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The poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has written, "Gizzi's poetry is an example of how a poet's total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning.

"[Hillman's] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful." --Harvard ReviewFinalist for the Four Quartets Prize, given by Poetry Society of America, 2023An iconoclastic ecopoet who has led the way for many young and emerging artists, Brenda Hillman continues to re-cast innovative poetic forms as instruments for tracking human and non-human experiences. At times the poet deploys short dialogues, meditations or trance techniques as means of rendering inner states; other times she uses narrative, documentary or scientific materials to record daily events during a time of pandemic, planetary crisis, political and racial turmoil. Hillman proposes that poetry offers courage even in times of existential peril; her work represents what is most necessary and fresh in American poetry. During an enchantment in the life Do you love a living person absolutely? Tell them now.In a half-unwieldy life you made, underthe hyaline sky, while the dead drank from zigzag pools nearby, if they saved you in your wild incapacities, in timing of the world's harmin a little pettiness in your own heart while others took your madrigals in shreds to a tribunal, when others said you should feel grateful to be minimally adequate for the world'striple exposure or some tired committee... The ones who love us, how do theybreak through our defenses? We're tired today. Come back later.Their baffled voices melting our wax wallswith a candle, the ones who understandwhat being is--the glowing, the broken, the wheels, the brave ones-- they have their courage, you have yours; when you meet the one you love, it is so rare. When you meetthe one who loves you, it is extremely rare.

This book is one long poem in many sections. It is the "masterwork" of this avante garde poet, who has been working on this composition for a decade.

An exquisite series of poems that explore living and dying.

Constructed in two parts, this collection embraces secretly related worlds: the poetics of natural history and artistic discoveries of self-taught folk artists.

A travelogue that employs diverse settings and styles of poetry.

Root-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres.

Poems that marked a new direction for a master poet

National and family disasters converge in this radically new kind of memoir

The latest volume in Hillman's acclaimed meditations on the elements

An essential collection of a highly original American poet

Vivid exploration of what the world of objects reveals about our lives.

Molten and musical poetry from an acclaimed Southern writer

First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet.

Classic poems from a famous American poet

A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition.

Visionary poems lay claim to the power of the spinster

7/15/95 Paris Xicancuicatl collects the poetry of leading avant-garde Chicanx poet Alfred Arteaga (1950-2008), whom French philosopher Gilles Deleuze regarded as "among those rare poets who are able to raise or shape a new language within their language."

A poetic archive of subcultures rooted in the lives and language of the unsettled

Poetry of grief and sustenance from an award-winning poet

How we answer to love beneath the lash of history

Extraordinary retrospective spanning forty years

Soulful and intricate lyrics make this Gizzi's strongest book to date

Artist Ai Weiwei, at risk to his own safety, gathered the names of these children, and their names are the subject of this book. This act of poetic translation is both a heartbreaking tribute to people whose names have been erased, and a healing meditation on how language suggests a path forward.

The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist black man, Geter charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and the heartbreak of trying to feel at home in a country that does not recognize you.

Sarah Blake follows up her previous book of poetry, Mr. West, with a stunning second collection about anxieties and injury.

Beauty and peril abound in new poems from this spirited poet

New and selected poetry from Pulitzer prize-winning author Rae Armantrout

Identities are formed and broken in this unauthorized lyric biography

Sandra Simonds charts the formations and deformations of the social and political through the observations of the poem's speakers, interspersed with the language of social media, news reports, political speech, and the dialogue of friends, children, strangers, and politicians.