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The Ghost Won't Go

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Walt Whitman wrote that “the mere fact, consciousness”—the very awareness of being a thinking thing with sensations—so awed and pleased him that he could hardly move beyond that initial astonishment. In his fourth book of poems, Chris Forhan lingers in that place of amazement, finding in it bemusement, an occasional flicker of terror, and joy.The Ghost Won’t Go meditates upon the ghosts that ... Read more

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Walt Whitman wrote that “the mere fact, consciousness”—the very awareness of being a thinking thing with sensations—so awed and pleased him that he could hardly move beyond that initial astonishment. In his fourth book of poems, Chris Forhan lingers in that place of amazement, finding in it bemusement, an occasional flicker of terror, and joy.The Ghost Won’t Go meditates upon the ghosts that
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A Mind Full of Music

Essays on Imagination and Popular Song

by Chris Forhan ...

Explore the profound connection between music and the self in this collection of insightful essays.A Mind Full of Music contemplates the dynamic relationship between individuals and their beloved songs, revealing how music shapes our minds and how our minds, in turn, shape the music we cherish. Through personal anecdotes and thoughtful analysis, Chris Forhan explores the power of music to evoke ... Read more

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Explore the profound connection between music and the self in this collection of insightful essays.A Mind Full of Music contemplates the dynamic relationship between individuals and their beloved songs, revealing how music shapes our minds and how our minds, in turn, shape the music we cherish. Through personal anecdotes and thoughtful analysis, Chris Forhan explores the power of music to evoke
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My Father Before Me

A Memoir

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An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of his father’s suicide. This memoir “belongs on the special shelves we keep for the books we cannot quite forget” (George Hodgman).The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of secrets. He and his siblings learned, ... Read more

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An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of his father’s suicide. This memoir “belongs on the special shelves we keep for the books we cannot quite forget” (George Hodgman).The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of secrets. He and his siblings learned,
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My Father Before Me

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An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of his father’s suicide. This memoir “belongs on the special shelves we keep for the books we cannot quite forget” (George Hodgman).The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of secrets. He and his siblings learned, ... Read more

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An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of his father’s suicide. This memoir “belongs on the special shelves we keep for the books we cannot quite forget” (George Hodgman).The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of secrets. He and his siblings learned,
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North of Normal

A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

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Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.In the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s family left a comfortable existence in California to ... Read more

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Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.In the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s family left a comfortable existence in California to
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The World Doesn't End

A Poetry Collection

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry“One of the truly imaginative writers of our time.” —Los Angles Times Book ReviewYou never know what Charles Simic is up to until you reach the end of the line or the bottom of the paragraph. Waiting for you might be a kiss. Or a bludgeon. A smile at the absurdities of society, or a wistful, grim memory of World War II.He puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy ... Read more

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry“One of the truly imaginative writers of our time.” —Los Angles Times Book ReviewYou never know what Charles Simic is up to until you reach the end of the line or the bottom of the paragraph. Waiting for you might be a kiss. Or a bludgeon. A smile at the absurdities of society, or a wistful, grim memory of World War II.He puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy
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Morning In The Burned House

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The renowned poet and author of The Handmaid’s Tale “brings a swift, powerful energy” to this “intimate and immediate” poetry collection (Publishers Weekly).These beautifully crafted poems, by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate, are some of Margaret Atwood’s most accomplished and versatile works. Some draw on history and some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, ... Read more

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The renowned poet and author of The Handmaid’s Tale “brings a swift, powerful energy” to this “intimate and immediate” poetry collection (Publishers Weekly).These beautifully crafted poems, by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate, are some of Margaret Atwood’s most accomplished and versatile works. Some draw on history and some on myth, both classical and popular. Others,
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Girls on the Run

A Poem

by John Ashbery ...

John Ashbery's wild, deliriously inventive book-length poem, inspired by the adventures of Henry Darger's Vivian GirlsHenry Darger, the prolific American outsider artist who died in 1973, leaving behind over twenty thousand pages of manuscripts and hundreds of artworks, is famous for the elaborate alternate universe he both constructed and inhabited, a "realm of the unreal" where a plucky band of ... Read more

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John Ashbery's wild, deliriously inventive book-length poem, inspired by the adventures of Henry Darger's Vivian GirlsHenry Darger, the prolific American outsider artist who died in 1973, leaving behind over twenty thousand pages of manuscripts and hundreds of artworks, is famous for the elaborate alternate universe he both constructed and inhabited, a "realm of the unreal" where a plucky band of
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And the Stars Were Shining

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by John Ashbery ...

Witty yet heartbreaking, conversational yet richly lyrical, John Ashbery's sixteenth poetry collection showcases a mastery uniquely his ownAnd the Stars Were Shining originally appeared in 1994, toward the midpoint of a startlingly creative period in Ashbery's long career, during which the great American poet published no fewer than nine books in ten years. The collection brings together more than ... Read more

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Witty yet heartbreaking, conversational yet richly lyrical, John Ashbery's sixteenth poetry collection showcases a mastery uniquely his ownAnd the Stars Were Shining originally appeared in 1994, toward the midpoint of a startlingly creative period in Ashbery's long career, during which the great American poet published no fewer than nine books in ten years. The collection brings together more than
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The Theory of Black Holes

by E A (Edward) St Amant ...

EternityEternity is lost in the stark belief of our death,As the night presses down on our steadily fading breath.The hush of animation is often long and pathetic.And it never comes with its futile anesthetic.Discern the thrill in our voice, that whispering buzzing land,The dream-date thought you were simply boring out of hand,And made it with the recent daydream of events.You caught the shout in ... Read more

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EternityEternity is lost in the stark belief of our death,As the night presses down on our steadily fading breath.The hush of animation is often long and pathetic.And it never comes with its futile anesthetic.Discern the thrill in our voice, that whispering buzzing land,The dream-date thought you were simply boring out of hand,And made it with the recent daydream of events.You caught the shout in
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The Caged Owl

New & Selected Poems

by Gregory Orr ...

Gregory Orr’s genius is the transformation of trauma into art. Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother’s death during a hunting accident, drug addiction, or being jailed during the Civil Rights struggle, lyricism erupts in the midst of desolation and violence. Orr’s spare, succinct poems distill myth from the domestic and display a richness of action and visual detail.This long ... Read more

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Gregory Orr’s genius is the transformation of trauma into art. Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother’s death during a hunting accident, drug addiction, or being jailed during the Civil Rights struggle, lyricism erupts in the midst of desolation and violence. Orr’s spare, succinct poems distill myth from the domestic and display a richness of action and visual detail.This long
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Space, In Chains

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"Kasischke's intelligence is most apparent in her syntactic control and pace, the way she gauges just when to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slow down."-The New York Times Book Review"Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase."-Austin American-StatesmanLaura Kasischke's poems have the same haunting qualities and truth ... Read more

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"Kasischke's intelligence is most apparent in her syntactic control and pace, the way she gauges just when to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slow down."-The New York Times Book Review"Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase."-Austin American-StatesmanLaura Kasischke's poems have the same haunting qualities and truth
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