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• Paper Boat

  New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  Assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume. In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful, and hyper-imagined, Atwood gives voice to remarkably drawn characters—mythological figures, animals, and everyday people—all of whom have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bees, and After

  Liles, John, 1991-

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  The 119th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize places science at the heart of his powerful poems.

• A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker

  1925-2025

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  Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John Ashbery, Sandra…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wrong Norma

  Carson, Anne, 1950-

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  Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the 25 startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Carson writes: "Wrong Norma is a collection of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A History of Western Music

  Poems

  Kleinzahler, August,

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  The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet captures the essence of the West's greatest music in verse, from Whitney Houston to Mahler.

• Sturge Town

  Poems

  Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962-

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  In this stunning volume, acclaimed poet Kwame Dawes explores the mythic, ancestral, and spiritual journeys that make up a life.

• Modern Poetry

  Poems

  Seuss, Diane

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  In poems of rangy curiosity, sharp humor, and illuminating self-scrutiny, Modern Poetry investigates our time’s deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean? “It seems wrong / to curl now…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scattered Snows, to the North

  Poems

  Phillips, Carl, 1959-

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  An arresting study of memory, perception, and the beauty and finitude of the human condition from Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips.

• Helen of Troy, 1993

  Poems

  Zoccola, Maria, 1993-

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  In Zoccola's exceptional debut, The Iliad's Helen of Troy is reimagined as a wistful Tennessee housewife, dissatisfied with her marriage and wasted potential and reliving the glory days of her youth.

• Context Collapse

  a Poem Containing a History of Poetry

  Ruby, Ryan,

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  Literary critic Ruby (The Zero and the One) delivers a dazzling and ambitious "verse essay" tracing the history of poetry from Homer through the present.

• The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket

  Poems

  Drake, Kinsale,

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  Traverses the Southwest landscape, exploring intricate relationships between Native peoples and the natural world, land, pop culture, twentieth-century music, and multi-generational representations.

• New and Selected Poems

  Howe, Marie, 1950-

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  An indispensable collection of more than four decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed poet Marie Howe.

• Invisible Strings

  113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift

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  Invisible Strings brings together 113 contemporary poets, each contributing an original poem that responds to a specific Taylor Swift song. Poets have taken a cue from Swift’s love of dropping clues and puzzles for her fandom to decode, as each poem…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Selected Shepherd

  Shepherd, Reginald, 1963-2008,

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  Drawing from all six of his collections, The Selected Shepherd offers a new retrospective on the work of an important and sometimes controversial Black, gay poet.

• An Authentic Life

  Chang, Jennifer, 1976-

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  Sprawling yet urgent, meditative yet lucid, the poems in Jennifer Chang's anticipated third collection, An Authentic Life, offer a bold examination of a world deeply influenced by war and patriarchy. In dialogues against literature, against…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Something About Living

  Tuffaha, Lena Khalaf,

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  Tuffaha's poems interweave Palestine’s historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will, and the gentle delights we embrace to survive that violence. Khalaf Tuffaha’s elegant poems sing the fractured songs of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tripas

  Poems

  Som, Brandon,

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  Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mojave Ghost

  a Novel Poem

  Gander, Forrest, 1956-

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  In his sonorous new collection, Pulitzer Prize winner Gander captures his walk along parts of the 800-mile San Andreas Fault, ending at his Mojave desert birthplace. It's a journey fraught with recall, launched after the deaths of his wife, poet…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Universe in Verse

  15 Portals to Wonder Through Science & Poetry

  Popova, Maria,

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  Essayist and cultural critic Popova collaborates with an award-winning illustrator to explore how poetry and science offer interconnected ways of “knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply."

• A Year of Last Things

  Poems

  Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-

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  Moving from a Sri Lankan boarding school to Molière’s chair during his last stage performance, to Bulgarian churches and their icons, to the California coast and his beloved Canadian rivers, Michael Ondaatje casts a brilliant eye that merges memory…Read moreRead more of this annotation