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Author
Series
May Swenson Poetry Award volume 18
Publisher
Utah State University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Hutchin's poems startle us into awareness of the overlooked, the nearly-always invisible, and the marvelous, those aspects of life that come under the rubric of 'mystery,' in all sense of the word. Hutchins combines a pitch-perfect and precise lyricism with a postmodern sensibility of language's materiality"--
10) Hijra
Author
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In her third poetry collection, Hijra, Hala Alyan creates poems of migration and flight reflecting and bearing witness to the haunting particulars in her transnational journey as well as those of her mother, her mother's sister, the lost aunts of her father in Gaza, and her Syrian grandmother Alyan's interest in issues of social justice, disparity, and occupation informs her examination of the lives of women from an unnamed, war-torn village as they...
12) Selected poems
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Here, in a new selection of 200 poems from five decades, is the distinctive voice of Robert Creeley, reminding us of what has made him one of the most important and affectionately regarded poets of our time.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
In Poem for Black Boys, she writes: "Where are your heroes, my little Black ones / You are the Indian you so disdainfully shoot / Not the big bad sheriff on his faggoty white horse / You should play run-away-slave or Mau-Mau / These are more in line with your history." By the author of Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experimental diaries, traditional genres, the postmodern series, the newly invented epic, political observation and invective, and the poem as novel. This chronological selection of her most notable work offers a delineation of her life and creative development. Formerly associated with the second generation...
18) Small hours
Author
Series
Publisher
Truman State University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
By turns poignant and hopeful, raging and joyful, Small Hours interweaves the personal and the political, connecting family history to moments within a larger historical arc of injustice and oppression. The poems in this collection bear witness to those whose stories have fallen into the fractures of history and been lost, their mouths opening / below earth, their bodies / burning like forbidden books, about whom we know almost nothing. These poems...
19) blud
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Cultural brujeria, sacrilegious litanies, ritualized births, and letters from hearts and/or brains populate Rachel McKibben's world in blud"--
20) How to be drawn
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of these poems bear the clearest imprint yet of Hayes's background as a visual artist, they do not strive to describe art so much as inhabit it. Thus, one poem contemplates the principle of blind contour drawing while others are inspired by maps, graphs, and assorted artists. The formal and emotional versatilities that distinguish Hayes's award-winning...