Her poetry collections are song boa editions, the 1994 lamont poetry selection of the academy of American Poets and a finalist for the 1995 Los Angeles Times Book Award, and To the Place of Trumpets, selected by James Merrill for the 1987 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Richly allusive, the poems in Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s The Orchard evoke elements of myth in distinctive aural and rhythmic patterns.

Her poetic strength lies in her ability to cast poems as modern myths and allegories. Used book in Good Condition. Propelled by patterned repetitions and lush cadences, the poems move the reader through a landscape where waking and dream consciousness fuse. Brigit pegeen kelly teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Song

Smoothed by nuances of sound and rhythm, her poems exude an ambiguous wisdom, an acceptance of the sad magic that returns us constantly to the lives we might have led. Library journal Used book in Good Condition. Kelly has a talent for coaxing out the world's ghosts and then fixing them in personal landscapes of fear and uncertainty.

. Winner of the 1994 lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets.

To the Place of the Trumpets Yale Series of Younger Poets

The winning volume in the 1987 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is To the Place of Trumpets. As james merrill, distinguished poet and judge of the competition, fired, has said: "Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poems suggest a kind of folk art-their clay washed of narrative grit, serviceably turned and fancifully decorated, then filled at the creative instinct's oldest well.

It is a pleasure to drink form this fine local pottery. Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition.

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude Pitt Poetry Series

Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, loss—is converted into what might, those places where all—death, sorrow, with patience, nourish us. Winner, poetry category finalist, poetry categorycatalog of unabashed gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, poetry category Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry PrizeFinalist, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, 2015 National Book Award, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard.

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WHEREAS: Poems

Used book in Good Condition. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. What did i know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics.

From “whereas statements”whereas confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, treaties, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Graywolf Press. Used book in Good Condition.

Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, resolutions, and disclaimers, her own writing, longer narrative sequences, prose poems, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, and her predicament inside national affiliations. I am, i must listen, i must mother, “a citizen of the united states and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation―and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must friend, I must art, I must observe, ” she writes, I must eat, constantly I must live.

This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature. Finalist for the national book award for poetrywhereas her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment.

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Look: Poems

Used book in Good Condition. Graywolf Press. Let it matter what we call a thing, " she writes. Let me look at you. Daily i sitwith the languagethey've madeof our languageto NEUTRALIZEthe CAPABILITY of LOW DOLLAR VALUE ITEMslike you. You are what is referred to asa "CASUALTY. From "personal Effects" Used book in Good Condition.

. But sharif refuses to accept this terminology as given, and instead turns it back on its perpetrators. Finalist for the 2017 pen open book award**finalist for the 2016 national Book Award*Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech.

In this virtuosic array of poems, and sequences, shards, lists, Sharif assembles her family's and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare. Throughout this collection are words and phrases lifted from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; in their seamless inclusion, control its effects, Sharif exposes the devastating euphemisms deployed to sterilize the language, and sway our collective resolve.

Those repercussions echo into the present day, in the grief for those killed in America's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the discrimination endured at the checkpoints of daily encounter. At the same time, these poems point to the ways violence is conducted against our language. Graywolf Pr.

Bright Dead Things: Poems

Graywolf Pr. Limón has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a huge beating genius machine” striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. Milkweed Editions. Graywolf Press. Bright dead things examines the chaos that is life, and the search to find something that is ultimately disorderly, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and marvelous, and ours.

A book of bravado and introspection, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contacttracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker’s sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terror and loss, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love.

I am beautiful. Building on the legacies of forebears such as frank o’Hara, Limón’s work is consistently generous and accessiblethough every observed moment feels complexly thought, Sharon Olds, felt, and Mark Doty, and lived. I am dying, ” the poet writes. Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition.

I am full of love.

Calling a Wolf a Wolf

The recipient of a 2016 ruth lilly and dorothy sargent rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Iran, Akbar was born in Tehran, and currently lives and teaches in Florida. Used book in Good Condition. Graywolf Press. Graywolf Pr.

I can no longer rememberthe being afraid, only that it came to an end. Kaveh akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. Used book in Good Condition. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self and its instincts within the context of this never-ending fight.

From "stop me if you've heard this one before": Sometimes you just have to leavewhatever's real to you, you have to clompthrough fields and kick the caps offall the toadstools. The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection.

Fanny howethis highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Sometimesyou have to march all the way to Galileeor the literal foot of God himself before you realizeyou've already passed the place whereyou were supposed to die.

Milkweed Editions. His poems appear recently or soon in the new Yorker, Ploughshares, APR, Poetry, Tin House, PBS NewsHour, and elsewhere.

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Graywolf Press. What a perfume he's crushed and rendered of his heart and soul. Night sky with Exit Wounds. Vuong's poems show, through breath, cadence, and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the most necessary of hungers. Praise for ocean vuong:"reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.

. His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. Winner of the 2017 T. What a gift this book is. Li-young lee"vuong takes from Pound the ability to eternalize a moment. Poetry "even as vuong leads you through every pleasure a body deserves and all the ensuing grief, these poems restore you with hope, singing along to the radio, that godforsaken thing--alive, suddenly sufficient.

Traci brimhall "what this poet sees on the street, in a blizzard, or even while studying an apple reminds me of those dreams we have in common: dreams in which we are falling but never touch the ground, dreams in which we are naked in the presence of men suited for our ruin. Jericho brown Used book in Good Condition.

. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion. The new yorker"a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence.

Bestiary: Poems

What we've made of ourselves. From "love poem: chimera"across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters--half human and half something else. What menagerieare we. Used book in Good Condition. What hiss and rumbleat the splitting, at the horns and beard, at the glottal bleat.

Donika kelly's bestiary is a catalogue of creatures--from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera to the centaur and griffin. Night sky with Exit Wounds. Donika kelly's fierce debut collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry PrizeI thought myself lion and serpent.

Selected and with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Nikky Finney, Bestiary questions what makes us human, what makes us whole. Graywolf Press. Graywolf Pr. Used book in Good Condition. Graywolf Press. What clamorwe made in the birthing. Milkweed Editions. Thoughtmyself body enough for two, for we.

Song American Poets Continuum Series

Graywolf Press. Winner of the 1994 lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. Used book in Good Condition. Smoothed by nuances of sound and rhythm, her poems exude an ambiguous wisdom, an acceptance of the sad magic that returns us constantly to the lives we might have led. Library journal Used book in Good Condition.

Graywolf Press. Night sky with Exit Wounds. Used book in Good Condition. Graywolf Pr. Milkweed Editions. Kelly has a talent for coaxing out the world's ghosts and then fixing them in personal landscapes of fear and uncertainty.