Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

Collected Poems, 1977-1990

One Leaf Shaking is the first collection of Robin Skelton's later poetry written and compiled during the 1980s when he was both at the apex of his career and revered for his standing in academic circles. Poems included in this volume are taken from four titles previously published by Sono Nis, Oolichan and Porcupine's QuillLandmarks, Limits, Distances and Openingand attests to his incredible range and prolific talent. The work also includes verse that comprised two chapbooks, Words for Witches and De Nihilio, and seventeen previously unpublished poems.

Renowned for his mentorship and entrepreneurial energies in every creative arena, Skelton applies his generous intellect and quiet insight to the world he both recalls and reclaims, a world fashioned by the hands of a master craftsman and linked thematically to reflect the poet's shifting attentions yet constant interest. In order to fully appreciate one of Canada's unofficial poet laureates, add this volume to your library of cherished classics. With an introduction by Harold Rhenisch.

One Leaf Shaking

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N'Gadie Roberts' Grave Delights delivers a series of poetic microfictions that carry a sting in the tail; that go from prosaic narrative to horror story in the leap of a verse. At times provocative in her treatment of the taboo, her clever twists provide humorous relief as the reader is delivered out of trauma to a comic resolution. But don't get comfortable, confronting moments deposit the underbelly of human behaviour on the page, demanding the reader takes pause, forcing a moment to draw breath.

In Roberts' own words, her work embodies "the experiences of others through storytelling." Her penchant for the thriller/ horror genre has Grave Delights inhabited by spirits and mythical creatures that represent the darkest aspects of human beings and the writing is redolent with the rhythms of the Krio (Creole) language and is evocative of Roberts' Sierra Leonean origins.

Be prepared for tales that shock while exposing matters that might be thought about, but not spoken of, in the daylight hours.

Anne-Louise Willoughby, author of Nora Heysen: A Portrait.

Grave Delights

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

Selections from Leaves of Grass

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Poetry for Young People Carl Sandburg

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry

The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture. Shah Siraj Awrangabadi (1715-1763), known as "Sun," was a Sunni who, after a youthful homosexual love affair, gave up sexual relationships to follow a path of personal holiness. Mah Laqa Bai Chanda (1768-1820), known as "Moon," was a Shi'i and courtesan dancer who transferred her seduction of men to the pursuit of mystical love. Both were poets in the Urdu language of the ghazal, or love lyric, often fusing a spiritual quest with erotic imagery.



Kugle argues that Sun and Moon expressed through their poetry exceptions to the general rules of heteronormativity and gender inequality common in their patriarchal societies. Their art provides a lens for a more subtle understanding of both the reach and the limitations of gender roles in Islamic and South Asian culture and underscores how the arts of poetry, music, and dance are integral to Islamic religious life. Integrated throughout are Kugle's translations of Urdu and Persian poetry previously unavailable in English.



When Sun Meets Moon

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Poetry

A collection of humorous poems on a variety of topics.

Something Big Has Been Here

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

The Best Loved Poems of the American People

Ohio

Book 2 of 5: Robert M. Drake/Vintage Wild

A collection of poems and meditations on love, loss, and human relationships.

Black Butterfly

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

South Carolina

Selected Poems

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Illinois

Poetry by Black American Women, 1746-1980

This chronologically arranged anthology covers black women poets from Wheatley to Giovanni.

Black Sister

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New and Selected Poems

Small Congregations

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Michigan

Untitled book by Anonymous. Untitled book by Anonymous.

Home Body

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#paperback #flux #nonfiction #orioncarloto #poetry 

"YouTube Mastermind" Orion Carloto turns raw emotion into powerful, digestible verse in her debut collection of poetry. Flux is a somber narrative, an ode to change, a collection of poetry and prose written from the many states of grief over a broken heart. With original illustrations by artist Katie Roberts, Orion Carloto creates a dream world for the brokenhearted and paints a whimsical picture around the themes of love, loss, solitude, depression, sex, nostalgia, and unrequited romance. Flux takes readers through a raw and sorrowful journey of each and every bitter moment of heartbreak. Forewarning, Flux is best read with a warm cup of coffee in hand.

Flux

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Ken Cowan

Jamie Kennedy

Poems

From a Balcony in Palos Verdes 

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How do I love thee?

Story book about Emily Dickinson and her dog

When Emily Dickinson was given a puppy by her father, the two were instant best friends. She named him Carlo, after a dog in one of her favorite books, and she delighted in the growing dog’s antics. Carlo, a Newfoundland (and possibly part Saint Bernard), grew to a rather large size and was full of energy. He loved his adventures with Emily. They were an odd pair—a tiny woman and a large, galumphing dog. But they were devoted to one another. Carlo gave Emily confidence to wander and explore the woods and hills near her home, and he listened to her stories and poems. This touching story—delightfully illustrated by Catherine Stock—gives a new insight into the life of the famed reclusive poet of Amherst, Massachusetts. Learning of her close friendship and love for Carlo sheds a new light on the thoughts and feelings of a woman believed to be lonely. Carlo is present in much of her poetry, and readers learn of a woman of charm and wit who loved her constant companion.

Emily and Carlo

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North Carolina

Discover this exquisite poetry and prose collection about the pains of growing up from the popular millennial Instagram poet, perfect for fans of Amanda Lovelace and Rupi Kaur. Following her breakout debut Eighteen Years, poet Madisen Kuhn is thrilled to share this intimate portrait of a young woman navigating early adulthood and leaving her teenage years behind. Chronicling the complexities, joys, and challenges of this transitional phase of life, Please Don’t Go Before I Get Better is a powerful, deeply affecting work that pierces your heart with its refreshing candor and vulnerability. A poignant exploration of self-image, self-discovery, and self-reflection, this anthology brilliantly captures the universal experience of growing up, and you are bound to find yourself reflected in these glimmering pages.

Please Don't Go Before I Get Better

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Note:  clean, crisp edition but there is a small red remaindered mark to underside (see all photos).


Fourth Edition

Gathers poems from each period in Yeats' career, and plays, including "The Death of Cuchulain" and "Purgatory"

Selected Poems and Four Plays

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With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort’s Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts
the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda? Can private stories challenge the collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology?

Mort traces a route of devastation from the Chernobyl fallout and a school system controlled by ideology to the Soviet labor camps and the massacres of World War II. While musical form serves as a safe house for the poet’s voice, old trees speak to her as the only remaining witnesses, hosts to both radiation and memory.

Valzhyna Mort, born in Belarus and now living in the United States, conjures a searing, hallucinogenic ritual of rhythmic remembrance in a world where appeals to virtue and justice have irrevocably failed.

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New York Times

In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history.

With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort's Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts
the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda? Can private stories challenge the collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology?

Mort traces a route of devastation from the Chernobyl fallout and a school system controlled by ideology to the Soviet labor camps and the massacres of World War II. While musical form serves as a safe house for the poet's voice, old trees speak to her as the only remaining witnesses, hosts to both radiation and memory.

Valzhyna Mort, born in Belarus and now living in the United States, conjures a searing, hallucinogenic ritual of rhythmic remembrance in a world where appeals to virtue and justice have irrevocably failed.

Music for the Dead and Resurrected

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About 75 assorted poems about life, love, loss, inspiration, and encouragement.Three very short stories.A lot of these come from poems written in private conversations on twitter DM, Whatsapp, and Facebook Messenger.They are longer versions of the type of poetry I write on twitter at @chris_mahan.

Private Poems Mostly

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District of Columbia

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Kind of Woman returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers, supporters and detractors-- a ritual that reclaims the vitriol from online trolls and inspires readers to transform what is ugly or painful in their own lives into something beautiful. "I'm sure you could benefit from jumping on a treadmill" "Women WANT a male leader . . . It's honest to god the basic human playbook" These are some of the thousands of messages that Kate Baer has received online. Like countless other writers--particularly women--with profiles on the internet, as Kate's online presence grew, so did the darker messages crowding her inbox. These missives from strangers have ranged from "advice" and opinions to outright harassment. At first, these messages resulted in an immediate delete and block. Until, on a whim, Kate decided to transform the cruelty into art, using it to create fresh and intriguing poems. These pieces, along with ones made from notes of gratitude and love, as well as from the words of public figures, have become some of her most beloved work. I Hope This Finds You Well is drawn from those works: a book of poetry birthed in the darkness of the internet that offers light and hope. By cleverly building on the harsh negativity and hate women often receive--and combining it with heartwarming messages of support, gratitude, and connection, Kate Baer offers us a lesson in empowerment, showing how we too can turn bitterness into beauty.

I Hope This Finds You Well

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Connecticut

For fans of r.h. Sin comes a new voice, Samantha King's raw, relatable poetry both celebrates love and mourns the human "curse to feel." Her verse transports readers to the most private reaches of love and longing. Born to Love, Cursed to Feel is about love--the good, the bad, and the confusing. It touches on morals and how when emotions are involved it's not as black and white. The poetry is frequently written in a narrative manner that evocatively pulls you in and makes you feel. This book is about falling in love, bad decisions, and ultimately growth. The essence of it all is to show that no matter how far one falls all the mistakes don't have to be what defines them.

Born to Love, Cursed to Feel

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Massachusetts

A transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one's roots and expatriation, and rising up to find a home within yourself.

The Sun and Her Flowers

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From best-selling poet, r.h. Sin, comes an expanded hardcover keepsake edition of his original chapbook, Rest in the Mourning. The calm before and after the storm. Rest in the Mourning is a steady and profound stream of conscious thoughts and emotion. Documenting unhealthy relationships and why the heart ends up in the hands of those deemed unworthy. It speaks to the heart's ability to hold on to relationships that no longer deserve our energy as well as what happens when we are ready to let go. Rest in the Mourning is about self-care and self-love. "

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Robin Skelton

One Leaf Shaking

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Grave Delights

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Selections from Leaves of Grass

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Poetry for Young People Carl Sandburg

Scott Kugle

When Sun Meets Moon

Jack Prelutsky

Something Big Has Been Here

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The Best Loved Poems of the American People

Robert M. Drake

Black Butterfly

Robert Frost

Selected Poems

Erlene Stetson (Editor)

Black Sister

Thylias Moss

Small Congregations

Rupi Kaur

Home Body

Orion Carloto

Flux

Sean McGrath

From a Balcony in Palos Verdes

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How do I love thee?

Marty Rhodes Figley; Catherine Stock (Illustrator)

Emily and Carlo

Madisen Kuhn

Please Don't Go Before I Get Better

M. L. Rosenthal (Editor); William Butler Yeats

Selected Poems and Four Plays

Valzhyna Mort

Music for the Dead and Resurrected

Christopher Mahan

Private Poems Mostly

Kate Baer

I Hope This Finds You Well

Samantha King Holmes

Born to Love, Cursed to Feel

Rupi Kaur

The Sun and Her Flowers

R. H. Sin

Rest in the Mourning