These poems peel back the layers of suburban life and the American Dream. Vivian Maier was a self-taught street photographer who worked as a nanny for wealthy employers in New York and Chicago. The poet imagines her as a documentarian...
Poetry
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Auteur:Rice, BruceSommaire: - Auteur:Burgham, IanSommaire:
This is a collection inspired by Coleridge’s doctrine of bringing the “the whole soul of a man into activity."
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Auteur:Vautour, BartSommaire:In an A-to-Z compendium that finds the wonder in information overload. The Truth About Facts makes intimate the seeming noise of information and facts by using the tradition of the alphabet book to get back to basics: to make room for...
- Auteur:Irie, KevinSommaire:
I've lived the way a field is sometimes / a shelter for mice / or sometimes a source of game / for a hawkInspired by the literary landscape of the late poet John Thompson, Kevin Irie's The Tantramar Re-Visionpresents a...
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Auteur:Kenyon, MichaelSommaire:If we do not sleep together by March then we will break apart.
Now is the first. Now the second. Now the third. Now the fourth.
If we do not lie down together, you wanting me, I you,we will break apart. Now is the...
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Auteur:Zeller, LudwigSommaire:The Rules of the Game reintroduces Ludwig Zeller, the great Chilean-Canadian “poet’s poet,” through a selection of his most engaging works. These short poems span a development of almost 60 years. They are Zeller’s brief songs of...
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Auteur:Nardone, MichaelSommaire:The Ritualites is Michael Nardone's book-length poem-the first in a series of planned works-on the sonic topography of North America. Composed at sites all across the continent-from Far Rockaway to the Olympic Peninsula, Great Bear...
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This is a collection of 20th and 21st century poets, handpicked by JoAnn Becker and Diane Croft. These are frank poems about young passions and old love, nature and nurture, work affairs and love affairs.
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Auteur:Humphreys, HelenSommaire:In her third book of poetry The Perils of Geography, Helen Humphreys charts a world that opens under the prodding and promise of language. With the wit and eye for evocative detail which gained readers for both Gods and...
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Auteur:Giovannone, AaronSommaire:Compulsively confessional and cracking-wise, The Nonnets is an utterly unique alchemy of poetry and comedy. Aaron Giovanonne's latest collection is a book-length sequence of 'nonnets'-nine-line poems that Giovannone...
- Auteur:Janess, DanielleSommaire:
"A vibrating journey across time and the borders of memory and space to voice what was unvoiced, to restore the pieces of a broken world." Tomasz Rózycki, author of Colonies.
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Auteur:Hunt, KenSommaire:Fraught with fatal mishaps and disastrous near misses, the missions of the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States defined an era and exemplified the global socio-political conflict of the Cold War. The Lost Cosmonauts...
- Auteur:Lerner, Ben.Sommaire:
Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. A New Yorker Essential Read. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric Literature. A formally ambitious and intensely felt...
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Auteur:Kroetsch, RobertSommaire:The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments. Where has Rita gone and who is reconstructing her oeuvre? Written with wit and playfulness,...
- Auteur:Marlatt, DaphneSommaire:
Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poery Prize
Finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award“You remember — what is it you remember? / the feel of home, that moment of coming into your body. . . ”
So...
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Auteur:Di Michele, MarySommaire:The poems in The Flower of Youth depict the coming of age and into sexual difference of the great writer and film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The time of this story is World War II; the place is German-occupied northern...
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