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“tom sleigh”

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  • Station Zed

    Poems

    by Tom Sleigh ...
    *The AK wants to tell a different truth—a truth ungarbled that is so obviousno one could possibly mistake its meaning.If you look down the cyclops-eye of the barrelwhat you'll see is a boy with trousersrolled above his ankles.You'll see a mouth of bone moving in syllablesthat have the rapid-fire clarityof a weapon that can fire 600 rounds a minute.*—from "Oracle"Station Zed is the terminal outpost ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The King's Touch

    Poems

    by Tom Sleigh ...
    A profound encounter with the hyperreality of our time of global upheaval, violence, and pandemic.Tom Sleigh’s poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Land between Two Rivers

    Writing in an Age of Refugees

    by Tom Sleigh ...
    Essays on the urgency of our global refugee crisis and our capacity as artists and citizens to confront itTom Sleigh describes himself donning a flak jacket and helmet, working as a journalist inside militarized war zones and refugee camps, as “a sort of Rambo Jr.” With self-deprecation and empathetic humor, these essays recount his experiences during several tours in Africa and in the Middle ... Read more

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  • House of Fact, House of Ruin

    Poems

    by Tom Sleigh ...
    Tom Sleigh’s brilliant new collection is “full of the wonder and eloquence driving profound poetry” (Los Angeles Times)You’ve got to put your pants on in the house of fact.And in the house of fact, when you take off your shirt,you can hear your shirt cry out, Facts are the floor, factsare how you make the right side talk to the left.I’m washing my naked belly clean, and doing it with dignity.<br / ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    "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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  • Quarrels

    by Eve Joseph ...
    WINNER, 2019 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE The poems in this collection reach for something other than truth, the marvelous. Leaves fall out of coat sleeves, Gandhi swims in Burrard Inlet. The poems are like empty coats from which the inhabitants have recently escaped, leaving behind images as clues to their identity. There are leaps between logics within the poems, and it is in these illogical spaces ... Read more

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  • Sixfold Poetry Winter 2021

    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 Winter 2021: Laura Apol | I Take a Realtor through the House & other poems :: Rebekah Wolman | How I Want my Body Taken & other poems :: Devon Bohm | The Word & other poems :: ... Read more

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  • Fumblings in the Dark

    by Rick Bramhall ...
    A select collection of poems, dealing with the poet's obsessions with time, sub-atomic particles, death and his own chronic depression. ... Read more

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  • My Kinda Poetry

    by Marvin Perkins ...
    These poetic gems were found like pebbles on the sands of my life. Poems of love, joy, fact, fiction, depression and inspiration. Stories of romance and tragedy, war and peace, and father and motherhood. All born from my overactive imagination and I call them "My Kinda Poetry." And I hope they are your kind too. ... Read more

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  • Beautiful Country

    by Robert Wrigley ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    **A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet.At the heart of Robert Wrigley's new book are the fears that find us at the darkest times and the hopes we rise to each morning. These poems explore that point where the sacred and the profane come together, that place of beauty inside the grotesque and the grotesque inside what is beautiful. The laws of nature, the commandments of capitalism, ... Read more

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  • Buckdancer’s Choice

    Poems

    by James Dickey ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Program
    Winner of the National Book Award (1966)Winner of the Melville Cane Award (1966)Whoever looks to a new book by James Dickeys for further work in an established mode, or for mere novelty, is going to be disappointed. But those who seek instead a true widening of the horizons of meaning, coupled with a sure-handed mastery of the craft of poetry, will find this latest collection satisfying indeed ... Read more

    $10.99 USD