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“james applewhite”

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  • Cosmos

    A Poem

    by James Applewhite ...
    Throughout his long career, James Applewhite has skillfully navigated the world of science through poetry. His new book makes no exception, fearlessly exploring time and consciousness in relation to the universe as described by Big Bang cosmology -- and as experienced by human beings in the everyday world. Applying experiences from his present-day life as well as a multitude of memories from his ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Time Beginnings

    Poems

    by James Applewhite ...
    In his poem “Afterward,” James Applewhite imagines a curious Eve in the Garden of Eden, her eye falling upon a twisting river and an S-shaped snake before she eats from the tree of knowledge, choosing change over stasis. Applewhite’s new collection Time Beginnings casts a keenly observant eye on the ever-varied natural world and meditates on the place of humans within it. In these philosophical ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Selected Poems

    by James Applewhite ...
    James Applewhite has produced nine extraordinary books of poetry. This volume is the first anthology of his remarkable oeuvre. It brings together chronologically arranged selections from all of his previous books, from the first, published in 1975, through the most recent, published in 2002. Applewhite’s poetry is deeply rooted in the history and rhythms of rural North Carolina, where he was born ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • Welcome to the Anthropocene

    by Alice Major ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major’s most persistent question—“Where do we fit in the universe?”—is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, and consciousness, and challenges us to find some humility in our overblown sense of our cosmic ... Read more

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  • [To] The Last [Be] Human

    by Jorie Graham ...
    [To] The Last [Be] Human collects four extraordinary poetry books—Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway—by Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham.From the introduction by Robert Macfarlane:The earliest of the poems in this tetralogy were written at 373 parts per million of atmospheric CO2, and the most recent at 414 parts per million; that is to say, in the old calendar, 2002 and 2020 respectively. The ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Geis

    by Caitríona O'Reilly ...
    'Geis' is a word from Irish mythology meaning a supernatural taboo or injunction on behaviour. In her long-awaited third collection, Caitriona O'Reilly examines the 'geis' in all of its psychological, emotional, and moral suggestiveness: exploring the prohibitions and compulsions under which we sometimes place ourselves, or find ourselves placed. In poems that range from the searingly personal to ... Read more

    $8.89 USD

  • Threshold Songs

    by Peter Gizzi ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    About Threshold Songs, the voices in these poems perform at the interior thresholds encountered each day, where we negotiate the unfathomable proximities of knowing and not knowing, the gulf of seeing and feeling, the uncanny relation of grief to joy, and the borderless nature of selfhood and tradition. Both conceptual and haunted, these poems explore the asymmetry of the body's chemistry and its ... Read more

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  • In Defense of Nothing

    Selected Poems, 1987–2011

    by Peter Gizzi ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2015)Since his celebrated first book of poetry, Peter Gizzi has been hailed as one of the most significant and distinctive voices writing today. Gathered from over five collections, and representing close to twenty-five years of work, the poems in this generous selection strike a dynamic balance of honesty, emotion, intellectual depth and otherworldly ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Breathless Pause

    Poems and Thoughts

    by Moyra Caldecott ...
    Moyra Caldecott's best poems about love, death, war, family, nature and the universe have been brought together in this book in celebration of her 80th birthday.Novelist Moyra Caldecott has been writing verse for most of her life, and has had many poems published in magazines and anthologies. She has frequently read her poems at venues in London and the West Country. Moyra was a member of the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Poems of John Updike, 1953-1993

    by John Updike ...
    “The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise—the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope ... Read more

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  • Midpoint and Other Poems

    by John Updike ...
    In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth year—at midpoint.These cantos form both a joke on the antique genre of the long poem and an attempt to write one: an earnest meditation on the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Generations

    by Pattiann Rogers ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature PoetryPattiann Rogers, one of America’s finest contemporary poets, has won a reputation for densely detailed, thickly textured poems describing the natural world and one’s place in it that are informed by a broad knowledge of science. In the tradition of Emerson, Whitman, and A. R. Ammons, Rogers’s wise and complex poems read ... Read more

    $15.99 USD