Poetry Foundation Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco
K. Iver
In this entanglement of transness and elegy, reality and fantasy intertwine to assess the transformative power of desire and its limits. —@sklimnagem on K. Iver's (@k_ivertown) SHORT FILM STARRING MY BELOVED'S RED BRONCO [Art by Kim Salt (@kesalt)] https://t.co/Zo8oiOPG1W https://t.co/3K3lUtGnbP
Paperback, 2023
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Somebody Else Sold the World
Adrian Matejka
There is still time to register for our October book club, featuring SOMEBODY ELSE SOLD THE WORLD by @PoetryMagazine editor @adrian_matejka! 📖 https://t.co/MjZm0zrTAv
Paperback, 2021
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
Robin Coste Lewis
Check out Sylee Gore's (@BerlinReified) review of TO THE REALIZATION OF PERFECT HELPLESSNESS by Robin Coste Lewis, published by @penguinrandom. #HarrietBooks Read the review: https://t.co/abBrGU6nKk https://t.co/hI2dbfUpA1
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Boiling Point for Jam
Lynda Tavakoli
Check out this review of Lynda Tavakoli's THE BOILING POINT FOR JAM by our new #HarrietBooks reviewer @laylabenitezjam https://t.co/kkd6K863NK https://t.co/GfOKnKegAk
Paperback, 2021
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Door in the Hive: Poems
Denise Levertov
Find the rest of "The Secret" by Denise Levertov and other poems in downloadable, printable broadside form in "Poems Fit to Print." https://t.co/DYD0ZyXrA3 #PoemOfTheDay https://t.co/qSVp4J8W7A
Paperback, 1989
$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Best Barbarian: Poems
Roger Reeves
Check out our review of Roger Reeves’s BEST BARBARIAN https://t.co/gwqppsj1c1 #NBAwards
Paperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses: Second Edition
James Joyce
Today is #Bloomsday, a celebration of James Joyce observed on June 16, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place in 1904. https://t.co/LAvvczz4cd https://t.co/UhYWl3GfmW
Paperback, 2022
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fir-flower Tablets: Poems
Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell was born #OnThisDay in 1874. This poem was published in the April 1914 issue of @poetrymagazine, and is available in our collection of Queer Love Poems. https://t.co/OcRdjPcjWc https://t.co/V8ouaA0GWX
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Connecting the Dots: Poems
Maxine Kumin
At night we will set our poems adrift in ginger ale bottles each with a clamshell rudder each with a piggyback spider waving them off by dogstar —Maxine Kumin, who was born #OnThisDay in 1925. https://t.co/8Isx4tjsE2
Paperback, 1998
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All the Blood Involved in Love
Maya Marshall
LIMITED SPACE still available for this month's online book club! We're reading ALL THE BLOOD INVOLVED IN LOVE by @mayaamarshall, published by @HaymarketBooks. Register today! 📖 https://t.co/HO8wDEpF5U
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book