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• Little Mr. Prose Poem

  Selected Poems of Russell Edson

  Edson, Russell,

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  A seminal voice in American prose poetry from the sixties onward, Russell Edson's whole career is surveyed in a single volume edited for our times, presenting a new and contemporary view of a poet of startling imagination and strangeness.

• Swan

  Poems and Prose Poems

  Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

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  Swan , her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides within it an entire tree; the wings of the swan like the stretching light of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• House Inspections

  Prose Poems

  Nielsen, Carsten René

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  With a dozen poems previously published in The Paris Review , Carsten René Nielsen is already a familiar name to US poetry readers. These dark prose poems--reminiscent of Charles Simic--map out a uniquely European territory with chilling, cinematic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flash Fiction International

  Very Short Stories From Around the World

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  These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs.

• Brevity

  a Flash Fiction Handbook

  Galef, David,

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  "Over the past ten years or so, "Short-shorts" or "Flash Fiction" has emerged as an increasingly popular and visible genre within fiction. David Galef's Brevity offers a guide to the genre for creative writing students by combining discussions of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Honeybee

  Poems & Short Prose

  Nye, Naomi Shihab

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  In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time--our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet--and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed.

• The Day Dali Died

  Poetry and Flash Fiction

  VanderMeer, Jeff

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  In this new collection from World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer, car accidents, Angkor Wat, dead whales, flower vendors, dogcatchers, classic television shows, frogs, and the moon are transformed by the author's imagination into something…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems

  Collins, Billy

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  In this dazzling new collection, his first in three years, Collins explores boyhood, jazz, love, the passage of time, and, of course, writing-themes familiar to Collins's fans but made new here. Gorgeous, funny, and deeply empathetic, Billy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poetry for Young People

  Robert Frost

  Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

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  A collection of poems about the four seasons by one of best-known American poets.

• A Poetry Handbook

  Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

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  With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet. She walks readers through exactly how a poem is built, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sound and sense, drawing on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poetry of Witness

  the Tradition in English, 1500-2001

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  A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance--while their authors…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Holocaust Poetry

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  The power of verse to encompass a topic of mammoth scope and render it into painstakingly personal detail is keenly demonstrated in this absorbing and well thought-out anthology of grief. Sixty-two poets of different ages, citizenships and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Words for War

  New Poems From Ukraine

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  Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow

  Selected Poems = Nepovtorni Dni Nadiï I Smutkiv : Vybrani Virshi

  Bilot͡serkivet͡sʹ, Natalka, 1954-

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  Natalka Bilotserkivets was a hallmark poet of Ukraine's literary life of the 1980s and 1990s. This collection brings together a selection of her poetry from the last four decades.

• The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry

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  With their often starkly contrasting visions and styles, these poets illuminate some of the more controversial and intimate aspects of the black American experience. Poetry here is not only or mainly a vehicle of protest but also an exploration of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry

  a Bilingual Anthology

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  Here is the first anthology to present a full range of multilingual poetries from Latin America, covering over 500 years of a poetic tradition as varied, robust, and vividly imaginative as any in the world.

• Bad Harvest

  Orlowsky, Dzvinia,

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  This powerful sixth collection of poetry is like some kind of new world Genesis singing its stories with lyric, grace, comic intuition and tragic force. The poet leads us over the remains of drought, along empty riverbeds that run parallel to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ghost Soldiers

  Poems

  Tate, James, 1943-2015

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  Harrowing, poignant, and inspiring, Ghost Soldiers is the mesmerizing story of a remarkable mission. It is also a testament to the human spirit, an account of enormous bravery and self-sacrifice amid the most trying conditions.

• Return to the City of White Donkeys

  Poems

  Tate, James, 1943-2015

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  In his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate continues exploring his own peculiar brand of poetry, transforming our everyday world into one where women give birth to wolves, wild babies are found…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Illuminations

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891

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  First published in 1886, Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations is the work of a poet who had abandoned poetry before the age of twenty-one and changed the language of poetry. Hallucinatory and feverishly hermetic, it is an acknowledged masterpiece of world…Read moreRead more of this annotation