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The Best American Poetry 2020 (The Best American Poetry series) (Paperback)

By David Lehman, Paisley Rekdal

$20.00

ISBN: 9781982106607

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Published: Scribner - September 8th, 2020
The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (Hardcover)

By Arthur Sze

$35.00

ISBN: 9781556596216

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Published: Copper Canyon Press - April 13th, 2021
If This Is the Age We End Discovery (Paperback)

By Rosebud Ben-Oni

$17.95

ISBN: 9781948579155

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Published: Alice James Books - March 9th, 2021
Sho (Paperback)

By Douglas Kearney

$18.00

ISBN: 9781950268153

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Published: Wave Books - April 6th, 2021
Doppelgangbanger (Paperback)

By Cortney Lamar Charleston

$16.00

ISBN: 9781642592658

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Published: Haymarket Books - February 9th, 2021
The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void (Paperback)

By Jackie Wang

$16.95

ISBN: 9781643620367

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Published: Nightboat Books - February 2nd, 2021
Popular Longing (Paperback)

By Natalie Shapero

$17.00

ISBN: 9781556595882

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Published: Copper Canyon Press - February 16th, 2021

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