Winner of the 2008 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for Poetry, Nick Lantz's poems introduce a startling new voice.Taking its title from a dodging statement from former secretary of defense Donal
Have women finally moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in American poetry and its criticism? In By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry, contemporary women poets reconsi
From “Abalone” to “Zooxanthellae,” Jeffrey Yang’s debut poetry collection is full of the exhilarating colors and ominous forms of aquatic life. But deeper under the surf
The final collection by the late Jason Shinder, “one of the finest of our new poets” (Gerald Stern)I close my eyes and try to rememberwhen I was unopposed, when I started to die,buoyant,
Try to imagine not even knowing how to fall, because a hand was always, always there to catch you.How does someone, excluded from the only community he or she has ever known, go on living? Harvard st
Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryStill life with stack of bills phone cord cig butt and freezer-burned DreamsicleStill life with Easte
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass redefines poetry criticism by illustrating how the poems we love could have been written differently or worse or badly. Snodgrass actually rewrites poems by
The searing collection, a cult favorite for decades, by the late Thomas JamesI will last forever. I am not impatient—My skin will wait to greet its old complexions.I’ll lie here til
My Christina & Other StoriesYears after her death, Merce Rodoreda's work is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance. The seventeen stories that comprise this volume vary tremendously in tone and styl
A singular debut that “marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent” (Kevin Barry)Daisy Johnson’s Fen, set in the fenlands of England, transmutes the flat, uncanny landscape into a r
The Time of the Doves, the powerfully written story of a na?ve shop-tender during the Spanish Civil War and beyond, is a rare and moving portrait of a simple soul confronting and surviving a convulsi
Tess Gallagher’s new poems are suspended between contradiction and beautyIs, Is Not upends our notions of linear time, evokes the spirit and sanctity of place, and hovers daringly at the threshold of
Now in paperback, a major career retrospective by the California Poet Laureate, Dana GioiaSo much of what we live goes on inside—The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied achesOf unacknowledged love are n
The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn ForchéWhen I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter whatthe current gives. When we reach the
Half-Hazard is the Winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation for a debut by an American poet over forty.Half-Hazard is a book of near misses, would-be tragedies, and lu
One of our most perceptive critics on the ways that poets develop poems, a career, and a lifeThough it seems, at first, like an art of speaking, poetry is an art of listening. The poet trains to hear
The most inventive and entertaining novel to date from “a master of the dark arts” (Kelly Link)A modest house in upstate New York. One in the morning. Three people—a couple and their child—hurry out t
David Rivard's new poetry collection describes the many powers---psychological and historical---that flow through people's lives in acts of faith, greed, pleasure, celebrity, gossip, and consolation.
A chilling, wildly original novel from a major new voice from South KoreaThe Impossible Fairy Tale is the story of two unexceptional grade-school girls. Mia is “lucky”—she is spoiled by her mother and
A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realism Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them strivin
