Dear Outsiders

Jenny Sadre-Orafai

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Set in a small tourist town, two siblings attempt to navigate and survive an unfamiliar landscape after their parents' deaths while trying to simultan... Lees meer

Outskirts

Heathen

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• In Outskirts, Heathen continues the life-long praxis to realize Rukeyser's vision of poetry as a harnessing of human consciousness to change the world... Lees meer

Marble Orchard

Emily Corwin

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• The poems in Marble Orchard are acrylic and anxious, cinematic and swarming. In this new collection, Corwin examines aches and acres, roiling with voi... Lees meer

Marbles on the Floor

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems was conceived from a poetic dialogue on how to shed light on the art and science behind the mate... Lees meer

Doe

Aimée Baker

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Winner of the 2018 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize Doe began as author Aimée Baker's attempt to understand and process the news coverage of a single u... Lees meer

No Other Rome

Heather Green

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• In No Other Rome, the title's "o"s are islands (wholes) or holes, lacunae, apertures through which we view the past or future. The poems in this colle... Lees meer

If I Could Give You a Line

Carrie Oeding

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• What does it mean to make something to share publicly when you are unsure of your own presence? If I Could Give You a Line cultivates the strangeness ... Lees meer

Sensorium

Emily Corwin

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Emily Corwin's sensorium is a gurlesque party, is lush and anxious and blossoming with rot. In her second collection, Corwin investigates the textures... Lees meer

Hawk Parable

Tyler Mills

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• "...Mills proves that Faulkner underestimated a poet's ability to manage enormous shifts of scale...Haunted by the unverified possibility of her fight... Lees meer

Free Clean Fill Dirt

Caryl Pagel

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Free Clean Fill Dirt , Caryl Pagel's third book of poetry, is a study in disruption, interruption, and ruin, tracing geological and historical palimps... Lees meer

The Book of Endings

Leslie Harrison

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning... Lees meer

Unhistorical

Brittany Cavallaro

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Unhistorical draws on historical narrative, confessional poetry, and detective fiction to tell the story of a contemporary romantic relationship that ... Lees meer

Velvet Hounds

Aimee Seu

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Winner of the 2020 Akron Poetry Prize Velvet Hounds is a completely combustible collection of poetry. In extravagant, shape-shifting imagery and mythi... Lees meer

The Boy in the Labyrinth

Oliver de la Paz

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• In a long sequence of prose poems, questionnaires, and standardized tests, The Boy in the Labyrinth interrogates the language of autism and the langua... Lees meer

Doom Scroll

Matthew Guenette

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Doom Scroll explores an anxious domesticity. These prose poems hedge toward moments of levity--a Joy Division song, a meal at Denny's, underwear drape... Lees meer

Everwhen

Anne Barngrover

• Paperback | Engels | Akron Poetry
• Everwhen is an anxious, verdant poetry collection that is preoccupied with a chthonic era--when the secrets of long ago catch up to now, and when the ... Lees meer