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Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma

And Other Prose Poems

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Light of Wings

Poems

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Victory Garden

Poems

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Suggest Paradise

Poems

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

The poems in The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds expand the sacred within a baroque, magical-realist poetics that immerses itself in the flora and fauna of the Caribbean and the region's complex interplay of African, Judeo-Christian, and Taíno (Arawak) cultures.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Reflections through the Convex Mirror of Time / Reflexiones tras el Espejo Convexo del Tiempo

Poems in Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War / Poemas en Recuerdo de la Guerra Civil Española

By E.A. Mares; Prologue by Enrique R. Lamadrid; Introduction by Fernando Martín Pescador; Epilogue by Susana Rivera
University of New Mexico Press

In this poignant bilingual collection, preeminent New Mexican poet E. A. "Tony" Mares posthumously shares his passionate journey into the broken heart and glimmering shadows of the Spanish Civil War, whose shock waves still resonate with the political upheavals of our own times.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Walking Uphill at Noon

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

Walking Uphill at Noon showcases Yenser's mastery of prosody and love of play.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Loneliest Girl

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

In The Loneliest Girl, Kate Gale creates a powerful alternative narrative for Medusa and for all women who have carried guilt and shame--for being a woman, for not being enough, for being a victim.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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origin story

poems

University of New Mexico Press

origin story outlines a family history of distant sisters, grieving mothers and daughters, and alcoholic fathers.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Nowhere

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

This brilliant debut collection offers cohesive trauma narratives and essential counter-narratives to addiction stories, and it consistently complicates the stories told by the world about so-called fatherless girls and the bodies of women.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Definition of Empty

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

The Definition of Empty is the story of a dedicated advocate trying to help adolescents facing incarceration and newly released parolees navigate imperfect and seemingly indifferent legal systems and societies.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

Fierce, visceral, sometimes funny, and wholly original, Hoahwah's poems will linger in a reader's dreams long after she's closed the book.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Grief Land

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

In Grief Land Carrie Shipers explores the paradoxical nature of bereavement as both a universal human experience and an intensely personal one.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Feel Puma

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

In Feel Puma, Ray Gonzalez traces his love of reading, philosophy, and learning with poems constantly in conversation--with each other, with texts by other writers and the writers themselves, with world history and his personal history and people he has encountered.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Shadowgraph

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

In The Shadowgraph James Cihlar explores the ways images, performances, and memories shape and inform LGBTQ+ identity.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Crosscut

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

In this memoir-in-poems, Prentiss shares a music most of us will never experience, set to tools swung and sharpened, backdropped by rain and snow and sun, as individuals transform into crew.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Music of Her Rivers

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

"Her rivers are urgent witnesses; her rivers sing truths, shimmer in the darkness. Here are songs pure as water to nourish and cleanse us in the season of lies."--Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street

  • Copyright year: 2019
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to cleave

poems

University of New Mexico Press

In this stunning collection Rockman explores the themes of aging; our relationships to our bodies; marriage; and the surprises, griefs, and joys of motherhood.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The News as Usual

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

The News as Usual showcases the work of a gifted poet who employs language at its richest.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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After Party

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

By turns funny and heartbreaking, flirtatious and frank, Blaustein never lets his aggravation or confusion overwhelm his sense of gratitude for the life he leads and those he loves.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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