Inthis lyrical and unflinching debut, a landscape of staggering beauty abutsindustrial towns in the throes of economic decay. Emily Van Kley exploresnotions of home, estrangement, isolation, and longi
From the New York Times best-selling anthologist, Elise Paschen, comes The Eloquent Poem, a groundbreaking collection of new poems by 128 contemporary poets, including Mary Jo Bang, Marilyn Chin, Bill
Thrumming with the triune hungers of mind, mouth, and spirit, Lisa Russ Spaar’s fifth book plumbs daily life in order to transcend it, discovering and embodying the sacred and erogenous as it does so.
Here are eighteen compelling stories about young people in cities and ruralareas across the United States—Native, African, Latino, Asian, European,Indian, Arab, and Jewish--some born here, others rece
GaryYoung builds on his remarkable oeuvre with this heartening volume, his seventh.His new poems, full of the pleasures and concerns of everyday life, brim withsubtle wit and wisdom. Set implicitly al
This heartrending new collection byAlexandra Teague interweaves poems of loss and love with investigations of avariety of female figures, some literary or mythological, like Baba Yaga (whoappears thro
In thisbook-length poetry sequence, a mother inherits a leather box that was hergrandmother’s. Her daughter joins her on a reconstruction of family history.Together they traipse through graveyards and
The captivating poems in Ridiculous Light find their subjects in decades of daily experiences, whether in poems about a 1960s childhood—a Milwaukee of neighborhood libraries, first Afros, and white fl
In The Shallows, Stacey Lynn Brown continues her potent exploration of the American South—its complex legacies of family and race. These harrowing yet ultimately hopeful new poems depict a daughter gr
Like nothing before it, in Rocket Fantastic explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vu
When a writer googles the name of her first love and discovers he committed suicide years ago, she is deeply shaken. Memories of Petrus begin to flood into her mind, followed by the memories of other
