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What would happen if a playful poet had a love child with "Schoolhouse Rock"? This book, that's what. Marjorie Maddox's How Can I Look It Up When I Don't Know How It's Spelled? romps through the...

Kristin Berger's How Light Reaches Us is a finely woven, image-rich exploration of self and landscape that gets to the very core of what poetry is about: language borrowed from the land, yet language...

"Come to me / when you have wrestled / with the angel / no one else can see..." Has there ever been a more welcoming invitation to a book? I soon gave up trying to mark favorite and most powerful...

Human BotanyAuthor: John RaffettoPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jun 24, 2020Number of Pages: 66 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326265ISBN-13: 9781952326264

Human Nature: Poems of Witness is a remarkable and wonderful telling of a life in and out of poetry and music, as well as political and cultural struggles... Each poem reveals DeGenova as a new world...

HydrangeaAuthor: Gloria MonaghanPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jul 06, 2020Number of Pages: 74 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326206ISBN-13: 9781952326202

I Can't BreatheAuthor: Nancy DillinghamPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: January 26, 2021Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326974ISBN-13: 9781952326974

I Cry Love! Love! Love!Author: Randel McCraw HelmsPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Oct 25, 2021Number of Pages: 54 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800395ISBN-13:...

I Have To Tell You SomethingAuthor: Eddie DowePublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: April 16, 2021Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353391ISBN-13:...

Author: David P. KozinskiPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jan 18, 2022Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 163980062XISBN-13: 9781639800629

I Won'T Be/Long HereAuthor: Lisa Masã©Publisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: April 20, 2021Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353278ISBN-13: 9781954353275

With his fourth full-length collection, Marc Frazier has provided us with "a design for living." In a world that is quick to destabilize subjective experience, Frazier creates a second world of...

With If Not Now Anita Barrows posits that one cannot bear witness from a safe distance, that, to do it properly, one must join in the bloodletting. These poems foreground an oft-overlooked truth...

Not GoodbyeNo need, with books, for sad goodbyes, No need for one small tear.Books mimic magic cakes and pies-Consumed, don't disappear.So see you soon, come back again, Don't be a stranger,...

Illuminated Edges defeated the adjectives I had prepared for talking about it-its first poem leapfrogged me and I had to turn around and chase it, spluttering. It is a fast book, a strong book, an...

Author: R. G. EvansPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Oct 23, 2020Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326605ISBN-13: 9781952326608

In and Out by Arnold Johnston celebrates romantic love, despite and because of mortality, with playfulness and passion. These masterful poems are intimate and universal at once.-Hilma Wolitzer,...

In No HurryAuthor: Michael CarrinoPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: 6-Aug-21Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353774ISBN-13: 9781954353770

Author: Jane BlanchardPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jun 18, 2020Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326095ISBN-13: 9781952326097

In the Absence of SonsAuthor: Carol LipszycPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Aug 14, 2020Number of Pages: 50 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 195232632XISBN-13: 9781952326325

In the Blink of a Mottled EyeAuthor: Michelle RealePublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Apr 14, 2020Number of Pages: 48 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462951ISBN-13:...

Author: Elizabeth BalisePublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Sep 29, 2021Number of Pages: 76 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800239ISBN-13: 9781639800230

There is so much to feel and to learn about in this collection: a hotel monkey, an Alaskan moose, and a "tribunal of cows whose heads hang like lanterns" are just some of the vital animals that...

Author: Joseph HartPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Feb 25, 2022Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800921ISBN-13: 9781639800926

Inside Out : Poems on Writing and Reading Poems with Insider ExercisesAuthor: Marjorie MaddoxPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Mar 31, 2020Number of Pages: 63 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Douglas "Wyatt" Anderson is a poet and medical student. He spends most of his days trying to learn all that is necessary to care well for his future patients. However, he also writes. He writes to...

The "slobber, lick, smack/lust-gush-gimme" poems in the wonderfully titled Ishmael's Violets by Vivian Eyre sink down down down into the maw and the awe of the marine, whale foremost and last. "Come...

Lynda La Rocca's voice rings clear here-the brave, wise voice of a survivor, as we long to be, of our childhoods. This is a past intimately and skillfully recalled in iconic details: that NYC and...

Joseph Cornell: The Man Who Love Sparrows is a soaring portrait of the visual artist and experimental filmmaker and the interweaving of lives he touched and those who inspired this thoughtful creator...

Junk DrawerAuthor: Michael P. HillPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Sep 18, 2021Number of Pages: 50 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 163980014XISBN-13: 9781639800148