Have a Look: Poetry
November 18, 2018
Our Poetry section has grown steadily in size and scope over the years. We are lucky to be situated in a hub of avid readers of poetry—running the gamut from Sappho to CAConrad. Find below a hodgepodge list of hybridity and happenstance, of bestsellers and slow-burners, of old and new favourites. To keep up with the latest stirrings on our Poetry shelves, watch this space.
ESL or You Weren't Here
Aldrin Valdez
ESL or You Weren’t Here tells the story of a queer Pinoy who immigrates to New York in the 1990s in order to be...
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This Wound is a World
Billy-Ray Belcourt
This Wound is a World slip-slides between poetry and essay to get at the shaky tempos of Indigenous life in a world bent on...
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The Flame
Leonard Cohen
The final work from Leonard Cohen, Canada's most celebrated poet and an artist whose audience spans generations and whose work is known and loved...
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Autobiography of Death
Kim Hyesoon
The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book,Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the...
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The Eyelash and the Monochrome
Tiziana La Melia
Combining visuals and text, this collection of poems travels through territories as varied as daily and domestic activities; social relationships; literature, cinema, and art;...
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A Handbook of Dissapointed Fate
Anne Boyer
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate highlights a decade of Anne Boyer's interrogative writing on love, art, time, mortality, Kansas City, and other impossible questions....
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Something Bright, Then Holes
Maggie Nelson
These days the world seems to split up into those who need to dredge and those who shrug their shoulders and say, It’s just...
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Obits.
Tess Liem
Can poems mourn the unmourned? In Obits. a speaker tries and fails to write obituaries for those whose memorials are missing, those who are...
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SPRAWL
Danielle Dutton
“SPRAWL in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection.” —Bookforum“Reads as if Gertrude Stein channeled Alice...
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Unarmoured Excursions
Richard Therrien
The eight prose pieces that make up Unarmoured Excursions are imaginative riffs bordering on formal essays, each willfully puncturing the barrier between what we...
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Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems
James Baldwin
All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime (1924–1987), James...
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Nepantla
The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United States. The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color...
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Ritualites, The
Michael Nardone
The Ritualites is Michael Nardone's book-length poem on the sonic topography of North America.Composed over ten years at sites all across the continent--from Far...
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Ambient Technology
Ashley Obscura
In this passionate sophomore collection of poetry, Ashley Obscura’s poetry explores the function of connection in a post-digital age and how one situates the...
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WHEREAS
Layli Long Soldier
Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryWHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein...
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Selected Poems
Mary Ruefle
"[Selected Poems] offers readers a chance to catch on to one of the most distinctive talents of our time, one of the few who...
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Holy Wild
Gwen Benaway
In her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans women in expansive lyric poems. She...
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