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  • Red Channel in the Rupture

    by Amber Flora Thomas ...
    Red Channel in the Rupture is a gathering place for the troubling abuses of the past. Looking through the lens of the present moment, Thomas shows us the open palm necessary to embrace change, as she finds beauty in bodies gnashed, trapped, and crushed into change. Images and experiences bleed together as we confront with the poet the animal of loss and death. Moving through the aperture of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eye of Water

    by Amber Flora Thomas ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Winner of the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry PrizeThe poems in Eye of Water are derived from the narrator’s experiences in what she calls her “waking.” She traces inspiration to “the beginning of myth, to Eve in the Garden of Eden” and states: “We could spend our lives unraveling the mistake and discover that life was one great big ‘chore,’ and inescapable. And the path is full of missteps and accidents ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Morning in the Burned House

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    These beautifully crafted poems–by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender and intimate–come together as Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering of poems to date, “setting foot on the middle ground/between body and word.” Some draw on history, and on myth, both classical and popular. Other, more personal poems concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Neck of the World

    by F. Daniel Rzicznek ...
    Series Book 11 - Swenson Poetry Award
    Neck of the World is the eleventh volume in the prestigious May Swenson Poetry Award series. In it, Daniel Rzicznek offers poems that, in quick angular language, capture the natural world and at the same time extend it into a surreal vision, sometimes dream-like, sometimes dark. Alice Quinn, judge for the 2007 Swenson Award, says this of Rzicznek’s work: “Throughout, the language pulsates, always ... Read more

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  • The Door

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    A stunning lyrical achievement and Atwood’s first collection of new poems in over a decade.The Door is Margaret Atwood’s first book of poetry since the award-winning Morning in the Burned House (1995). Its fifty lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political, viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been

    New and Selected Poems

    by Chase Twichell ...
    “[Twichell’s] poems generate the requisite heat with the poet’s precise, original and frequently brilliant use of language. . . . A major voice in contemporary poetry.” —Publishers Weekly“[Twichell’s poems] track the inner movements of one life with an unexpected freshness.” —The Washington PostPublishers Weekly called Chase Twichell “a major voice in contemporary poetry,” and this long overdue ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Caged Owl

    New & Selected Poems

    by Gregory Orr ...
    Gregory Orr’s genius is the transformation of trauma into art. Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother’s death during a hunting accident, drug addiction, or being jailed during the Civil Rights struggle, lyricism erupts in the midst of desolation and violence. Orr’s spare, succinct poems distill myth from the domestic and display a richness of action and visual detail.This long ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • 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

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  • Requeening

    Poems

    by Amanda Moore ...
    “A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...These poems care, first and foremost, for what they write of and through, which is a much needed—yet increasingly rare—achievement.” -- Ocean VuongEngaging the matriarchal structure of the beehive, Amanda ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Headwaters

    Poems

    by Ellen Bryant Voigt ...
    “Luminous. . . . Each reading reveals the tug of opposites, and in this tension the poet shows her brilliance.”—Library Journal, starred reviewRash yet tender, chastened yet lush, Headwaters is a book of opposites, a book of wild abandon by one of the most formally exacting poets of our time. Animals populate its pages—owl, groundhog, fox, each with its own inimitable survival skills—and the poet ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Flesh Between Us

    by Tory Adkisson ...
    Series series Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
    Eroticism cut from classical mythology, ritual, and intimacyIn The Flesh Between Us the speaker explores our connections to each other, whether they be lovely or painful, static or constantly shifting, or, above all, unavoidable and necessary. Intensely and unapologetically homoerotic in content and theme, The Flesh Between Us sensuously conducts the meetings between strangers, between lovers, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Messenger

    New and Selected Poems 1976-2006

    by Ellen Bryant Voigt ...
    “Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world.”—Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book WorldTo witness the maturation of a poet over time is one of the great pleasures of reading. Here Ellen Bryant Voigt gives us that narrative distilled and amplified, arranging selections from six previous volumes to culminate in transcendent recent poems. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD