Penguin poets

"Eugene Gloria's fourth collection of poetry captures the surreal and unreal feelings of the present. Through the voice of Nacirema, the central persona of the collection, who is a Filipina American woman with an ambiguous sexual identity, [readers] are introduced to a character who chooses mystery and inhabits landscapes fraught with brutality and beauty . . . Nacirema embodies ideas of wanderlust and self-discovery. In poems that recount her journey, Gloria invokes the spirit of 1970s soul music and of jazz, blending the urban lament of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane with the idiom of Stevie Wonder and Fela Kuti . . ."--Provided by publisher.

"In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form"--Provided by publisher.

"A second collection from a poet of "sheer joy and dizzy command" (The New York Times) Upon its publication in 2012, Alien vs. Predator, the debut collection by Michael Robbins, became one of the hottest and most celebrated works of poetry in the country, winning acclaim for its startling freshness and originality, and leading critics to say that it was the most likely book in years to open up poetry to a new readership. Robbins's poems are strange, wonderful, wild, and irrationally exuberant, mashing up high and low culture with "a sky-blue originality of utterance" (The New York Times). The thirty-six new poems in The Second Sex carry over the music, attitude, hilarity, and vulgarity of Alien vs. Predator, while also working deeper autobiographical and political veins"--.

A collection of poems by award-winning author Carl Dennis.

Presents thirty-five poems by late-twentieth-century American writer Amy Gerstler, featuring several different narrative voices including Cinderella's wicked sisters and a woman married to a bear, and addressing such topics as science, love, mourning, and the concept of an afterlife.

Contains thirty-one poems under the headings: In the family--Out there--On the farm.

A collection of poems that move to fierce urban rhythms and hip hop beats.

A collection of poems by Lawrence Raab which span his entire career.