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61) Catrachos: poems
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The breathtaking debut collection from one of America's most inventive new poets, A name for the people of Honduras, Catrachos is a term of solidarity and resilience. In these unflinching, riveting poems, Roy G. Guzmán reaches across borders--between life and death and between countries-invoking the voices of the lost. Part immigration narrative, part elegy, and part queer coming-of-age story, Catrachos finds its own religion in fantastic figures...
62) Evolution
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"These new poems upend genre in a vernacular that enacts, like nothing else, the way we speak (inside and out) today. From walking around Marfa and New York City with an orange pit bull to Myles's transcendent acceptance speech as president, Evolution lifts a can of Diet Coke as an End-of-the-World toast to embodiment, irreverence, and risk."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Alice James Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"As a perennial outsider, the speaker traverses through loneliness, consumerism, and silence, until he sees his personal history as communal. It's a quest to honor the complexity of the mind and heart over time-a quest for justice, love, and compassion. Cultural forces and conventions-repression, prejudice, power regimes- frame feelings of powerlessness, and are explored deeply in this collection. Sadoff's ninth poetry collection seeks to understand...
69) Collected poems
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"More than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert are gathered in this volume, from his Yale Younger Poets prizewinning volume to his glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work."--Jacket.
71) Harbinger: poems
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Shows us the reality of the constantly evolving and unstable self, a portrait of the artist as fragmentary, impressionable, and always in flux.
75) Face bug: poems
Author
Publisher
WordSong an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Come to the grand opening of the Face Bug Museum where readers can join an insect crowd to see amazing close-up photographs of bug faces, meet the bugs featured, and participate in interactive museum exhibits. Includes factual information about 14 insects including the nursery web spider and the pearl crescent butterfly.
Publisher
Academy of American Poets
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For 80 years, the Academy of American Poets has been one of the most influential and respected champions of contemporary American poetry. Through their successful Poem-a-Day online program, the Academy continues to celebrate verse by delivering poems to thousands of e-mail subscribers each morning. Now for the first time, the poems selected by the Academy for this program are available in book form so that they can be collected and savored.
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