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  • Further Problems with Pleasure

    by Sandra Simonds ...
    Series series Akron series in poetry
    "If Coleridge, Plath, Ovid, and Celan started a love commune where they built a manifesto Molotov cocktail out of the pastoral, eros, blank verse, and kitsch: it would be this book. A true original, thrilling in her brash complex feminism and virtuosic in sound and line, Simonds writes of the lives and desires trod upon by late capitalism and poetry." -Carmen Giménez Smith, 2015 Akron Poetry Prize ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Steal It Back

    by Sandra Simonds ...
    What if all women try to Steal It Back? America, art, life. They're in Sephora, on Twitter, at McDonald's. They're single mothers and teachers, Catholic schoolgirls and martyrs. And they're all stealing it back. Sylvia Plath gets a Malibu beach house. Lady Gaga hatches from an egg of triumph. They're hovering between the tax collectors and the Romantics, between Florida's lakes and every lavish ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Burning Oracle

    by Sandra Simonds ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Burning Oracle is a visionary, book-length poem told from the fractures of a world on fire where myth, memory, and contemporary life collide. Cassandra—seer, mother, survivor—wanders through forests of digital noise and historical trauma, her voice both ancient and urgently new. At the heart of the poem is a pilgrimage to the grave of poet Paul Celan where she traces personal loss within the wider ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Atopia

    by Sandra Simonds ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Atopia grapples with the political climate of the United States manifested through our everyday lives. Sandra Simonds charts the formations and deformations of the social and political through the observations of the poem's speakers, interspersed with the language of social media, news reports, political speech, and the dialogue of friends, children, strangers, and politicians. The Los Angeles ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Ploughshares Winter 2015-2016 Volume 41 No. 4

    by Lisa Fetchko, Laurie Baker, Piyali Bhattacharya, Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, Meng Jin, Joan Murray, Lisa Julin Sharon, Ryan Ruff Smith, Jerry Whitus, Alison Wisdom, George Bilgere, Graham Foust, Julian Gewirtz, Adam Giannelli, Janice N. Harrington, Richie Hofmann, Liam Hysjulien, Christopher Kempf, Michael Klein, Jennifer L. Knox, Kien Lam, Kent Leatham, J. T. Ledbetter, Matthew Lippman, William Logan, Joseph Millar, John Mullen, Megan Peak, Anzhelina Polonskaya, Corey Quinn, Dean Rader, Jacques Rancourt, Cat Richardson, Stephanie Rogers, Tomaz Salamun, Natalie Shapero, Julie Sheehan, Sandra Simonds, Austin Smith, M.G. Stephens, Tim Suermondt, Mark Turpin, Marc Vincenz, Monica Wendel, Jason Whitmarsh, Emily Strasser, Lucy Tan, Emily Jungmin Yun ...
    The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Orlando

    by Sandra Simonds ...
    Narrated by Sandra Simonds ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 51 min

    ***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***With breathtaking fervor, Sandra Simonds delivers an extended address to Orlando, which stands as both a city marked by vibrant promises fallen into betrayals and abuses and the specter of a past lover. Developing a series of recurring episodes and detailing an intricate network ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    A Selection of the Shortlist

    Edited by Adam Dickinson ...
    Series series The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
    The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist.Each year, the best books of poetry published in Canada and internationally in English are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s richest literary awards. Since 2001, this annual prize has spurred interest in and recognition of ... Read more

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  • Antidote

    by Corey Van Landingham ...
    Series series OSU JOURNAL AWARD POETRY
    In Corey Van Landingham’s Antidote, love equates with disease, valediction is a contact sport, the moon is a lunatic, and someone is always watching. Here the uncanny coexists with the personal, so that each poem undergoes making and unmaking, is birthed and bound in an acute strangeness. Elegy is made new by a speaker both heartbreaking and transgressive. Van Landingham reveals the instability of ... Read more

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  • Fraud

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    by David Rakoff ...
    From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds of New Jersey, Rakoff clearly demonstrates how he doesn’t belong–nor does he try to.In ... Read more

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  • The Skull

    A Tyrolean Folktale

    by Jon Klassen ...
    Illustrated by Jon Klassen ...
    **A #1 New York Times bestseller!Caldecott Medalist and New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Jon Klassen delivers a deliciously macabre treat for folktale fans.**Jon Klassen's signature wry humor takes a turn for the ghostly in this thrilling retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale. In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2020

    Edited by André Aciman ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name."An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, ... Read more

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