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Kim Addonizio
A Library Journal Best Poetry Book of 2024
A new volume by acclaimed poet Kim Addonizio, whose work is known for its streetwise, unflinching explorations of love, lust, and mortality.
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A dark, no-holds-barred, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet, veering between the poles of self and world.
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Kim Addonizio’s Knowledge, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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The unique product of a poet with a gift for a kind of fiction that is full of formal bravado, strange incident, and a stranger but very human pathos
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In this collection, gifted poet and novelist Kim Addonizio uses her literary powers to bring to life a variety of settings, all connected through the suggestion that things in the…
The lives of three characters – an obsessive-compulsive, a pregnant teenager, and the teen’s unborn child – come together in National Book Award finalist and Pushcart Prize winner Kim Addonizio’s…
Pairs the blues poems of Kim Addonizio with woodcut effigies based on images of a number of significiant blues musicians with the intent of creating duets of image and text…
America’s Kim Addonizio has been called ‘one of the nation’s most provocative and edgy poets’. Her poetry is renowned for its gritty, street-wise narrators and wicked sense of wit.
Inspired by the success of The Poet’s Companion, Addonizio presents exciting new insights into the creative process, craft, and the lessons of her own journey. Chapters on gender, race, and…
One of the wonderful things about Jimmy & Rita is that Kim Addonizio never imposes herself in any way, so the poems sing themselves into us. We experience the victories…
From lilting lines about love to haunting fragments betokening death and decline, this book articulates the ways in which our connections endure and help make us whole.
Addonizio doesn’t do pretty; beneath her considerable wit is a wickedly sharp edge. -Library Journal, starred review
A dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and more.
Somewhere between Jo Ann Beard'sThe Boys of My Youthand Amy Schumer’s…
Kim Addonizio’s voice lifts from the page, alive and biting-unleashing wit with a ruthless observation. -San Francisco Book Review
National Book Award finalist Addonizio returns with a transcendent story about the power of love, featuring a beautiful young homeless woman and the husband she believes can make it all…
Includes poems that represent the best from the many that have been nominated by the country’s top literary magazines and writing programs.
From the nuts and bolts of craft to the sources of inspiration, this book is for anyone who wants to write poetry-and do it well.
Kim Addonizio,Cheryl Dumesnil
A collection of classical and contemporary writers on tattoos.
Kim Addonizio’s latest collection of poetry is an amazing work. Featuring woodcuts by book artisan Charles D. Jones, My Black Angel is both an auditory pleasure and visual feast.
