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Someone’s Utopia
Joe Hall
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The Devotional Poems
Joe Hall
Poetry. Joe Hall is a devout poet. He is devoted to trailer parks, the drafty inner spaces of domesticity where...
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Coronavirus Haiku
Worker Writers School
No description available.
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
Unknown
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Heard-Hoard
Atsuro Riley
Winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, this collection of verse from Atsuro...
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Romey's Order
Atsuro Riley
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Native Guard
Natasha D. Trethewey
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The Book of Embraces
Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage
The author shares brief anecdotes about life in South America, memories of incidents from his own past, and meditations on...
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Starving Romantic
Vincent James Perrone
No description available.
What Remains
Caroline C. Maun
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