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  • SCARED VIOLENT LIKE HORSES
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    SCARED VIOLENT LIKE HORSES
    JOHN MCCARTHY
    In this poetry collection, the author of Ghost Country deeply examines violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being. McCarthy's flyover country is populated by a family strangled by silence: a father drunk and mute in the passenger seat, a mother sinking into bed like a dish at the bottom of a sink, and a boy whose friends play punch-for-punch ...

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  • ANOTHER KIND OF MADNESS
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    ANOTHER KIND OF MADNESS
    ED PAVLIC
    "An ode to Chicago, Kenya, and soul music as humanity's worldwide hum . . . [a] remarkable and groundbreaking novel." — Colorado Review Ndiya Grayson returns to her hometown of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening, vulnerable and emotionally disarrayed, she goes...

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  • WILDER
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    WILDER
    CLAIRE WAHMANHOLM
    A prize-winning debut poetry collection touching on themes of nature, loss, and history. In Wilder—selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry—Claire Wahmanholm maps an alien but unnervingly familiar world as it accelerates into cataclysm. Here refugees listen to relaxation tapes that create an Arcadia out of tires and bleach. Here the a...

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  • RIVER HOUSE
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    RIVER HOUSE
    SALLY KEITH
    "This heartbreaking and robust poetry collection . . . explores the complexity of the mind in the midst of grief" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). These are poems of absence. Written in the wake of the loss of her mother, River House follows Sally Keith as she makes her way through the depths of grief, navigating a world newly transfigured. Incorporating her travels abroad...

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  • AVIARY
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    AVIARY
    DEIRDRE MCNAMER
    A crime at a Montana senior residence brings multiple secrets to light in "a literary thriller written with [Deirdre] McNamer's trademark emotional acuity" ( Chicago Review of Books). At the deteriorating Pheasant Run, the occupants keep their secrets and sadnesses behind closed apartment doors. Kind Leo Umberti, formerly an insurance agent, now spends his days painting abstrac...

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  • WE THE JURY
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    WE THE JURY
    WAYNE MILLER
    Winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for Poetry A boy asks his father what it means to die; a poet wonders whether we can truly know another's thoughts; a man tries to understand how extreme violence and grace can occupy the same space. These are the questions Wayne Miller tackles in We the Jury: the hard ones, the impossible ones. From an academic dinner party disturbing in ...

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  • TETHERED TO STARS
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    TETHERED TO STARS
    FADY JOUDAH
    A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos—intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams. Tethered to Stars inhabits the deductive tongue of astronomy, the oracular throat of astrology, and the living language of loss and desire. With an analytical eye and a lyrical heart, Fady Joudah shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and sometimes even th...

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  • NORTHERN LIGHT
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    NORTHERN LIGHT
    KAZIM ALI
    An examination of the lingering effects of a hydroelectric power station on Pimicikamak sovereign territory in Manitoba, Canada. The child of South Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba, and made a life in the United States. As a man passing through disparate homes, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And ...

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  • GATEKEEPER
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    GATEKEEPER
    PATRICK JOHNSON
    A prize-winning poetry collection that delves into the dark wood of the digital underworld: "Impressive . . . thought-provoking." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) What is the deep web? A locked door. A tool for oppression and for revolution. "An emptying drain, driven by gravity." And in Patrick Johnson's Gatekeeper—selected by Khaled Mattawa as the winner of the 2019 Balla...

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  • THE CENTURY
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    THE CENTURY
    ÉIREANN LORSUNG
    A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence. In the tradition of witness poetry, The Century tugs apart the quotidian horrors required to perpetuate acts of violence like the Holocaust, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan and Iraq, American slavery ...

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  • WORLD OF WONDERS
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    WORLD OF WONDERS
    AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL
    "A poet celebrates the wonders of nature in a collection of essays that could almost serve as a coming-of-age memoir." — Kirkus Reviews As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier clim...

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  • THE SHAME
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    THE SHAME
    MAKENNA GOODMAN
    A "startlingly original" novel of "recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down from not making the art she absolutely must make" (Alexander Chee, Paris Review). Alma and her family live close to the land, raising chickens and sheep. While her husband works at a nearby college, she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods o...

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  • THROWN IN THE THROAT
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    THROWN IN THE THROAT
    BENJAMIN GARCIA
    "An unabashed celebration of complexity in queerness and gender, an arresting snapshot of survival and a triumphant reclamation of language." — Shelf Awareness (starred review) "Tongues make mistakes / and mistakes / make languages." And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut with Thrown in the Throat. In a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer li...

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  • THE CLEARING
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    THE CLEARING
    ALLISON ADAIR
    A poetry debut that's "a lush, lyrical book about a world where women are meant to carry things to safety and men leave decisively" (Henri Cole). Luminous and electric from the first line to the last, Allison Adair's debut collection navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with a singular incisiveness and a rich imagination. The women in these poems live...

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  • A SONG FROM FARAWAY
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    A SONG FROM FARAWAY
    DENI ELLIS BÉCHARD
    In this, his fourth work of fiction, Béchard takes readers from nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island to modern-day Iraq, tracing the story of a North American family that is at once singular and emblematic, and exploring the cultural repercussions of war and violence. Reinventing themselves in often unexpected ways, the characters in this tapestry defy simplification. A pair...

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  • BLOOD MOON
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    BLOOD MOON
    PATRICIA KIRKPATRICK
    "Why would I expect to feel blameless?" Troubled and meditative,  Blood Moon is an examination of racism, whiteness, and language within one woman's life. In these poems, words are deeply powerful, even if—with the onset of physical infirmity—they sometimes become unfixed and inaccessible, bringing together moral and mortal peril as Patricia Kirkpatrick's speaker ages. From a c...

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  • MAPS AND TRANSCRIPTS OF THE ORDINARY WORLD
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    MAPS AND TRANSCRIPTS OF THE ORDINARY WORLD
    KATHRYN COWLES
    This "innovative" poetry collection "uses text and image to explore the strangeness inherent in everyday experience" ( Publishers Weekly). "I take seven photographs turning / in a circle, a panorama, / but how will I place them hanging / on a wall back home? Something already slipping," Kathryn Cowles writes. These poems surround a central question: how much of a moment is capt...

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  • TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE SEA
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    TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE SEA
    ADAM CLAY
    "The more I sit with these poems, the more they resonate with me and with universal patterns and themes—existential inquiries, loneliness, spiritual doubts." — Green Mountains Review To Make Room for the Sea reckons with the notion that nothing in this world is permanent. Led by an introspective speaker, these poems examine a landscape that resists full focus, and conclude that...

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  • THE GALLEONS
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    THE GALLEONS
    RICK BAROT
    Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 For almost twenty years, Rick Barot has been writing some of the most stunningly crafted lyric poems in America, paying careful, Rilkean attention to the layered world that surrounds us. In The Galleons, he widens his scope, contextualizing...

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  • IN ACCELERATED SILENCE
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    IN ACCELERATED SILENCE
    BROOKE MATSON
    "Anguished and unblinking . . . Accomplished poetry that will move those who have sorrowed—that is, everyone." — Library Journal "The thin knife that severed your tumor," writes Brooke Matson in these poems, "it cleaves me still." What to do when a world is split—terribly, wholly—by grief? When the loss of the beloved undermines the most stable foundations, the most sacred spac...

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  • WHEN THE WHALES LEAVE
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    WHEN THE WHALES LEAVE
    YURI RYTKHEU
    This fable of an indigenous Arctic people "offers profound considerations about stewardship of and people's relationships to the natural world" ( Publishers Weekly). Nau cannot remember a time when she was not one with the world around her: with the fast breeze, the green grass, the high clouds, and the endless blue sky above the Shingled Spit. But her greatest joy is to visit ...

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  • OWL OF MINERVA
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    OWL OF MINERVA
    ERIC PANKEY
    A Walt Whitman Award–winning poet seeks the spiritual within everyday physical objects in this luminous collection. Taking its name from the Roman goddess of wisdom and her companion bird, Owl of Minerva turns astonishingly precise attention to the physical world, scouring it for evidence of the spiritual as the poet travels through such places as Appalachia, New England, Venic...

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  • THE BLESSING
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    THE BLESSING
    GREGORY ORR
    An acclaimed poet's "gripping" memoir of an accidental tragedy, a childhood haunted by guilt, and a quest to find healing through art ( Publishers Weekly). When Gregory Orr was twelve years old, he shot and killed his brother in a hunting accident. From the immediate aftermath—a period of shock, sadness, and isolation—it quickly became clear that support and guidance would not ...

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  • 21 | 19
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    21 | 19
    Essays on the modern relevance of Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson, and more "suggest the ways poetry might be both agitator and balm in times of social crisis" ( Poets & Writers). The nineteenth century is often viewed as a golden age of American literature, a historical moment when national identity was emergent and ideals such as freedom, democracy, and individual agency were pro...

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  • LATE MIGRATIONS
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    LATE MIGRATIONS
    MARGARET RENKL
    From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: "Has the makings of an American classic." —Ann Patchett Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her...

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  • THE MILK HOURS
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    THE MILK HOURS
    JOHN JAMES
    Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize: A "luminous [and] memorable" debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss ( Publishers Weekly). "We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery." So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bod...

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  • IMMEDIATE SONG
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    IMMEDIATE SONG
    DON BOGEN
    From one of our finest poets comes a collection about time—about memory, remembrance, and how the past makes itself manifest in the world. Called "the poet of things" by Richard Howard, Don Bogen understands the ways objects hold history, even if they've grown obsolescent, even when they've been forgotten. So objects—rendered in cinematic detail—fill these poems. A desk, a mail...

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  • TSUNAMI VS. THE FUKUSHIMA 50
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    TSUNAMI VS. THE FUKUSHIMA 50
    LEE ANN RORIPAUGH
    In March 2011, a tsunami caused by an earthquake collided with nearby power plant Fukushima Daiichi, causing the only nuclear disaster in history to rival Chernobyl in scope. Those who stayed at the plant to stabilize the reactors, willing to sacrifice their lives, became known internationally as the Fukushima 50. In tsunami vs. the fukushima 50, Lee Ann Roripaugh takes a pierc...

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  • ALL THE WILD HUNGERS
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    ALL THE WILD HUNGERS
    KAREN BABINE
    A "lovely" memoir of caring for a mother with cancer, reflecting on our appetites for food and for life ( Minneapolis Star Tribune). When her mother is diagnosed with a rare cancer, Karen Babine—cook, collector of vintage cast iron, and fiercely devoted daughter, sister, and aunt—can't help but wonder:  feed a fever, starve a cold, but what do we do for cancer? And so she commi...

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  • HEARTH
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    HEARTH
    ANNICK SMITH
    A multicultural anthology, edited by Susan O'Connor and Annick Smith, about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our world. A hearth is many things: a place for solitude; a source of identity; something we make and share with others; a history of ourselves and our homes. It is the fixed center we return to. It is just as intrinsically portable. It ...

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