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  BOA Editions, Ltd., American Poets Continuum Series

  No. 1

  The Fuhrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress

  W. D. Snodgrass

  No. 2

  She

  M. L. Rosenthal

  No. 3

  Living With Distance

  Ralph J. Mills, Jr.

  No. 4

  Not Just Any Death

  Michael Waters

  No. 5

  That Was Then: New and Selected Poems

  Isabella Gardner

  No. 6

  Things That Happen Where There Aren’t Any People

  William Stafford

  No. 7

  The Bridge of Change: Poems 1974–1980

  John Logan

  No. 8

  Signatures

  Joseph Stroud

  No. 9

  People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949–1983

  Louis Simpson

  No. 10

  Yin

  Carolyn Kizer

  No. 11

  Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little Canada

  Bill Tremblay

  No. 12

  Seeing It Was So

  Anthony Piccione

  No. 13

  Hyam Plutzik: The Collected Poems

  No. 14

  Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969–1980

  Lucille Clifton

  No. 15

  Next: New Poems

  Lucille Clifton

  No. 16

  Roxa: Voices of the Culver Family

  William B. Patrick

  No. 17

  John Logan: The Collected Poems

  No. 18

  Isabella Gardner: The Collected Poems

  No. 19

  The Sunken Lightship

  Peter Makuck

  No. 20

  The City in Which I Love You

  Li-Young Lee

  No. 21

  Quilting: Poems 1987–1990

  Lucille Clifton

  No. 22

  John Logan: The Collected Fiction

  No. 23

  Shenandoah and Other Verse Plays

  Delmore Schwartz

  No. 24

  Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard

  Gerald Costanzo

  No. 25

  The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems

  Barton Sutter

  No. 26

  Each in His Season

  W. D. Snodgrass

  No. 27

  Wordworks: Poems Selected and New

  Richard Kostelanetz

  No. 28

  What We Carry

  Dorianne Laux

  No. 29

  Red Suitcase

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  No. 30

  Song

  Brigit Pegeen Kelly

  No. 31

  The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle

  W. D. Snodgrass

  No. 32

  For the Kingdom

  Anthony Piccione

  No. 33

  The Quicken Tree

  Bill Knott

  No. 34

  These Upraised Hands

  William B. Patrick

  No. 35

  Crazy Horse in Stillness

  William Heyen

  No. 36

  Quick, Now, Always

  Mark Irwin

  No. 37

  I Have Tasted the Apple

  Mary Crow

  No. 38

  The Terrible Stories

  Lucille Clifton

  No. 39

  The Heat of Arrivals

  Ray Gonzalez

  No. 40

  Jimmy & Rita

  Kim Addonizio

  No. 41

  Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum

  Michael Waters

  No. 42

  Against Distance

  Peter Makuck

  No. 43

  The Night Path

  Laurie Kutchins

  No. 44

  Radiography

  Bruce Bond

  No. 45

  At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties

  David Ignatow

  No. 46

  Trillium

  Richard Foerster

  No. 47

  Fuel

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  No. 48

  Gratitude

  Sam Hamill

  No. 49

  Diana, Charles, & the Queen

  William Heyen

  No. 50

  Plus Shipping

  Bob Hicok

  No. 51

  Cabato Sentora

  Ray Gonzalez

  No. 52

  We Didn’t Come Here for This

  William B. Patrick

  No. 53

  The Vandals

  Alan Michael Parker

  No. 54

  To Get Here

  Wendy Mnookin

  No. 55

  Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems

  David Ignatow

  No. 56

  Dusty Angel

  Michael Blumenthal

  No. 57

  The Tiger Iris

  Joan Swift

  No. 58

  White City

  Mark Irwin

  No. 59

  Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969–1999

  Bill Knott

  No. 60

  Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems: 1988–2000

  Lucille Clifton

  No. 61

  Tell Me

  Kim Addonizio

  No. 62

  Smoke

  Dorianne Laux

  No. 63

  Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems

  Michael Waters

  No. 64

  Rancho Notorious

  Richard Garcia

  No. 65

  Jam

  Joe-Anne McLaughlin

  No. 66

  A. Poulin, Jr. Selected Poems

  Edited, with an Introduction by Michael Waters

  No. 67

  Small Gods of Grief

  Laure-Anne Bosselaar

  No. 68

  Book of My Nights

  Li-Young Lee

  No. 69

  Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies

  Charles Harper Webb

  No. 70

  Double Going

  Richard Foerster

  No. 71

  What He Took

  Wendy Mnookin

  No. 72

  The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande

  Ray Gonzalez

  No. 73

  Mules of Love

  Ellen Bass

  No. 74

  The Guests at the Gate

  Anthony Piccione

  No. 75

  Dumb Luck

  Sam Hamill

  No. 76

  Love Song with Motor Vehicles

  Alan Michael Parker

  No. 77

  Life Watch

  Willis Barnstone

  No. 78

  The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940–2001

  Louis Simpson

  No. 79

  Is

  Wayne Dodd

  No. 80

  Late

  Cecilia Woloch

  No. 81

  Precipitates

  Debra Kang Dean

  No. 82

  The Orchard

  Brigit Pegeen Kelly

  No. 83

  Bright Hunger

  Mark Irwin

  No. 84

  Desire Lines: New and Selected Poems

  Lola Haskins

  No. 85

  Curious Conduct

  Jeanne Marie Beaumont

  No. 86

  Mercy

  Lucille Clifton

  No. 87

  Model Homes

  Wayne Koestenbaum

  No. 88

  Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey

  Barton Sutter

 
; No. 89

  Angels for the Burning

  David Mura

  No. 90

  The Rooster’s Wife

  Russell Edson

  No. 91

  American Children

  Jim Simmerman

  No. 92

  Postcards from the Interior

  Wyn Cooper

  No. 93

  You & Yours

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  No. 94

  Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems 1986–2005

  Ray Gonzalez

  No. 95

  Off-Season in the Promised Land

  Peter Makuck

  No. 96

  The Hoopoe’s Crown

  Jacqueline Osherow

  No. 97

  Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems

  W. D. Snodgrass

  No. 98

  Splendor

  Steve Kronen

  No. 99

  Woman Crossing a Field

  Deena Linett

  No. 100

  The Burning of Troy

  Richard Foerster

  No. 101

  Darling Vulgarity

  Michael Waters

  No. 102

  The Persistence of Objects

  Richard Garcia

  No. 103

  Slope of the Child Everlasting

  Laurie Kutchins

  No. 104

  Broken Hallelujahs

  Sean Thomas Dougherty

  No. 105

  Peeping Tom’s Cabin: Comic Verse 1928–2008

  X. J. Kennedy

  No. 106

  Disclamor

  G.C. Waldrep

  No. 107

  Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death

  Christopher Kennedy

  No. 108

  Sleeping with Houdini

  Nin Andrews

  No. 109

  Nomina

  Karen Volkman

  No. 110

  The Fortieth Day

  Kazim Ali

  No. 111

  Elephants & Butterflies

  Alan Michael Parker

  No. 112

  Voices

  Lucille Clifton

  No. 113

  The Moon Makes Its Own Plea

  Wendy Mnookin

  No. 114

  The Heaven-Sent Leaf

  Katy Lederer

  No. 115

  Struggling Times

  Louis Simpson

  No. 116

  And

  Michael Blumenthal

  No. 117

  Carpathia

  Cecilia Woloch

  No. 118

  Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone

  Matthew Shenoda

  No. 119

  Sharp Stars

  Sharon Bryan

  No. 120

  Cool Auditor

  Ray Gonzalez

  No. 121

  Long Lens: New and Selected Poems

  Peter Makuck

  No. 122

  Chaos Is the New Calm

  Wyn Cooper

  No. 123

  Diwata

  Barbara Jane Reyes

  No. 124

  Burning of the Three Fires

  Jeanne Marie Beaumont

  No. 125

  Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line

  Sean Thomas Dougherty

  No. 126

  Your Father on the Train of Ghosts

  G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher

  No. 127

  Ennui Prophet

  Christopher Kennedy

  No. 128

  Transfer

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  No. 129

  Gospel Night

  Michael Waters

  No. 130

  The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home

  Janice N. Harrington

  No. 131

  Kingdom Animalia

  Aracelis Girmay

  No. 132

  True Faith

  Ira Sadoff

  No. 133

  The Reindeer Camps and Other Poems

  Barton Sutter

  No. 134

  The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton: 1965–2010

  No. 135

  To Keep Love Blurry

  Craig Morgan Teicher

  No. 136

  Theophobia

  Bruce Beasley

  No. 137

  Refuge

  Adrie Kusserow

  No. 138

  The Book of Goodbyes

  Jillian Weise

  No. 139

  Birth Marks

  Jim Daniels

  No. 140

  No Need of Sympathy

  Fleda Brown

  No. 141

  There’s a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick

  Michael Teig

  No. 142

  The Keys to the Jail

  Keetje Kuipers

  No. 143

  All You Ask for Is Longing: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014

  Sean Thomas Dougherty

  No. 144

  Copia

  Erika Meitner

  No. 145

  The Chair: Prose Poems

  Richard Garcia

  No. 146

  In a Landscape

  John Gallaher

  No. 147

  Fanny Says

  Nickole Brown

  No. 148

  Why God Is a Woman

  Nin Andrews

  No. 149

  Testament

  G.C. Waldrep

  No. 150

  I’m No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance

  Rick Bursky

  No. 151

  Antidote for Night

  Marsha de la O

  No. 152

  Beautiful Wall

  Ray Gonzalez

  No. 153

  the black maria

  Aracelis Girmay

  No. 154

  Celestial Joyride

  Michael Waters

  No. 155

  Whereso

  Karen Volkman

  No. 156

  The Day’s Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech

  Stephen Dobyns

  No. 157

  The End of Pink

  Kathryn Nuernberger

  No. 158

  Mandatory Evacuation

  Peter Makuck

  No. 159

  Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin

  Janice N. Harrington

  No. 160

  The Trembling Answers

  Craig Morgan Teicher

  No. 161

  Bye-Bye Land

  Christian Barter

  No. 162

  Sky Country

  Christine Kitano

  No. 163

  All Soul Parts Returned

  Bruce Beasley

  No. 164

  The Smoke of Horses

  Charles Rafferty

  No. 165

  The Second O of Sorrow

  Sean Thomas Dougherty

  No. 166

  Holy Moly Carry Me

  Erika Meitner

  No. 167

  Clues from the Animal Kingdom

  Christopher Kennedy

  No. 168

  Dresses from the Old Country

  Laura Read

  No. 169

  In Country

  Hugh Martin

  No. 170

  The Tiny Journalist

  Naomi Shihab Nye

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