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  • The Diener

    Poems

    by Martha Serpas ...
    Series series Barataria Poetry
    The Diener investigates loss and healing, change and permanence, in a hospital trauma center and the eroding landscape of southern Louisiana. The diener himself, the morgue attendant who assists the dead in the interstice between the living world and the world beyond, is the person with whom Martha Serpas most identifies in this collection. As a part-time hospital chaplain, Serpas possesses keen ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Double Effect

    Poems

    by Martha Serpas, Ava Leavell Haymon ...
    Series series Barataria Poetry
    Martha Serpas’s Double Effect reimagines a principle first outlined by St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, which considers whether an action is morally permissible if it causes harm while bringing about a good result. In resonant verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can come from destructive situations: maternal deprivation, spiritual poverty, mania, ecological ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Goodbye, Mexico

    Poems of Remembrance

    by Sarah Cortez, Paul David Adkins, Diane Anhalt, Jose Angel Araguz, Jack B. Bedell, Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Alan Birkelbach, David Bowels, Jerry Bradley, Augustin Caden0, Abigail Carl-Klassen1, Sherry Craven2, Carolyn Dahl3, Jim Daniels4, Margo Davis5, Martin Espada6, Maureen Tolman Flannery7, Christa Forster8, James Hoggard9, Ann Howells0, Elizabeth Humber1, Lois P. Jones2, Kate Kingston3, AM Krohn4, Peter Ludwin5, Tony Mares6, Paul Mariani7, Kathleen Markowitz8, C.M. Mayo9, Janet McCann0, Celeste Guzman Mendoza1, karla k. morton2, Erin O'Luanaigh3, Carol C. Reposa4, Alberto Rios5, Jan Seale6, Martha Serpas7, Seth Strickland8, Loueva Smith9, Sandi Stromberg0, Melissa Studdard1, Larry D. Thomas2, C. Derick Varn3, Randall Watson4, Germaine Welch5, Patrick Allen Wright6, Rebecca Young Eunn Yook7 ...
    This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San MiguelYou see their silhouettes along the stone wallor arm in arm below the glow of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Dirty Side of the Storm

    Poems

    by Martha Serpas ...
    "At once a love song and a dirge to a landscape being swallowed by the waters that define it."—St. Petersburg TimesAn evocative meditation on destruction and creation, the sacred and ephemeral, along Louisiana's coast. In poems that bear witness to the eroding bayou country and its Cajun culture, Martha Serpas venerates a vanishing landscape defined by water—sensuous, fecund, and destructive. As ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Selves

    by Philip Booth ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    Booth's eighth poetry collection, with its evocations of compassion, tenderness and invading darkness, implies that redemption will come only from having loved well and wisely. Publishers Weekly remarked, "Booth is a traveler keenly, almost mystically, aware that 'how you get there is where you'll arrive.' " ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Inseminating the Elephant

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    "Inseminating the Elephant [is] a collection of poems, often laced with humor, that examines popular culture, the limits of the human body, and the tragicomic aspects of everyday experience."-Pulitzer Prize finalist citation"These poems are tough and witty."-The New Yorker"Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo."-Time Out New YorkA 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A Lovely Gutting

    Gender and Wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930

    by Robin Durnford ...
    Series series The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
    "from this sea I am fished, / gutted and stripped, / bled and bound, / on your ship I sail, / or go down."A Lovely Gutting echoes with the music of traditional nature poetry, but its romantic style is ripped by rawness. These poems - enraged and erotic, tormented and tender - swirl around the pain of personal loss, ebbing and surging like the North Atlantic.Durnford pictures a Newfoundland not ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sixfold Poetry Fall 2013

    by Sixfold ...
    Sixfold is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue.In Sixfold Poetry Fall 2013: Chris Joyner Wrestlemania III & other poems; Carey Russell Visiting Hours & other poems; Marc Pietrzykowski Cabinet of Wonders & other poems; Jonathan Travelstead ... Read more

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  • The Freeze of 2060

    by Ami Blackwelder ...
    Series series Water Jug: Anthology of shorts
     If we had the chance to do things again differently, would we?           Hard to say when the snow began falling. In the 2020s, there were rumors of global warming, of severe weather changes and it was not all rumor. Many of us could feel the changes. Warm and then cold. Rain and then the sunniest of days. Then all went bad, warmer and warmer each day. ... Read more

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  • Swan

    Poems and Prose Poems

    by Mary Oliver ...
    Widely regarded as the "rock star" of American poetry, Mary Oliver is a writer whose words have long had the power to move countless readers. Regularly topping the national poetry best-seller list and drawing thousands to her sold-out readings across the coutnry, Oliver is unparalleled in her impact. As noted in the Los Angeles Times, so many "go to her for solace, regeneration and inspiration" ... Read more

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  • The Secret Signature of Things

    by Eve Joseph ...
    Much of this poised and luminous book is rooted in an idea of epiphany, an aesthetic of everyday incarnation; not the sudden and profound manifestation of essence or meaning, but the smaller steps taken toward it. The moments in which, as Joyce writes, “the soul of the commonest object…seems to us radiant.” If epiphanies are for theologians, perhaps the little steps towards them are for poets like ... Read more

    $9.89 USD