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2) Versed
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Wesleyan University Press
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English
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Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010)
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009)
Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded view of the arc of her writing. The poems in the first section, Versed, play with
...3) Suddenly we
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Wesleyan University Press
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English
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"Shockley repurposes literary and musical modes from across centuries of African American and diasporic traditions. Given the choice between formal flawlessness and page-spanning sprawls, between autobiographical revelation and collective outcry, she welcomes the self-contradictions of being all the above."--
"Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream-and work-toward a more capacious 'we'. In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes...
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Wesleyan University Press
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English
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"Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. In the book's three sequences, McCrae explores the role mass entertainment plays in oppression, confronts the myth that freedom can be based upon the power to dominate others, and, in poems about the mixed-race...
5) Brother poem
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Wesleyan University Press
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2023
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English
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"Poems whose central concern is a series of addresses to an absent brother, where the impossibility of speech comes to prefigure a different sort of kinship, one that extends beyond speech, which is intimate and communal, grieving and joyful, and endless"--
"A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG4 million years ago, a tiny branch in the multiverse led to the formation of Brother Poem, a...
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Wesleyan University Press
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English
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"Poems meditating on differences between human time and ecological time, bringing to the foreground experiences of love and aging"--
""[Hillman's] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful." -Harvard ReviewAn iconoclastic ecopoet who has led the way for many young and emerging artists, Brenda Hillman continues to re-cast innovative poetic forms as instruments for tracking human and non-human experiences. At times the poet deploys short...
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Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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“A soulful reckoning for our twenty-first century, held in focus through echoes of the past and future, but always firmly rooted in now.” —Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Winner of the Colorado Book Award in Poetry (2018)
In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positioned at a fulcrum, bringing a new life into the world
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Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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What actually happens within the revolution of the clock's hands? In The Writing of an Hour the poet considers the effort and the deliberateness that brings her to her desk each day. Despite domestic and day job demands and widespread lockdown, Coultas forges connections to the sublime and wonders what it means to be from the Americas. These poems verge on the surreal, transform the quotidian, and respond anew to the marvelous. The Writing
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"Written during an outburst of creativity during a period of only two weeks in February 1922, Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus is one of the great poetic works of the twentieth century. Willis Barnstone brings these poems into English; this dual-language edition allows the reader to compare versions face-to-face to get a clearer sense of the nuances of the translation. Also included is an extensive introduction from the translator that offers a biographical...
11) Selected poems
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Wesleyan University Press
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[1991]
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English
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An award-winning gathering of exquisite poems by a celebrated poet.
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Wesleyan University Press
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2008.
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English
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An essential collection of a highly original American poet
In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet, his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and '60s, though in many ways Spicer's innovative writing ran counter to that of his contemporaries in the New York School and the West...
15) Archeophonics
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Wesleyan University Press
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[2016]
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English
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"Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds and shapes of languages in the tradition of the art, and the multitude of private connections that lie undisclosed in ones emotional memory. The book takes seriously the opening epigraph by the late great James Schuyler:...
16) Conjure
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Wesleyan University Press
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[2020]
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English
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"A new book of poems by the National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner, exploring thought, dialogue, and everyday interactions"--
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Wesleyan University Press
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[2013]
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English
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A spellbinding collection from one of America's most original and magical poets
Annie Finch's Spells brings together her most memorable and striking poems written over forty years. Finch's uniquely mysterious voice moves through the book, revealing insights on the classic themes of love, spirituality, death, nature, and the patterns of time. A feminist and pagan, Finch writes poems as "spells" that bring readers to experience words not just in the...
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Wesleyan University Press
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[1982]
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English
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Co-winner of the American Book Award for Poetry, this contains in Wright's words "What I had been trying to say for fifteen years, in the way I wanted to say it, now that the driftwood and commentary have been picked out of the sub-narrative flow..."
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Wesleyan University Press
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[1992]
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English
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For over three decades, James Dickey has been one of the nation's most important poets and a prominent man of letters. The Eagle's Mile, his most recent volume, was a triumphant success, a bold and innovative departure from his traditional verse. The New York Times declared, "Dickey continues to extend his vision as a major American poet," while Fred Chappell, himself a Bollingen Prize winner, wrote, "If there were a literary prize for Poetry That...
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