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By the time of his death in January 1996, Norman MacCaig was known widely as the grand old man of Scottish poetry, honoured by an OBE and the Queen's Medal for Poetry. This book features 778 poems.

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The first full-length collection of new poems in decades from San Francisco's groundbreaking feminist Beat poet.

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"Milkweed's Seedbank series is one of the most exciting and visionary projects in contemporary publishing. Taking the long view, these volumes run parallel to the much-hyped books of the moment to demonstrate the possibility and hope inherent in all great literature." STEPHEN SPARKS, POINT REYES BOOKS

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In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language.

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In his highly anticipated third book, Timothy Donnelly considers our fraught present from a perspective at once epic and personal.

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This collection of poems continues David Solway's exploration in the realm of fictive translation.

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A startling debut volume, the latest in Chris Abani's Black Goat Poetry Series.

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Features fable-like miniature stories and short lyric poems. This title features poems that invoke a world of childhood delights and demons in the context of grown-up fears and appetites: heartbreak, loss, jealousy and old-fashioned sibling rivalry.

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Three-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Sutter makes ballads, sonnets, and free verse sing with a Midwestern accent.

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Award-winning Congolese author Fiston Mwanza Mujila returns to the Deep Vellum catalog with a poetry book both intimate and universal, seeking through metaphor and lyric to reckon with the contested subjecthood of Mujila's native country.

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An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Taking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, The River Twice is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change.

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An exciting new American poet harvests fields of sound from the seeds of her bucolic vocabulary.

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New prose poems by an American master, surrealist comic genius, magician of metaphor and imagination.

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In 40 cantos, the poet embarks on a journey of discovery into the metaphysical meaning of Frida Kahlo's artistic life.

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Wide-wielding and strange, an invitation into an artist's secret empire.

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"Sze-Lorrain offers a ... vision of humanity marked by perils, surprises, and the transcendence of a 'ruined elegance.' Through an intercultural journey that traces lives, encounters, exiles, and memories from France, America, and Asia, the poet explores a rich array of historical and literary allusions to European masters, Asian sources, and American influences"--Dust jacket flap.

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Set in a surreal, post-industrial wasteland, this fable is a striking addition to the Marie Alexander Series.

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The stories in Jim Petersons The Sadness of Whirlwinds lead readers through inscrutable realms of both the known and the unknown, provoking them to challenge their own notions of love, death, truth, and reality.

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Sholeh Wolpe's poems are political, satirical, and unflinching in the face of war, tyranny and loss. Talismanic and alchemical, they attempt to transmute experience into the magic of the imagined. But they also dare to be tender and funny lyrical moments. This book is remarkable and unexpected.

--Chris Abani