poetry collection by one of America's most widely acclaimed poets, published in his eightieth Year!

35 new poems and selections from six previous collections including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Heart's Needle.

1985 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "For nearly 25 years Carolyn Kizer has been writing poetry that is imaginative, moving and funny...she is still at the top of her powers. This is a wonderful book."--Washington Post Book World