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Poetry Books by CSI Faculty

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Fragment of the Head of a Queen

 Marvin's poems are wrought music, with unblinking focus, and hard-edged sensuality.

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Olio

Tyehimba Jess's book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers.

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Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah

In her newest collection, Patricia Smith explores the second wave of the Great Migration. 

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Incendiary Art

Patricia Smith fearlessly confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers.

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World's Tallest Disaster

The heart is central in this collection about love lost and found, love requited, love abandoned and betrayed.

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Leadbelly

A biography in poems, Leadbelly examines the life and times of the legendary blues musician.

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Teahouse of the Almighty

A collection of poems by Patricia Smith that explore the emotions that shape human life.

Poetry Anthologies

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From the Fishhouse

This winning anthology of 175+ poems from the site is a festival of verse at its acoustic best.

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Legitimate Dangers

This groundbreaking anthology offers a broad introduction to some of the most exciting, fresh voices in contemporary poetry.

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An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry

A comprehensive representation of Irish poetic achievement in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Looking Out, Looking In

All the poems in this collection are by Latinos writing from the mid- twentieth century to the present. 

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Poet's Choice

Poet's Choice includes the work of more than one hundred poets from ancient times to the present.

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An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets

The first comprehensive collection of its kind. 

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Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry

The most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century poetry in English.

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The Vintage Book of African American Poetry

An anthology of two hundred years of African American creative poetic endeavors. 

Poetry Collections

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The Tradition

The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. 

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When My Brother Was an Aztec

This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative.

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Bicycle in a Ransacked City

An inferno of lamenting and loving muses as a son helplessly watches his father suffer from a debilitating illness. 

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Lighthead

In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. 

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Duende

Explores history and the intersections of folk traditions, political resistance, and personal survival.

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Domestic Work

Domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households.

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The Dream of a Common Language

Thirty-nine poems that examine various aspects of "woman-to-woman relationships."

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Odes

A collection that is centered on the body and its structures and pleasures. 

Poetry Criticism and Commentary

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Understanding Poetry

Understanding Poetry features accessible discussions of historical and cultural contexts and critical approaches to poetry.

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How Did Poetry Survive?

Traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century.

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A Poetry Handbook

Walks readers through exactly how a poem is built, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sound and sense.

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A Little Book on Form

Takes up the central contradiction between poetry as a genre and the poetics of the imagination.

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Killing Poetry

Johnson unpacks some of the complicated issues that comprise performance poetry spaces. 

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From Tongue to Text

This book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of children's poetry. 

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Early Modern Women and the Poem

Examines the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in 1600s England and Scotland.