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If poetry is a place to question, I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell is an attempt to explore a relationship to poetic responsibility and accountability, and frame poetry as a form of re-visioning.Here Webb-Campbell revisits the text of her earlier work Who...
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Book*hug Press
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2019-01-08
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Poems that stride bravely into the day-to-day, recovering the misdirected intensity at its core.
Brenda Leifso’s Wild Madder is about way-finding—through those moments in which you no longer recognize where you are. It’s about not knowing—who you are anymore, how to be...
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Brick Books
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2019-01-04
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Poems of serious wordplay—an affirmation and celebration of the spectacles we make of our lives. On-stage in Matthew Gwathmey’s debut collection are agitated 19th century horsemen, 80s comic book beetles, plaid-clad suburban grunge enthusiasts, Korean aunts turned...
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Brick Books
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2019-01-04
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Perhaps the most broadly influential spiritual text in human history, Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the source of Taoist philosophy, which eventually developed into Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. Equally influential in the social sphere, Confucious' Analects is the source of social...
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Biblos
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2018-11-24
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Acclaimed for his superior craftsmanship (“half the meaning of a lyric poem is in the music”) and his summoning of sentiment without sentimentality, John Donlan in his sixth collection confronts our inevitable sense of loss and mourning as we live through the sixth...
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Ronsdale Press
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2018-11-01
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Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin.
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Brick Books
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2018-11-01
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Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin.
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Brick Books
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2018-11-01
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Ledi, the second book by Vancouver poet Kim Trainor, describes the excavation of an Iron Age Pazyryk woman from her ice-bound grave in the steppes of Siberia. Along with the woman's carefully preserved body, with its blue tattoos of leopards and griffins, grave goods...
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BookThug
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2018-10-10
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Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint.
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Brick Books
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2018-10-01
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Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint.
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Brick Books
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2018-10-01
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Working within a postmodern style, this rhythmic and melodious collection of poems originally written in Slovenian by Cvetka Lipuš and translated here by Tom Priestly, blends the real with the surreal, dull urban lives with dreams. Lipuš, known for the lexical beauty of...
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AU Press
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2018-09-30
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These poems dwell in the hearth of domesticity, but they look beyond the confines of the home with clear eyes. Boldly unafraid, they confront the realities of climate change, the desecration of habitat, some quiet truths about aging and death. The first section consists...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2018-09-25
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The capacity of the rediscovered world to signal and illuminate, restore and repair, fuels the poems in Every Shameless Ray. In Every Shameless Ray, it’s more often possible to find one’s way when headed somewhere else. Intellectually curious, emotionally acute and...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2018-09-25
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In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture of...
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Pandora's Box Classics
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2018-09-24
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Careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Our intellect silently reminds our eyes that the car that appears to be moving between leaves is actually behind them...
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BookThug
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2018-09-21
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It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi explores the milestones and hurdles of a brown girl coming into her own. Shafi's poems display a raw and frank intimacy and address anxiety, unemployment, heartbreak, relationships, identity, and faith.Accompanied by Shafi's candid...
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BookThug
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2018-09-10
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In her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans woman in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberation, and beauty. A confessional poet, Benaway narrates...
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BookThug
Parution :
2018-09-01
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Both “grave and brave, serious and hilarious”—new poems from a Governor General’s Award–winning poet.
Editeur :
Brick Books
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2018-09-01
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Both “grave and brave, serious and hilarious”—new poems from a Governor General’s Award–winning poet.
Editeur :
Brick Books
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2018-09-01
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The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran.The prophet, Almustafa, has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is...
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KTHTK
Parution :
2018-07-23
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