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  • play dead

    "This book talks smack. This book chews with its open mouth full of the juiciest words, the most indigestible images. This book undoes me. . . . francine j. harris brilliantly ransacks the poet's toolkit, assembling art from buckets of disaster and shreds of hope. Nothing she lays her mind's eye on escapes. You, too, will be captured by her work."—Evie ShockleyLyrically raw and dangerously ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Three Centuries of American Poetry

    A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Twas The Night Before Christmas

    Edited by Santa Claus for the Benefit of Children of the 21st. Century

    Gold Medal Winner 2012 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Best Holiday Book. 1st place winner for the Global International Best Christian Children's Book. This colorful and bright edition was created for young readers in mind. Attracting global media attention, The BBC, The View, The Colbert Report, New York Post, Huffington Post and many others for what the Kirkus Review calls a legitimate editing of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Loneliest Girl

    Poems

    by Kate Gale ...
    Series series Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
    Who was more alone than Medusa? Raped in Athena’s temple, transformed into a monster, and banished into a cave, Medusa may be the ultimate example of victim blaming. In The Loneliest Girl, Kate Gale creates a powerful alternative narrative for Medusa and for all women who have carried guilt and shame—for being a woman, for not being enough, for being a victim. She offers a narrative in which women ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Arousing Sexual Poetry

    Product Description: Arousing Sexual Poetry is very kinky and erotic, bringing excitement into your sex lives. These sexual poems will increase your sex drive, like if these words were a food, and these poems will leave you wanting more. Passionately captured in poetry and short stories. Each poem that you read in this book will give you ideas on how to keep your partner sexually satisfied. ... Read more

    $10.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Some of the Light

    New and Selected Poems

    Series Book 4 - Raised Voices
    25 years of writing from one of our most gifted Latinx poets, featuring work from early explorations of machismo to new meditations on life as a single father, immigrant detention, and spiritual inquirySome of the Light gathers the first 25 years of Hernandez’s award-winning poetry, offering 28 new poems and a glimpse at the trajectory of a rising contemplative American author.At its core, Some of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Hurting Kind

    by Ada Limón ...
    Author is a highly acclaimed poet whose last collection of poems The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and was named an ALA Notable Book of 2018Author was appointed the new host of the daily poetry podcast The Slowdown, taking over from former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K SmithAuthor's previous collection Bright Dead Things was a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

    This National Book Award–winning volume presents nearly forty years of the renowned poet’s work.Between 1965 and 2003, Jean Valentine published nine critically acclaimed collections of poetry, including Dream Barker(winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award), Ordinary Things, and The River at Wolf. Spare and intensely-felt, Valentine’s poems present experience as only imperfectly graspable. This ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Previously Owned

    Series series Stahlecker Selections
    In his daring sophomore collection, Nathan McClain interrogates his speaker's American heritage, history, and responsibility. Investigating myth, popular culture, governance, and more, Previously Owned connects a villanelle cataloging Sisyphus's circular workflow to a Die Hard persona poem critiquing police brutality and joins complex pastorals to the stunning sequence entitled "They said I was an ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Lunatic

    Poems

    by Charles Simic ...
    From Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Charles Simic comes a dazzling collection of poems as original, meditative, and humorous as the legendary poet himself.This latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic, one of America’s most celebrated poets, demonstrates his revered signature style—a mix of understated brilliance, wry melancholy, and sardonic wit. These seventy luminous poems ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Scald

    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    When her “smart” phone keeps asking her to autocorrect her name to Denise Richards, Denise Duhamel begins a journey that takes on celebrity, sex, reproduction, and religion with her characteristic wit and insight. The poems in Scald engage feminism in two ways—committing to and battling with—various principles and beliefs. Duhamel wrestles with foremothers and visionaries Shulamith Firestone, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hello I Must Be Going

    Poems

    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Finalist, 2023 NBCC Award for PoetryFinalist, 2022 California Book Award for PoetryHello I Must Be Going, David Hernandez’s fifth collection of poems, offers a unique take on poetry informed by works of art, in particular the work of artist Ed Ruscha. With narrative and lyrical brushstrokes, Hernandez crafts vibrant landscapes that depict the chaos of the modern world and the beauty entwined ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Art of Fiction

    by Kevin Prufer ...
    An investigation, performed through storytelling, of the constructed beliefs of society and individualsIn this his eighth collection of poetry (and fifth with Four Way Books), Prufer’s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our ... Read more

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  • Nebraska

    Poems

    by Kwame Dawes ...
    Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually found himself an American living in Lincoln, Nebraska.In Nebraska, this beautiful and evocative collection of poems, Dawes explores a theme constant in his work—the intersection of memory, home, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • John Greenleaf Whittier: complete works, all seven volumes

    "The Standard Library Edition of Mr. Whittier's writings comprises his poetical and prose works as re-arranged and thoroughly revised by himself or with his cooperation. Mr. Whittier has supplied such additional information regarding the subject and occasion of certain poems as may be stated in brief head-notes, and this edition has beenmuch enriched by the poet's personal comment." ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guillotine

    Poems

    **LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYThe astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize**Guillotine traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants, the grief of loss, betrayal’s lingering scars, the border itself—great distances in which violence and yearning find roots. Through the voices of undocumented immigrants, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Complete Poems

    by Anne Sexton ...
    The collected works of Anne Sexton showcase the astonishing career of one of the twentieth century’s most influential poetsFor Anne Sexton, writing served as both a means of expressing the inner turmoil she experienced for most of her life and as a therapeutic force through which she exorcised her demons. Some of the richest poetic descriptions of depression, anxiety, and desperate hope can be ... Read more

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  • Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair

    by William Evans ...
    Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair is the latest book by author William Evans, founder of Black Nerd Problems. Evans is a long-standing voice in the performance poetry scene, who has performed at venues across the country and been featured on numerous final stages, including the National Poetry Slam and Individual World Poetry Slam. Evans's commanding, confident style shines through in these poems, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Horsepower

    Poems

    by Joy Priest ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Priest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational. Across the book’s three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back in memory to explore her younger self—a mixed-race child being raised by her white supremacist grandfather in the shadow of Churchill Downs, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Black Oak

    Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Men

    As he did for Black women in Black Roses, Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, now honors the Black men he most admires—groundbreakers including Tyler Perry, Barry Jenkins, Billy Porter, Chance the Rapper, LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, and John Legend—and celebrates their achievements which are transforming lives and making history.Black men are ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • By Heart

    Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives

    A two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the books core are two stories that speak up for human imagination, spirit, and the power of art."A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his mind can be free. A woman enters prison to teach and becomes his first listener. And so begins a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Crown Ain't Worth Much

    2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award - Poetry Honorable Mention 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award - Grand Prize Short List 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States. A regular columnist for MTV.com, Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • July

    In her groundbreaking and most politicized collection, Kathleen Ossip takes a hard look at the U.S.A. as it now stands. She meditates on our various responses to our country—whether ironic, infantile, righteous, or defeated. Her diction is both high and low, her tone both elegant and straightforward. The book’s crowning achievement, its anchor, and its centerpiece is the poem “July.” In a generous ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • HERMAN MELVILLE – Premium Collection: 24 Novels & Novellas; With 140+ Poems & Essays

    Adventure Classics, Sea Tales & Philosophical Novels, Including Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man…

    This carefully crafted ebook: "HERMAN MELVILLE – Premium Collection: 24 Novels & Novellas; With 140+ Poems & Essays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Herman Melville is one of the greatest American novelists, short story writer and a poet. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus