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  • Before and After: Poems

    Charlie Smith

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    As both poet and novelist, Charlie Smith has been hailed as "prodigiously talented" by the New York Times, and Madison Smartt Bell describes him as "a spectacular stylist" and "a visionary."

  • Is 5

    E. E. Cummings

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    Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.

  • Coal

    Audre Lorde

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    Of Coal, the poet and critic Hayden Carruth said, "For us these words indeed are jewels in the open light."

  • Mother Love: Poems

    Rita Dove

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    Calling upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Mother Love examines the love between mother and daughter, two tumblers locked in an eternal somersault: each mother a daughter, each daughter a potential mother.

  • Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

    Adrienne Rich

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    That Adrienne Rich is a not only a major American poet but an incisive, compelling prose writer is made clear once again by this collection, in which she continues to explore the social and political context of her life and art.