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To read the words of these young people is to hear the diverse voices of teenagers everywhere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIncluded are a foreward by acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni, an essay from Kevin Powell, another poet associated with WritersCorps, and writing tips from WritersCorps instructors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFebruary 18,2003\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"PageSection\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--medium TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eWritersCorps is an alliance of creative writing programs in three cities — San Francisco, the Bronx, and Washington, D.C. — with a mission to transform the lives of youth through the written word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince its inception in 1994, WritersCorps has helped more than 40,000 young people nationwide improve their literacy and self-sufficiency. With its award-winning publications and local and national events, the organization has become a national model in arts and literacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003chr role=\"presentation\" class=\"Divider Divider--largeMargin\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"lazyload-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"NativeAdWrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-google-query-id=\"CN3N75P99f0CFeTl4wcd4r4LhQ\" id=\"div-gpt-goodr-book-2\" class=\"Ad Ad__nativeAd Ad--showDividers\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44823450222914,"sku":"","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/products\/paint.jpg?v=1679709565"},{"product_id":"the-gilded-auction-block-poems-shane-mccrae","title":"The Gilded Auction Block: Poems;  Shane Mccrae","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI'm made of murderers I'm made\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOf nobodies and immigrants and the poor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand a whole \/ Family the mother's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eliver and her lungs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gilded Auction Block\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the acclaimed poet Shane McCrae considers the present moment in America on its own terms as well as for what it says about the American project and Americans themselves. 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Simultaneously complex and transparent, urgent and composed,\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHow to Be Drawn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a mesmerizing achievement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003eMarch 31, 2015\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"PageSection\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--medium\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTerrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections, including\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow to Be Drawn\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLighthead\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the National Book Award. 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Continuing conversations begun by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCitizen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBetween the World and Me\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSilencer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esings out the dangers of unspoken taboos present on quiet Midwestern cul-de-sacs and in stifling professional settings, the dangers in closing the window on “a rainbow coalition of cops doing calisthenics around\/a six-foot, three-hundred-fifty-pound man, choked back into the earth for what\/looked a lot, to me, like sport.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, the language and cadences of hip-hop and academia meet prayer—these poems are crucibles, from which emerge profound allegories and subtle elegies, sharp humor and incisive critiques.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003eSeptember 5, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--medium TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eMarcus Wicker is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/em\u003e's Miller Audio Prize, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, and the Fine Arts Work Center. His first collection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaybe the Saddest Thing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Harper Perennial), a National Poetry Series winner, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Wicker's poems have appeared in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOxford American\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e. His second book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSilencer\u003c\/em\u003e—also an Image Award finalist—was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2017 and won the Society of Midland Authors Award, as well as the Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for New Voices. Marcus teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis, and he is the poetry editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSouthern Indiana Review\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44885568815426,"sku":"","price":9.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/products\/silenc.jpg?v=1680542492"},{"product_id":"silverchest-poems-carl-phillips","title":"Silverchest: Poems;  Carl Phillips","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSilverchest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, his twelfth book, Carl Phillips considers how our fears and excesses, the damage we cause both to others and to ourselves, intentional and not, can lead not only to a kind of wisdom but also to renewal, maybe even joy, if we’re willing to commit fully to a life in which “I love you \/ means what exactly?” In poems shot through with his signature mix of eros, restless energy, and moral scrutiny, Phillips argues for the particular courage it takes to look at the self squarely—not with judgment but with understanding—and extend that self more honestly toward others: It’s a risk, there’s a lot to lose, but if it’s true that “we’ll drown anyway—why not in color?”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApril 2, 2013\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--medium TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the highly acclaimed author of 10 collections of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was born in 1959 to an Air Force family, who moved regularly throughout his childhood, until finally settling in his high-school years at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Boston University and taught high-school Latin for eight years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis first book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 1992 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize and was heralded as the work of an outstanding newcomer in the field of contemporary poetry. His other books are\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCortège\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1995), a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Devotions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1998), a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePastoral\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2000), winner of the Lambda Literary Award;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tether\u003c\/i\u003e, (2001), winner of the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRock Harbor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2002);\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rest of Love: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2004 National Book Award finalist, for which Phillips also won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiding Westward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2006);\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2007); and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeak Low\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2009), a 2009 National Book Award finalist. Two additional titles were published in the 2003-04 academic year: a translation of Sophocles'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiloctetes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecame out in September 2003, and a book of essays,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in May 2004. Phillips is the recipient of, among others, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Foundation Fellowship from the Library of Congress, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, and the Academy of American Poets Prize. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in such publications as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as in anthologies, including eight times in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eseries,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poets\u003c\/i\u003e. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2006. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also teaches in the Creative Writing Program.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44885582709058,"sku":"","price":7.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/products\/silver.jpg?v=1680542694"},{"product_id":"thrall-poems-natasha-trethway","title":"Thrall: Poems;  Natasha Trethway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNatasha Trethewey’s poems are at once deeply personal and historical—exploring her own interracial and complicated roots—and utterly American, connecting them to ours. The daughter of a black mother and white father, a student of history and of the Deep South, she is inspired by everything from colonial paintings of mulattos and mestizos to the stories of people forgotten by history. Meditations on captivity, knowledge, and inheritance permeate \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThrall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, as she reflects on a series of small estrangements from her poet father and comes to an understanding of how, as father and daughter, they are part of the ongoing history of race in America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThrall\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003econfirms not only that Natasha Trethewey is one of our most gifted and necessary poets but that she is also one of our most brilliant and fearless.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAugust 28, 2012\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNatasha Trethewey is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in June 2012; she began her official duties in September. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection \u003ci\u003eNative Guard\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44885624193346,"sku":"","price":9.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/products\/thrall.jpg?v=1680543486"},{"product_id":"like-poems-a-e-stallings","title":"Like: Poems;  A.E. Stallings","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike, that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it, there is no simile, that engine of the lyric poem, the lyre's note in the epic. A poem can hardly exist otherwise. In this new collection, her most ambitious to date, A. E. Stallings continues her archeology of the domestic, her odyssey through myth and motherhood in received and invented forms, from sonnets to syllabics. Stallings also eschews the poetry volume's conventional sections for the arbitrary order of the alphabet. Contemporary Athens itself, a place never dull during the economic and migration crises of recent years, shakes off the dust of history and emerges as a vibrant character.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKnown for her wry and musical lyric poems, Stallings here explores her themes in greater depth, including the bravura performance\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLost and Found\u003c\/i\u003e, a meditation in\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eottava rima\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon a parent's sublunary dance with daily-ness and time, set in the moon's Valley of Lost Things.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"genresList\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSeptember 25, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"genresList\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"genresList\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"genresList\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAlicia Elsbeth Stallings is an American poet and translator. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStallings was born and raised in Decatur, Georgia and studied classics at the University of Georgia, and the University of Oxford. She is an editor with the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. In 1999, Stallings moved to Athens, Greece and has lived there ever since. She is the Poetry Program Director of the Athens Centre. She is married to John Psaropoulos, who is the editor of the Athens News.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStallings' poetry uses traditional forms, and she has been associated with the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Formalism\"\u003eNew Formalism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe is a frequent contributor of poems and essays to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e magazine. She has published three books of original verse, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Archaic Smile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/299636.Archaic_Smile\"\u003eArchaic Smile\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1999), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Hapax\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/194045.Hapax\"\u003eHapax\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2006), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Olives\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13090290.Olives\"\u003eOlives\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2012). In 2007 she published a verse translation of Lucretius' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDe Rerum Natura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"The Nature of Things\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/493005.The_Nature_of_Things\"\u003eThe Nature of Things\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45535193432386,"sku":"","price":7.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/like.jpg?v=1688914936"},{"product_id":"concentrate-poems-courtney-faye-taylor","title":"Concentrate: Poems;  Courtney Faye Taylor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins—a fifteen-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shop owner, Soon Ja Du, after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of orange juice. Harlins’s murder and the following trial, which resulted in no prison time for Du, were inciting incidents of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, and came to exemplify the long-fraught relationship between Black and Asian American communities in the United States. Through a collage-like approach to collective history and storytelling, Taylor’s poems present a profound look into the insidious points at which violence originates against—and between—women of color.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConcentrate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e displays an astounding breadth of form and experimentation in found texts, micro-essays, and visual poems, merging worlds and bending time in order to interrogate inexorable encounters with American patriarchy and White supremacy manifested as sexual and racially charged violence. These poems demand absolute focus on Black womanhood’s relentless refusal to be unseen, even and especially when such luminosity exposes an exceptional vulnerability to harm and erasure. Taylor’s inventive, intimate book radically reconsiders the cost of memory, forging a path to a future rooted in solidarity and possibility. “Concentrate,” she writes. “We have decisions to make. Fire is that decision to make.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNovember 1, 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCourtney Faye Taylor is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022) which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCourtney earned her B.A. from Agnes Scott College and her MFA from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program where she received the Hopwood Prize in Poetry. She is also the winner of the 92Y Discovery Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize. The recipient of residencies and fellowships from Cave Canem and the Charlotte Street Foundation, her writing can be found in Kenyon Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, Best New Poets, The New Republic and elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a mixed media visual artist, Courtney pairs photography and found materials with various poetic writing forms. Her visual poems and collages can be found in Poetry Magazine and on display in exhibitions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45535269978434,"sku":"","price":11.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/concentrate.jpg?v=1688916318"},{"product_id":"deaf-republic-poems-ilya-kaminsky","title":"Deaf Republic:  Poems; ILya Kaminsky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIlya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear--they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya's girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky's long-awaited \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarch 5, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIlya Kaminsky is the Poetry Editor of Words Without Borders. His awards include a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine and first place in the National Russian Essay Contest. He is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDancing in Odessa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which won the Dorset Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45535495094594,"sku":"","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/deaf.jpg?v=1688920059"},{"product_id":"black-girl-call-home-poems-jasmine-means","title":"Black Girl Call Home: Poems;  Jasmine Means","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself—and us—home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America--and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlack Girl, Call Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarch 9, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eJasmine Mans is a Black American poet, artist from Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison, with a B.A. in African American Studies. Her debut collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003eChalk Outlines of Snow Angels\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2012. Mans is the resident poet at the Newark Public Library. She was a member of The Strivers Row Collective.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45535862620482,"sku":"","price":9.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/callhome.jpg?v=1689118071"},{"product_id":"dont-call-us-dead-poems-danez-smith","title":"Don't Call Us Dead: Poems;  Danez Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAward-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDon't Call Us Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. 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Their 2nd collection will be published by Graywolf Press in 2017. Their work has published \u0026amp; featured widely including in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlavity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. They are a 2014 Ruth Lilly - Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, a Cave Canem and VONA alum, and a recipient of a McKnight Foundation Fellowship. They are a 2-time Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, placing 2nd in 2014. They edit for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Offing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u0026amp; are a founding member of 2 collectives, Dark Noise and Sad Boy Supper Club. 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Often centered around intersections of race, class, sexuality, faith, and social justice, Danez uses rhythm, fierce raw power, and image to re-imagine the world as takes it apart in their work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45536195707202,"sku":"","price":10.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/dontcallus.jpg?v=1689118314"},{"product_id":"the-government-lake-last-poems-james-tate","title":"The Government Lake: Last Poems;  James Tate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA woman named Mildred starts laying eggs after feathers from wild poultry begin coming down the chimney. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him and eventually rues his captor’s death. A baby is born transparent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJames Tate’s work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, “fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent,” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e) has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection before his death in 2015, Tate’s dark yet whimsical humor, his emotional acuity, and his keen ear for the absurd are on full display in prose poems that finely constructed and lyrical, surrealistic and provocative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Government Lake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, James Tate reminds us why he is one of the great poets of our age and one of the true masters of the form. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJuly 2, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPage__mainContent\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"PageSection\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--medium TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" style=\"text-align: left;\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eJames Vincent Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He taught creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University, and at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he worked since 1971. He was a member of the poetry faculty at the MFA Program for Poets \u0026amp; Writers, along with Dara Wier and Peter Gizzi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDudley Fitts selected Tate's first book of poems,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"The Lost Pilot\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/965354.The_Lost_Pilot\"\u003eThe Lost Pilot\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1967) for the Yale Series of Younger Poets while Tate was still a student at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop; Fitts praised Tate's writing for its \"natural grace.\" Despite the early praise he received Tate alienated some of his fans in the seventies with a series of poetry collections that grew more and more strange.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe published two books of prose,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/268504.Dreams_of_a_Robot_Dancing_Bee\"\u003eDreams of a Robot Dancing Bee\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2001) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"The Route as Briefed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/345792.The_Route_as_Briefed\"\u003eThe Route as Briefed\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1999). His awards include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, a Pulitzer Prize in poetry, a National Book Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was also a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTate's writing style is difficult to describe, but has been identified with the postmodernist and neo-surrealist movements. He has been known to play with phrases culled from news items, history, anecdotes, or common speech; later cutting, pasting, and assembling such divergent material into tightly woven compositions that reveal bizarre and surreal insights into the absurdity of human nature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003chr role=\"presentation\" class=\"Divider Divider--largeMargin\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"lazyload-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"NativeAdWrapper\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45536285884738,"sku":"","price":8.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/govlake.jpg?v=1688930697"},{"product_id":"barter-poems-monica-youn","title":"Barter: Poems;  Monica Youn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Barter exchanges history for myth, direct speech for epistles, activity for observation . . . breathtaking.\" ―Claudia Rankine Felix the Rat's hind feet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecould be Barbie hands―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esame pink, same\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003einjection-molded seaming. ―from \"Electronica\" The poems in Barter , Monica Youn's exciting first collection, negotiate transactions between scarcity and excess, pornography and abstraction, the thing and the thing seen. Rendered with a dazzling array of structures and allusions, these poems describe―and become―a strange gallery of paintings and portraits. She offers a Polaroid left on a windshield, step-by-step instructions for \"Drawing for Absolute Beginners,\" a stereoscope with a box of slides. Both an homage to and a warning against nonexistent things, Barter introduces a vibrant new voice and a new way of seeing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJanuary 1, 2003\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45536419840322,"sku":"","price":8.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/barter.jpg?v=1688934079"},{"product_id":"look-solmaz-sharif","title":"Look;  Solmaz Sharif","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSolmaz Sharif’s astonishing first book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable losses of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards, and sequences, Sharif assembles her family’s and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare. Those repercussions echo into the present day, in the grief for those killed, in America’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the discriminations endured at the checkpoints of daily encounter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt the same time, these poems point to the ways violence is conducted against our language. Throughout this collection are words and phrases lifted from the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDepartment of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e; in their seamless inclusion, Sharif exposes the devastating euphemisms deployed to sterilize the language, control its effects, and sway our collective resolve. But Sharif refuses to accept this terminology as given, and instead turns it back on its perpetrators. “Let it matter what we call a thing,” she writes. “Let me look at you.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJUly 5, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ejubilat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWitness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and others. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, her work has been recognized with a “Discovery”\/Boston Review Poetry Prize, scholarships the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a winter fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, an NEA fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship. She has most recently been selected to receive a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award as well as a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. She is currently a lecturer at Stanford University. Her first poetry collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLOOK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, published by Graywolf Press in 2016, was a finalist for the National Book Award.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45536469778754,"sku":"","price":7.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/look.jpg?v=1688934774"},{"product_id":"winter-recipes-from-the-collective-poems-louise-gluck","title":"Winter Recipes From the Collective: Poems;  Louise Gluck","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWild Iris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethere is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinter Recipes from the Collective\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edolente\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eanimoso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sister's death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Some of you will know what I mean,\" the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, \"all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.\" This magnificent book couldn't have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet at any other time in her life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOctober 19, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAmerican poet \u003cb\u003eLouise Elisabeth Glück\u003c\/b\u003e served as poet laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParents of Hungarian Jewish heritage reared her on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe is the author of twelve books of poetry, including: \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"A Village Life\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6100917.A_Village_Life\"\u003eA Village Life\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(2009); \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Averno\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/76548.Averno\"\u003eAverno\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(2006), which was a finalist for The National Book Award; \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"The Seven Ages\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/56155152.The_Seven_Ages\"\u003eThe Seven Ages\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(2001); \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Vita Nova\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43879093.Vita_Nova\"\u003eVita Nova\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(1999), which was awarded The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry; \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Meadowlands\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/76544.Meadowlands\"\u003eMeadowlands\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(1996); \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"The Wild Iris\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/76546.The_Wild_Iris\"\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America; \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Ararat\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/29939052.Ararat\"\u003eArarat\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(1990), which received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She also published a collection of essays, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/76547.Proofs_and_Theories__Essays_on_Poetry\"\u003eProofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(1994), which won the PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2001, Yale University awarded Louise Glück its Bollingen Prize in Poetry, given biennially for a poet's lifetime achievement in his or her art. Her other honors include the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993 for her collection, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"The Wild Iris\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/76546.The_Wild_Iris\"\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e. Glück is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award (\u003cem\u003e \u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Triumph of Achilles\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/137130.Triumph_of_Achilles\"\u003eTriumph of Achilles\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e), the Academy of American Poet's Prize (\u003cem\u003e \u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Firstborn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/182683.Firstborn\"\u003eFirstborn\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e), as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anniversary Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2020, Glück was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, \"for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlück also worked as a senior lecturer in English at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, served as a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa and taught at Goddard College in Vermont. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches as the Rosencranz writer in residence at Yale University and in the creative writing program of Boston University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45536524239170,"sku":"","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/winterecipes.jpg?v=1688935426"},{"product_id":"such-color-tracy-k-smith","title":"Such Color;  Tracy K. Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCelebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith opens up vast questions. Such New and Selected Poems , her first career-spanning volume, traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the unknowable, the immense mysteries of existence. Each of Smith’s four collections moves farther when one seems to reach the limits of desire and the body, the next investigates the very sweep of history; when one encounters death and the outer reaches of space, the next bears witness to violence against language and people from across time and delves into the rescuing possibilities of the everlasting. Smith’s signature voice, whether in elegy or praise or outrage, insists upon vibrancy and hope, even―and especially―in moments of inconceivable travesty and grief.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSuch Color collects the best poems from Smith’s award-winning books and culminates in thirty pages of brilliant, excoriating new poems. These new works confront America’s historical and contemporary racism and injustices, while they also rise toward the registers of the ecstatic, the rapturous, and the sacred―urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it. This magnificent retrospective affirms Smith’s place as one of the twenty-first century’s most treasured poets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOctober 5, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTracy K. 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She teaches at Princeton University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47798532899138,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/lifemars.jpg?v=1707850622"},{"product_id":"citizen-an-american-lyric-claudia-rankine","title":"Citizen: An American Lyric;  Claudia Rankine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDon't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClaudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. 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She is also the editor of several anthologies including \"The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind.\" In 2016, she cofounded The Racial Imaginary Institute. Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and the Poets \u0026amp; Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists and the National Endowment of the Arts. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. 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