Poetry

The Future (Paperback)

By Neil Hilborn

$16.00

ISBN: 9781943735310

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Published: Button Poetry - April 17th, 2018

Remember the sophomore album of your favorite band? The excitement of knowing it wasn't a one-off phenomenon, these guys were here to stay, and damn it if you couldn't see exactly how much they'd grown in part 2? Here's that feeling, encapsulated in a book as slim and attractive as you are in your head. ~ Reviewed by Katelynne Shimkus

Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets Series: No. 19) (Paperback)

By Frank O'Hara

$8.95

ISBN: 9780872860353

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Published: City Lights Books - January 1st, 2001

Liver sausage sandwich, campaign button, glass ashtrays, peanut machines, Jason Pollock, dirty glistening torsos, Times Square, instant coffee, Duke Ellington, Birdland, Empire State Building, candy bars, Coca-Cola, Miles Davis, bargains in wristwatches, cats playing in sawdust, elephant balls, blonde chorus girl: they all appear in O'Hara's jazzy Manhattan poems of the 1950s, where he maybe made time for a hamburger and a malted. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

Orphic Paris (Paperback)

By Henri Cole

$15.95

ISBN: 9781681372181

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Published: New York Review of Books - April 3rd, 2018

Poet Cole gives his attention to Paris, and from that attention springs a tender, intimate meditation on history, love, and art. A beautiful, nourishing book. ~ Reviewed by Cathy Taylor

Not Here (Paperback)

By Hieu Minh Nguyen

$16.99

ISBN: 9781566895095

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Published: Coffee House Press - April 10th, 2018

Through his own personal struggles this poet has developed such a clear and strong voice. There's a wisdom underneath these lines that sometimes simmers until the final verse, but you feel their impact. And then there are certain poems (Changeling) which seem to cut through flesh, back and forth, as each line passes into the next. ~ Reviewed by Alex Bell

Wade in the Water: Poems (Hardcover)

By Tracy K. Smith

$24.00

ISBN: 9781555978136

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Published: Graywolf Press - April 3rd, 2018

What is history to us? Smith asks, through a myriad of voices, sloshing through pain and time. A beautiful and poignant way to speak about the present by talking about the past, and discovering similarities between time to uncover truth. Smith is never too far away from sublime in her work, sharing her experiences falling in love, becoming a mother, and seeing the history she will pass on to her child. All the while guiding us through pain, and leaving us all with a little hope. ~ Reviewed by Alex Bell