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I Am Trying to Love the Whole World

Jenny Browne

In her lyrical fifth collection, I Am Trying to Love the Whole World, Jenny Browne fearlessly holds grief without sentimentality and beauty without denial. For nearly a year, Browne began each poem…

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Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton

Winner of the 2025 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, this long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets—Lucille Clifton. Black Buffalo Woman…

Poetry, Rare and Signed

Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton

Kazim Ali, Lucille Clifton

$23.00
Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin

A lyrical and biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippin—the best-known African American artist of his time—Primitive offers a searching critique of the condescension to African American…

Poetry

Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin

Janice N. Harrington

$16.00
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 to suck the air from its…

Nonfiction

Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in Their Own Words

Tony Leuzzi

$21.00
To Sound Like Yourself Out of Stock

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 separates the best poetry from the…

Poetry, Nonfiction

To Sound Like Yourself

W.D. Snodgrass

$18.00

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George Looney
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George Looney

George Looney is the author of three previous award-winning fiction collections—a novella, Hymn of Ash, a novel, Report from a Place of Burning, and…

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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 goodies from the publisher (broadsides, bookmarks,…

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Boa Book Lovers Subscription

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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The Innocent Party
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The Innocent Party

Winner of the Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize, Aimee Parkison’s characters struggle to understand what happens when the innocent party becomes the guilty party. With…

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Romance
This Elegance
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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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Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in Their Own Words
Nonfiction · Featured

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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Literary Criticism
Bright Hunger
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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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Animals & Nature Aging
Splendor
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Splendor

Signed copies available in limited supply Steve Kronen's poems explore the hardships that daily challenge the human heart. From such hardships, compassion and empathy…

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Aging
Beings and Things on Their Own
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Beings and Things on Their Own

The recipient of the 1985 Greek National Poetry Award for the Greek version of Beings and Things on Their Own, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke is the author…

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