The Asking: New and Selected Poems
By: Jane Hirshfield
4.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in…
Want to Read $ 14.99"Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder."-Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems
"Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder."-Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems
"The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first day of another year, what remains. I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands."-Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems
"The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first day of another year, what remains. I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands."-Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems
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2. Life on Mars
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.45
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3. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
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5. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
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Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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6. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
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4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
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4.22
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4.53
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4.04
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11. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
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4.11
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3.59
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3.49
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3.61
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3.97
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4.20
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4.35
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4.05
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19. The Asking: New and Selected Poems
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21. Grace Notes: Poems about Families
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
4.40
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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