Phil's Poetry Picks

 

Come over to the dark side . .

First Fire, Then Birds: Obsessionals 1985-2010 (Hardcover)

By H. L. Hix
$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780981968742
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Published: Etruscan Press, 9/2010
Hix subtitles this group of poems, Obsessions, and with this we know where our journey is headed. With the opening line, "compare the phenomenon of thinking with phenomenon of burning," he sets his theme. With the ghosts of Lenis and Berryman haunting his "obsessions" we are taken on a ride of lyrical confession.

The Book of Men: Poems (Hardcover)

By Dorianne Laux
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780393079555
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 2/2011
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Sky Burial (Paperback)

By Dana Levin
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781556593321
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Published: Copper Canyon Press, 4/2011
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Dana will be here for an event on the 21st of April.

Radial Symmetry (Hardcover)

By Katherine Larson, Louise Gluck

ISBN-13: 9780300169195
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Yale University Press, 4/2011
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Just out in paperback the first line grabbed me.

White Egrets: Poems (Paperback)

By Derek Walcott
$13.00
ISBN-13: 9780374532703
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 3/2011
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My favorite collection of the year!
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