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• Cover; Title Page; Note to Reader; Dedication; Contents; One; Auckland; Antwerp; Durban, South Africa-Some Notations of Value; Hanging in Egypt with Breyten Breytenbach; Poem; Letter to the Editor; A Way to Turn This to Light; Refugees; Harare; Walcott; Two; Buffalo Women; Three; Hands Washing Water; Fire; Lacan; The New Religion; The Measure of Sorrow; Aphasia; The Old Artist Speaks to the Young Poet; from There Are No Names For Red; Coleman; Low-down Dirty Blues; Foucault's Funk; Morning Yet:; Ode to a Rag; Letter to the President; Say Something about Child's Play; Ouija Board; War Widow.

• SkinMuir Woods; A Warrior's Pride; Howl; Secrets; The Cleft in the Infinite; How We Come to Name; Unfinished Symphony; Notes; About the Author; About the Author; Links; Books by Chris Abani; Acknowledgments; Copyright; Special Thanks.

Abani's fourth poetry collection - a mischevious book of displacement, exile, ancestry, and subversive humor.

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• Sonnet Ghazal
• Ghazal Game #2 Pin the Tail on the Middle Eastern Donkey
• Inverted Ghazal
• Persian Poet's Recipe for Qormeh Sabzi
• Ghazal Game #3 True or False
• Beard
• Sword
• For My Beloved
• Salads Are for Girls
• Ghazal Game #4 Matching
• American
• Ghazal Game #5 Product Placement
• Martyrs of Iran
• Chemotherapy
• Vertical Ghazal
• My Father's Face
• Ghazal Game #6 Hangman
• Basho and Hafez: Japanese-Persian Fusion
• Goddamn Scale
• Train
• Texas
• Ghazal Game #7 Tic Tac Toe
• Postmodern Ekphrasis Ghazal
• Protest Ghazal #1
• Protest Ghazal #2
• Protest Ghazal #3
• Ghazal for Neda
• Perfect Translation
• Cold Feet
• Ghazal Game #8 Exercise in Tone
• Facebook
• Ghazal Game #9 Illustrate the Comic Strip
• Gazelle in a Ghazal
• Ya Baba
• Dubai
• Dramatic Crime Scene Ghazal
• Ghazal Game #10 Truth or Dare
• Moley
• Farsi
• Chador Bat, a Qasideh Ballad
• Ghazal Game #11 Spin the Bottle
• Gus
• We
• Ghazal Game #12 Know Your Shakespeare
• Stone
• Mixed Metaphor
• Found Ghazal
• Disease of Self
• Vampire God
• Trapped in Form
• Jar in Shiraz.

As an Iranian American poet, Roger Sedarat fuses Western and Eastern traditions to reinvent the classical Persian form of the ghazal. For its humor as well as its spirituality, the poems in this collection can perhaps best be described as \u201cWallace Stevens meets Rumi.\u201d Perhaps most striking is the poetAEs use of the ancient ghazal form in the tradition of the classical masters like Hafez and Rumi to politically challenge the Islamic Republic of IranAEs continual crackdown on protesters. Not since the late Agha Shahid Ali has a poet translated the letter as well as the spirit of this form into English, using musicality and inventive rhyme to extend the reach of the ghazal in a new language and tradition.
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• Cover
• CONTENTS
• WOOL SWEATERS
• Map
• Wool sweater
• Breakwater
• Before what we did
• Late riser
• Over time, over space
• Time delay
• What to think I don't know
• Two reasons you will hate me
• Espresso
• Mother and daughter
• Plums
• CITIES
• Soaps
• Digging graves
• No strings
• The neighbours
• Condensations
• Olives at John's
• Hawk
• The wading pool
• On the bike
• Brain surgery
• POLAROIDS
• Home court advantage
• The more distant limbs
• Pictures in what the river left

• Checking up on GouldThe new forest
• Brain
• East
• LANDSCAPES
• A new record
• Gold rush
• With open mind
• A new plot
• Tracking in mud
• Prison break
• Doubting Thomas
• We rattle north

• Cover
• CONTENTS
• WOOL SWEATERS
• Map
• Wool sweater
• Breakwater
• Before what we did
• Late riser
• Over time, over space
• Time delay
• What to think I don't know
• Two reasons you will hate me
• Espresso
• Mother and daughter
• Plums
• CITIES
• Soaps
• Digging graves
• No strings
• The neighbours
• Condensations
• Olives at John's
• Hawk
• The wading pool
• On the bike
• Brain surgery
• POLAROIDS
• Home court advantage
• The more distant limbs
• Pictures in what the river left

• Checking up on GouldThe new forest
• Brain
• East
• LANDSCAPES
• A new record
• Gold rush
• With open mind
• A new plot
• Tracking in mud
• Prison break
• Doubting Thomas
• We rattle north

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• A Note to Readers
• Introduction
• 1. Andean Prelude
• 2. Armadillo for Breakfast
• 3. Puzzle Pieces
• 4. Jesus versus the Warrior Spirits
• 5. Four Weddings and a Funeral
• 6. Trouble in Mind
• 7. Hard Lessons
• 8. Civilization's Twisting Road
• 9. Boundary Condition
• 10. Looking Back
• Notes
• Sources on the Awajún and Related Societies
• Acknowledgments
• Index.

There is a triumphant and satisfying feeling the first time one returns to a once-unfamiliar place and finally feels like it is home. When strangeness is shed and familiar patterns emerge, there is a deep sense of comfort that is the reward for those who venture into new places. When Carolyn Kremers moved alone to Alaska to teach in Tununak, a village on the Bering Sea, she faced the challenge of making a place for herself in the remote coastal town. Struck by both a sense of adventure and a painful longing for the familiar, she was forced to confront what it really meant to feel at home. "Upriver" picks up on the story where Kremers' previous book, "Place of the Pretend People", left off, further exploring what it means to truly love a place and how it feels to return, like a salmon swimming upriver. Setting her story in four distinct locations - Tununak, the Alaska Interior, the Yukon-Kuskokwim River Delta, and Fairbanks - Kremers uses poetry, music, Yup'ik language, and much more to tell her story. Infused with a sense of spirituality, the book will resonate with anyone who has found a new home beyond the familiar.
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In this story of one man's encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajun-renowned for pugnacity and fierce independence-use hard-won political savvy, literacy, and digital skills to live life on their own terms, against long odds.
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• Our Mother Who Taught Tumbling
• Barbed Wire before Pearl Harbor
• Our Mother Who Taught Tumbling
• My Brother's Photos before Okinawa
• Uncle Howell and the Magic of Moonlight
• Oranges for My Sister When She Was Nine
• Woodworker's Saturday Nights
• Coat Collars Up like Thugs
• Gehenna and the County's Tires
• December after World War II
• Aunt Emma and the Spoils of War
• Red Sun in the West
• Rattling Past Ninety
• Jukebox Nights in Georgia
• Practice during the Cuban Missile Crisis
• One Summer before Saigon
• Dawn Outside Saigon
• Too Far from Town to Play Baseball
• Sausage in the Mess Hall
• Anniversary Waltz
• War Never Stops Even When All Vets Are Dead
• No Wonder My Wife Is Tough
• Wishing for Easter All Year Long
• Dogs Romping until Dawn
• Harvest
• Mobeetee, Where Faith and Neighbors Failed
• How Aunt Martha Handled Scandal
• How Much Time We're Promised
• Fathers and Sons
• October Compost
• Uncles on Sunday Battlegrounds
• Wishing for Easter All Year Long
• Hammering Ice to Slush
• Hammering Ice to Slush
• Hoping to Break the Chain
• Grandmother's House at Kitty Hawk
• Dusk at Kill Devil Hills
• Bulldozing the Outer Banks
• All Salty Summer
• Parties in a Heated Hall
• A Little Night Music
• Taking the Keys from Mother
• In Shallows of the Brazos
• At the Bald Men's Convention
• Turning Sixty-Five on Hardscrabble
• When the Days Dwindle Down
• Some Boys Are Born to Wander
• Opening the Cabin in March
• Ranching at Glacier
• In Arnold Schwend's Saloon.

This title is written by 2005 SPUR Award Winner. A West Texas starscape, stunning by any measure, is emblematic of Walt McDonalds plains. A lifelong celebration culminates in this, his best - and perhaps last - collection of new poems. At seventy, the poet affirms, we live by the mystery of grace even as we watch familiar stars blink out at dawn. For he believes God knows we are dust/and counts our steps. In ""Leaving the Middle Years"", he writes, At our age/every day is grace and every breath/a blessing. Life is grass, stunningly brief/but abundant in so many ways. Walt writes about heroes - a mother who taught tumbling; family and friends gone to war; the brave at home who heal or console; and, others who rescue from war zones as many children as they can. Heroes, too, are those whose fidelity and joy find faces in these poems. Watching crows at dawn in Montana, a husband thinks of his wife inside their mountain cabin: if Ursula finds more gray shell go on humming, knowing its okay, our children three thousand miles away but fine, when they called last night. She comes outside with coffee, closing the door so softly even the crows dont stop.
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• Intro; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Silent Night on Clarence Square; Moby-Dick; Kevington; Him, and Crack; His Friend Died in the Fire; Her Cracked Lips; sk8rgrl; An Old Queen Recalls (1); I Go Out on a Party; The Day He Flew; Adam, Eve; I Get It Now; Albino's House; An Old Queen Recalls (2); He Also Smelled of Lysol; Birthday Present; Buda at the Elgin; Church St. Vernissage; Daphne Bakes a Cake; Brickworks: Dead Dog Day; A Worker's Lament; Dunn Ave. (1); Dunn Ave. (2); Ed's Tree; Judy and the Fortune Teller; FTP; He Could Be a Winner; The Hoarder; Him, at the Dentist; Dunn's Ode to Joy.

• How the Fire StartedJahman and the Street Nurse; Jami Mosque 9/11 +4 (1); Jami Mosque 9/11+4 (2); Karaoke Memorial; Lingerie Football; My Anita; My Pal Al; On the Couch in Pelham Park; On the Sidewalk; Orlando Furioso; Packed Subway; Panhandler's Lament; The Panhandlers' Dispute; Park Bench, Rosedale, Spring; Parkdale Morning; The Parking Lot War; Pho Tau Bay; Pigeon Park, Early Afternoon; Pigeon Park Redux: Life Sucks; RIP Dr. Dru (1) Where He Fell; RIP Dr. Dru (2) The Thai Cook; Roses; Sam Warner Closes Shop; Seaton House, Because; She Killed Him Once; She Walks the Hallway Singing.

• Spirit Candles ExplainedThe Carnie in Winter; The Death of Dirty George; The Duchess Works at Night; Her Funeral; The Things You Remember; TSO on Strike; Last Thoughts, Dirty George; Theft Under; Two Girls, Streetcar; Val Ville; Anita, Metro West; Ashlee at Jilly's; An Orange Vest; Sign Language Haircut; Anita in the Alley; Cabbagetown; Everybody Knew; The Robbery; On the Banks of the Credit; The Plain Song of Sammy Yatim; The Old 'Hood; Unpaid Bill; Instructions for the Blackout; AFTERWORD; NOTES ON THE POEMS.

"City Poems has the authentic sound of the human voice, written to the rhythms, rough, often jagged, of the city. Fiorito's writing is tight, his wit oblique, his humanity large - his unforced, unsentimental style striking the perfect tone with a keen sense of place to anchor each short/sharp poem in a compelling emotional realm. This is a collection based on 18 years of experience prowling the back streets and darker corners of the city of Toronto."-- Provided by publisher

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Part I. The Meaning
• 1. Heavenly Summary
• 2. A Sky on Earth
• 3. A Rope Between a Camel and a Tank
• 4. A Bridge to Job
• 5. Dissection
• 6. Afflictions
• 7. Tempted by Nothing: A Song
• 8. Tempted by Everything: A Song
• Part II. Images
• Notes
• Acknowledgments

A cri de cœur or fully imagined poem on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet At the age of eighty-six, Adonis, an Arabic poet with Syrian origins, a critic, an essayist, and a devoted secularist, has come out of retirement to pen an extended, innovative poem on Jerusalem/Al-Quds. It is a hymn to a troubled city embattled by the conflicting demands of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Adonis's city, as a coveted land, ought to suggest the universal love of humanity; as a land of tragedy, a place of contending history and beliefs, and a locus of bitterness, conflict, hatred, rivalry, and blood. Wrapping multiple voices, historical references, and political viewpoints within his ecstatic lyricism, Adonis has created a provocative work of unique beauty and profound wisdom, beautifully rendered in English by award-winning poet Khaled Mattawa.

• Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; The Beginning; No More Sirens; New Dreams; Toading my Name; Anglocam Defined; Hammocks from Bridges; Bamenda; Kribi; Maroua La Belle; When We Sell Cameroon; The Second Coming; What Jesus Said; Fear of Fire; Jesus My Brother; Motherly Power; Namondo's Garden; A Mother's Lament; For Njifor; Bob, My Man; Going on Retirement; Of her Laughter; Bliss of Innocence; After Purupa-in-Picasso; Soul Unloved; Ashes; The Release; A While Ago; Beads of Flame; Lonely Migrant; Pilgrim; Bondage; Beyond Caring; When I Fall; Mourners; Epigraph; Waiting.

• Appointments and InstallationsIf Anomah Ngu Were No Anglofool; Se Porte Bienhood; Okonkwo's Sword; Chopstick Diplomacy; A Jawbone; Plaintiff Call; The Dying Heritage; Unoka's Flute; Apocalypse; Reddening Skyline; The Piss of Peace; Blinking Horizon; Courtship of the Pistol; The Exile; Jeremiah's Tears; How not to Define Patriotism; The Other Side of Gold; Back cover.

This collection dissects post-independence Cameroon as a representative postcolonial junction. The history that assists in the writing of the poems is a necessary background to understand the dislocated vision of an erstwhile independent territory. After a patriotic pastime of sweeping every bit of rubbish under the carpet of national unity for over fifty years, the collection summons us to introspect on the consequences of feeding and living on a national lie. It is only after such reflection that, hopefully, remedial gestures can offer ͡new dreams on the dawn of new sleep̕.

• In line for the exterminator
• Last picked
• Sugar, sugar
• Balancing the checkbook
• Open house, science fair project
• Self-portrait with cigarette
• Slaughter ball
• Chocolate for football
• Black vinyl
• Cool
• FM radio, 1971
• Looking it up
• Detroit, 1972
• Safety
• At dinner, my father informs us he's been laid off
• Elegy for the Sheik
• Cyclone fence, Detroit
• Petrified
• Death seat
• Dreamscape
• Border crossing
• Abandoned Detroit
• Sandy had the kind of laugh
• Digger's Body Shop
• Digger, the short days
• Digger's lawn care
• Digger's leak
• Digger laid off
• Digger's bad reception
• Digger gets a checkup
• Digger kills time at the clock restaurant
• Digger's body shop
• Digger gives away the bride
• Digger watches the neighbors move out
• Digger swallows the worm
• Digger loses his first tooth
• Digger's Donnybrook, senior softball
• Digger turns in his ID
• Digger's property assessment
• The shelter of my father's coat
• Can't sleep
• American cheese
• Hot dog variations
• Pastime lanes lounge
• Hooked
• Driving past the county jail
• Identity theft
• Herbs and blood
• Arguing about guns, again
• In the shadow
• Breath for my mother, August
• Sweating bullets at Sarah's hair spot
• Sunday morning
• Early recess
• Outrage at the laundromat
• Punching the numbers
• Allergic to bullets --The shelter of my father's coat.

In Line for the Exterminator is the final collection in Jim Daniels' trilogy of books explaining the urban working-class landscape. Daniels, who grew up near the Eight Mile Road boundary between Detroit and suburban Warren, Michigan, walks the razor's edge of the borderline in this collection, examining complex issues of race and class that are a part of daily life there.The title poem, ""In Line for the Exterminator, "" sets the ironic tone for this collection, examining a group of people waiting in line for a sinister-sounding amusement-park ride. Daniels presents blue-collar culture both in and out of the workplace, showing its profound influence on the lives of workers and their families. As in ""Places/Everyone and M-80"", Daniels uses his character Digger to show the effects of work on outside life, following Digger into retirement from his factory job and into his struggle to find a new future. In addition, Daniels deals frankly with the specter of urban violence that haunts the community and threatens to tear it apart. Local heroes, from professional wrestler the Sheik to the contemporary rapper Eminem, also appear as touchstones for the community's complex view of itself.How do ordinary citizens sustain hope and dignity in the face of economic and societal upheaval? How do people avoid the mirages offered by drugs and alcohol, or the intoxication of guns and crime? In ""Line for the Exterminator"" offers no easy answers but presents searing portraits of individuals struggling with these questions and finding small victories and moments of consolation in their everyday lives. Those interested in poetry, depictions of working-class city life, and Detroit social history will enjoy this significant volume.
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• Revolt
• Against Odds Against
• "Real" Revolt
• Brecht Looks at Xeriscaping With a Thought About Shelley
• Assassins
• Winter Night in the City of God
• Provoked in Venice
• Evening on the Zattere
• From What Angle
• Desert of Empire
• "Not Normalissimo"
• Venice Less and Less
• Tomahawk
• Across a Crowded Room
• Phaeton's Dream: Driving Lessons in the Desert
• Joan and Jean
• Stealth
• Last Night of a First Trip to Venice
• Without a Care in the World
• Midsummer Night in Venice
• Tell Me Why
• Early Deliveries No One Receives
• Venice: The Return in Winter I
• Venice: The Return in Winter II
• In Your Own Time.

In these powerfully conceived and understated poems, Mark Rudman asks how culture is created and shared, and how historical events and figures are known through direct experiences of place. The title Provoked in Venice alludes to the structure of the book, wherein a trip to Italy becomes the catalyst for a meditative view of the convergence of imagination, history, and the 20th-century attempt to recover them both. The narrator enters the maze of Venice like a contemporary Dante guided only by the voice of the "rider"-interlocuter. Rich in allusions to literature, film, and the past, this final volume of the trilogy will engage and sustain all mental travelers.
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The third volume in a trilogy that includes the award-winning Rider and Millennium Hotel.
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• Introduction, by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
• Translator's Note
• Land of Hope
• A Murdered Life
• Acknowledgments
• Notes .
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Tanella Boni is a major African poet, and this book, The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, is her first full collection to be translated into English. These poems wrestle with the ethnic violence and civil war that dominated life in West Africa's Ivory Coast in the first decade of the new millennium. Boni maps these events onto a mythic topography where people live among their ancestors and are subject to the whims of the powerful, who are at once magical and all too petty. The elements-the sun, the wind, the water-are animated as independent forces, beyond simile or metaphor. Words, too, are elemental, and the poet is present in the landscape-"during these times / I searched for the letters / for the perfect word." Boni affirms her desire for hope in the face of ethno-cultural and state violence although she acknowledges that desiring to hope and hoping are not the same. .
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Poetic encounter: Rhapsodies from the South is compilation of poems by Southern African Writers from South Africa and Zimbabwe. The poems, were written not only to depict life but also tell tales of socio-political and economic history that Southern African people traversed from colonialism, apartheid to freedom. Therefore, readers from all walks-of-life can identify with themes such as apartheid, economic deprivation, religion and culture, love and so forth that are carefully ensconced in this compilation. The authors invite the readers, to not only indulge the lived injustice and violent nature of both our historic past and trajectory to the current state of affairs, but also appreciate, cry, smile and reminiscence about the life in general as encapsulated in this refreshing and aesthetic work of art -- the poetic encounter.