The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech

The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech

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  • Author: Stephen Dobyns
  • Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 1942683170
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 120

This new collection from best-selling poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard, ephemeral truth of mortality, and includes the section "Sixteen Sonnets for Isabel" about the recent death of his wife. In true Dobyns fashion, these poems grip and guide readers into a state of empathy, raising the question of how one lives and endures in the world.


Saratoga Payback

Saratoga Payback

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  • Author: Stephen Dobyns
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0399576584
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

The latest installment in Stephen Dobyns's Charlie Bradshaw mysteries, Saratoga Payback follows the latest exploits of Saratoga Springs' most unusual and sardonic detective. Ever since the cops revoked his private investigator's license, Charlie Bradshaw has been adjusting to life as a regular senior citizen. But reading, sitting around the house, and making amateur home repairs is a far cry from his past life as Saratoga Springs' most successful everyman detective. So when Charlie discovers the sprawled corpse of Saratoga Springs' biggest nuisance on his sidewalk, the ex-P.I. is torn. Should he risk asking questions of his own, knowing he could easily be prosecuted for doing P.I. work without a license? Or should he avoid the trouble and spend his twilight years in peace? Well, the case was practically delivered to his doorstep... Saratoga Payback, the latest installment in Stephen Dobyns's critically praised Charlie Bradshaw Mysteries, follows Charlie as he toes the line between concerned private citizen and practiced private eye. As he begins to look into the murder of the town pest, Charlie also finds himself entangled in problem that is purely Saratogian--a mission to rescue an old acquaintance's kidnapped horse. Wry, entertaining, and adroitly written, Saratoga Payback is an immensely satisfying addition to Dobyns's popular mystery series.


All Soul Parts Returned

All Soul Parts Returned

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  • Author: Bruce Beasley
  • Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 1942683464
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 104

When the Gnostic Gospels collide with new age spiritualism, the Oxford Happiness Test, and treatises on Buddhist practice, we know we're in the territory of a Bruce Beasley collection. Alternately devout and heretical, Beasley—known for his intense and continuing soul-quest through previous award-winning books—interrogates the absurdities, psychic violence, and spiritual condition of twenty-first century America with despair, philosophic intelligence, and piercing humor. Bruce Beasley is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Theophobia (BOA, 2012). The winner of numerous literary awards and fellowships, he lives in Bellingham, WA, where he is a professor of English at Western Washington University.


The Second O of Sorrow

The Second O of Sorrow

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  • Author: Sean Thomas Dougherty
  • Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 1942683561
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 83

Sean Thomas Dougherty celebrates the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in the Rust Belt. Finding delight in everyday moments—a night at a packed karaoke bar, a father and daughter planting a garden, a biography of LeBron James as a metaphor for Ohio—these poems take pride in the people who survive despite all odds, who keep going without any concern for glory, fighting with wit and grace for justice, for joy, every god damned day.


Eat This Poem

Eat This Poem

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  • Author: Nicole Gulotta
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications
  • ISBN: 0834840650
  • Category : Cooking
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 224

A literary cookbook that celebrates food and poetry, two of life's essential ingredients. In the same way that salt seasons ingredients to bring out their flavors, poetry seasons our lives; when celebrated together, our everyday moments and meals are richer and more meaningful. The twenty-five inspiring poems in this book—from such poets as Marge Piercy, Louise Glück, Mark Strand, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, Jane Hirshfield—are accompanied by seventy-five recipes that bring the richness of words to life in our kitchen, on our plate, and through our palate. Eat This Poem opens us up to fresh ways of accessing poetry and lends new meaning to the foods we cook.


Primitive

Primitive

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  • Author: Janice N. Harrington
  • Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 1942683219
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 104

A biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippin—the best-known African-American artist of his time—Primitive is a critique on current perceptions surrounding African-American folk art, as well as the absence of key African-American history in present-day curricula. Award-winning poet Janice Harrington connects readers with a fascinating, odds-defying artist, all while underscoring the human need for artistic expression.


Good Woman

Good Woman

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  • Author: Lucille Clifton
  • Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 194268357X
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 282

Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by National Book Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes the four poetry collections that launched Clifton’s career—Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman, and Two-Headed Woman—as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations. In honor of the 30th anniversary of Lucille Clifton's Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection and memoir, Good Woman is now available for the first time as a deluxe eBook edition. Enhanced with previously unpublished photographs from the Lucille Clifton Estate and a special foreword by Aracelis Girmay, this eBook is a must-have for longtime Clifton fans and newcomers alike.


The Smoke of Horses

The Smoke of Horses

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  • Author: Charles Rafferty
  • Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 1942683480
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 104

In this fascinating new collection by longtime poet Charles Rafferty, evocative prose poems insert strange and mysterious twists into otherwise mundane middle-class scenarios. With wonderful intelligence and imagination, these compact, revelatory poems show us what is possible when we jettison accepted devices of thought for methods that are stranger, and much truer. Charles Rafferty is the author of six collections of poetry, one collection of stories, and two poetry chapbooks. He lives in Sandy Hook, CT, where he works at a technology research firm, directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College, and teaches in the Westport Writers' Workshop.


Mandatory Evacuation

Mandatory Evacuation

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  • Author: Makuck Peter
  • Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 1942683197
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 104

Through lyrical narrative, the poems in Mandatory Evacuation find radiance in everyday people and subjects by the simple act of noticing—of seeking that which matters most. Like returning home with new eyes after a devastating storm, these poems startle us to awareness, focusing on the passage of time, the beauty of small, fleeting moments, and the importance of paying attention.


Sky Country

Sky Country

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  • Author: Christine Kitano
  • Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 1942683448
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 104

Christine Kitano's second poetry collection elicits a sense of hunger—an intense longing for home and an ache for human connection. Channeling both real and imagined immigration experiences of her own family—her grandmothers, who fled Korea and Japan; and her father, a Japanese American who was incarcerated during WWII—Kitano's ambitious poetry speaks for those who have been historically silenced and displaced. Christine Kitano's first collection of poetry, Birds of Paradise, was published by Lynx House Press. She lives in Ithaca, NY, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing, poetry, and Asian American literature at Ithaca College.