Poetry

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  Bad Alchemy: Poems

  Dionisio D. Martinez

  Paperback

  "Dionisio Martínez is one of the most exciting new voices in American poetry. His poems are mysterious and intellectually provocative. . . . They are the poems of a survivor."—Stephen Dunn

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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."

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  Is 5

  E. E. Cummings

  Paperback

  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.

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  Coal

  Audre Lorde

  Paperback

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

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  Mother Love: Poems

  Rita Dove

  Paperback

  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.