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  • The Education of a Young Poet

    by David Biespiel ...
    "Biespiel’s supple memoir of becoming a poet will surely inspire other writers to embrace the bodily character of writing and feel the power and, sometimes, the emptiness of the act of writing poetry." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)The Education of a Young Poet is David Biespiel’s moving account of his awakening to writing and the language that can shape a life. Exploring the original source ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Wild Civility

    by David Biespiel ...
    Series series Pacific Northwest Poetry Series
    David Biespiel’s long poetic lines crackle with rhythmic energy and a jazzy, bittersweet richness of language. Rolling out across the page like darkly luminous highways, his innovative, nine-line "American sonnets" promise adventure, offering a variant on the sonnet form that is both lyric and dramatic and bringing his masterful formal inventiveness to free verse. "I’ve come to imagine the nine ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Republic Café

    by David Biespiel, Linda Bierds ...
    Series series Pacific Northwest Poetry Series
    Inspired by Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour, and sharing the spirit of Tomas Transtromer’s Baltics and Yehuda Amichai’s Time, Republic Café is a meditation on love during a time of violence, and a tally of what appears and disappears in every moment. Mindful of epigenetic experience as our bodies become living vessels for history’s tragedies, David Biespiel praises not only the essentialness ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Place of Exodus, A

    Home, Memory, and Texas

    by David Biespiel ...
    Narrated by David Biespiel ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    Acclaimed poet and memoirist David Biespiel tells the story of the rise and fall of a Jewish boyhood in Texas, and his search for the answer to his life's central riddle: Are we ever done leaving home? Growing up in a family devoted to Jewish identity, Biespiel comes under the tutelage of the head rabbi of the largest conservative congregation in North America. After the rabbi kicks him out of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Ghost Girl

    by Amy Gerstler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    Sly and sophisticated, direct, playful, and profound, Amy Gerstler’s new collection highlights her distinctive poetic style. In thirty-seven poems, using a variety of dramatic voices and visual techniques, she finds meaning in unexpected places, from a tour of a doll hospital to an ad for a CD of Beethoven symphonies to an earthy exploration of toast. Gerstler’s abiding interests—in love and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Selected Poems

    by James Tate ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992)Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992)The Selected Poems James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost Pilot which was a Yale Younger Poets selection in 1967, through his 1986 collection Reckoner. He is a most agile poet in a precarious world. Life is ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone

    by Galway Kinnell ...
    From the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations of a solitary mind concerning estrangement and the longing for reconnection to the natural world and its creatures closely observed.“When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone is a poem that invites us, too, to pay such keen attention—both by seeing and listening—to the world, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Blue Pyramids

    by Robert Priest ...
    From his first book, The Visible Man ("as fine a first volume of poetry as one is ever likely to read" - the Dalhousie Review ), to his most recent, Resurrection In the Cartoon ("passionate, humourous, worldly-wise, kick-ass poetry" - The Vancouver Sun ), Robert Priest's poetry has been the delight of critics and readers alike. Blue Pyramids: New and Selected Poems brings together the best of ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poems of Unrequited Love

    Search, Found, and Lost

    by Sam Jeffery ...
    Unrequited love has three distinct phases; the search for love, love seemingly found, and love eventually lost.This book offers poems that aid the readers understanding of the emotions and turmoil that are experienced by individuals who have been caught in this gut wrenching phenomena. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • In a Gift From Adam and Finding My Way Out of a Mental Breakdown

    by Scott Vanya ...
    In 1990 I had my first of three mental (schizoaffective) breakdowns (the other in 1991 and 1993) and signed myself into a mental hospital for what would turn out to be a long stay. Very confused and basically in the dark about everything that was going on (having been taken there by my brother and parents), I needed some footing to the Reality that was apparent to all those around me. My best ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Hear the People Listening

    by Gloria G. Ausubel ...
    Gloria Ausubel (1948- ) is a baby boomer who has tasted the palatable and unpalatable fare served up in the culture of the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's. Her poetry becomes a way of identification with the generation of alienation. In terms of skittish dabbling, vicarious participation, and prophetic yearning she takes a poetic stance to that generation. Her poems emanate from a specific time and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Book of Hours

    by Marianne Boruch ...
    "Marianne Boruch's work has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention."-The Washington Post"[H]er patience, her willingness to wait for the film of familiarity to slip, allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw."-Poetry magazineEndearingly strange, unsentimental, and uniquely structured, in true Rilkean fashion The Book of Hours questions the meaning and ... Read more

    $10.69 USD