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Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey

Author : Barton Sutter
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781929918577
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey written by Barton Sutter and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey, Barton Sutter explores the wilderness along the Canadian border, sings about love in midlife, meditates on the roots of war, attacks political leaders, recounts peculiar heroics of an epileptic Vietnam vet, writes a "personal" ad in the voice of a chickadee and talks to a dead jackpine. A deft practitioner of meter and rhyme, Sutter is a fireside storyteller who makes the language thump and sing. Barton Sutter is the only author to win the Minnesota Book Award in three different categories, including poetry, for The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems (BOA). He teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin, Superior. He lives in Duluth, MN.

Beautiful Wall

Author : Ray Gonzalez
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160843
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Wall written by Ray Gonzalez and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Wall takes us on a profound journey through the deserts of the Southwest where the ever-changing natural landscape and an aggressive border culture rewrite intolerance and ethnocentric thought into human history. Inextricably linked to his Mexican ancestry and American upbringing, Ray Gonzalez's new collection mounts the wall between the current realities of violence and politics, and a beautiful, never-to-be-forgotten past. Ray Gonzalez is the author of fifteen books of poetry. The recipient of numerous awards, including a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Border Regional Library Association, he is a professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Second O of Sorrow

Author : Sean Thomas Dougherty
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1942683561
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Second O of Sorrow written by Sean Thomas Dougherty and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Carpathia

Author : Cecilia Woloch
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160975
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Carpathia written by Cecilia Woloch and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her traveling poetrics are striking in the way that she defies the borders of "narrative" and "lyric"; she combines the two seamlessly, an enviable gift. --Sacramento News & Review These poems move through love and death, sadness and euphoria, and across European and American landscapes, encountering lovers, strangers, and beloved ghosts. They arrive, finally, in a place of beauty, mystery, grief, and joy. Poems from this collection were selected by Marie Howe as winner of the 2006 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award. Cecilia Woloch was named 2004 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry for her last collection, Late (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2003). She is founding director of the Summer Poetry Workshop in Idyllwild, California. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and Los Angeles, California, and travels extensively in Europe. From Devils Lake Journal: “Celia Woloch’s collection Carpathia is about distance, both physical and emotional. Her poems occupy a lush landscape where the natural world succombs to loss, where “fat bees [fall] into the wine” and the ghost swans have “wings of death.” The highlights of this collection are her numerous postcard poems which feel balanced in their attempts to be both strange and authentic without becoming burdened with ironic oddity that I’ve seen so much in recent poetry. Her postcards move, making leaps with each new sentence, and their prose-poem form opens these poems up to be more peculiar in a way that’s all-together successful.” From The Cosmopolitan Review: “One of the joys of Cecilia Woloch’s poetry is that it so beautifully and skilfully intermingles humour with emotional intensity, sensuality, and existential profoundness...Underneath it all, there lies a clear conviction that each of us could have been somebody else, could have been born and lived somewhere else, and yet “We all dwell in one country, O stranger, the world.”

All You Ask For is Longing

Author : Sean Thomas Dougherty
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160312
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book All You Ask For is Longing written by Sean Thomas Dougherty and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over twenty years Sean Thomas Dougherty has negotiated between modernist and avant-garde writing and more populist traditions that extend back to Walt Whitman. His subject matter ranges from basketball to Bjork, from blue collar workers to Biggie Smalls, from Luciano Pavarotti to women waiting at a diner outside a prison in Upstate New York. Selecting from the best of eight previous collections, this New and Selected reveals the powerful arc and development of Dougherty's writing and establishes him as a voice of dissent for the future. A former Fulbright fellow, Sean Thomas Dougherty works at Gold Crown Billiards in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Disclamor

Author : George Calvin Waldrep
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781929918973
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Disclamor written by George Calvin Waldrep and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a gorgeous book of the most subtle and vivid mysteries, weighted with earth and time."--Li-Young Lee While hiking the Marin Headlands north of San Francisco, G.C. Waldrep became fascinated with how the military installations there impact the landscape's spectacular natural beauty. Thus, Waldrep produced "The Batteries," a sequence of nine poems that probe the interrelationship between beauty and violence. Poems from Disclamor have garnered G.C. Waldrep the 2006 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and a 2007 NEA Fellowship. He holds a PhD in American history from Duke University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Slope of the Child Everlasting

Author : Laurie Kutchins
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160002
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Slope of the Child Everlasting written by Laurie Kutchins and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slope of the Child Everlasting sustains the lyric and imagistic sensibility of Laurie Kutchins’ previous poetry collection, The Night Path (BOA Editions, 1997), while expanding on its exploration of the archetypes that anchor the heart and mind of her poetry. The characters in these poems evoke chaos and regression, as well as song, wonder, and the tenacity of the imagination. Laurie Kutchins is an associate professor of English at James Madison University in Virginia. She lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and spends her summers along the Wyoming-Idaho border. The Night Path won the 1997 Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions.

Primitive

Author : Janice N. Harrington
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1942683219
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Primitive written by Janice N. Harrington and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Darling Vulgarity

Author : Michael Waters
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160738
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Darling Vulgarity written by Michael Waters and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With both ardor and sensuality, Darling Vulgarity challenges us to embrace humanity’s imperfections while urging us toward new spiritual realities. And then, sometimes, the poems are just plain sexy. Or, as Nat Hardy wrote, “Waters’ meditative and confessional forays into the sexual sublime are both disturbing and artfully passionate.” Darling Vulgarity also includes poems based on Waters’ true literary experiences with such notables as Raymond Carver, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Lowell.

Copia

Author : Erika Meitner
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160479
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Copia written by Erika Meitner and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The poems in Copia are about what is and what is almost-gone, what is in limbo and what won't give way, what is almost at rock bottom but still and always brimming with the possibility of miracle."—Rachel Zucker Erika Meitner's fourth book takes cues from the Land Artists of the 1960s who created work based on landscapes of urban peripheries and structures in various states of disintegration. The collection also includes a section of documentary poems about Detroit that were commissioned for Virginia Quarterly Review. Because it is an uninhabited place, because it makes me hollow, I pried open the pages of Detroit: the houses blanked out, factories absorbed back into ghetto palms and scrub- oak, piles of tires, heaps of cement block. Vines knock and enter through shattered drop-ceilings, glassless windows. Ragwort cracks the street's asphalt to unsolvable puzzles. Meitner also probes the hulking ruins of office buildings, tract housing, superstores, construction sites, and freeways, and doesn't shy from the interactions that occur in Walmart and supermarket parking lots. It is nearly Halloween, which means wrong sizes on Wal-Mart racks, variety bags of pumpkins extinguishing themselves on the stoop children from the trailer park trawling our identical lawns soon so we can give away nickels, light, sandpaper, raisins, cement. Erika Meitner was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Best American Poetry 2011, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is associate professor of English at Virginia Tech.

The Chair

Author : Richard Garcia
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160452
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Chair written by Richard Garcia and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's foremost prose poets, Richard Garcia's The Chair simultaneously takes place in the natural world and a speculative world rich in the fabulist tradition: historical figures roam like ghosts, time is pulled and twisted, and narrative spins effortlessly out of language. A core of autobiography grounds these poems that are rife with surprises uniting the mythic and the everyday. Richard Garcia's awards include an NEA, a Pushcart Prize, and the American Poetry Journal Book Prize. He teaches creative writing in the Antioch University Los Angeles Low-Residency MFA program and lives on James Island, South Carolina.

The Fortieth Day

Author : Kazim Ali
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160754
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Fortieth Day written by Kazim Ali and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Bible to the Quaraan, the fortieth day symbolizes the last moment before deliverance, a moment in time when a supplicant or prophet or stormbeaten passenger knows there is no state “after,” but finally accepts the present state as a permanent one. In The Fortieth Day, Kazim Ali follows the fractured narratives and moving lyrics of his debut collection, The Far Mosque, with a deeply spiritual and meditative book exploring the rhetoric of prayer. Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and raised in an Islamic household. He holds degrees from the University at Albany and New York University. He lives in Oberlin, Ohio.

Diwata

Author : Barbara Jane Reyes
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1934414727
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Diwata written by Barbara Jane Reyes and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tagalog is a language spoken by twenty-two million people in the Philippines. Diwata is a Tagalog term meaning "muse." Diwata is also a term for a mythical being who resides in nature, and who human communities must acknowledge, respect, and appease in order to live harmoniously in this world. In her book Diwata, Barbara Jane Reyes frames her poems between the Book of Genesis creation story and the Tagalog creation myth, placing her work somewhere culturally between both traditions. Also setting the tone for her poems is the death and large shadow cast by her grandfather, a World War II veteran and Bataan Death March survivor, who has passed onto her the responsibility of remembering. Reyes' voice is grounded in her community's traditions and histories, despite war and geographical dislocation. From "Estuary 2": She was born with fins and fishtail, A quick blade slicing water. She was her father's mermaid child, A river demon, elders said. She mimicked her cetaceous brothers, Abalone diving bluest depths. She polished smooth her brothers' masks, Inlaid nacre half moon eyes. She lit oak pyres and bade the wind A whispered requiem. Barbara Jane Reyes is author of two previous poetry collections including Poeta en San Francisco, which was awarded the 2005 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She was born in Manila and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works as adjunct professor in Philippine studies at the University of San Francisco. From National Book Critics Circle: “Diwata as a mythological invocation takes teh reader back to pre-colonial Philippines when the belief in these god and goddesses shaped the everyday lives on the Southeast Asian archipelago. They have now become your muses as you reach toward this cultural legacy to shape a distinct postmodern poetics in which yo u don’t simply erase colonial history- you build with that narrative as well."

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010

Author : Lucille Clifton
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1942683006
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 written by Lucille Clifton and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry "The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years."--Publishers Weekly "All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it."--Publishers Weekly "If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton ought to be it."—NPR "The 'Collected Clifton' is a gift, not just for her fans...but for all of us."--The Washington Post "The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton—both the woman and her poetry—is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness."—Toni Morrison, from the Foreword The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965–1969, a collection-in-progress titled the book of days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful foreword by Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison and comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton's lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about this major America poet's career. On February 13, 2010, the poetry world lost one of its most distinguished members with the passing of Lucille Clifton. In the last year of her life, she was named the first African American woman to receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honoring a US poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition," and was posthumously awarded the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. "mother-tongue: to man-kind" (from the unpublished the book of days): all that I am asking is that you see me as something more than a common occurrence, more than a woman in her ordinary skin.

Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone

Author : Matthew Shenoda
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160959
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone written by Matthew Shenoda and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving narratives of ancient and contemporary Egypt while exploring ecological shifts of the Nile Valley, Matthew Shenoda is a voice at the crossroads of the African continent and its diasporas. Amiri Baraka says, “Matthew Shenoda’s poetry will open your mind to another world that exists inside and outside of your own.” Winner of the 2006 American Book Award for his debut collection, Somewhere Else, Shenoda is a younger poet with his eyes set on the larger issues of history, politics, and culture. Matthew Shenoda lives in Los Angeles, California. He is on the faculty of the MFA program at Goddard College.

Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death

Author : Christopher Kennedy
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781929918980
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death written by Christopher Kennedy and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Kennedy's poetry is funny, deadpan, self-effacing, and revelatory in the way of a man with nothing to lose. Mixing sonnets and prose poems, Kennedy lampoons the absurdities of contemporary American life using ironic fables and surreal parables. Kennedy's poems also reflect his obsession with the idea of transformation--from the ordinary to the extraordinary, from life to death. Christopher Kennedy is director of the Syracuse University MFA Program in Creative Writing. He has received writing awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Saltonstall Foundation. This is his third full-length poetry collection.

Why God Is a Woman

Author : Nin Andrews
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160622
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Why God Is a Woman written by Nin Andrews and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why God Is a Woman is a collection of poems written about a magical island where women rule and men are the second sex. It is also the story of a boy who, exiled from the island because he could not abide by its sexist laws, looks back with both nostalgia and bitterness and wonders: Why does God have to be a woman? Celebrated prose poet Nin Andrews creates a world both fantastic and familiar where all the myths, logic, and institutions support the dominance of women. Nin Andrews's books include The Book of Orgasms and Sleeping with Houdini.