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Deborah Brown’s first book, Walking the Dog’s Shadow (BOA, 2009), won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions and a New Hampshire Literary Award. With Maxine Kumin and Annie Finch, she edited Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics (Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2005). With Richard Jackson and Susan Thomas, she translated the poems in Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli (Red Hen Press, 2010). She lives in Warner, NH.

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Michelle Phương Hồ

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Boa Classic Book Bundle

With this one-time purchase you will receive a box of 5 best-selling titles from Boa with a few extra goodies from the publisher at…

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Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories

  Jewelry Box is a collection of intimate histories, concentrated and impressionistic renderings of the life that surrounds us, just under the surface. Grand scale…

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Blood on the Leaves

Blood on the Leaves by Hope Wabuke is a searing and lyrical poetry collection that explores the intimate, haunted relationship between Blackness and the natural…

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Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in Their Own Words

Signed copies available in limited supply “Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain what a poem says is…

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A Matter of Blue

Translated from the French with an Introduction by Dawn Cornelio, A Matter of Blue has gone through multiple French printings and is noted poet,…

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Sleeping with Houdini

Signed copies available in limited supply Nin Andrews starts from the premise that life on Earth is suffering, and that a large part of…

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Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs

"The poems in this collection, Miyhar of Damascus, His Songs (Aghânî Mihyâr al-dimashqî,) established a new direction in Arabic poetry, comparable to that series…

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