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“melissa stein”

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  • Terrible Blooms

    by Melissa Stein ...
    "Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough, or otherwise—without the sting." —The New York TimesIn this lush, disturbing second collection from Melissa Stein, exquisite images are salvaged from harm and survival. Set against the natural world’s violence—both ordinary and sublime—pain shines jewel-like out of these poems, illuminating what lovers and families conceal. Stein uses her gifts ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Folly of Jim Crow

    Rethinking the Segregated South

    by Natalie J. Ring, Melissa Stein, Theda Perdue, Peter Wallenstein, Mia Bay, Jane Dailey ...
    Series Book 43 - Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at least the last three-quarters of a century, nuanced understanding of this complex cultural construct is still evolving, according to Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring, coeditors of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South. Indeed, they suggest, scholars ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Strike Sparks

    Selected Poems, 1980-2002

    by Sharon Olds ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets—117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • What the Soul Doesn't Want

    by Lorna Crozier ...
    In her newest collection, Lorna Crozier describes the passage of time in the way that only she can. Her arresting, edgy poems about aging and grief are surprising and invigorating: a defiant balm. At the same time, she revels in the quirkiness and whimsy of the natural world: the vision of a fly, the naming of an eggplant, and a woman who — not unhappily — finds that cockroaches are drawn to her. ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Original Fire

    Selected and New Poems

    by Louise Erdrich ...
    “These molten poems radiate with the ferocity of desire, and in them Erdrich does not spin verse so much as tell tales—of betrayal and revenge, of hunting and being hunted.” —Minneapolis Star TribuneA passionate book of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louise Erdrich.In this important collection, Erdrich has selected the best poems from her two previous books of poetry, Jacklight and ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Over the Anvil We Stretch

    by Anis Mojgani ...
    Over The Anvil We Stretch contains swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three legged frog on the lawn and the jar of marbles your mother kept in the kitchen. Mojgani's poems are the sound of the river and the stars burning above. He manages to capture the axe in the stump with blood still on the handle. Anis Mojgani has drawn a map of the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Blue Sonoma

    by Jane Munro ...
    Winner 2015 Griffin Poetry PrizeIn Blue Sonoma, award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called "the gifts reserved for age." A beloved partner’s crossing into Alzheimer’s is at the heart of this book, and his "battered blue Sonoma" is an evocation of numerous other crossings: between empirical reportage and meditative apprehension, dreaming and ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences

    by Richard Wilbur ...
    Illustrated by Richard Wilbur ...
    This collection includes the full text and drawings from Opposites and More Opposites, plus seven additional poems and drawings about differences. Readers of all ages will delight in this volume of witty wordplay and clever illustrations from two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and National Book Award winner Richard Wilbur.A perfect introduction to the joy of language, this collection explores:Books ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • I Praise My Destroyer

    Poems

    by Diane Ackerman ...
    Diane Ackerman's poems reveal her intense response to the several worlds of nature, science, and society. Her lyricism fuses wit and sobriety, meditation and activism, and she confronts us with figures both real and fantastic.As always, her strong connection with the natural world, the realms of language and literature, myth and imagination, combines with her deep understanding of the sciences to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

    Poems

    by Deborah Digges ...
    This breathtaking collection of poems by Deborah Digges, published posthumously, brings us rich stories of family life, nature’s bounty, love, and loss—the overflowing of a heart burdened by grief and moved by beauty.When Deborah Digges died in the spring of 2009, at the age of fifty-nine, she left this gathering of poems that returns to and expands the creative terrain we recognize as hers. Here ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Horses: Tame and Wild

    15-Minute Books, #71

    by Caitlind L. Alexander ...
    Series Book 71 - 15-Minute Books
    There are many different kinds of horses in the world. Some are short. Some are huge. Some come in one color, and some come in many colors. But they are all beautiful.All horses have long, thin legs and a big round body. They have a long, curved neck and a big head with large eyes.Horses have been a help to man for thousands of years. In that time, we have changed the horse into the kind of animal ... Read more

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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

    $9.99 USD