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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From an acclaimed and wildly imaginative poet, a book-length poem set in the Metropolitan Museum of Art that is a work of art history and a coming-of-age story. Robyn Schiff's fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's information desk, where Schiff long ago held a staff position. Elaborately mapping an interconnected route in and out of the museum through history, material, and memory,...
2) So to speak
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"These wondrous poems are lyric germinations of the often-incomprehensible predicaments of the present, as Terrance Hayes shapes language into figures of music and music into figures of language"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrogates if being "trouble" -- difficult, unruly, powerful, defiant -- is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength. Steeped in the hoodoo spiritual tradition and organized via reimagined tarot cards, this collection becomes a chorus of unapologetic women who laugh, cry, mesmerize, and bring outsiders to their knees. Summoning the supernatural to examine death, rebirth,...
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