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  • One Summer Evening at the Falls

    by Peter Campion ...
    Series series Phoenix Poets
    The poems in this collection capture the fantastic feeling of falling in love, all while keeping eyes on its lifecycles of crashing aftermaths, lingering regrets, guilt, and renewal. Peter Campion brings us to a series of scenes—on the damp patio, in the darkroom, and along the interstate—where we find familiar characters, lovers, and strangers. In the title poem, he takes us to the falls, where ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • El Dorado

    by Peter Campion ...
    Series series Phoenix Poets
    In El Dorado, Peter Campion explores what it feels like to live in America right now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Splicing cell-phone chatter with translations of ancient poems, jump-cutting from traditional to invented forms, and turning his high-res lens on everything from box stores to trout streams to airport lounges, Campion renders both personal and collective experience ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Radical as Reality

    Form and Freedom in American Poetry

    by Peter Campion ...
    What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic lives, and how much power we have to choose those shapes? For that matter, what do we even mean by we? In this collection of essays, Peter Campion gathers his thoughts on these questions and more to form an evolutionary history of the past century of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • John Berryman

    Centenary Essays

    Edited by Philip Coleman, Peter Campion ...
    Series series
    Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In addition to new readings of important aspects of Berryman’s development – including his creative and scholarly ... Read more

    $94.69 USD

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    "Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions."-Booklist"Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible, often funny poems that border on the ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Requiem for the Orchard

    by Oliver de la Paz ...
    These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place "where the Ferris Wheel/ was the tallest thing in the valley," where a boy would learn "to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck/ with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel." Looking back, the poet wrestles with the meaning of labor in the apple orchards and "the filthy dollars we'd wad into ... Read more

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  • For a Poet's Wunderkammer

    by Lynn Fullington ...
    This is a curio cabinet full of the objects of our life. Miniature deserts, Small chili restaurants, and inch high roller coasters that tested our nerve and our poetic lives. Miniature poetry books in leather bindings piled in every corner and you closer than my very own heart ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Folded Heart

    by Michael Collier ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Michael Collier's poems are like a living film of the image of one's past. In rich detail, they bring to life the geography of childhood—commonplace events that have a unique texture of one's own—a dream of flying, a secret obsession, a school pageant, a jam session in the garage. The memories are folded into the heart, but with an inevitable sense of loss, a sense of capturing "the moment held in ... Read more

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  • Wild Embrace

    by Tim Hatch ...
    Wild Embrace is a collection of poetry written by Tim Hatch (a damaged-but-resilient child abuse survivor) that explores themes of abuse, fragility, and our human obligation to one another. ... Read more

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  • The Black Riviera

    by Mark Jarman ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Winner of the The Poets' Prize (1990)Yet, these are ultimately poems of survival. Jarman explores the redemptive power of the imagination and the ways in which we transform experience into stories we tell about our lives. His characters vividly express the will to cling to existence and understand it as they pursue the meaning of family, home, identity, and love. Invented memories resurrect a ... Read more

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  • 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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