Poetry

Wade in the Water: Poems (Hardcover)

By Tracy K. Smith

$24.00
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ISBN: 9781555978136

Published: Graywolf Press - April 3rd, 2018

 

Tracy K. Smith brings her incredible craft and compassionate eye to the job of US Poet Laureate. Her latest collection explores both our current political moment and our complicated national history, featuring the environmental destruction wreaked by Dupont, police brutality, racial inequality, political unrest, womanhood and motherhood, and an especially moving piece created from letters from black soldiers in the Civil War. These poems are luminous and illuminating, timely and timeless. Pick it up.

 

Kate

God Got a Dog (Hardcover)

By Cynthia Rylant, Marla Frazee (Illustrator)

$17.99

ISBN: 9781442465183

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Published: Beach Lane Books - October 29th, 2013

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This book is a lovely place for your mind to rest. Enjoy.

Robin

The Poet X (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth Acevedo

$18.99

ISBN: 9780062662804

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Published: Quill Tree Books - March 6th, 2018

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A novel in verse. Acevedo writes lyrically of being a teenager, a Latina, a twin, a Catholic, a daughter - and all her identities swirl together as we witness the creation of a poet. As soon as I finished the book I felt I had to start reading her poetry immediately.

David

Priestdaddy: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Patricia Lockwood

$27.00
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ISBN: 9781594633737

Published: Riverhead Books - May 2nd, 2017

Poet Patricia Lockwood’s memoir is hilarious and brilliantly weird as Lockwood tells the story of her unique family through her unique perspective. Her prose is like tripping as you walk into the room, grabbing onto a potted plant for balance, but, for once in your life, instead of falling on your face, you’re able to spin around until you’ve reset yourself like a tango dancer dipping nonplussed ficus. After spending time with Lockwood, you feel like you see a different world. This book gives you a new set of eyes.

Josh

Complete Poems And Plays,: 1909-1950 (Hardcover)

By T. S. Eliot

$36.00
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ISBN: 9780151211852

Published: Ecco -

April is the cruelest month... Except for being National Poetry month! So escape "this twittering world" and curl up with some Eliot.

 

Fare forward, voyager!

 

Matthew

In Praise of Defeat: Poems by Abdellatif Laabi (Paperback)

By Abdellatif Laabi, Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translated by)

$20.00
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ISBN: 9780914671596

Published: Archipelago - January 17th, 2017

This a powerful career spanning collection by a poet who was tortured and jailed for eight years for his political activism in Morocco. The poetry is dark and unsettling but also beautiful and uplifting. Laabi’s voice is one of proud, even exuberant defiance. This collection is a punch to jaw, but the kind of punch that lets you know you’re ready to fight.

Josh

Seven New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook boxed set (Paperback)

By Kwame Dawes (Editor), Chris Abani (Editor), Tjawangwa Dema, Clifton Gachagua, Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Nick Makoha, Ladan Osman, Warsan Shire, Len Verwey

$29.95
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ISBN: 9781940646589

Published: Slapering Hol Press - April 15th, 2014

Introduce yourself to seven young, African poets you’re unlikely to encounter anywhere else. This collection of chapbooks, selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani is a fantastic introduction to the poetry being written today in Africa. A must for poetry fans and readers of world literature.

Josh

Blackacre: Poems (Paperback)

By Monica Youn

$16.00
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ISBN: 9781555977504

Published: Graywolf Press - September 6th, 2016

Blackacre bristles with ambition as the Monica Youn (a lawyer by trade) digs into the soil of American identity. Using different forms, repeating titles, and borrowing terms from jurisprudence, Youn’s third book is a brilliant poetic object.

Josh

Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph (Hardcover)

By Roxane Orgill, Francis Vallejo (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 9780763669546

Published: Candlewick - March 8th, 2016

Jazz fans, would-be jazz fans, poetry lovers, photographers or just folks who appreciate ingenious picture books – this one is for you. The making of the Harlem 1958 photo is presented in a unique and totally interesting way. One of a kind!!

Carol