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Category: Poetry
Traverse
Exile Editions |
April 1, 2014 |
79 pages
From Toronto’s poet laureate (2012–15) comes a new book that is a tour de force in confessional verse. This autobiographical sequence in 980 lines contains 70 stanzas of “skeletal sonnets” composed, astonishingly, in one day and one evening. Traverse is a web of intersecting, crisscrossing... More Info
Inuit Poems and Songs
International Polar Institute |
August 10, 2016 |
128 pages
Having devoted his life to study of the Eskimos, their language, spiritual life and religion, Thalbitzer found in their values his own mission to search for and preserve theirs
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I Must Be Living Twice
Ecco |
September 13, 2016 |
224 pages
A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favorites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of Chelsea Girls. Eileen Myles’ work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. Her work opens readers to astonishing new... More Info
$19.95
Coke Machine Glow
Vintage |
September 28, 2016 |
94 pages
Gordon Downie, lead singer and lyricist for the popular Canadian rock band, The Tragically Hip, will release his first solo record, Coke Machine Glow in Spring 2001. Simultaneously, Vintage Canada is delighted to publish Downie's first book of poetry, under the same title. It will also contain the... More Info
$19.00
Aimless Love
Random House Trade Paperbacks |
October 21, 2014 |
261 pages
A two-time U.S. Poet Laureate presents a volume of more than 50 new poems accompanying a generous gathering from his collections of the past decade to lend insight into his overall poetic achievements and his use of playful, ironic and melodic language.
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$35.95
The Big Red Songbook
May 1, 2016 |
560 pages
In 1905, representatives from dozens of radical labor groups came together in Chicago to form One Big Union--the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known as the Wobblies. The union was a big presence in the labor movement, leading strikes, walkouts, and rallies across the nation. And everywhere... More Info
Cello's Tears
Pra Publishing |
May 6, 2015 |
122 pages
While poetry often uses precise phrases and carefully constructed stanzas to create a kind of written music, author Geza Tatrallyay ups the emotional and structural ante through literary translation. The result is "Cello's Tears," a testament to universal truths that is unhindered by the... More Info
The Spoons in the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat
Sarabande Books |
April 12, 2016 |
64 pages
Amelia Martens's prose poems sparkle with dark wit, moving from the mundane to the metaphysical with plainspoken lyricism.
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$19.95
Travelogue of the Bereaved
Tsar Publications |
April 14, 2014 |
94 pages
Poetry. African & African American Studies. These poems challenge the notion of "home" for persons of African descent born outside the continent. Closely attentive to form and content, narrative and emotion, history and the contemporary, they tell stories that are little known--the lives of... More Info
For Teenage Girls With Wild Ambitions and Trembling Hearts
April 12, 2016 |
64 pages
A stunning keepsake edition of the empowering, inspiring message all young women can take to heart. For Teenage Girls celebrates the incendiary brilliance and promise of young women -- our daughters, sisters, friends, ourselves. A beautiful gift, a powerful talisman -- a book to give, to keep, to... More Info
Let the Empire Down
April 12, 2016 |
72 pages
Alexandra Oliver takes us on a journey of escape from the suburbs of North America to Glasgow, Scotland. Training her eye on the locals?on the streets, by rivers, in museums, in playgrounds, in their own homes, in the ill-starred town of Lockerbie?Oliver reflects on issues of escape, exile, memory... More Info
All the Gold Hurts My Mouth
March 29, 2016 |
90 pages
Katherine Leyton's fresh and vibrant debut collection takes on the sexual politics of the twenty-first century, boldly holding up a mirror to the male gaze and interrogating the nature of images and illusions. Confronting the forces of mass communication — whether television, movies, or the... More Info
Caribou Run
March 29, 2016 |
90 pages
At one moment, a pure abstraction; at the next, an incontrovertible presence of hooves, antlers, and fur. The beating heart of this assured début by Richard Kelly Kemick is the Porcupine caribou herd of the western Arctic. In Caribou Run, Richard Kelly Kemick orchestrates a suite of poems both... More Info
Milk and Honey
Andrews McMeel Publishing |
October 6, 2015 |
208 pages
milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes... More Info
Today Means Amen
February 2, 2016 |
112 pages
Vivid, courageous, and candid, the poetry of Sierra deMulder speaks straight to the heart. Dear you: Whoever you are, However you got here, This is exactly where you are supposed to be. This moment has waited its whole life for you. These are the opening lines of "Today Means Amen," YouTube star... More Info
The Xenotext
Coach House Books |
September 21, 2015 |
200 pages
Enciphered in a bacterium, "The Xenotext" is the world's first living poem.
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Country Club
Coach House Books |
October 19, 2015 |
88 pages
"Country Club" springboards from the inner rings of corporate America into a world where freedom is measured in football fields.
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$17.00
Adam Smith in Rhymes
CreateSpace |
June 9, 2015 |
52 pages
Economics is the study of how people make decisions. It is an extremely interesting field because it reveals so much about human psychology and relationships, how to critique government policies and of course, how to maximize cash money! However, people have an aversion to economics because... More Info
Beautiful Zero
January 12, 2016 |
96 pages
Incantatory, intimate, and incendiary, the poems of this award-winning debut are filled with explosive wit and humor like "a knife you don’t see coming.” A kaleidoscopic intelligence flows throughBeautiful Zero, embracing forms of culture high and low in effort to finding meaning in the chaos.... More Info
Selected Poems
January 16, 2016 |
80 pages
In 1967, when the newly established House of Anansi Press began publishing, the first two poetry books they issued were a reprint of Margaret Atwood's GG-winning book, The Circle Game, and George Jonas's first book, The Absolute Smile. Over the course of the following forty-four years, Jonas... More Info
Poem-A-Day
Abrams Image |
December 1, 2015 |
432 pages
For 80 years, the Academy of American Poets has been one of the most influential and respected champions of contemporary American poetry. Through their successful Poem-a-Day online program, the Academy continues to celebrate verse by delivering poems to thousands of e-mail subscribers each morning.... More Info
Felicity
Penguin Press |
October 13, 2015 |
96 pages
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems “If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,” Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in... More Info
We Will Be Shelter
Write Bloody Pub |
December 1, 2014 |
166 pages
An anthology of contemporary poems that addresses issues of social justice.
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Shards
New Directions |
September 8, 2015 |
64 pages
Ferlinghetti s fiery translation of the little-known 14th-century Roman poet"
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Fauxccasional Poems
Goose Lane Editions |
September 29, 2015 |
96 pages
In Fauxccasional Poems, Daniel Scott Tysdal imagines himself into poetic voices not his own, writing to commemorate events that never occurred, for the posterity of alternative universes — and the delight of our own. From the reign of the first philosopher king once envisioned by Plato, to the... More Info
The Sun Has Forgotten Where I Live
Not Avail |
April 15, 2011 |
134 pages
The poems in this collection are snapshots of suburban fatherhood, philosophical musings on our limited temporal existence, and rants about an absurd world. McPherson reflects the world back to us as if we were seeing it through a series of wonky carnival ride mirrors. Sometimes the images are so... More Info
The Essential Daryl Hine
The Porcupine's Quill |
July 30, 2015 |
64 pages
First published at the age of fifteen and admired for six decades as a poetic virtuoso, Daryl Hine is recognized today as one of the strongest Canadian poets of the twentieth century. His poems, widely cultured and often autobiographical, engage with a remarkable variety of forms, genres, and... More Info
$18.95
Diversion
September 15, 2015 |
120 pages
New poems from one of Canada’s best-known poets Where most poetry seeks contemplative quiet, as in Wordsworth’s "emotion recollected in tranquility,” Diversion asks: What happens to poetry if one stops trying to block the incoming cacophony and instead embraces the multiple streams of data... More Info
I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career
June 2, 2015 |
212 pages
"Ginsberg's very first book, Howl And Other Poems was published by Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books in 1956 and it was followed by a dozen more before Allen's death in 1997. More than any other documents, the letters between these two literary giants -- intimate, opinionated, and action-packed --... More Info
I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career
City Lights Books |
May 12, 2015 |
212 pages
One of the longest relationships between a publisher and a writer, documented in an intimate correspondence spanning their respective careers.
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Broom Broom
March 15, 2014 |
69 pages
Nothing slips by Brecken Hancock's deft ear as she seductively plumbs the depths of the evolution of bathing, doppelgangers, the Kraken, and the minutiae of family with all its tragic misgivings. The poems in Broom Broom pervert the rational, safe parts of the world to extoll and absorb the sweep... More Info
The Romantic Poets
Canterbury Classics |
July 14, 2015 |
800 pages
Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement’s five most famous poets — William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor... More Info
$18.95
Thunderbird Poems
Harbour Publishing |
May 1, 2015 |
80 pages
Norval Morrisseau's revered work has been honoured, copied and recognized throughout the art world and beyond. Less widely known but equally captivating is the artist's personal life story, which poet and biographer Armand Garnet Ruffo related in his powerful narrative biography, Norval Morrisseau:... More Info
$14.95
A Serious Call
The Porcupine's Quill |
March 27, 2015 |
64 pages
In A Serious Call, Governor General’s Award-winner Don Coles presents a collection of moments suspended in time: a line of poetry, forgotten for years and remembered as often; a photograph cut out of a 1942 newspaper that saves its subjects not from death but from oblivion; a fond memory of a... More Info
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
Simon & Schuster |
April 28, 2015 |
336 pages
A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: “The Holdens remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse….It’s plain fun” (The Wall Street Journal). Grown men aren’t supposed to cry…Yet... More Info
The Road in Is Not the Same Road Out
April 9, 2015 |
112 pages
In her fourth collection, and the first since the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning Pigeon, Karen Solie advances her extraordinary poetics of impetus and second thoughts. Ferrying the intimate self through the public realm, these poems meditate on the tensile strength of our most elemental bonds and... More Info
$30.50
This Present Moment
Counterpoint |
April 1, 2015 |
88 pages
"This present moment That lives on To become Long ago." For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from Paris and Tuscany to the shrine... More Info
$19.95
Kapusta
March 20, 2015 |
128 pages
In Kapusta, Moure performs this silence on the page and aloud, writing “gesture” and “voice” to explore the relation between responsibility and place, body, memory, sorrow, and sonority. Here, poetry flourishes as a book “beyond the book,” in a space of performance that starts and stops... More Info
$19.95
The Exiles' Home Gallery
March 20, 2015 |
128 pages
Widely praised for her engagement with and attention to craft, Elise Partridge's The Exiles' Gallery confirms her standing as one of the most thoughtful, authentic voices in contemporary poetry. The poems in her third collection continue to explore what she has called "implicit questions about... More Info
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