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Field Notes from the Flood Zone
Heather Sellers
"I wish I could quote every line of Heather Seller’s brilliantly bleak yet bravely sardonic book of prose poems..." -David Starkey via California Review of Books on FIELD NOTES FROM THE FLOOD ZONE by Heather Sellers Read more reviews here: https://t.co/DfT01QEeTV
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The City in Which I Love You
Li-Young Lee
Today's Poetry Daily feature is a Li-Young Lee poem from THE CITY IN WHICH I LOVE YOU, and there is a personal essay about this poem up at https://poems.com/features/what-sparks-poetry/shara-lessley-on-li-young-lees-my-father-in-heaven-is-reading-out-loud/ Thanks to @SharaLessley and @Poetry_Daily for this wonderful tribute!
Paperback, 1990
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Grief, the Ground
Margaret Ray
“Ray writes with precision, patience and a deeply intense vulnerability that haunt and linger with readers for days at a time.” - @RonnieKStephens on Margaret Ray's (@mbrrray) Poulin Prize-winning GOOD GRIEF, THE GROUND for @PoetryQuestion! https://t.co/ZMb7CEXDoV
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ok End of Funny Town
Mark Polanzak
The Fall 21 issue features a review of Mark Polanzak's THE OK END OF FUNNY TOWN (print only!) - be sure to check it out! https://t.co/dKR3zjdjyP
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Exile in Guyville
Jesse Russell
BOA is pleased to announce that Amy Lee Lillard of Des Moines, Iowa is the winner of the twelfth annual BOA Short Fiction Prize for her collection EXILE IN GUYVILLE! Congrats, Amy, and welcome! https://t.co/DzndN1gfKD https://t.co/Di38PQ110o
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Most Important Discovery: All Time: The Line Conserves a Circle
Ilexa Yardley
ROSE by Li-Young Lee is featured on this timely list of "Some of the Most Influential Asian American Literature of All Time" from @BookRiot! https://bookriot.com/influential-asian-american-literature/
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Two Brown Dots
Danni Quintos
Our thanks to @adalimon and @slowdownshow for featuring "Ghazal for Dogeaters" by @dleighquint from her debut collection TWO BROWN DOTS on today's program! Listen here: https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2022/07/20/722-ghazal-for-dogeaters
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Diamonds
Camille Guthrie
"Diamonds is Guthrie’s best book yet, and her most complicated, masquerading as her chattiest. Plus, it is very funny." A fantastic review of DIAMONDS by @GuthrieCamille is live at the @LAReviewofBooks! Read it here: https://t.co/Z9Q80ebPuD
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton
HOW TO CARRY WATER is listed as a "Best of Bookworm" title! Thank you @kcrw for sharing! Check out the full list here: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/best-poetry-books-chang-myles-ferlinghetti
Paperback, 2021
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Four in Hand
Alicia Mountain
"Four in Hand is an epic, ambitious work, the opulent landscapes...will percolate in your brain long after you’ve put the book down." Check out this wonderful review of Alicia Mountain's FOUR IN HAND by Max Stone at @SundressPub's Sundress Reads! https://t.co/sc5RK6PHQI
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book