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2 months ago | poetryfoundation.org | Sylee Gore |Leonora Simonovis Purchase |Leonora Simonovis

The poems in Sylee Gore’s Maximum Summer, each placed in the middle of the page and framed by white space, record the passing of time in the months following the birth of the speaker’s first child. In a strong, lyrical voice, Gore delivers short, image-driven scenes that give an account of the speaker’s physical and emotional experiences as a new mother:Colostrum lacquers my journal. Night isgolden morning. My pages fill with thehours you don’t sleep. My body slumps. A moment makes a day.

Sep 4, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Daniel Borzutzky |Leonora Simonovis Purchase |Leonora Simonovis

In the compelling and riveting collection, The Murmuring Grief of the Americas, poet Daniel Borzutzky exposes the harsh realities of current economic crises, social unrest, repressive immigration policies, and systematized bureaucracy, not just in the United States but throughout the Americas: In order to mourn the bodies we love The question is submitted through an encrypted browser The question is submitted into the blankness of the bureaucracy Thank you for your question we will contact...

Aug 20, 2024 | beta.poetryfoundation.org | Joshua Espinoza |Leonora Simonovis Purchase |Leonora Simonovis

In Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s fourth poetry collection, I Don’t Want to Be Understood, the speaker addresses their past self, in the second person:Every day was ordinary. You’d wake up and pretendto be a boy. You’d go to sleep and dreamof being a woman. Eventually you neverregained consciousness. Espinoza tenderly explores what it means to be a trans woman in a world that rejects the mere notion of transness.

Aug 12, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Todd Davis |Leonora Simonovis Purchase |Leonora Simonovis

In his foreword to Todd Davis’s Ditch Memory, the novelist David James Duncan praises the poet’s storytelling skills: “His work teems with stories, some terse, some elaborate, and his books, over time, have become as cohesive as well-wrought novellas.” This is evident in poems like “The Bear Inside the Bear,” in which the author builds momentum line by line, with content and form mirroring one another: Within the womb of his mother’s mother’s making the bear inside the bear wakes and walks...

Aug 5, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Marianne Chan |Leonora Simonovis |Leonora Simonovis Purchase

Leaving Biddle City, Marianne Chan‘s second poetry collection, is focused on the role of place in shaping a person’s identity and sense of self. The speaker, a Filipina from Lansing, Michigan, refers to her hometown as Biddle City, a name that relates to the city’s beginnings—This is the origin story of our town:In 1835, two brothers from Lansing, New York, sold the land where Lansing, Michigan, currently is.