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  • Absentia

    by William Stobb ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    New from the author of Nervous Systems, winner of the National Poetry Series.William Stobb has won acclaim for wide-ranging poetry that features tender realism, jazzy dissonance, luminous descriptions, and, in the words of Donald Revell, a "strange and elegantly accomplished serenity of tensions attenuated to their uttermost." The poems in his second collection, Absentia, see the big picture-the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Nervous Systems

    by William Stobb ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    Selected for the 2006 National Poetry Series by August KleinzahlerWilliam Stobb's poems attend calmly to a dynamic world. Nature, family, and friends are among the shifting systems where Stobb finds poems. His fluency in a variety of forms—from the measured tenderness of Jay Meek to the oceanic surrealism of Donald Revell—enacts the tension between order and entropy in the physical world we live ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    And Other Poems

    by Billy Collins ...
    Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins.With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, “Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Short Haul Engine

    by Karen Solie ...
    Winner of the 2002 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes), shortlisted for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award for first book and longlisted for the 2002 ReLit Awards.Karen Solie takes risks with perception and language, risks that pay off in such startling ways that it's hard to believe this is a first book. Short Haul Engine is one great twist of fate and fury ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Application for Release from the Dream

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    by Tony Hoagland ...
    The eagerly awaited, brilliant, and engaging new poems by Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me*The parade for the slain police officergoes past the bakeryand the smell of fresh breadmakes the mourners salivate against their will.*—from "Note to Reality"Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to ... Read more

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  • Aristotle eating ice cream and other poems of little gravity

    by Glenn Fieber ...
    this collection of poems is residue from my encounters during the 20 years from (1964-1985). ok, 21.people, places, events seen sometimes wryly, sometimes metaphorically, sometimes playfully and sometimes darkly. ... Read more

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  • Bigfoot

    by Jay Bahre ...
    This is my humorous story of Bigfoot and how I found out first hand long ago while I was on a camping trip up in Maine that the creatures do in fact exist. I was threatened and held against my will for over three long years. Finally one hot summer day I was fortunately lucky enough to find an opportunity to escape from their clutches. My life since then has never been the same and never will be ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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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  • Brief Encounters

    A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction

    Edited by Judith Kitchen, Dinah Lenney ...
    The best of short literary memoirs, essays, and reflections, many of which were written expressly for this collection. Also availableThe late Judith Kitchen, editor of the perennially popular anthologies Short Takes, In Short, and In Brief, was greatly influential in recognizing and establishing flash creative nonfiction as a form in its own right. In Brief Encounters, she and writer/editor/actor ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Versed

    by Rae Armantrout ...
    A double collection—containing Versed and Dark Matter—from one of the most brilliant poets of her generation.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the National Book Award for PoetryRae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences toge... ... Read more

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  • Premeditated Suspense

    by Dan Schwartz ...
    A dark tale in every sense of the word. Some actions we take take little to no thought, and then there are those things we do which take more planning than anyone suspected.www.banocanut.com ... Read more

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  • Songs of Exotic Birds

    by Merle Fischlowitz ...
    Songs of Exotic Birds contains poems written over a span of sixty years, forming an arc of life and capturing moments the writers memory stubbornly cannot lose. Merle Fischlowitz also writes in the voices of others that his psychologists ear has caught at special moments or rites of passage, where irony imbues the experiences. From childhood memories to todays cyber-news, these poems invite you ... Read more

    $3.99 USD