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  • The Pilot Star Elegies: Poems

    Sherod Santos

    Paperback

    A National Book Award finalist for 1999.

  • The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems

    Sherod Santos

    Paperback

    “Santos captures moments of lyric intensity and beauty that feel as fresh today as when they were written.”—New Criterion

  • Square Inch Hours: Poems

    Sherod Santos

    Paperback

    “Sherod Santos brilliantly negotiates the provinces of poetry and prose, of imagination and memoir.… As enigmatic as Borges, and beautiful in a way only Santos can be.” —David Baker

  • The City of Women: A Sequence of Poems and Prose

    Sherod Santos

    Paperback

    "Beautifully rendered.... Santos's greatest accomplishment here is not that he provides answers for the unanswerable, but that he convinces readers that love creates ‘words whose syllables we are laved in, / Whose meanings keep endlessly coming to pass.’” —Publishers Weekly

  • The Perishing: Poems

    Sherod Santos

    Paperback

    "[Santos] articulates some of the most moving truths we can know about our shared humanity."—Washington Post