Something about Living

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize It's nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human de... Lees meer

Brazen Creature

Anne Barngrover

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Brazen Creature spans a young woman's awakening. The poems' concerns are twofold: violence against women and girls that has become rooted in the land,... Lees meer

Unhistorical

Brittany Cavallaro

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Unhistorical draws on historical narrative, confessional poetry, and detective fiction to tell the story of a contemporary romantic relationship that ... Lees meer

The Book of Endings

Leslie Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Short-listed for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of recko... Lees meer

Empty Clip

Emilia Phillips

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• The poems of Empty Clip bore into the cultures of violence in the United States while candidly cross-firing upon the poets' complicity and testifying ... Lees meer

American Busboy

Matthew Guenette

• Hardcover | Engels | Akron Poetry
• In American Busboy, a wry anti-mythology, the anti-hero busboy in an anonymous Clam Shack! tangles with the monotonous delirium of work, the indigniti... Lees meer

The Soft Path

Joshua Harmon

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• The Soft Path , which takes its title from a 1970s term promoting an alternative energy future, appraises the "unreconciled / losses" of a world remad... Lees meer

If I Could Give You a Line

Carrie Oeding

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• What does it mean to make something to share publicly when you are unsure of your own presence? If I Could Give You a Line cultivates the strangeness ... Lees meer

Quite Apart

Krystal Languell

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Quite Apart asks "what about after survival?" in a chronicle of attempts to have a heart in a rough world. Haunted by work and its wasted hours, the b... Lees meer

No Other Rome

Heather Green

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• In No Other Rome, the title's "o"s are islands (wholes) or holes, lacunae, apertures through which we view the past or future. The poems in this colle... Lees meer

Doom Scroll

Matthew Guenette

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Doom Scroll explores an anxious domesticity. These prose poems hedge toward moments of levity--a Joy Division song, a meal at Denny's, underwear drape... Lees meer

Further Problems with Pleasure

Sandra Simonds

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• \"If Coleridge, Plath, Ovid, and Celan started a love commune where they built a manifesto Molotov cocktail out of the pastoral, eros, blank verse, an... Lees meer

Twice Told

Caryl Pagel

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• The poems in Twice Told roam through Midwest and western landscapes haunted by shards of nineteenth-century gothic novels, war stories, warnings, and ... Lees meer

Marble Orchard

Emily Corwin

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• The poems in Marble Orchard are acrylic and anxious, cinematic and swarming. In this new collection, Corwin examines aches and acres, roiling with voi... Lees meer

Doe

Aimée Baker

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Winner of the 2018 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize Doe began as author Aimée Baker's attempt to understand and process the news coverage of a single u... Lees meer

The Book of Endings

Leslie Harrison

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning... Lees meer

Everwhen

Anne Barngrover

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• 2023 Bronze medal winner in poetry from the Florida Book Awards Everwhen is an anxious, verdant poetry collection that is preoccupied with a chthonic ... Lees meer

The Boy in the Labyrinth

Oliver de la Paz

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• In a long sequence of prose poems, questionnaires, and standardized tests, The Boy in the Labyrinth interrogates the language of autism and the langua... Lees meer

Velvet Hounds

Aimee Seu

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Winner of the 2020 Akron Poetry Prize Velvet Hounds is a completely combustible collection of poetry. In extravagant, shape-shifting imagery and mythi... Lees meer

Dear Outsiders

Jenny Sadre-Orafai

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Set in a small tourist town, two siblings attempt to navigate and survive an unfamiliar landscape after their parents' deaths while trying to simultan... Lees meer

Marbles on the Floor

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems was conceived from a poetic dialogue on how to shed light on the art and science behind the mate... Lees meer

Further Problems with Pleasure

Sandra Simonds

• Hardcover | Engels | Akron Poetry
• \"If Coleridge, Plath, Ovid, and Celan started a love commune where they built a manifesto Molotov cocktail out of the pastoral, eros, blank verse, an... Lees meer

Vasectomania

Matthew Guenette

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Lee Ann Roripaugh called American Busboy a "wry anti-mythology" where an "anti-hero busboy in an anonymous Clam Shack! tangles with the monotonous del... Lees meer

Hawk Parable

Tyler Mills

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• "...Mills proves that Faulkner underestimated a poet's ability to manage enormous shifts of scale...Haunted by the unverified possibility of her fight... Lees meer