Art Psalms
Written by Alex Grey
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books
The capacity of art—both visual and verbal—to stimulate creativity and personal growth is the theme of this challenging collection from an internationally known artist. In Art Psalms, Renaissance man Alex Grey combines poems, artwork, and thoughtful declarations that fuse imagination, creativity, and spirituality. Replicating the style and tone of a holy...
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The Odyssey
Translated by Charles Stein
Price: $22.95
North Atlantic Books
Most translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles Stein employs the latter approach in this dramatic, and in some ways truer...
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Dreams of the Presidents
From George Washington to George W. Bush
Written by Charles Barasch
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
The stuff of dreams—hopes, fears, and longings—represents universal subjects to which everyone can relate. Dreams take on a new cultural currency in this collection of dream-poems, one for each American president. Exploring power, as well as its limits and possibilities, linguistics instructor Charles Barasch plays no favorites, making light of the...
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Poems for New Orleans
Written by Edward Sanders
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North Atlantic Books
The indomitable spirit of the people of New Orleans is the focus of this powerful suite of poems by counterculture icon Ed Sanders. The book begins with a series of vivid evocations of key events and personalities in the city’s history, then brings this colorful legacy into the present with the...
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Belonging
New Poetry by Iranians Around the World
Edited by Niloufar Talebi
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
Recent political developments, including the shadow of a new war, have obscured the fact that Iran has a long and splendid artistic tradition ranging from the visual arts to literature. Western readers may have some awareness of the Iranian novel thanks to a few breakout successes like Reading Lolita in Tehran...
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The New Jerusalem
A Millennium Poetic/Prophetic Travel Diario 1959-1962
Written by Robert Eisenman
Price: $25.00
North Atlantic Books
This poetic diary documents Robert Eisenman’s life-changing backpacking journey through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia in the early 1960s. Eisenman’s search for meaning took him to San Francisco and its Beat culture, to Paris, to Lebanon, Israel, and far beyond. The author's keen eye catches it all: pre-hippie hotels, midnight...
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Westport Poems
Written by Jonathan Towers
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North Atlantic Books
A beloved, familiar figure known as “Jon the Walker” for his daily appearances traversing the marshes and waterways of various Connecticut towns, Jonathan Towers composed brief, emotionally evocative poems until his suicide in 2005 after years of struggle with mental illness. His work was fueled by reading and a rich inner...
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The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Written by David H. Rosen and Joel Weishaus, Illustrated by Arthur Okamura
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
For David H. Rosen and Joel Weishaus, haiku represents a healing union of intuition and sensation, past and present, self and other, ordinary and extraordinary, and current and ancient memories. In this simple, compelling book, the authors, who have lived and traveled extensively in Japan, offer 172 haikus that resonate with...
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Gravedigger's Birthday
Poems
Written by BJ Ward
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
"In poems that both honor and transcend his blue-collar roots, BJ Ward blends poignancy and humor with downright good storytelling, and takes his place among the bright up-and-coming voices of his generation."
—Stephen Dunn, Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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The Sun Unwound
Original Texts from Occupied America
Translated by Edward Dorn and Gordon Brotherston
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
The result of a 20-year collaboration between poet Edward Dorn and scholar Gordon Brotherston, The Sun Unwound gathers together the disparate voices of oppressed Americans through the centuries: the hymns, songs, and prayers of Mesoamericans and other native peoples; the verse of eight Latin American guerrillas of the 1960’s; and works...
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The Waking Life
Written by Andrea Siegel
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North Atlantic Books
These moving poems map the internal geographies of desire and memory. The 19 poems in Amie Siegel's first collection were composed during her extended stays in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and the American Southwest. They evoke the ways we derive meaning from our contact with other places and demonstrate...
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Neo-California
Written by David Henderson
Price: $20.00
North Atlantic Books
The poems in this collection were written while the author was dividing his time between California and New York from the early 70s into the early 90s. The poems are placed in four roughly chronological “books” within those times and spaces—Berkeley Trees, Blaxgangster / Orisha, Cali / Atzlan, and Neo.
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Book of Changes
Written by Triona Holden
Price: $11.95
North Atlantic Books
Each of the poems connects with one of the 64 hexagrams in this ancient and popular Chinese oracular text, revealing how the author's emotions and experiences mirror, or complicate, the traditional meaning of each divination.
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17 Love Poems with No Despair
Written by BJ Ward
Price: $9.95
North Atlantic Books
17 Love Poems with No Despair resounds with the voice of a clear, powerful speaker. Ward does not naively deny despair but rather refuses it, making a case to the beloved and to the reader that proffers love as an antidote. This book is an offering of passion wrought with charm...
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Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands
Written by BJ Ward
Price: $8.95
North Atlantic Books
In BJ Ward's Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands, each poem is a journey filled with discovery as we travel roads of America and the heart, trusting always Ward's steady hand upon the wheel. The poems are richly diverse, from 'The Dying of the Light,' with its insistent pathos, or...
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