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  • Day Unto Day

    Poems

    by Martha Collins ...
    The William Carlos Williams Award–winning poet shares a new collection of "musically brilliant, psychologically intricate" meditations on time (Kevin Prufer).This hauntingly spare and subtle poetry collection consists of six sequences: during one month each year, for six years, Martha Collins wrote a short poem each day. With perfectly distilled lines, she captures the aching, liminal beauty of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bone Map

    Poems

    by Sara Eliza Johnson, Martha Collins ...
    "These poems, like light, clarify even as they pierce." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLYSelected for the National Poetry Series by Martha Collins, Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection pulls shards of tenderness from a world on the verge of collapse.Here violence and terror infuse the body, the landscape, and dreams: a handful of blackberries offered from bloodied arms, bee stings ... Read more

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  • Night Unto Night

    Poems

    by Martha Collins ...
    "In this luminous companion to Day unto Day" the acclaimed poet seeks to reconcile beauty and horror, joy and mortality, the personal and the political ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Like its predecessor, Day unto Day, this new collection presents six sequences, each written in one month a year, over the course of six years. It brings together the natural and the all-too-human; red-winged ... Read more

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  • Dreaming the Mountain

    Translated by Nguyen Ba Chung, Martha Collins ...
    by Tue Sy ...
    The North American debut of Tuệ Sỹ—poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam—and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series.In addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a Zen master, Tuệ Sỹ is one of Vietnam's most celebrated poets. He is a survivor of sixteen years of imprisonment and an eloquent witness to the tumult, tragedy ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Casualty Reports

    Poems

    by Martha Collins ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Stylistically innovative, deeply moving, carefully researched, Martha Collins’s eleventh volume of poetry combines her well-known attention to social issues with the elegiac mode of her previous book. She focuses here on race, gun violence, recent wars, and, in an extended sequence, the history of coal—first as her ancestors mined it, then from its geological origins to our ecologically threatened ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Because What Else Could I Do

    Poems

    by Martha Collins ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Because What Else Could I Do is a sequence of fifty-five untitled short poems, almost all of them addressed to the poet’s husband during the six months following his sudden and shocking death. Perhaps best known for her historical explorations of sociopolitical issues, Martha Collins did not originally intend to publish these poems. But while they are intensely personal, they make use of all of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Jane Cooper

    A Radiance of Attention

    by Martha Collins, Celia Bland ...
    Series series Under Discussion
    For her five volumes of poetry over the course of her career, Jane Cooper (1924–2007) was deeply admired by her contemporaries, and teaching at Sarah Lawrence College for nearly forty years, she served as a mentor to many aspiring poets. Her elegant, honest, and emotionally and formally precise poems, often addressing the challenges of women’s lives—especially the lives of women in the arts ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Admit One: An American Scrapbook

    by Martha Collins ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    In *Admit One: An American Scrapbook,*Martha Collins relentlessly traces the history of scientific racism from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fairthrough the eugenics movement of the 1920s. Using a wide variety of documentary sources, including her Illinois grandfather's newspaper, Collins constructs a "scrapbook" of fragments, quotations, narrative passages, and lyrical riffs that reveal startling ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • White Papers

    by Martha Collins ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    White Papers is a series of untitled poems that deal with issues of race from a number of personal, historical, and cultural perspectives. Expanding the territory of her 2006 book Blue Front, which focused on a lynching her father witnessed as a child, this book turns, among other things, to Martha Collins' childhood. Throughout, it explores questions about what it means to be white, not only in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Sense of Regard

    Essays on Poetry and Race

    by Martha Collins, Tony Hoagland, Randall Horton, Major Jackson, Timothy Liu, Kazim Ali, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Lucy Biederman, Jaswinder Bolina, Rafael Campo, Ken Chen, Travis Hedge Coke, Joanna Penn Cooper, Adebe DeRango-Adem, Paula Hayes, Garrett Hongo, Ailish Hopper, Leigh Johnson, Patrick S. Lawrence, Matthew Lippman, Charles H. Lynch, Philip Metres, Mihaela Moscaliuc, David Mura, Sara Marie Ortiz, Jason Schneiderman, Ravi Shankar, Tess Taylor, Timothy Leyrson, Dr. Gerald Maa, Camille T. Dungy ...
    A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.”The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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  • Black in Blues

    How a Color Tells the Story of My People

    by Imani Perry ...
    A “vast, multifaceted and enchanting” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, “the most important interpreter of Black life in our time” (Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.)Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is ... Read more

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  • One With Others

    [a little book of her days]

    by C.D. Wright ...
    Honored in "Best Books of the Year" listings from The New Yorker, National Public Radio, Library Journal, and The Huffington Post."One With Others represents Wright's most audacious experiment yet."-The New Yorker"[A] book . . . that defies description and discovers a powerful mode of its own."- National Public Radio"[A] searing dissection of hate crimes and their malignant legacy."-BooklistTo... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD