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Curiosities, The

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Brittany Perham’s first collection, THE CURIOSITIES, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickness, longing and love. These poems make up a cabinet of curiosities because they hold what is fascinating or frightening, beautiful or awesome— a “stomach plumed by syringe,” a “zoo’s lost leopard,” a “forest of high-waisted trees”— up to the eye. In ... Read more

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Brittany Perham’s first collection, THE CURIOSITIES, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickness, longing and love. These poems make up a cabinet of curiosities because they hold what is fascinating or frightening, beautiful or awesome— a “stomach plumed by syringe,” a “zoo’s lost leopard,” a “forest of high-waisted trees”— up to the eye. In
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Executrix

by Brittany Perham, Cheryl Strayed ...

Series series The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Executrix begins with a mystery: Why would the author’s father, from whom she had been estranged for more than a decade, change his will in the weeks before his death to make her the executor of his estate? Executrix charts the process of sorting out the business of this indebted estate using the language of real estate foreclosure, income tax audits, and medical records. The executor transforms ... Read more

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Executrix begins with a mystery: Why would the author’s father, from whom she had been estranged for more than a decade, change his will in the weeks before his death to make her the executor of his estate? Executrix charts the process of sorting out the business of this indebted estate using the language of real estate foreclosure, income tax audits, and medical records. The executor transforms
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Double Portrait

by Brittany Perham ...

“Musical, insightful, and all the way human.”—Claudia Rankine, 2016 Barnard Women Poets Prize citationEach poem in Brittany Perham’s prize-winning collection links two portraits: lover and beloved, child and parent, citizen and country, spirit and body, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it mean to see and be seen, to reflect and be ... Read more

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“Musical, insightful, and all the way human.”—Claudia Rankine, 2016 Barnard Women Poets Prize citationEach poem in Brittany Perham’s prize-winning collection links two portraits: lover and beloved, child and parent, citizen and country, spirit and body, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it mean to see and be seen, to reflect and be
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Short Talks

by Anne Carson ...

Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a "Short Talk on Afterwords" by Carson herself, and a new ... Read more

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Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a "Short Talk on Afterwords" by Carson herself, and a new
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Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

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by Alice Walker ...

Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one.”- from the prefaceI was born to grow,alongside my garden of plants,poemslikethis oneSo writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow ... Read more

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Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one.”- from the prefaceI was born to grow,alongside my garden of plants,poemslikethis oneSo writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow
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Upstairs in the Garden

Poems Selected and New, 1968–1988

by Robin Morgan ...

The evolution of the poet who is one of feminism's greatest living voicesRobin Morgan has always been one of the most original, technically skilled, and impassioned writers in American poetry, and Upstairs in the Garden shows the development of her distinctive voice.This book of selections from her previous volumes of poetry, plus new additions, summarizes the verse of two decades of iconoclastic ... Read more

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The evolution of the poet who is one of feminism's greatest living voicesRobin Morgan has always been one of the most original, technically skilled, and impassioned writers in American poetry, and Upstairs in the Garden shows the development of her distinctive voice.This book of selections from her previous volumes of poetry, plus new additions, summarizes the verse of two decades of iconoclastic
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I Am the Beggar of the World

Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan

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by Seamus Murphy ...

I Am the Beggar of the World presents an eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan women.Because my love's American,blisters blossom on my heart.Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet—a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than 20 ... Read more

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I Am the Beggar of the World presents an eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan women.Because my love's American,blisters blossom on my heart.Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet—a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than 20
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Soliloquies: The Lady Doth Indeed Protest

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by Chris Wind ...

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Lady MacBeth kill herself? Please. And Portia—you don't think someone that intelligent would be pissed to be bait and trophy? As for Kate ... that's supposed to be funny? "Soliloquies: the lady doth indeed protest" is a collection of soliloquies by Ophelia, Lady MacBeth, Regan, Portia, Desdemona, Kate, Isabella, Juliet, Marina, and Miranda—protesting the role given to them by Shakespeare.Exquisite ... Read more

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Lady MacBeth kill herself? Please. And Portia—you don't think someone that intelligent would be pissed to be bait and trophy? As for Kate ... that's supposed to be funny? "Soliloquies: the lady doth indeed protest" is a collection of soliloquies by Ophelia, Lady MacBeth, Regan, Portia, Desdemona, Kate, Isabella, Juliet, Marina, and Miranda—protesting the role given to them by Shakespeare.Exquisite
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If Only Words Could Breathe

A collection of thoughts, haikus, poems, quotes and musings

by Jazz G. Sethi ...

Have you ever felt something so deep that it scared you? Have you ever felt so drowned in emotion that it drained you? Have you ever faced something so real that it forever changed you? This book is a collection of those moments, thoughts, poetry, musings and observations that are woven into an unconscious, yet hugely familiar narrative. In these words, you will find your moments of fear, ... Read more

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Have you ever felt something so deep that it scared you? Have you ever felt so drowned in emotion that it drained you? Have you ever faced something so real that it forever changed you? This book is a collection of those moments, thoughts, poetry, musings and observations that are woven into an unconscious, yet hugely familiar narrative. In these words, you will find your moments of fear,
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World of Made and Unmade

by Jane Mead ...

Mead’s fifth collection candidly and openly explores the long process that is death. These resonant poems discover what it means to live, die, and come home again. We’re drawn in by sorrow and grief, but also the joys of celebrating a long life and how simple it is to find laughter and light in the quietest and darkest of moments. ... Read more

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Mead’s fifth collection candidly and openly explores the long process that is death. These resonant poems discover what it means to live, die, and come home again. We’re drawn in by sorrow and grief, but also the joys of celebrating a long life and how simple it is to find laughter and light in the quietest and darkest of moments.
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Wolf Centos

by Simone Muench ...

What is important is to avoidthe time allotted for disavowelsas the livid woundleaves a trace leaves an abscesstakes its contraction for those cloudsthat dip thunder & vanishlike rose leaves in closed jars.Age approaches, slowly. But it cannotcrystal bone into thin air.The small hours open their wounds for me.This is a woman's confession:I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me.<stron ... Read more

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What is important is to avoidthe time allotted for disavowelsas the livid woundleaves a trace leaves an abscesstakes its contraction for those cloudsthat dip thunder & vanishlike rose leaves in closed jars.Age approaches, slowly. But it cannotcrystal bone into thin air.The small hours open their wounds for me.This is a woman's confession:I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me.<stron
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A Possible Landscape

by Maureen Harris ...

Maureen Harris’s first volume of poetry evokes “a possible landscape,” where the stories that subtly shape us blend with the moments that we are. Here is an Eden where Eve longs for the serpent’s “green quiver,” his “sibilant caress,” where a snake tires of his lover “wearing/the same skin day-out, day-in.” The poems in the first section of this book are sharp new takes on old stories, at once ... Read more

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Maureen Harris’s first volume of poetry evokes “a possible landscape,” where the stories that subtly shape us blend with the moments that we are. Here is an Eden where Eve longs for the serpent’s “green quiver,” his “sibilant caress,” where a snake tires of his lover “wearing/the same skin day-out, day-in.” The poems in the first section of this book are sharp new takes on old stories, at once
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