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• Theophanies

  Ali, Sarah Ghazal,

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  Moving between the scriptures of the Qur'an and the Bible, these poems explore the complexities and spectacles of gender, faith, and family by unraveling the age-old idea that seeing is believing.

• The Moon That Turns You Back

  Alyan, Hala, 1986-

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  A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ward Toward

  Ok, Cindy Juyoung,

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  Moving from the psych ward to a prison cell, from divided countries to hospice wards, the author uses these institutions of constraint, ward to ward, and the role of each reality's language, word to word, to uncover fractured private codes and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forest of Noise

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  Abu Toha, Mosab,

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  Moving between glimpses of life in relative peacetime and absurdist poems about surviving in a barely liveable occupation, the author invites a wide audience into an experience that defies the imagination even as it is watched live on tv from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wrong Norma

  Carson, Anne, 1950-

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  Ranging in subjects from Roget’s Thesaurus to meditations on a woman swimming in a lake, these twenty-five prose poems feel as though they intentionally capture the way the human mind moves from thought to thought, skipping from one to another with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Year of Last Things

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  Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-

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  We journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed.

• Spectral Evidence

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  Pardlo, Gregory,

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  Moving fluidly between considerations of the hip-hop group NWA, Tituba, the only Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, MOVE, the movement and militant separatist group famous for its violent stand-offs with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scattered Snows, to the North

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  Phillips, Carl, 1959-

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  An arresting study of memory, perception, and the beauty and finitude of the human condition.

• Modern Poetry

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  Seuss, Diane,

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  An investigation of our time's deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: what can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean anything?

• You Are Here

  Poetry in the Natural World

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  Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of fifty poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by our most celebrated writers.

• Black Bell

  Rollins, Alison C.,

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  Sweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with performance art practices in an investigation of fugitivity. Inspired by the nineteenth century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• With My Back to the World

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  Chang, Victoria, 1970-

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  A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief.