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Paperback. Condition: Good. Winner of the 2022 Paterson Poetry Prize, this coming-of-age collection is set in 1960s Paterson, New Jersey.Wonderama is a collection of cinematic, surprising, and at times harrowing poems that capture 1960s Paterson, New Jersey, as experienced by the poorest, most vulnerable children living there. With candor, ferocity, and stunning imagery, Catherine Doty?s poems explore survival and loss in the life of a young girl escaping the perils of want, neglect, and abuse. At times both heartbreaking and vaudevillian, Doty?s work chronicles sexual awakening and assault, alcoholism, the hazards of Catholic school, and the complex consequences of coming of age in the inner city.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. At twenty-seven, Robin Silbergleid decided to become a single mother by choice; The Baby Book depicts her long struggle to build her family through assisted reproductive technology. It is a bold, multi-voiced narrative of reproductive choice, including infertility treatment, recurrent miscarriage, and high-risk pregnancy. The Baby Book will be of interest to readers of poetry, women, people interested in reproductive rights, fertility patients and their doctors, and women who have experienced pregnancy loss.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A portrait of marriage, caretaking, grief, and recovery. Carole Stone?s Limited Editions is an end-of-life narrative journey, from her long-term marriage to the illness and death of her husband. Stone?s honest, understated, and detailed poems, each packed with narrative, bring us to the heart of her loss. Stone does not flinch in her descriptions of her husband?s suffering and dying moments. She dispassionately describes the everyday details of coping with being on her own?from daily household chores to the loneliness of being single as an aging woman. With Stone?s crisp observations and raw honesty, Limited Editions challenges the reader to think about death, grief, widowhood, and aging as a natural process in the life cycle. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. In poems that range from New England to the Southwest, Without My Asking, takes its cue from Psalms 90's petition--teach us to number our days. That biblical sense of limits--of what we can know and not know--and, ultimately, the mystery of before and after that encloses our existence is the center around which these poems turn, both seasonally and from day-to-day. In poems that attend to the events of our lives--from the deaths of parents to hummingbirds at a bird feeder--these poems work to utter Yes to all that happens, that peculiar affirmative that recognizes, as Elizabeth Bishop says, Life's like that . . . also death.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. The Snow?s Wife presents a dispassionate examination of the final months of a marriage, ending with a spouse's death. It examines the daily minutiae of caregiving, both the tender and the distasteful, that lend startling poignancy to unbearable hardship. Frannie Lindsay?s poems chronicle how these challenges shock both self and God, dismantling that spiritual partnership and creating a new one that seems at first a temporary refuge, but is later revealed to be sturdy and permanent. This collection explores the ways in which intimacy becomes at once tender and gritty in the face of loss. These poems investigate how we remember, and how we begin the patient reshaping of the bereft self.The Snow?s Wife reaches beyond the sorrow of the poems? speaker and includes the reader in the difficult, loving acceptance of mortality. Unafraid to look beyond the sentimentality of grief, Lindsay draws an unflinching and intimate portrait of a conflicted yet tender relationship. Illustrating the strain that an expected death can place upon a marriage, and the myriad and surprising ways in which such strain expands the heart, The Snow?s Wife examines the crises of faith that arise naturally during intimate end-of-life caregiving.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A hybrid of poetry, prose, and visual elements, door of thin skins is a tale that unfolds in a psychotherapist's and a state prosecutor's office and the mind of the poet regarding it all? door of thin skins deconstructs the nature of psychological power through a reconstruction akin to a psychological diorama. The book's events, narrated by a young woman in psychotherapy, unfold in non-chronological sequence, and recurring phrases, images, and events unify and deepen the narrative whose formal construction mirrors the process of psychotherapy. As a patient-therapist relationship becomes dependent and sexual, resulting in a precarious blurring of boundaries, the text alternates between the straightforward and syntactically disjunctive. Visual poems contribute another layer towards enacting one of the book's themes, a fracturing of the narrator's sight and simultaneous and conflicting perceptions of reality. The book's formal experimentation echoes and challenges Wittgenstein's "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world." In addition to its innovative poetics, this book, first published in 2013, is among the predecessors of the #MeToo movement's voice. door of thin skins has been favorably reviewed in many venues including American Book Review, Rain Taxi, Georgia Review, The Rumpus, Rattle, Cutbank, Diagram, OmniVerse, American Literary Review, HTML Giant, Tarpaulin Sky, Denver Quarterly, and Fourth Genre.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. .Legaspi, like William Carlos Williams, can find poetry anywhere. And like his mentor Pablo Neruda he seems able to locate the mysterious and the magical in the most common and overlooked objects. It is difficult to overestimate the daring and resourcefulness required to complete successfully this astonishingly original book. I believe this collection of poetry, so rich in the dailyness of the world and what wisdom we can draw from it, is ample evidence that Joseph O. Legaspi has arrived to a place none of his ancestors in life or in poetry have ever journeyed, and we his readers are the richer for it.--Philip Levine.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. .The word mad'' may conjure up notions that are either arty or primitive. Neither would apply in this case. One of the more stunning qualities of these poems is their composure, their lack of interest in histrionics. The poet's ability to examine her behavior is both edifying and harrowing. A poem such as Offering, ? that speaks to the narrator's burning herself with a lighted cigarette, is remarkable in its ability to turn and turn again as it considers the behavior.One realizes that once this poem was written this poet could write any poem because she has the ability to indulge metaphor yet not let up a jot on the terror of real circumstances. Whatever else has befallen her, in her poems she seems incapable of backing down.--Baron Wormser.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. .The word mad'' may conjure up notions that are either arty or primitive. Neither would apply in this case. One of the more stunning qualities of these poems is their composure, their lack of interest in histrionics. The poet's ability to examine her behavior is both edifying and harrowing. A poem such as Offering, ? that speaks to the narrator's burning herself with a lighted cigarette, is remarkable in its ability to turn and turn again as it considers the behavior.One realizes that once this poem was written this poet could write any poem because she has the ability to indulge metaphor yet not let up a jot on the terror of real circumstances. Whatever else has befallen her, in her poems she seems incapable of backing down.--Baron Wormser.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. At twenty-seven, Robin Silbergleid decided to become a single mother by choice; The Baby Book depicts her long struggle to build her family through assisted reproductive technology. It is a bold, multi-voiced narrative of reproductive choice, including infertility treatment, recurrent miscarriage, and high-risk pregnancy. The Baby Book will be of interest to readers of poetry, women, people interested in reproductive rights, fertility patients and their doctors, and women who have experienced pregnancy loss.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In this debut, full-length poetry collection, Fred Shaw offers a deep dive into the cost of service work. Scraping Away is a collection of narrative, sometimes elegiac poems that express the point of view of restaurant workers. Shaw considers the cost, not just in dollars, of feeding a starving public that often finds those in the service industry to be faceless and replaceable. The poems here hope to celebrate and humanize those 102.6 million workers. Exploring issues of class and labor, profit, loss, and privilege, Scraping Away reminds us that a person is more than just their job. The speaker in these poems also explores complicated family relationships and the angst of his blue-collar, Rust-Belt adolescence. Poems delve into the speaker?s relationship with his parents, often using music and the world of things as a trigger to reflect and express memory. Scraping Away leans on clear language and an imagistic sensibility to bring readers into the community of restaurant workers and their inner lives. Reminiscent of Studs Terkel?s classic, Working, Shaw?s collection passes the issues of the working class into the realm of poetry.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A hybrid of poetry, prose, and visual elements, door of thin skins is a tale that unfolds in a psychotherapist's and a state prosecutor's office and the mind of the poet regarding it all? door of thin skins deconstructs the nature of psychological power through a reconstruction akin to a psychological diorama. The book's events, narrated by a young woman in psychotherapy, unfold in non-chronological sequence, and recurring phrases, images, and events unify and deepen the narrative whose formal construction mirrors the process of psychotherapy. As a patient-therapist relationship becomes dependent and sexual, resulting in a precarious blurring of boundaries, the text alternates between the straightforward and syntactically disjunctive. Visual poems contribute another layer towards enacting one of the book's themes, a fracturing of the narrator's sight and simultaneous and conflicting perceptions of reality. The book's formal experimentation echoes and challenges Wittgenstein's "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world." In addition to its innovative poetics, this book, first published in 2013, is among the predecessors of the #MeToo movement's voice. door of thin skins has been favorably reviewed in many venues including American Book Review, Rain Taxi, Georgia Review, The Rumpus, Rattle, Cutbank, Diagram, OmniVerse, American Literary Review, HTML Giant, Tarpaulin Sky, Denver Quarterly, and Fourth Genre.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A portrait of marriage, caretaking, grief, and recovery. Carole Stone?s Limited Editions is an end-of-life narrative journey, from her long-term marriage to the illness and death of her husband. Stone?s honest, understated, and detailed poems, each packed with narrative, bring us to the heart of her loss. Stone does not flinch in her descriptions of her husband?s suffering and dying moments. She dispassionately describes the everyday details of coping with being on her own?from daily household chores to the loneliness of being single as an aging woman. With Stone?s crisp observations and raw honesty, Limited Editions challenges the reader to think about death, grief, widowhood, and aging as a natural process in the life cycle. …