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Devin Becker' first collection of poetry Shame | Shame (BOA, 2015) was selected by David St. John as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.  Becker is the digital initiatives and web services librarian at the University of Idaho Library, where he directs and maintains the library’s digital collections. He is currently working on a Seed-Grant-funded project titled “CTRL-SHIFT”, which aims to document how established writers’ dealt with the transition from paper-based to digital writing practices due to the rise of personal computers. For more information about Devin Becker, visit devinbecker.org.

Books by Devin Becker

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Heather Sellers

Heather Sellers is the author of four poetry collections: Field Notes from the Flood Zone (BOA, 2022), which was the winner of the Florida…

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

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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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Reptile House

  Winner of The BOA Short Fiction PrizeA Paris Review “Best Book of 2015” The fascinating characters in these nine short stories abandon families, plot…

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At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987-2010

At the Gate gathers more than seventy previously unpublished poems by the iconic American poet Lucille Clifton written over the last two decades of…

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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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Bright Hunger

Mark Irwin's poetics are a direct descendant of Rilke and Hart Crane. His poetry is propelled by charged rhythms and a lush music. "An…

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Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard

Hardcover, paperback, and signed copies available in limited quantities This is a first edition, first printing. Book Condition: Fine. This copy has been archived at…

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Engravings Torn from Insomnia

Although Olga Orozco has won almost every major literary award from her native Argentina and her work has been translated into fifteen languages, no…

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