Grid books (347 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: New. Sharon Hashimoto reconstructs a collective memory, conjuring the voices of grandparents, children, soldiers, and " those left to tell." In moving detail, these poems convey the realities of assimilation, service, and internment as experienced by Japanese Americans during, and in the decades following, th…

Paperback. Zustand: New. In this astounding second collection, poet Ioanna Carlsen presents us with visions of breath, both ecstatic and mundane- at once spoken, quoted, and listened for- examining the air shared by all. It is breathing that connects us, the poet knows, and she crosses dimensional and existential bounds to prove…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Karen Whalley' s second book is a compelling account of domestic fragmentation, isolation, and loss. At its core are twin wounds- the death of a father and the end of a marriage- and the struggle to define oneself in the ensuing absences. At the same time, these poems are teeming with lucid vitality and…

Paperback. Zustand: New. In this exquisite third book, Bert Stern grapples with the elemental and the extraordinary, looking back on the length of his journey and finding realms of possibility, powerful proof of a life well lived. Moments of divine recognition pervade these poems--their rough terrains, their changing atmospheres…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Jon Davis' s latest book of poems, Improbable Creatures, is bursting with signature inventiveness and the nimble lyricism that David Foster Wallace once praised as " off-the-charts terrific." Like the characters of a new alphabet, Davis' s creatures form the language of this stunning collection. And from…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Dennis Hinrichsen's This Is Where I Live I Have Nowhere Else to Go is a formally adventurous, cinematic collection of poems about everything at once- father, mother, family, the brutality of American history, the Pulse nightclub shooting, Alzheimer's- all seen through the successive lenses of science, mu…

Paperback. Zustand: New. An Amiable Reception for the Acrobat, Jon Davis's sixth full-length collection of poems, is jarring and beautiful, and in both cases necessarily so. In her praise of its wisdom and irreverence, Pam Houston has described these poems as "a map to hold in our hands as we fly off the end of the world." We ad…

Paperback. Zustand: New. " Silently / pulling for itself, / the will wants the body to // give it what it wants," Sexton writes in " Between the Car and the Sea," at once a description of a car' s body propelling her onward, and of the poet herself, the one behind the wheel of this masterful fourth collection. In an extraordinar…