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Civil Twilight

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From a two-time winner of the National Poetry Series competition, a bold new collection of poems lamenting the state of the world—and offering poetry that might save it"Civil twilight" occurs just before dawn and just after dusk, when there is still light enough to distinguish the shapes and contours of objects but not the richness of their detail.Beginning with the idea that nothing can be seen ... Read more

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From a two-time winner of the National Poetry Series competition, a bold new collection of poems lamenting the state of the world—and offering poetry that might save it"Civil twilight" occurs just before dawn and just after dusk, when there is still light enough to distinguish the shapes and contours of objects but not the richness of their detail.Beginning with the idea that nothing can be seen
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A Short Stay in Hell

by Steven L. Peck ...

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life.In this haunting ... Read more

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An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life.In this haunting
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A Report for an Academy

by Franz Kafka ...

A Report to an Academy (German: Ein Bericht für eine Akademie) is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly Der Jude, along with another of Kafka's stories, ... Read more

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A Report to an Academy (German: Ein Bericht für eine Akademie) is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly Der Jude, along with another of Kafka's stories,
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The Dead - Poetry

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The Dead features thirty-seven original poems by Tara Lynn Hawk in her premiere chapbook.Tara's second book,Rhetorical Wanderlust, is publishing late January 2018!Born in northern California, Tara has traveled and lived in Europe, the United Kingdom and the western United States.Her writing focuses on social and relationship issues such as isolation, loneliness, marginalization, fear, terror, love ... Read more

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The Dead features thirty-seven original poems by Tara Lynn Hawk in her premiere chapbook.Tara's second book,Rhetorical Wanderlust, is publishing late January 2018!Born in northern California, Tara has traveled and lived in Europe, the United Kingdom and the western United States.Her writing focuses on social and relationship issues such as isolation, loneliness, marginalization, fear, terror, love
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Metropole

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Series Book 33 - New California Poetry
Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s third collection opens with a set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. O’Brien’s poems measure the "vague cadence" of daily life, testing both the value and limits of art in a time of vanishing publics and permanent war. The long title poem, written in a strict iambic prose, charts the disappearance of ... Read more

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Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s third collection opens with a set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. O’Brien’s poems measure the "vague cadence" of daily life, testing both the value and limits of art in a time of vanishing publics and permanent war. The long title poem, written in a strict iambic prose, charts the disappearance of
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Hinge & Sign

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A renowned poet's artful collection is a striking body of work. ... Read more

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Popular Longing

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The poems of Natalie Shapero’s third collection, Popular Longing, highlight the ever-increasing absurdity of our contemporary life. With her sharp, sardonic wit, Shapero deftly captures human meekness in all its forms: our senseless wars, our inflated egos, our constant deference to presumed higher powers—be they romantic partners, employers, institutions, or gods. “Why even / look up, when all we ... Read more

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The poems of Natalie Shapero’s third collection, Popular Longing, highlight the ever-increasing absurdity of our contemporary life. With her sharp, sardonic wit, Shapero deftly captures human meekness in all its forms: our senseless wars, our inflated egos, our constant deference to presumed higher powers—be they romantic partners, employers, institutions, or gods. “Why even / look up, when all we
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New and Selected Poems, 2001–2015

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Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
Rae Armantrout's poetry comprises one of the most refined and visionary bodies of work written over the last forty years. These potent, compact meditations on our complicated times reveal her observant sensibility, lively intellect, and emotional complexity. This generous volume charts the evolution of Armantrout's mature, stylistically distinct work. In addition to 25 new poems, there are ... Read more

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Rae Armantrout's poetry comprises one of the most refined and visionary bodies of work written over the last forty years. These potent, compact meditations on our complicated times reveal her observant sensibility, lively intellect, and emotional complexity. This generous volume charts the evolution of Armantrout's mature, stylistically distinct work. In addition to 25 new poems, there are
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Solip

by Ken Baumann ...

Solip is a Beckettian experiment in the flexibility of language. Each sentence its own cosmos. Each line is a grave and what goes into a grave. There may be a million narratives in Solip, or there may be none. Each reader will find their own story inside of Solip. ... Read more

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Solip is a Beckettian experiment in the flexibility of language. Each sentence its own cosmos. Each line is a grave and what goes into a grave. There may be a million narratives in Solip, or there may be none. Each reader will find their own story inside of Solip.
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Hush, Dear

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A book of poems on the solitude of being and the loneliness of being in love. And the [dis]comfort the author finds in the thought of dying. ... Read more

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A book of poems on the solitude of being and the loneliness of being in love. And the [dis]comfort the author finds in the thought of dying.
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The Nail Between Mountain and Stream

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A nameless man awakens in a nameless village.Two voices quarrel in an unknown language.Should he confess his forgotten self? What did he do to provoke such scorn?Rohoshita summons the stories of old to craft a new folklore. Mysterious strangers wander the lands. Lands where oddities possess nature to haunt the living. In a world where hearts glow and wither. A supernatural realm hides below. ... Read more

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A nameless man awakens in a nameless village.Two voices quarrel in an unknown language.Should he confess his forgotten self? What did he do to provoke such scorn?Rohoshita summons the stories of old to craft a new folklore. Mysterious strangers wander the lands. Lands where oddities possess nature to haunt the living. In a world where hearts glow and wither. A supernatural realm hides below.
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A Symmetry

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by Ari Banias ...

**Winner of the 2022 Publishing Triangle Trans and Gender-Variant Literature AwardA thrilling, discursive second collection from “a poet for this hour—bewildered, hopeful, and cracklingly alive” (Mark Doty).**The poems in Ari Banias’s thrilling and discursive second collection, A Symmetry, unsettle the myth of a benevolently ordered reality. Through uncanny repetitions and elliptical inquiry, ... Read more

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**Winner of the 2022 Publishing Triangle Trans and Gender-Variant Literature AwardA thrilling, discursive second collection from “a poet for this hour—bewildered, hopeful, and cracklingly alive” (Mark Doty).**The poems in Ari Banias’s thrilling and discursive second collection, A Symmetry, unsettle the myth of a benevolently ordered reality. Through uncanny repetitions and elliptical inquiry,
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