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  • St. Francis and the Flies

    by Brian Swann ...
    Series series Autumn House Press Poetry Prize
    St. Francis and the Flies is the eleventh poetry collection of noted poet and translator, Brian Swann. These stunning poems engage with the natural world unlike any other poet of our time. Rich with history, Swann’s poems are both complex and delicate. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coming To Light

    Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America

    by Brian Swann ...
    A richly diverse anthology of Native American literatures draws on the work of more than two hundred tribes across the United States and Canada and provides information on the historical and cultural contexts of the stories, songs, prayers, and orations. ... Read more

    Was $21.99 USD Now $17.99 USD

  • Imago

    by Brian Swann ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
    An exuberant collection of poems celebrating art, nature, and humanity.This various and vital poetry collection, in rich language and sharp detail, spans the rural and urban, country and town, and foreign and domestic. Tracing the vagaries of the self, these poems record and transmute biography from an English youth to the trials and challenges of aging in America. Memorable for its exuberant ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • In Late Light

    by Brian Swann ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
    From a stone to fireflies, from childhood to growing old, Brian Swann’s poems contemplate the moments and individual objects that create a whole life and our relationship to them.There is a clearing by a certain stonewhere images flow and are worth stopping for.I have stayed there almost all day in silenceuntil night remembered what belonged to itand its shadows started to take back its own.I’ve ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Native American Songs and Poems

    An Anthology

    Edited by Brian Swann ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
    In this carefully chosen collection, encompassing traditional songs and contemporary Native American poetry, readers will find a treasury of lyrics verse composed by Seminole, Hopi, Navajo, Pima, Havasupai, Arapaho, Paiute, Nootka, and other Indian writers and poets.Selections range from the beautiful, traditional Seminole "Song for Bringing a Child into the World" to the cynical, knowing "How to ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • Country Music

    Selected Early Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand passions: his desire to reclaim and redeem a personal past, to make ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Sotto Voce

    by Maureen Hynes ...
    *Finalist 2020 Golden Crown Literary Society Awards *Shortlisted 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial AwardPoems that give full attention to a world in shambles, a world in which “mercy is failing.”Maureen Hynes, in her fifth book of poetry, speaks tenderly yet vehemently about the threatened worlds that concern her. From Toronto, where she lives and walks the city’s afflicted watershed, she turns her ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Flesh Between Us

    by Tory Adkisson ...
    Series series Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
    Eroticism cut from classical mythology, ritual, and intimacyIn The Flesh Between Us the speaker explores our connections to each other, whether they be lovely or painful, static or constantly shifting, or, above all, unavoidable and necessary. Intensely and unapologetically homoerotic in content and theme, The Flesh Between Us sensuously conducts the meetings between strangers, between lovers, ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

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  • Whetstone

    by Lorna Crozier ...
    National-award-winning poet Lorna Crozier’s new collection of poems are peopled by the seasons and their elements, her beloved prairies, sorrow, joy, and the dead. Central to their themes are revisitations of family and marriage, and the land-death that is drought. Universal, deeply moving, crowded with breathtaking imagery, these are darkly resonant poems of middle age: alert to the beauty in ... Read more

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  • Poetry by Canadian Women

    Edited by Rosemary Sullivan ...
    This text presents the work of over seventy writers. Spanning almost two centuries, it reveals a fascinating range of cultural backgrounds, temperaments, and styles. The historical perspective makes it possible to trace a remarkable evolution not only in the concerns that Canadian women have addressed in poetry, but also in the craft with which they have done so. Above all, this anthology acts as ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • After the Point of No Return

    by David Wagoner ...
    "Wagoner's words are a living link to the world, enacting it so vitally that they feel like natural facts."-The Seattle TimesIn his twenty-fourth book of poetry, David Wagoner reflects on youth, love, regret, and expectation versus reality. Here a master writes at top form, back-dropped by life's curious moments and imagining Jesus as an untidy roommate or considering our final destination in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD