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Four Fold Returns: Meditation, Contemplations and Petitions for the 21st Century

Product Description: This book gives an optimistic look on life as it tends toward positive, and not negative, thinking. The work of writing this book was enjoyable. It was exciting to write because it is very creative and has a biblical foundation. There is little biblical poetry and personal experience on the market such as this...read more

By Susie Schmidt

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9781480904811 | Rosedog Pr, December 9, 2017, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: This book gives an optimistic look on life as it tends toward positive, and not negative, thinking.

White Paint Flying

Product Description: This is a collection of short poems about love, cats, artists, books, movies, and wine. The poems were written in Brooklyn and upstate New York.

By Joan Cofrancesco

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9781504977999 | Authorhouse, March 31, 2017, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: This is a collection of short poems about love, cats, artists, books, movies, and wine.

War Music: An Account of HomerÂs Iliad

Product Description: A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night,And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet. “Your life at every instant up for― / Gone...read more

By Christopher Logue

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9780571202188, titled "War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad" | Gardners Books, October 1, 2015, cover price $28.70

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9780374536817, titled "War Music: An Account of Homerâs Iliad" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 10, 2017, cover price $16.00 | also contains War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad | About this edition: A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night,And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.

Sappho's Gymnasium

Product Description: Nightboat Books is proud to bring back this long out-of-print ecstatic, collaborative performative work. Written and arranged in an experimental mode akin to music or choreography, these fragmented lyrics create space and resonance honoring the physical splendor of both the body and the poem...read more

By Kazim Ali (contributor)

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9781937658595 | Nightboat Books, January 3, 2017, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Nightboat Books is proud to bring back this long out-of-print ecstatic, collaborative performative work.

Hellenistic Poetry: A Selection

Product Description: This collection of texts is designed to supplement those currently available for use in courses on Hellenistic poetry. Most have never before appeared in a similar collection; several have only recently been discovered. The text of each poem is presented, together with basic help on obscure vocabulary, morphology, dialect, meter, syntax, and similar philological issues...read more

By David Sider (editor)

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9780472073139 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 28, 2016, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This collection of texts is designed to supplement those currently available for use in courses on Hellenistic poetry.

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9780472053131 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 28, 2016, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: This collection of texts is designed to supplement those currently available for use in courses on Hellenistic poetry.

The Door That Always Opens: Poems

Product Description: Julie Funderburk’s debut poetry collection, The Door That Always Opens, braids together poems of sharp lyrical imagery and experimental narrative focused frequently on houses: houses under construction or demolition, inhabited, abandoned, and vandalized...read more

By Julie Funderburk

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9780807163962 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, December 5, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Julie Funderburk’s debut poetry collection, The Door That Always Opens, braids together poems of sharp lyrical imagery and experimental narrative focused frequently on houses: houses under construction or demolition, inhabited, abandoned, and vandalized.

Enamel Eyes, a Fantasia on Paris 1870

Product Description: In lyric poetry with the dramatic sweep of a historical novel, Jay Rogoff’s Enamel Eyes, a Fantasia on Paris, 1870 reimagines “the terrible year” when the Franco-Prussian War shook the City of Lights. The great comic ballet Coppélia had dazzled Paris and Emperor Napoleon III mere weeks before war erupted; in retrospect, the ballet’s obsession with a mechanical woman anticipated the conflict’s mechanized violence...read more

By Jay Rogoff

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9780807163665 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 16, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In lyric poetry with the dramatic sweep of a historical novel, Jay Rogoff’s Enamel Eyes, a Fantasia on Paris, 1870 reimagines “the terrible year” when the Franco-Prussian War shook the City of Lights.

&luckier

Product Description: Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State UniversityMountain West Poetry Series In his first collection of poems, &luckier, Christopher J Johnson explores the depths to which we can know our most intimate friends, habits, and—even more so—selves...read more

By Christopher J. Johnson

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9781885635518 | Center for Literary Pub, November 15, 2016, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State UniversityMountain West Poetry Series In his first collection of poems, &luckier, Christopher J Johnson explores the depths to which we can know our most intimate friends, habits, and—even more so—selves.

Nobody's Jackknife

Product Description: With insight, humor, and uncompromising honesty, Nobody's Jackknife explores power and powerlessness, violence and tenderness, addiction and love. These poems refuse to separate the mundane from the profound: Rolling Rock beer, the racial coding of baseball players, and a melodic litany of yoga asanas intertwine in this brilliant and compelling collection...read more

By Ellen Mcgrath Smith

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9780991074280 | West End Pr, November 15, 2016, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: With insight, humor, and uncompromising honesty, Nobody's Jackknife explores power and powerlessness, violence and tenderness, addiction and love.

A Horse With Holes in It

Product Description: A Horse with Holes in It, Greg Alan Brownderville’s third collection of poetry, employs inventive phrasing and vivid imagery to construct a particular life marked by religion, confused by desire, dulled by alcohol, and darkened by death...read more

By Greg Alan Brownderville

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9780807163542 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 14, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A Horse with Holes in It, Greg Alan Brownderville’s third collection of poetry, employs inventive phrasing and vivid imagery to construct a particular life marked by religion, confused by desire, dulled by alcohol, and darkened by death.

Dismembered: Selected Poems, Stories, and Essays

Product Description: Bruce Boone is a critical figure at the crossroads of late twentieth-century avant-garde and social movement writing. Dismembered is the long overdue collection that spans nearly five decades of Boone’s life, from the early 1970s to the present...read more

By Rob Halpern (editor)

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9781937658588 | Nightboat Books, November 1, 2016, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Bruce Boone is a critical figure at the crossroads of late twentieth-century avant-garde and social movement writing.

Bestiary: Poems

Product Description: Donika Kelly's fierce debut collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry PrizeI thought myself lion and serpent. Thoughtmyself body enough for two, for we.Found comfort in never being lonely...read more

By Donika Kelly

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9781555977580 | Graywolf Pr, November 1, 2016, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Donika Kelly's fierce debut collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry PrizeI thought myself lion and serpent.

Fire Muse: Poems from the Salt House

Product Description: In Fire Muse, Cynthia Huntington returns to the back shore of Provincetown and the beach and dunes that inspired her 1999 memoir, The Salt House. Reflecting on place, time, and memory, Huntingtonâs poems display a kind of ecstasy born of love for her surroundings and a keen awareness of their sweep and details...read more

By Cynthia Huntington

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9781611689792 | Dartmouth College, November 1, 2016, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: In Fire Muse, Cynthia Huntington returns to the back shore of Provincetown and the beach and dunes that inspired her 1999 memoir, The Salt House.

The Mansion of Happiness

Product Description: Alien abduction, reincarnation, earthquake, love, death, middle age, children, the end of the world--Jon Loomis's new collection covers a lot of ground. From the quiet and contemplative lyric voice of "The Past" and "If I Come Back" to the wild, unrepentant personae of "Jon Loomis, Inc...read more

By Jon Loomis

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9780997335507 | Oberlin College Pr, November 1, 2016, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Alien abduction, reincarnation, earthquake, love, death, middle age, children, the end of the world--Jon Loomis's new collection covers a lot of ground.

Runic Poetry

Product Description: In this volume is found (in a few instances published for the first time) all early Scandinavian poetry carved or written in runes on a range of objects from standing stones to small fragments of wood and bone. Only two poems from the contents of this volume were published by Finnur Jónsson...read more

By Edith Marold (editor)

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9782503518954 | Bilingual edition (Brepols Pub, October 31, 2016), cover price $124.00 | About this edition: In this volume is found (in a few instances published for the first time) all early Scandinavian poetry carved or written in runes on a range of objects from standing stones to small fragments of wood and bone.

Book of No Ledge: Visual Poems

Product Description: “As usual, it starts with love. I had my heart set on the door-to-door encyclopedia salesboy.” So begins Nance Van Winckel’s latest collection of poetically altered encyclopedia entries that feature a mixture of quirky social satire and absurdist wit...read more

By Nance Van Winckel

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9780807165409 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 17, 2016, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: “As usual, it starts with love.

Things That Happen: And Other Poems

Product Description: Bhaskar Chakrabarti’s poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and ’70s—perhaps the most prolific period of modern Bengali poetry...read more

By Arunava Sinha (trans)

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9780857423894 | Seagull Books, October 15, 2016, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Bhaskar Chakrabarti’s poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta.

The 13th Sunday After Pentecost

Product Description: In The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Joseph Bathanti offers poems that delve deep into a life reimagined through a mythologized past. Moving from his childhood to the present, weaving through the Italian immigrant streets of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to his parochial school, from the ballpark to church and home again, these contemplative poems present a situation unique to the poet but familiar to us all...read more

By Joseph Bathanti

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9780807164617 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 12, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Joseph Bathanti offers poems that delve deep into a life reimagined through a mythologized past.

Upstream: Selected Essays

Product Description: One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year! The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be...read more

By Mary Oliver

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9781594206702 | Penguin Pr, October 11, 2016, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year!

Hermann Burger. Lokalbericht: Roman - Herausgegeben Aus Dem Nachlass.

Product Description: Günter Frischknecht ist Doktorand in Germanistik und Hilfslehrer für Deutsch. Vor allem aber brütet er an seinem ersten Roman. Dabei reibt er sich förmlich auf zwischen den Ansprüchen von Akademie, Literaturkritik und Lokaljournalismus...read more

By Zumsteg Simon (editor)

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9783110481877 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, October 10, 2016, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Günter Frischknecht ist Doktorand in Germanistik und Hilfslehrer für Deutsch.

Wild, Wild Erie: Poems Inspired by Paintings and Sculpture in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio

Product Description: Born in Dublin in 1944, Paul Durcan is a leading poet in Ireland, winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award (1990), and celebrated as one of the most original voices in modern Irish literature. Unsparingly satirical, Durcan’s poetry tackles social and political hypocrisies, but also can be intensely personal, mining his own relationships and everyday experiences to paint vivid but unorthodox—even surreal—scenes...read more

By Paul Durcan

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9780935172577 | Toledo Mus of Art, October 10, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Born in Dublin in 1944, Paul Durcan is a leading poet in Ireland, winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award (1990), and celebrated as one of the most original voices in modern Irish literature.

Dwelling

Product Description: Praise for Aliki Barnstone "All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstone's poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most--shall we call her master--that Emily Dickinson! Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul...read more

By Aliki Barnstone

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9781937679637 | Sheep Meadow Pr, October 4, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Praise for Aliki Barnstone "All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstone's poems so much.

Companions, Analogies

Product Description: Praise for Brian Swann"This various and vital collection in which articulate engagement with the sensual stuff of the natural world coexists with philosophic riffs on the meaning of night scents, stars, fireflies, and even family history is a brave, various, adventurous book that reveals with the tang of clear, immediate speech a poet in the fully earned maturity of his powers...read more

By Brian Swann

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9781937679668 | Sheep Meadow Pr, October 4, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Praise for Brian Swann"This various and vital collection in which articulate engagement with the sensual stuff of the natural world coexists with philosophic riffs on the meaning of night scents, stars, fireflies, and even family history is a brave, various, adventurous book that reveals with the tang of clear, immediate speech a poet in the fully earned maturity of his powers.

The Universe of Us

By Lang Leav

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9781449480127 | Andrews McMeel Pub, October 4, 2016, cover price $16.99

The Noise of the Rain

Product Description: Praise for Sarah Plimpton“As quiet as a moment just before sleep, Sarah Plimpton’s poems are like preludes to dreams. The ‘everyday’ happens daily, but it is also rare and precious in Ms. Plimpton’s transparent telling.” —John Ashbery“Burnished and elemental, Sarah Plimpton’s sinewy poems open vistas of experience and sensation in astonishingly few words...read more

By Sarah Plimpton

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9781937679682 | Sheep Meadow Pr, October 4, 2016, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Praise for Sarah Plimpton“As quiet as a moment just before sleep, Sarah Plimpton’s poems are like preludes to dreams.

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