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  • The Orchestra of Wind Chimes

    by Geoffrey Jacques ...
    Series series Made in Michigan Writers Series
    This powerful collection of poems draws on American and African-American experimental lyric traditions, pushing language and form to their limits. Geoffrey Jacques's poetry inspires deep thought, taking up themes of music, psychology, and literature. This work embodies the potential of poetry to forge new connections between aesthetic expression and the often onerous facts of human existence. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Just for a Thrill

    Poems

    by Geoffrey Jacques ...
    Series series African American Life
    A breakthrough collection of poetry from a distinctive new urban voice."Geoffrey Jacques is a subtle, sophisticated poet who has read widely and has taken his cue from some of the most important vanguard poets of the past century and a half—Whitman, Breton, Césaire, Stein, Olson, Baraka, and others. He has digested and assimilated the lessons to be learned from their work while finding a way that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What I Say

    Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America

    by Aldon Lynn Nielsen, C. S. Giscombe, Willliam L. Alexander, Ron Allen, Tisa Bryant, Renee Gladman, Duriel Harris, Harmony Holiday, Erica Hunt0, Kim Hunter1, Geoffrey Jacques2, John Keene3, Nathaniel Mackey4, Dawn Lundy Martin5, Mark McMorris6, Tracie Morris7, Harryette Mullen8, Mendi Lewis Obadike9, G. E. Patterson0, Julie Patton1, Claudia Rankine2, Deborah Richards3, Evie Shockley4, giovanni singleton5, Tyrone Williams6, Ronaldo V. Wilson7, Douglas Kearney8, Pia Deas9, T. J. Anderson III0, Dr. Lauri Ramey2, Prof. Fred Moten3 ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    "Ursula Le Guin at her best . . . This is an important collection of eloquent, elegant pieces by one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers." —Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post Book World"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that ... Read more

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  • Recollections of My Nonexistence

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    **Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for BiographyLonglisted for The Orwell Prize for Political WritingAn electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses**In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s ... Read more

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    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
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  • Fraud

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  • The Best American Essays 2025

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  • Views from the Loft

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  • We Want It All

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    Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ AnthologyFinalist for the 2021 Publishing Triangle Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant LiteratureA collection of formally inventive writing by trans poets against capital and empire.Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics as an experiment into how far literature, written ... Read more

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