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Barbara Ungar's latest collection, fiercer and funnier than ever, defends the planet and gives us the heart to join her in the fight. Celebration of our most startling animal cohabitants matches her...

Around the GateAuthor: Michelle Antoinette NicholsonPublisher: Word WorksPublication Date: Jun 07, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1944585818ISBN-13:...

Crawford's poems explore a world on the cusp of machine dominance in which binary code is poised to overshadow verbal language as the global lingua franca. But the planet depicted in this book is...

Poetry. Gritty poems carve her coming-of-age as the speaker dares fear to hold her back. Sandra Lim, who selected chigger ridge to win the 2023 Tenth Gate Prize, says, "These poems sound out the rich...

Poetry. Anthology. A fleet of 38 contemporary poets respond in poetry to the sections of Gertrude Stein's seminal work, Tender Buttons. In volume 2 of this anthology series, these authors tackle the...

This collection from Jeddie Sophronius, a Chinese-Indonesian poet born in Jakarta, Indonesia, and now living in the US, lifts the reader into the bloody history of their people, the beauty of their...

Rachel Bennett's collection Mothers & Other Fairytales creates a brand-new music around the theme of creating and sustaining life. She reveals both the strangeness of motherhood and the irresistibly...

What does it mean to live in a country at war with itself--historically, spiritually, politically? Where does this sickness originate? In poems both personal and sweeping in scope, Umansky opens the...

Only BelieveAuthor: Jennifer BartellPublisher: Word WorksPublication Date: Jun 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 194458580XISBN-13: 9781944585808

Pine Soot Tendon BoneAuthor: Radha MarcumPublisher: Word WorksPublication Date: Jun 10, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1944585796ISBN-13: 9781944585792

Poetry. Translation. Uruguayan poet Laura Cesarco Eglin presents poems both urgent and dreamlike as she contends with a father's death and savors the intensity of daily reality."These poems excel in...

Author: Julie Marie WadePublisher: Word WorksPublication Date: March 01, 2021Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1944585478ISBN-13: 9781944585471

How do we survive the undeserved and incomprehensible violence of the world we are born into? Mohring shows us the childhood and coming of age of a queer boy growing up in rural America, then the man...

Poetry: Emily August's debut explodes our ideas about biraciality and why institutions are larded with violence.This ferocious vision of personal and cultural histories enters us through dark-wooded...