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Quintessential Earthly Activities

Chen Chen

Ecstatic, elegiac, and erotic, the poems in Quintessential Earthly Activities form a constellation of mortal loves and contradictions. In ancient philosophy and medieval alchemy, quintessence referred to the fifth and…

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Albert Goldbarth

Albert Goldbarth was born in Chicago in 1948 and has been a reader and writer for as long as he can remember. It was…

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Spring Book Bundle

Welcome Spring Book Bundlers! With this one-time purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's spring season. This Spring Book Bundle…

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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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This Elegance

Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione (“sacred conversation”), a style of Renaissance…

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To Sound Like Yourself

In his first collection of essays on poetry in 27 years, W. D. Snodgrass goes after that seminal quality, the poet’s individual voice, that…

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Poetry · Featured

Against Distance

In Peter Makuck's Against Distance, nature is both a reprieve and a danger. Here, various landscapes—oceans, inlets, rivers, foothills, deserts—pressure and test human relationships. In…

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Against Distance

In Peter Makuck's Against Distance, nature is both a reprieve and a danger. Here, various landscapes—oceans, inlets, rivers, foothills, deserts—pressure and test human relationships. In…

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Day Has No Equal But Night

Day Has No Equal But Night was at its time of printing the first book of new poems in 20 years by the most renowned…

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