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The Book of Landings
(Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Mark Mcmorris
Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 2016 by Wesleyan
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7633-0, ISBN: 0-8195-7633-6

"The Book of Landings brings together the second and third parts of Mark McMorris’s visionary trilogy “Auditions for Utopia,”—initiated in Entrepôt—and marks two stages in the evolution of the poet’s conception of space. The first stage of the collection is the entrepôt, a space where disparate vectors of identity congregate, come into conflict, and finally merge into hybrid forms. The poetry follows a trajectory of diaspora, or exile, i ..."

Entrepôt(1st Edition)
by Mark Mcmorris
Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2010 by Coffee House Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-236-0, ISBN: 1-56689-236-8

"“McMorris is a poet utterly devoted to the sensual beauty of language and he crafts lines dense and strong enough to bear the crashing forces of history and identity contained within them . . . his work is wrenching, lovely, and powerfully seductive.”—Poetry Project NewsletterWithin the intimate, enlightened, and dazzling linguistic flights of these poem-letters, Mark McMorris engages a world that has experienced “continuous combat sinc ..."

The Blaze of the Poui(1st Edition)
Poems (The Contemporary Poetry Ser.)
by Mark Mcmorris, Bin Ramke
Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2515-6, ISBN: 0-8203-2515-5

"The Blaze of the Poui unfolds a world as lush and rank as a rain forest, as alluring and lethal as a sea anemone. Mark McMorris writes of the Americas, the Caribbean, and other sites of conquest and colonization, mingling the personal and political, the present and past on pages filled with the language of parting, remembering, promise, and loss."

The Black Reeds(1st Edition)
Poems (Contemporary Poetry (Univ of Georgia Paperback))
by Mark Mcmorris
Paperback, 77 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1873-8, ISBN: 0-8203-1873-6

"The Black Reeds takes up poetry as an intersection of the history of the individual with a history and geography of migrations understood in multiple senses, as the movement of lyric poetry through the changing syntax, rhythms, inflections, and vocabulary of English, as the movement of peoples both actual and imagined across territory and in time, and as the movement of readers among the expeditions of a book into experimental and unfam ..."

Another Instance
Three Chapbooks
by Jack Collom, Camille Guthrie, Mark Mcmorris
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2011 by Instance Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9679854-9-7, ISBN: 0-9679854-9-8

"Poetry. ANOTHER INSTANCE: THREE CHAPBOOKS is the second in an occasional series from Instance Press, collecting new chapbooks from multiple authors into a single volume. ANOTHER INSTANCE contains work by Jack Collom, Camille Guthrie, and Mark McMorris."

Palinurus Suite(1st Edition)
by Mark Mcmorris
Paperback, 38 Pages, Published 1992 by Paradigm Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-945926-37-5, ISBN: 0-945926-37-5

Black Nature
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy, Elizabeth Alexander, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Nikki Giovanni, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Douglas Kearney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Clarence Major, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Sterling A. Brown, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Arna Bontemps, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Audre Lorde, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Toni Wynn, Frank X. Walker
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3431-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3431-6

"Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry―anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition o ..."

The Cafe at Light
by Mark Mcmorris
Paperback, 105 Pages, Published 2004 by Roof Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-931824-11-8, ISBN: 1-931824-11-8

"Poetry. African American Studies. THE CAFE AT LIGHT is a collection of poetry and prose pieces "that moves musically, and with rapidity and insight"--Susan Stewart. The author of MOTH-WINGS, The Blaze of Poui, and The Black Reeds, Mark McMorris was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. His work draws from multiple cultural backgrounds that lend him "a poetic voice that is at once deeply engaged in an English poetic tradition, but not af ..."

Moth-Wings
by Mark Mcmorris
Paperback, Published 2001 by Burning Deck
ISBN-13: 978-1-886224-11-7, ISBN: 1-886224-11-0

Moth-Wings
by Mark Mcmorris
Paperback, Published 1996 by Burning Deck Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-886224-10-0, ISBN: 1-886224-10-2

Read This Book... AND SAVE A LIFE
by Dr. Mark Mcmorris Jr.
Paperback, 82 Pages, Published 2018 by Independently Published
ISBN-13: 978-1-980535-75-1, ISBN: 1-980535-75-2

"An Absolute Must-Read For Any Person Who Considers Themselves A True Animal Lover! This book is presented in three distinct, extremely enlightening and invaluable sections. It is meant to be a step-by-step guide, offering a beautifully streamlined approach and understanding of the processes involved in what it means to (1) Surrender a family pet to a shelter. What you need to know about what really happens behind closed doors. (2) Becom ..."

An Instance
Three Chapbooks
by Barbara Claire Freeman, Ange Mlinko, Jesse Seldess
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2010 by Instance Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9679854-8-0, ISBN: 0-9679854-8-X

Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
The Book of Landings
by Mark Mcmorris
228 Pages, Published 2016 by Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7634-7, ISBN: 0-8195-7634-4

"Artifact of Beginnings Practical Green Table Worksong 143 Paradise and Plantation Untitled One Untitled Two And this shall seldom chance Letters to Michael Dear Michael (21) II. MARRAKECH The Drums of Marrakech Letters to Michael ..."

What I Say(1st Edition)
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
by Aldon Lynn Nielsen, C. S. Giscombe, Dr. Lauri Ramey, Willliam L. Alexander, Ron Allen, Tisa Bryant, Pia Deas, Renee Gladman, Duriel Harris, Harmony Holiday, Erica Hunt, Kim Hunter, Geoffrey Jacques, Douglass Kearney, John Keene, Nathaniel Mackey, Dawn Lundy Martin, Mark Mcmorris, Tracie Morris, Harryette Mullen, Mendi Lewis Obadike, G. E. Patterson, Julie Patton, Claudia Rankine, Deborah Richards, Evie Shockley, Giovanni Singleton, Tyrone Williams, Ronaldo V. Wilson, Prof. Fred Moten, T. J. Anderson, Charles Bernstein, Hank Lazer, University Alabama Press
Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2015 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5800-6, ISBN: 0-8173-5800-5

"What I Say is an anthology of formally experimental and innovative poetry by black writers in America from 1977 to the present that ali??lows readers to map the independent routes by which various poets reached their particular modes of aesthetic experimentation. What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by e ..."

Black Nature(Updated)
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy, Toni Wynn, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Douglas Kearney, Clarence, Nikki Giovanni, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Frank X. Walker, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Professor Audre Lorde, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Professor Joanne Gabbin, Professor June Jordan, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Patricia Smith, Arna Bontemps, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Joanne Gabbin
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3277-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3277-1

"This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest po ..."

No
A Journal of The Arts, Issue 5, 2006
by Deb Klowden, Editor Ben Lerner, C. D. Wright, Jacqueline Waters, Kimiko Miyoshi, Mark Mcmorris, Geoffrey G. O'brien, Rae Armantrout, Erin Moure, Clayton Eshleman, Dallas Wiebe, Rosmarie Waldrop, Robert Ashley, Tan Lin
Paperback, Published 2006 by No, 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-9727453-4-5, ISBN: 0-9727453-4-3

Palinurus Suite
by Mark Mcmorris
Paperback, 38 Pages, Published 1992 by Paradigm Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-945926-38-2, ISBN: 0-945926-38-3

Black Reeds
by Mark Mcmorris
Paperback, Published by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: , ISBN:

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