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Invoking the sacred and the profane, Juliana Gray Vice speaks to the reader with a powerful voice. From spotting geese at a Krispy Kreme to an imagined meeting of Tituba and John Dee, the poetry of History in Bones catechizes the reader with the mundane and the extraordinary.
5) In the Arbor
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This is Nancy Kuhl's first collected volume of poetry.
11) Likely
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This is Lisa Coffman's first collected volume of poetry.
14) Fugue Figure
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The book states plainly that both its speaker and the speaker's mother have suffered near- deadly head injuries ("when I woke up in the hospital thirty years after you did," "my head: / rotting pear"), resulting in loss of memory. However, rather than let a taxonomy like "family curse" sit unquestioned, Green writes toward the fugues (i.e., the condition of having one's identity questioned) by making a kind of fugue (i.e., interweaving song). Johnathan...
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Selected poems from a respected African American poet. Visit our Events page for details about the Kent screening of the new film Jump Back, Honey: The Poetry and Performance of Herbert Woodward Martin. Herbert Woodward Martin's body of poetry from the past five decades is, in many ways, matched by no one else. His many poetic voices range from quiet lyrics to angry protest poems, from groundbreaking counterpoint structures to prize-winning historical...
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The Widows' Handbook is the first anthology of poems by contemporary widows, many of whom have written their way out of solitude and despair, distilling their strongest feelings into poetry or memoir. This stirring collection celebrates the strategies widows learn and the resources they muster to deal with people, living space, possessions, social life, and especially themselves, once shock has turned to the realization that nothing will ever be the...
20) Lot of My Sister
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This volume presents a collection of poems by Alison Stine.
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