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Insomnia Diary (Pitt Poetry Series)

by Bob Hicok

Edgy, brazen, and funny at first glance, on a closer look Bob Hicok's poems reveal themselves to be soulful, reflective, and provocative. Thoughtful meditations build into moments of epiphany as Hicok displays a fluid ability to shift moods, a rich visual palette, and an idiosyncratic use of language. The poems in Insomnia Diary are populated by the denizens of the world of getting-by, who waver between loneliness... (more)

Deepstep Come Shining

by C. D. Wright

Poetry. "Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies, and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets... DEEPSTEP teems with wry, rich sentences no one else could have written... and leaps exhilaratingly among verbal registers"--Publishers Weekly. DEEPSTEP COME SHINING is a single long poem based loosely on a road trip... (more)

Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft

Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft

by Tony Hoagland

The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thrilling and valuable. Why? Because the willingness to be offensive sets free the ruthless observer in all of us, the spiteful perceptive angel who sees and tells, unimpeded by nicety or second thoughts. There... (more)

Worshipful Company of Fletchers

by James Tate

"These new poems . . . deliver the typical Tate-esque trope de grace to all sanctimonious poses and stodgy cogitation, all verdigris-encrusted mental statuary."--Carolyne Wright, Harvard Review. Winner of the 1994 National Book Award.

Hip Logic (National Poetry Series)

by Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic , is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson, Big Bird, Balthus, and Mr. T, as well as poems based on the anagram principle of words within a word. Throughout, Hayes's verse dances in a kind of homemade music box, with notes that range from tender to erudite, associative... (more)

Budget Travel through Space and Time: Poems

Budget Travel through Space and Time: Poems

by Albert Goldbarth

A new kaleidoscopic itinerary of poems by Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The glass eye = a prosthetic eye. And a telescope lens?—the dream life of the glass eye when it’s closed. —from “About the Dead” Albert Goldbarth’s trusty travel guide, Budget Travel through Space and Time , is a steal. For only $14.00, you can: • Observe the nation of Tuvalu sinking into... (more)

Next Life (Wesleyan Poetry)

by Rae Armantrout

In her latest collection, Rae Armantrout considers the shaping effects of language in the context of new and frightening global realities. Attempting to imagine the unimaginable and see the unseen, Armantrout evokes a "next life" beyond the current, and too often degraded, one. From the new physics to mortality, Armantrout engages with the half-seen and the half-believed. These poems step into the dance of... (more)

From the Devotions: Poems

by Carl Phillips

With From the Devotions , Carl Phillips takes us even further into that dangerous space he has already made his own, where body and soul--ever restless--come explosively together. Speaking to a balance between decorum and pain, he offers here a devotional poetry that argues for faith, even without the comforting gods or the organized structures of revealed truth. Neither sage nor saint nor prophet, the poet is... (more)

She Says: Bilingual Edition

by Ve?nus Khoury-Ghata

Award-winning American poet Marilyn Hacker offers the brilliance of Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata in an exquisite translation She says the earth is so vast one can’t help but be lost like water from a broken jug There is no fortress against the wind the winter wanderer must count on the compassion of walls —from “She Says” Translated by celebrated American poet Marilyn Hacker, Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s ... (more)

Loose Sugar (Wesleyan Poetry)

by Brenda Hillman

An elaborate collection of poems that culminate in a meditation on the possibility of a native and feminine language,

Bewitched Playground

by David Rivard

A kind of "public dreaming" takes place via the music of these poems--a music as likely to visit the long-dead ghosts of the Kwakiutl tribe as Gianni Versace, and as interested in the baby seat of a car as it is in a boxing ring. Building on the critical success of David Rivard's two earlier, award-winning books, Bewitched Playground widens both his emotional aperture and formal range. Rivard calls it "my book... (more)

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