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  • My Lost Saints

    Poems

    In My Lost Saints, James Davis May leans in to listen to the dead, whose voices are “thin and out of focus” but just audible enough to offer hope for reconnection. Rather than being a cause for despair, in this book absence is instead the beginning of a search, one that traverses leaf-littered trails in Pennsylvania, the sites of ancient relics, airport terminals, medieval cities, and suburban cul ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

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  • Unusually Grand Ideas

    Poems

    Titled after one of the side effects of antidepressants, Unusually Grand Ideas is a poignant account of clinical depression and the complications it introduces to marriage and fatherhood. James Davis May’s poems describe mental illness with nuance, giving a full account of the darkness but also the flashes of hope, love, and even humor that lead toward healing. In pieces ranging from spare lyrical ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Unquiet Things

    Poems

    Series series Goat Island Poetry
    Grounded in wonder and fueled by an impulse to praise, the poems in James Davis May's debut collection, Unquiet Things, grapple with skepticism, violence, and death to generate lasting insights into the human experience. With compassion and humor, this second and final volume in Claudia Emerson's Goat Island Poets series exposes the unseen tragedies and rejoices in the small, surprising moments of ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

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  • The Human Line

    by Ellen Bass ...
    “Poetry,” writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, “is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray. It’s the way I embody my love for the world.”The Human Line, Bass’ seventh book of poems, startles with its precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors. Bass brings attention to life’s endearing absurdities, and many of the poems flash with a keen sense ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Fall Higher

    by Dean Young ...
    "Young has always stood out for his sharp humor, boundless poetic energy, and sheer readability. If adventurous poetry can sometimes feel like a tenuous tightrope walk, Young's poems feel more like zip lines."-The Boston Globe"This book reads like a long, breathless thank-you for life's seemingly random jumble of beauty, strangeness, tenderness, and joy."-Los Angeles TimesFall Higher is a major ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Incarnate

    The erotic impulse is embodied in Incarnate through a passionate wrestling with image and form. Juleta Severson-Baker wills memory and desire onto the page until “the seduction is complete”. The force of these poems is palpable. Readers witness the poet take a polluted river into her “belly like a snake takes a venomous toad”, experience orgasm as birth, and hike above tree line to ultimately ... Read more

    $7.27 USD

  • Insomnia Diary

    by Bob Hicok ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Bob Hicok's poems are often edgy, brazen, and funny. They’re just as likely to be soulful, reflective, and provocative. Usually at the same time. As Hicok builds toward the punchline of a poem set up with his characteristic wit, he zigs into seriousness. A thoughtful meditation that builds to a moment of epiphany zags into comedy. Hicok's fluid ability to shift moods, the richness of his visual ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • 14 Fun Facts About Animal Eyes: A 15-Minute Book

    15-Minute Books, #96

    Series Book 96 - 15-Minute Books
    How many lenses does a dragonfly's eye have?Which is bigger, an eagle's eye or a human's?How many eyes does a scallop have?How do lizards keep their eyes wet?Animal eyes can be really strange and wonderful. How much do you know about the eyes of your animal friends? Find out more in this book.LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15 ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Marvels

    A Compendium of Everyday Things

    by Lorna Crozier ...
    In The Book of Marvels, award-winning poet Lorna Crozier offers a delightful series of prose meditations on household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink. Operating as a kind of a literary detective, Crozier brings her rapt attention to the everyday things she explores, uncovering the mystery that lies at their essence. She offers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Another Insane Devotion

    On the Love of Cats and Persons

    From "a genuine American Dostoevsky" ( The Washington Post): a dazzling, funny, bittersweet exploration of the mysteries of relationship, both human and animal.When his favorite cat Biscuit goes missing, Peter Trachtenberg sets out to find her. The journey takes him 700 miles and many years into his past-- into the history of his relationships with cats and the history of his relationship with his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lucky Fish

    Poems

    Lucky Fish travels along a lush current — a confluence of leaping vocabulary and startling formal variety, with upwelling gratitude at its source: for love, motherhood, “new hope,” and the fluid and rich possibilities of words themselves. With an exuberant appetite for “my morning song, my scurry-step, my dew,” anchored in complicated human situations, this astounding young poet’s third collection ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The World Doesn't End

    A Poetry Collection

    by Charles Simic ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry“One of the truly imaginative writers of our time.” —Los Angles Times Book ReviewYou never know what Charles Simic is up to until you reach the end of the line or the bottom of the paragraph. Waiting for you might be a kiss. Or a bludgeon. A smile at the absurdities of society, or a wistful, grim memory of World War II.He puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy ... Read more

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