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Poetry
  Cover Art: Bewilderment : New Poems and Translations 2012
Ferry, David.
Bewilderment : New Poems and Translations
To read David Ferry's Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry's prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away.
2012
Adult Nonfiction Book
  Cover Art: Head Off & Split : Poems 2011
Finney, Nikky
Head Off & Split : Poems
The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking new collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, from a brazen girl strung out on lightning to a terrified woman abandoned on a rooftop during Hurricane Katrina.
2011
Adult Nonfiction Book
  Cover Art: Lighthead 2010
Hayes, Terrance
Lighthead
Terrance Hayes's fourth collection portrays the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time
2010
Adult Nonfiction Book PS3558.A8378 L54 2010
  Cover Art: Versed 2009
Armantrout, Rae
Versed
Provides an expanded view of the arc of the author's writing, collecting poems dealing with the perversity of human consciousness and the confrontation of the invisible experienced during the author's bout with cancer.
2009
Adult Nonfiction Book 811.6 Ar54
  Cover Art: Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems 2008
Doty, Mark
Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
A collection of top-selected works and new poems by the author of Dog Years features pieces that meditate on such topics as mortality, the instructive presence of animals, and art's ability to give shape to human life.
2008
Adult Nonfiction Book 811.54 D7425
  Cover Art: Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 2007
Hass, Robert
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
Reflects on the beauty and energy of the physical world as well as life in contemporary America, in a stylistically varied collection of poetry that includes the poem, "Envy of Other People's Poems."
2007
Adult Nonfiction Book 811.54 H27
  Cover Art: Splay Anthem 2006
Mackey, Nathaniel
Splay Anthem
In a stunning new collection of poems of transport and transcendence, African-American poet Nathaniel Mackey's "asthmatic song of aspiration" scuttles across cultures and histories-from America to AndalucĂ­a, from Ethiopia to Vienna-in a sexy, beautiful adaptive dance.
2006
Adult Nonfiction Book
  Cover Art: Migration: New & Selected Poems 2005
Merwin, W. S.
Migration: New & Selected Poems
Presents a collection of the author's best poems along with new works.
2005
Adult Nonfiction Book 811.54 M559
  Cover Art: Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 2004
Valentine, Jean
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems
Presents a collection of the author's established works in addition to new poems, which deal with such topics as death, aging, and the passage of time.
2004
  Cover Art: The Singing: Poems 2003
Williams, C. K.
The Singing: Poems
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Repair presents a new collection of poetry that considers such topics as the loss of friends, the love of grandchildren, childhood memories, current events, his self image, and contemporary life during wartime.
2003
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