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Li-Young Lee is the author of four collections of poetry, three from BOA Editions: Book of My Nights (2001), which won the 2002 William Carlos Williams Award; The City in Which I Love You (1990), which was the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and Rose (1986) which won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award. His other work includes Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee (BOA, 2006), a collection of twelve interviews with Lee at various stages of his artistic development; and The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (Simon & Schuster, 1995), a memoir which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. A second edition of The Winged Seed: A Remembrance was published by BOA in 2013 which included a new forward by the author.

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Michelle Phương Hồ

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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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Remarkable

Winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize Set within the resilient Great Plains, these award-winning stories are marked by the region’s people and landscape,…

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Pagan Sky: New and Selected Poems 2000–2025

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Pagan Sky: New and Selected Poems 2000–2025

In these richly textured poems—crafted with taut clarity and consummate skill—Waters confronts the immutable presence of death by reveling in sensual pleasure and spiritual…

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The Winged Seed: A Remembrance

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The Winged Seed: A Remembrance

With a new Foreword by the author and never-before-seen photographs of the author's family and childhood This reissuing of acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's American…

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Big Back Yard

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Big Back Yard

Michael Teig's Big Back Yard was awarded the inaugural A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, chosen by award-winning poet and fiction writer Stephen Dobyns. Teig's poems…

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Radiography

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Radiography

Paperback and signed paperback copies available in limited quantities This collection of lyrical and narrative poems establishes Bruce Bond as one of the finest mid-career…

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Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs

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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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