"A boy places a bell in the hollow of a tree, so someone might find it. An overworked baker wishes for an annunciation of her own. A man calls down into a well until another voice calls back. In this lonely, modern world, how do we close the distances between doubt and faith, between cultures, between ourselves and those we love? In his poignant, far-traveling new collection of poems, Matthew Thorburn seeks to name--and find--that elusive, essential sense of connection"-- Provided by publisher.

• Contents
• Foreword, Approximity (in the life, her attempt to bring the life of her mother close Fred Moten
• Introduction, Unsettling Proximities Kristen Case and Alexandra Manglis
• Thinking as Burial Practice: Exhuming a Poetic Epistemology in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Emerson Dan Beachy-Quick
• Feeling the Riot: Fugitivity, Lyric, and Enduring Failure Jose Felipe Alvergue
• Essay in Fragments, a Pile of Limbs: Walt Whitman's Body in the Book Stefania Heim
• Citation in the Wake of Melville Joan Naviyuk Kane
• Touching the Horror: Poe, Race, and Gun Violence Karen Weiser
• Homage to Bayard Taylor Benjamin Friedlander
• Revising The Waste Land: Black Antipastoral & The End of the World Joshua Bennett
• Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1859-1937: Night Over Night Cole Swensen
• Nights and Lights in Nineteenth Century American Poetics Cecily Parks
• The Earth Is Full of Men Brian Teare
• Making Black Cake in Combustible Spaces M. NourbeSe Philip
• "The Tinge Awakes": Reading Whitman and Others in Trouble Leila Wilson
• Acknowledgments Works Cited Illustration Credits Editors Contributors.
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The nineteenth century is often viewed as a golden age of American literature, a historical moment when national identity was emergent and ideals such as freedom, democracy, and individual agency were promising, even if belied in reality by violence and hypocrisy. The writers of this "American Renaissance"-Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Emerson, and Dickinson, among many others-produced a body of work that has been both celebrated and contested by following generations. As the twenty-first century unfolds in a United States characterized by deep divisions, diminished democracy, and dramatic transformation of identities, the co-editors of this singular book approached a dozen North American poets, asking them to engage with texts by their predecessors in a manner that avoids both aloofness from the past and too-easy elegy. The resulting essays dwell provocatively on the border between the lyrical and the scholarly, casting fresh critical light on the golden age of American literature and exploring a handful of texts not commonly included in its canon. A polyvocal collection that reflects the complexity of the cross-temporal encounter it enacts, 21
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• The man with the big general notions
• Zoo sign
• [Wake up Jack]
• Circus
• The circus of the sun
• The juggler
• Jerusalem
• Question
• [The port was longing]
• [One stone]
• Andalusian proverb
• [Maximum capacity]
• [Basic forms]
• [Goodbye]
• [One bird, two birds]
• [River]
• [In the dark]
• Shorter history of western civilization
• [Are you a visitor]
• [The watcher]
• [Every night]
• The bomb
• Sea & sky
• Abstract poem
• Able Charlie Baker dance
• A problem in design
• The angel and the little old lady
• Shepherd's calendar
• Seven episodes
• Tractatus I-II
• One island
• Tiger
• 21 pages.

"The American poet Robert Lax belongs to the generation of Thomas Merton, Beat poetry, Abstract Expressionism, and the compositions of John Cage. Yet he stands out as this era's most intriguing minimalist poet, gaining this reputation through a constant questioning of the universe and our idea about it. His poetry varies from fables and parables to clear-cut columns of words, from his account of a day at the circus as a vision of creation to his own insistent and mystical search for truth. 33 Poems presents the quintessential gathering of Lax's work, including Sea & Sky and The Circus of the Sun, 'perhaps the greatest English-language poem of this century' (The New York Times)"-- Provided by publisher.

This is a book about Americans. Not the ones brunching in Park Slope or farming in Wranglers or trading synergies in a boardroom; they are not executives or socialites. They are not the salt of the earth. Nor are they huddled masses yearning to breathe free. These are the others of the everyday, the Americans no one sees. These are the brown and bland ones who understand the good, tough money in working a double, who know which end of a joint to hit. They can find Karachi on a map. They know a shortcut to Ikea. They can land a punchline. These are their poems. In The 44th of July, Jaswinder Bolina offers bracing and often humorous reflections on American culture through the lens of an alienated outsider at a deliberately uncomfortable distance that puts the oddities of the culture on full display. Exploring the nuances of life in an America that doesn't treat you as one of its own, yet whose benefits still touch your life, these exquisitely crafted poems sing in a kaleidoscopic collaging of language the mundane, yet surreal experience of being in between a cultural heritage of migration and poverty and daily life in a discriminatory yet prosperous nation. Both complicit in global capitalism and victims of the inequality that makes it possible, these are the Americans who are caught in a system with no clear place for them. Bolina opens the space to include the excluded, bringing voice and embodied consciousness to experiences that are essential to Americanness, but get removed from view in the chasms between self and other, immigrant and citizen.
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Acoustic shadows - sound suppressed in such a way that even General Grant was deceived by one at the Battle of Iuka in the American Civil War - complicate the lives of many figures appearing in these poems, including that of the young John Matthias at his grandfather's house on Iuka Drive in Columbus, Ohio in the 1950s. This book, Matthias's first volume of entirely new poems since Complayntes for Doctor Neuro (Shearsman, 2016), includes a group of short lyrics followed by an essay called "Some Zones" (about places in which a kind of imaginative clarity becomes possible) and two longish sequences, "Prynne and a Petoskey Stone" and "First and Last Opinions, " dealing with the American Midwest from the perspective of an English poet's Cambridge, and the Ohio Supreme Court opinions written by Matthias's father and grandfather. The title poem concludes the volume by bringing together memories and documents relating to the poet's great-grandfather, especially those pertaining to Civil War battles in which he fought alongside the famous and mysterious Ambrose Bierce, author of The Devil's Dictionary, who disappeared in Mexico in 1913.
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Action in the Orchards' explores ekphrastic poetry and its possibilities through experiences and encounters, with art and architecture, with friends and lovers, with our own pasts and futures, how they intersect with language, and how language acts as a filter through which our relations to experiences are communicated. Fred Schmalz follows the energy of those exchanges, in hopes of witnessing new opportunities for language. Formally experimental and musical, the poems coalesce through a kaleidoscopic mix of speech fragments, elision, mistranslation, collage, appropriated language, dream transcription, and wordplay.
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• Becoming
• Landscape with sage and the names of my children
• The elk my father shot
• The house on Fish Hatchery Road
• Ars poetica composed in exile
• Native species
• First trimester
• At the Arlee Pow-Wow with my unborn child
• On needing to see a river
• At the Museum of Trades and Traditions
• Georgia
• Still life with nursing bra
• Outside the new body
• Getting the baby to sleep
• Migration instinct
• Landscape without
• Still life with small objects of perfect choking size
• At the small town drag show
• Springtime makes us want
• Love note
• Landscape with ocean and nearly dead dog
• My brother says my milk smells different
• At Golden Gate Park with you
• Shooting clay pigeons after the wedding
• Donetsk
• Yardwork
• Glassblower's glossary of flaws and defects
• Self-care at the playground
• Outside the refugium
• Picking huckleberries as the world ends
• Landscape with child
• On the haunted hayride with Audrey
• Laying on of hands
• I buy my white daughter a black doll
• The Great Lakes
• Spring letter from the south
• Anemoia
• Still life with caviar and crayons
• Names of rivers
• In the yard I lie on my back and dream of turtles
• At the Halloween party
• Abatement
• Collaborators
• Essentials
• After the farmers market, I make a salade nicoise
• Teaching day aubade
• After my shower, a bee at the window
• Digging out the splinter
• Wife
• Told you so
• We drive home from the lake, sand in our shoes
• Still life with beauty berries and two theories of time.

A luminous new collection from Keetje Kuipers, All Its Charms is a fearless and transformative reckoning of identity. By turns tender and raw, these poems chronicle Kuipers' decision to become a single mother by choice, her marriage to the woman she first fell in love with more than a decade before giving birth to her daughter, and her family's struggle to bring another child into their lives. All Its Charms is about much more than the reinvention of the American family--it's about transformation, desire, and who we can become when we move past who we thought we would be.
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ALL THE FIRES OF WIND AND LIGHT invites readers to find themselves in the wild, even in the most challenging times. Drawing from personal history, ancestry, and explorations ranging from the Bay of Bengal to the Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Mountains, and beyond, Khosla takes readers into worlds that are all but hidden--among "the best-kept secrets of our forests"--and sometimes all but lost. "In this moment of time, when we are witnessing the progression of Earth's seeming destruction through climate change, along with an increased visibility of man's immoral tendencies, comes a book of poems so lovely in its undertaking, so infused with scientific knowledge and imagistic beauty, that a thousand candles are lit in the cavern of despair," writes Katherine Hastings, Sonoma County Poet Laureate Emerita and author of Shakespeare & Stein Walk into a Bar. Maya's work also shows sudden flares of understanding about the sheer scale of fragmentation, even disappearance, of our forests and other ecosystems. And yet these poems are "fortified by nutrients and hope" in the powers of natural rejuvenation. "Maya Khosla's dazzling poems in ALL THE FIRES OF WIND AND LIGHT are dense with beauty and wisdom...Fire ecology, a widely misunderstood field, is a central theme," writes Lucille Lang Day, coeditor of FIRE AND RAIN: ECOPOETRY OF CALIFORNIA. --www.spdbooks.org

• Prologue
• Break my heart
• My grandfather Monahwee
• Exile of memory
• Granddaughters
• The fight
• Directions to you
• Seven generations
• In 1990 a congress
• Weapons,
• The story wheel
• Once I looked at the moon
• Washing my mother's body
• There is a map
• Rising and falling
• The road to disappearance
• Mama and Papa have the going home shiprock blues
• My great-grandfather Monahwee
• How to write a poem in a time of war
• Mvskoke mourning song
• First morning
• Singing everything
• Falling from the night sky
• Our knowledge is based
• For earth's grandsons
• Running
• A refuge in the smallest of places
• I'm nobody! : who are you?
• Bourbon and blues
• My great-aunt Ella Monahwee Jacobs's testimony
• Road
• The Southeast was covered
• Desire's dog
• Dawning
• Honoring
• My man's feet
• "I wonder what you are thinking,"
• For those who would govern
• Rabbit invents the saxophone
• When Adolfe Sax patented
• Let there be no regrets
• Advice for countries, advanced, developing and falling
• Tobacco origin story
• My aunt Lois Harjo told me
• Redbird love
• We follow the DNA spiral of stories
• Becoming seventy
• Beyond
• Ren-toh-pvrv
• Memory sack
• Every night
• Cehotosakvtes
• One march
• By the way
• When we made it down last year
• Welcoming song
• An American sunrise
• Bless this land.

In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother's death, to her beginnings in the native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo's personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice. A descendent of storytellers and "one of our finest-and most complicated-poets" (Los Angeles Review of Books), Joy Harjo continues her legacy with this latest powerful collection.
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• Prologue -- Map of the Trail of Tears
• Break My Heart
• My grandfather Monahwee
• Exile of Memory
• Granddaughters
• The Fight
• Directions to You
• Seven Generations
• In 1990 a congress
• Weapons,
• The Story Wheel
• Once I looked at the moon
• Washing My Mother's Body
• There is a map
• Rising and Falling
• The Road to Disappearance
• Mama and Papa Have the Going Home Shiprock Blues
• My great-grandfather Monahwee
• How to Write a Poem in a Time of War
• Mvskoke Mourning Song
• First Morning
• Singing Everything
• Falling from the Night Sky
• Our knowledge is based
• For Earth's Grandsons
• Running
• A Refuge in the Smallest of Places
• I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
• Bourbon and Blues
• My Great-Aunt Ella Monahwee Jacobs's Testimony
• Road
• The Southeast was covered
• Desire's Dog
• Dawning
• Honoring
• My Man's Feet
• "I Wonder What You Are Thinking,"
• Fot Those Who Would Govern
• Rabbit Invents the Saxophone
• When Adolfe Sax patented
• Let There Be No Regrets
• Advice for Countries, Advanced, Developing and Falling
• Tobacco Origin Story
• My aunt Lois Harjo told me
• Redbird Love
• We follow the DNA spiral of stories
• Becoming Seventy
• Beyond
• Ren-Toh-Pvrv
• Memory Sack
• Every night
• Cehotosakvtes
• One March
• By the Way
• When we made it down last year
• Welcoming Song
• An American Sunrise
• Bless This Land
• Acknowledgements

In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother's death, to her beginnings in the native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo's personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice. A descendent of storytellers and "one of our finest-and most complicated-poets" (Los Angeles Review of Books), Joy Harjo continues her legacy with this latest powerful collection.
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"Angel Bones has an introspective voice that maintains a bright understanding of the temporal. As we read, we are painfully aware the speaker is dying from cancer and death is imminent. The attempt to not only explain, but understand how to welcome and embrace death is a bittersweet calm. How can one leave willingly when there is so much left behind?"-- Provided by publisher.