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“Even if you don’t happen to love opera, it’s possible to appreciate how the medium works to create a visceral, moving experience.

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Danez Smith is a well-recognized poet from Minnesota. After two years of “artistic silence,” Smith comes out with Bluff, a collection of over 50 poems.

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“It takes more than guts to write great poems about shattering truths, chronic pain and trauma, vulnerability in relationships, and regrettable sexual encounters.”

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Starflower is a true labor of love celebrating resilience, girlhood, and the profoundly transformative power of art.”

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Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss presents readers with an autobiographical collection of poems that delve into the life experiences of the poet.

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“McCrae shows us how we need new music and new ears and eyes.”

As the whole world asked, “Can anyone explain this strange feeling,” a poet raised his hand.

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“So many trained poems of reason in one volume create a real treasure.”

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“Eilbert’s book is a testament to the act of seeing, of witnessing, of experiencing and still—as in, nonetheless; as in, despite it all—not turning away.”

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“readers with an orientation to nature and a love of elegant, impersonal poetry may be well satisfied.”

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“To 2040 is a visionary collection that challenges readers to transform the natural world into multisensory reflection.”

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Ranging across the globe and excavating past and present, Colonies of Paradise by Matthias Göritz is a personal journey of self-discovery.

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“Gioia amuses with lyricism and whimsy in this entertaining collection.”

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“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around,” quipped Thomas Edison, and he was, of course, right.

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“What are days for if not to let go of days,” Maya C. Popa writes early in this second collection of poems following her award-winning debut, American Faith.

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Harbinger is a reminder of something we all too commonly lose track of: the idea of poetry as an art form.

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“Glück has created a pièce de résistance. This is a collection of poetry not just worth reading. It is worth tasting, reviewing, scenting, savoring.”

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In his 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines Ray Kurzweil, inventor of the reading machine for the blind, explored the possibility of a world when the AI creations of our future were not

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If you live in Poetry World, you’ve been hearing about Zeina Hashem Beck’s O for a while now.

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“so important to an understanding of American thought and the landscape that formed it.”

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There’s something magical about the number 13: there are 13 stripes on the American flag, 13 is a prime and therefore indivisible number, in the Jewish calendar a leap year has 13 months and Steven

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“Through his poems, Wasson has unearthed the buried bones of generations and brought their lives into the daylight.

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“Levin has written a book of adjustments—one that nearly resembles a sort of Delphic handbook on the transformation of self-concept.”

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In his Biloxi Blues, Neil Simon’s stand-in character (nervous about the loss of his impending virginity) asks his comrades in arms why, after a person has made love for the first time, the

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The other day a new video emerged from Ukraine of shelling in an apartment project—reporters and grandmothers dash for cover as large, pressure-sucking booms roar through the cement canyon of the c

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Time Is a Mother is a true magic trick. The message made into shapes sharp with meaning, . . .”

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