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Crown of Violets
* Finalist for the Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew Prize Renée Vivien (née Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909) was an English expatriate who made her home in Paris during the Belle Époque. In 1903, Vivien's collection of translations and adaptations from the Ancient Greek poetry of...- $20.00
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This Is Not a Skyscraper
This Is Not a Skyscraper examines New York City through a surrealist lens. Like the title of Magritte's painting, "This is not a pipe," these poems question perceptions of the metropolis. While NYC entices talents that swarm its stages, museums, runways, and readings, throngs...- $18.95
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Boy with Thorn
In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation--the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of...- $18.00
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City of Starlings
The world of Daniel Nathan Terry's City of Starlings, which is our world, is "disastrously beautiful." That's how he describes a camellia blooming beside a condemned house just across the street. Indeed it is that nearness-the proximity of beauty and loss-that drives this book....- $14.95
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American Dreams
In the tradition of Alice Walker, this electrifying new African American voice delivers the verdict on the urban condition in a sensual, propulsive, and prophetic book of poetry and prose. Whether she is writing about an enraged teenager gone "wilding" in Central Park, fifteen-year-old...- $17.00
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Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition (Updated)
For millennia, two biblical verses have been understood to condemn sex between men as an act so abhorrent that it is punishable by death. Traditionally Orthodox Jews, believing the scripture to be the word of God, have rejected homosexuality in accordance with this interpretation....- $21.95
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Dance Me to the End of Love
10 years ago, Welcome Books published the star of its Art & Poetry Series, Dance Me to the End of Love, a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen that was brilliantly visualized through the sensual paintings of Henri Matisse. Now for its 10-year anniversary,...- $19.95
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Erotic Postulate
The Erotic Postulate is arresting and subtle in its exploration of the complexities, histories, and realities of gay sexuality, aesthetics, and identity. Many of these poems reveal and revel in the erotics of sight and the written word. It is both a cerebral and...- $14.95
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Illuminations
The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery's "dazzling" (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of the literary events of the year. Presented with French text in parallel and a preface...- $15.95
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Not Just Another Pretty Face
The stories, poems, and essays in this collection have a single common element uniting their wide range of literary styles and genres: they all spring directly from photographs of go-go boys. The ideal go-go boy is the perfect erotic object. We imagine him as...- $16.95
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Reverse Graffiti
"Joey Nicoletti's book, Reverse Graffi ti, is dotted with images from popular culture-Captain Marvel, Spider Man, the Yankees, and these images are part of the story of his Italian-American family, his working-class roots, his love for his family, his desire to escape. These are...- $12.00
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Sun in the Mirror: poetry in memoir
"When I see a reflection of me, I am no longer afraid. I see the brightest light..." This collection of poetry is a response to every whisper, scream, tear, fear, heartbreak, and loss Nikki Powerhouse has experienced on her life journey. It is her...- $8.99
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(A)live Heart
Imani Sims' magical (A)live Heart brings the reader into a sacred space where language invites us to "gather in the living room and story-tell the dead exploits of Black women." These poems explore the political, the personal, the public, and the private, all while...- $12.00
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Trancendencies: Further Poems of My Transgender life
Transcendencies, Further Poems of My Transgender Life, by Jennifer Angelina Petro, continues the joyous expression of a transgender life. In this stunning collection of poems, Petro addresses everything from shaving to questioning herself, to the tragedy of Pulse Night Club. This is a grittier...- $15.00
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Life Lived With Wings: Poems of My Transgender Life
A Life Lived With Wings, Poems of My Transgender Life, is a collection of poems that address directly and indirectly Jennifer Angelina Petro's transition as a transwoman. Her poems are full of fireflies, cicadas, trees, spirits, angels, as well as questions, and compassionate answers...- $15.00
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By My Precise Haircut
Poetry. African & African American Studies, Women's Studies. LGBT Studies. THE HILARY THAM CAPITAL COLLECTION. Cheryl Clarke's long-awaited fifth poetry collection travels the political and spiritual trails of her many commitments--to social justice, to women of color, to the LGBTQ community, and to the...- $17.00
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Milk and Honey
Watch rupi kaur live now on Prime Video. "Rupi Kaur is the Writer of the Decade." - The New Republic #1 New York Times bestseller milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love,...- $14.99
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Body's Alphabet
WINNER OF THE BI BOOK AWARD "Home is the structure you build when nowhere else will have you," writes Ann Tweedy in this gutsy, no-nonsense collection of poems built on a precarious and often tender journey through homes no longer available to return to....- $15.00
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Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs offers an...- $23.95
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Colin Is Changing His Name
Andrews pries loose all the bitterness of what it means to come of age as a gay man in the south and laces sweetness in the wounds whenever possible. These poems are an elegy to what is given up and an ode to what...- $14.95
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