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Marvin's poems are wrought music, with unblinking focus, and hard-edged sensuality.
Tyehimba Jess's book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers.
In her newest collection, Patricia Smith explores the second wave of the Great Migration.
Patricia Smith fearlessly confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers.
The heart is central in this collection about love lost and found, love requited, love abandoned and betrayed.
A biography in poems, Leadbelly examines the life and times of the legendary blues musician.
A collection of poems by Patricia Smith that explore the emotions that shape human life.
This winning anthology of 175+ poems from the site is a festival of verse at its acoustic best.
This groundbreaking anthology offers a broad introduction to some of the most exciting, fresh voices in contemporary poetry.
A comprehensive representation of Irish poetic achievement in the 20th and 21st centuries.
All the poems in this collection are by Latinos writing from the mid- twentieth century to the present.
Poet's Choice includes the work of more than one hundred poets from ancient times to the present.
The first comprehensive collection of its kind.
The most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century poetry in English.
An anthology of two hundred years of African American creative poetic endeavors.
The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal.
This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative.
An inferno of lamenting and loving muses as a son helplessly watches his father suffer from a debilitating illness.
In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience.
Explores history and the intersections of folk traditions, political resistance, and personal survival.
Domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households.
Thirty-nine poems that examine various aspects of "woman-to-woman relationships."
A collection that is centered on the body and its structures and pleasures.
Understanding Poetry features accessible discussions of historical and cultural contexts and critical approaches to poetry.
Traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Walks readers through exactly how a poem is built, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sound and sense.
Takes up the central contradiction between poetry as a genre and the poetics of the imagination.
Johnson unpacks some of the complicated issues that comprise performance poetry spaces.
This book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of children's poetry.
Examines the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in 1600s England and Scotland.
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