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This Art

A Copper Canyon Ares Poetica Anthology

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

The centuries have changed little in this art, The subjects are still the same.—Kenneth RexrothWhy poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, "this urge to making a scrapbook of stars"?Every poet, by accident or design, has responded to...
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by Ellen Bass
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

Featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac “Ellen Bass’s new poetry collection, Like a Beggar, pulses with sex, humor and compassion.”-The New York Times “Bass tries to convey everyday wonder on contemporary experiences of sex, work, aging, and war. Those who turn to poetry to become...
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by Lisa Olstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013

Lisa Olstein's third collection reverberates with twinned realities: wonder and terror, beauty and difficulty, celebration and lament. Through encounters with science, war, art, animals, and motherhood, Little Stranger explores the exigencies of close attention, the tenuousness of attachment, and...
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by Dana Levin
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017

"Images that are satisfyingly clear . . . and excitingly inexplicable." -Robert Pinsky, Washington Post"Intimate and hypnotic . . . whether turning her gaze inward or outward, these poems question the moral, aesthetic, and metaphysical needs that poetry exists to fill." -Ploughshares "Levin's...
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by Ben Lerner
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012

The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. “Lichtenberg figures” are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of...
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by Michael Dickman
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012

"Hilarity transfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerful feeling, zero at the bone-Flies renders its desolation with singular invention and focus and figuration: the making of these poems makes them exhilarating."-James Laughlin Award citation "Reading Michael [Dickman]...
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by Alex Dimitrov
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017

“Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry.”-Los Angeles Review of Books “Truth-telling, raw, fierce with feeling.”-Brenda Shaughnessy “Dimitrov can sound at once hip and naive, devoted to the sincerities that other sorts of poets reject or obscure.”-Publishers Weekly Together...
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by Brenda Shaughnessy
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012

"A heady, infectious celebration."-The New Yorker "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."-Harvard Review Brenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects-trauma, childbirth, loss of faith-and...
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The Shape of the Journey

New & Collected Poems

by Jim Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012

Here is the definitive collection of poetry from one of America’s best-loved writers-now available in paperback. With the publication of this book, eight volumes of poetry were brought back into print, including the early nature-based lyrics of Plain Song, the explosive Outlyer & Ghazals, and the startling...
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by Lucia Perillo
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

"Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions."-Booklist"Whoever told you poetry isn't...
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by Ed Skoog
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Composed during long walks throughout Washington, DC, and careful to err on the side of recklessness, Rough Day finds its essential unity in a fixation on American events and landscapes-from Yellowstone and New Orleans to Kansas and the Pacific Northwest. Throughout, Ed Skoog maintains an openness...
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by Marianne Boruch
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Honored by Library Journal as an "Amazing Poetry Title"“Extraordinary how in a single poem from 2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Boruch slides 1800s London barber-surgeons and the dissection of murderers only (condemned to hell anyway) to the observation, ‘Future or past, it’s all...
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by Jane Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013

Our childhood such a large cellar with no bulb.Jane Miller brings a painterly eye to the elegiac in an ambitiously linked sequence that explores ecstasy and desire, memory and loss, the ancient and the ultramodern. Suggesting the thunderbird of Native American lore as readily as modern American...
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by Michael Dickman, Matthew Dickman
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

"Their verse . . . is strikingly different. Michael's poems are interior, fragmentary, and austere, often stripped down to single-word lines; they seethe with incipient violence. Matthew's are effusive, ecstatic, and all-embracing, spilling over with pop-cultural references and exuberant carnality."...
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