uscpress.com - Poetry https://uscpress.com/ Little Anodynes https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409529/Little-Anodynes
The third collection by the prize-winning Asian American poet Jon Pineda, Little Anodynes is a sequence of lyrical, personal narratives that continue Pineda's exploration of his biracial ident…]]>
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The Poet's Holy Craft https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409386/The-Poets-Holy-Craft
A thorough reexamination of Simms as a pioneering voice in American poetry

The Poet's Holy Craft represents the first full-length analysis and interpretation of William Gilmore Simms's…]]>
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Selected Poems of William Gilmore Simms https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409392/Selected-Poems-of-William-Gilmore-Simms
A revised and expanded edition of poems by the renowned nineteenth-century Charleston writer and historian.

This twentieth anniversary edition of the Selected Poems of William Gilmore S…]]>
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New and Selected Poems https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409405/New-and-Selected-Poems
An inspiring assortment of new and "best of" works by South Carolina's poet laureate

New and Selected Poems includes more than fifty poems from Marjory Wentworth's previous three collec…]]>
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Among the Nightmare Fighters https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409502/Among-the-Nightmare-Fighters
In the first comprehensive study of the American male poets of World War II, Diederik Oostdijk gives voice to the literary men still considered to be a part of the Silent Generation. Focusing…]]>
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Excavations https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409528/Excavations
Selected by Rigoberto Gonzales as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Excavations: A City Cycle is the first collection of poetry from Jennifer R. Pournelle. Set in different c…]]>
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A Book of Exquisite Disasters https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409554/A-Book-of-Exquisite-Disasters
A Book of Exquisite Disasters, the first book-length poetry collection from Charlene Spearen, is an exploration of a multifaceted identity forged through moments spent as a daughter, sister, w…]]>
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Keep and Give Away https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409595/Keep-and-Give-Away
Poems of discovery and loss pull the magical from the mundane

Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored…]]>
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Driving through the Country before You Are Born https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409564/Driving-through-the-Country-before-You-Are-Born
Dark poems struggling to reconcile a haunting loss and troubled present

Selected by Kate Daniels as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Driving through the Country befor…]]>
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Green Revolver https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409380/Green-Revolver
Imaginative verses rending the radical from the drudgery of corporate cubicles and army bases and from the banality of modern existence.

Selected by David Baker, Green Revolver is the f…]]>
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