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A face out of clay: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Ameneyro, Brent, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
The poems in this manuscript explore identity through several lenses, including ancestry and personal experiences living in both the United States and Mexico. Ameneyro spent several formative years of his childhood living in Puebla, Mexico. His father is from Mexico City and his mother is from Wisconsin-this duality is the impetus for exploring identity in this collection. Because identity is a constantly evolving concept and is often difficult to pinpoint, the poems are sometimes grounded by concrete imagery and narrative, and other times they float off in lyric, subconscious dream scapes. And because identity is also tied to place, both criticism and celebration of the author's two countries appear throughout the collection. In other words, the personal inevitably becomes political.--Provided by publisher.
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Annulments
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2010) Savich, Zach, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
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Brenda is in the room & other poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Teicher, Craig Morgan, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
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Family system
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012) Christian, Jack, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
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Intimacy: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2013) Imbriglio, Catherine, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
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&luckier: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Johnson, Christopher J., author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
In his first collection of poems, &luckier, Christopher J Johnson explores the depths to which we can know our most intimate friends, habits, and--even more so--selves. From a mosaic of coffee cups, dinner engagements, razors, walks around his city, and the wider realm of nature, the poet continually asks to what degree our lives can be understood, our joys engaged with, and our sorrows mitigated. In a voice that is at once contemporary and yet almost primal, these poems seek an affinity with the natural world, the passing of history, and the deepness and breadth of ancestry; they do not question the mystery of life, but ask rather how we have become separated from and might return to a more aware place within the frame of it. These are poems rich with metaphor and music, but also direct in their voice. Johnson exhibits a poetic tradition that--rather than employing academic allusions and direct personal statements--remains elusive in its use of the poetic "I." The reader is never certain if they are reading about the poet, their friends, or themselves--supplied by publisher.
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Magnifier: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Krieg, Brandon, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
A magnifier praises what's larger and a magnifier concentrates poisons. Brandon Krieg's Magnifier is a book of spirits invoked by destroyers. It trains its gaze on the deep dependencies we are urged daily to hide from ourselves and interrogates the ways we insulate ourselves from the environmental and social degradations we perpetrate, often at many removes. Magnifier is a book of systems of our collective making that have taken on a life of their own, which we pretend to control. It is a book mourning Romanticism's naiveté, even as it cannot help but engage in a search for meanings not commercial or ideological in the more-than-human world. And yet, the poems in Magnifier refuse to let slip from their focus the human everywhere, or to retreat into a mystifying "wilderness." If a maple seed is to astonish, it must do so in the neighborhood of a reactor. Formally various, balanced on the edge of order and chaos, the poems in Magnifier cry out for "something more" from the "nothing but" even as they zero in on the damage we have done--provided by publisher.
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Scared text
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Baus, Eric, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
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Study of the raft: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Simonovis, Leonora, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
In Study of the Raft, Leonora Simonovis's poems weave the outer world of a failed political revolution in her native country, Venezuela, with an inner journey into the memories of migration and exile, of a home long gone, and of family relations, especially among women. The collection explores the consequences of colonization, starting with "Maps," a poem that speaks of loss and uprootedness, recalling a time when indigenous lands were stolen and occupied, where stories were lost as new languages and beliefs were imposed on people. The politics of the present are also the politics of the past, not just in the Venezuelan context, but in many other Latin American and Caribbean countries. It is the reality of all indigenous people. Simonovis's poems question the capacity of language to represent the complexity of lived experience, especially when it involves living from more than one language and culture. These poems wrestle with questions of life and death, of what remains after what and whom we know are no longer with us, and how we, as humans, constantly change and adjust in the face of uncertainty.--Provided by publisher.
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The city she was: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Giménez Smith, Carmen, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
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The lapidary's nosegay: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018) Candland, Lara, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
The Lapidary's Nosegay, Lara Candland's primer of poems, presents to readers a bouquet of resplendent poems that Candland has created, collaged, curated, and re-imagined by using the rich floral and gem imagery in the poetry of Emily Dickinson as her primary source material. Dickinson and Candland share linguistic and theological roots in the Bible, nineteenth-century American Protestantism, and a lexicon distinctive to their specific individuarian communities, and this collection of poems draws a serpentine kind of map across nearly two centuries, journeying from Amherst, Massachusetts to Provo, Utah, from Dickinson's severe and lush New England to Candland's own jagged, harsh, and stunning high desert Utah. The Lapidary's Nosegay explores the ways that both poets have simultaneously challenged and embraced the axiomatic constraints of religion, landscape, and cultural conventions and expectations of each poet's time and place. Aesthetically, Candland attempts to challenge the hierarchies of the page through linguistic, typographic, and sonic experimentation. The Lapidary's Nosegay carries Dickinsonian echoes to alliterative and parenthetic excessivities that indicate sound stresses, or that pictographically invoke sun, god, ghosts, ecstasy, and the jewels and flowers tumbling throughout Dickinson's own poems. This collection works at toppling textual hierarchies, systematically jumbling sound, text, meaning, symbol, and context, entering the vein of radical American aesthetics, politics, and culture that have shaped Candland's life and poetics.--Provided by publisher.
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The lesser fields
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Schlegel, Rob, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
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The other altar: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Gulig, Nicholas, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
Nicholas Gulig's third collection of poetry, The Other Altar, unearths a landscape where the experience of loss is both local and global, personal and political, here and far away. The speaker of these poems wanders in a world illumined at every turn by ghosts whose shape and form he hopes to articulate in a litany of books, one inside the other. Haunting these pages are the specter of a dead father and the racial violence of a specifically American time and place. Against this backdrop of abiding heartache, Gulig turns to those he loves and to whom he feels indebted-his wife and children, his friends, and to the ghosts of other writers, his literary ancestors-trusting that a language rooted beyond the borders of our collective isolation, a poetry formed upon the altar of other people, might guide the self in the direction of a re-enchanted, less solitary experience of creation. The Other Altar is a book that struggles on every page to remind the reader that grief and grace are intertwined, that liberation is a path we walk together, hand in hand and heart to heart, a place we speak into existence when the distance between word and world dissolves.--Provided by publisher.
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The owl was a baker's daughter: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018) Cummings, Gillian, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
In The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter, Gillian Cummings gives voice to her version of Ophelia, a young woman shattered by unbearable losses, and questions what makes a mind unwind till the outcome is deemed a suicide. Ophelia's story, spoken quietly, lyrically, in prose poems whose tone is unapologetically feminine, is bracketed in the first and third sections by short, whittled-down once-sonnets featuring other Ophelias, nameless "she" and "you" characters who address the question of madness and its aftermath. These women and girls want to know: what is God when the soul is at its nadir of suffering, and how can one have faith when living with a mind that wants to destroy itself? If it is true, as Joseph Campbell said, that "the psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight," then Cummings strains the boundaries of this notion: "Is it the same? The desire to end a life/ and the need to know how: a flower's simple bliss?" Her women and girls, part "little heavenling" and part "small hellborn," understand the emptiness of utmost despair and long for that other emptiness which can be thought of as union with God, the death of the troublesome ego. Cummings' poetic ancestors may be Dickinson and Plath and her source here Shakespeare, but more contemporary voices also echo in her poems, those of Brock-Broido, Szporluk, and Cruz. Here, in The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter, is what might happen if, after sealing off the doors and turning on the gas, indeed, after dying, a poet had come to embrace the holiness in how "all dissolves: one color, /one moon, all earth, red as love, red as living.--Provided by publisher.
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The two standards: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012) Winterer, Heather, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
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Upper level disturbances: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012) Goodan, Kevin, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
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We are starved: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Kryah, Joshua, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
We Are Starved introduces an important poetic vision, a surprising and exciting voice.
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We remain traditional: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018) Chan, Sylvia, author; The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher
In We Remain Traditional, Sylvia Chan juxtaposes the elegy, the conflict, and the brashness of a relationship that summons wild musicality in its love and frustration. Through the speaker and Adam, the beloveds offer thirty-two consolations for the gendered history of Chinese American women--a break and affirmation of their traditions. What saves these two characters is their music--a peace treaty for the book's form or 'fractured paradise,' a language that protects and protests their bodies in Oakland, California. Marked by vulnerability and intimacy, Chan interrogates a young woman's childhood sexual abuse. In the vein of Stacy Doris and Paul Celan, Chan asks: because she is a child of violent tradition, what is her visceral grief? This is a speaker who aspires to create universal experiences for her listeners, to transform jazz into narrative. This is a wild, beautiful, and ambitious first book: Chan refuses to apologize for the terror in her conviction and compassion. To choose a man who is behind her sexual, psychological, and political exploitation is to forgive his narcissism, aggression, and addiction. To love, simply, is to live unafraid of pushing boundaries and of being happy--provided by publisher.

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