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BC, Northwestern University Press, POE005010, TriQuarterly
Avenue of Vanishing
In lyric and narrative verse, William Olsen explores subcultures ranging from the suburban middle class to the urban drug culture to the art world, and along the way, constantly probes…
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BC, POE005010, University of Pittsburgh Press
Babel
Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby’s earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and…
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BC, POE005010, Southern Illinois University Press
Beautiful Trouble
In her first collection of poems, Kansas native Amy Fleury captures images of dragging clotheslines, baked lawns, and sweet potato babies, inserting them with an earnest dignity into her stories…
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BC, POE000000, POE005010, Southern Illinois University Press
Becoming Ebony
Recapturing the celebratory voice of Africa in poems that are both contemporary and traditional, Liberian-born Patricia Jabbeh Wesley weaves lyrical storytelling with oral history and images of Africa and America,…
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BC, POE005010, Southern Illinois University Press
Birthmark
In Jon Pineda’s debut collection Birthmark, loss takes the shape of a scar, memory the shape of a childhood, and identity the shape of a birthmark on a lover’s thigh….
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BC, POE005010, University of Pittsburgh Press
Black Swan
Winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Prize Selected by Marilyn Nelson Finalist, 2003 Paterson Poetry Prize “Imagine Leda black—” begins Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon’s exciting new collection of poems. Mixing vernacular…
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BC, POE005010, University of Pittsburgh Press
Blessing the House
Jim Daniels’ Blessing the House visits the sites of domestic faith – Catholic schools, sex and marriage, childbirth – in an attempt to witness a world worth believing in. In…
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BC, Harper Perennial, HarperCollins, Paperback - Trade, POE005010, POE023010, POE024000
Blue Hour
“Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called ‘the [lost] presence beyond appearance.’ The longest poem, ‘On Earth,’ is…
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