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After her mother’s death, Chang wrote deep into grief by composing “obits”—from her mother’s blue dress to language itself.The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020NPR's Best Books of 2020National Book Award in Poetry, LonglistFrank Sanchez Book AwardAfter her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, Chang writes of “the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.” These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died (“civility,” “language,” “the future,” “Mother’s blue dress”) and the cultural impact of death on the living. Whereas elegy attempts to immortalize the dead, an obituary expresses loss, and the love for the dead becomes a conduit for self-expression. In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerfu

"In his newest collection, Robert Schumann Is Mad Again,Norman Dubie explores human suffering in a narrative unlimited by time and space. From the fields of a fallen Jerusalem, to the sci-fi prison of

One of the most celebrated poetry books of the year:The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016New York Times, Critics PickBoston Globe, Best Books listingNPR, Best Books listingMiami Herald, Bes

"The Essential Poems of Jim Harrison is distilled from nearly 1,000 poems that appeared in fourteen volumes--from visionary lyrics and meditative suites to shape-shifting ghazals and prose-poem letter

Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love is a collection whose poems approach family, politics, and romance, often through the lens of space: the vagaries of a relationship full of wonder and coldness, separation

Starred Review in Publishers Weekly: "Through the cadence of these poems, which sometimes resemble lullabies in their dreaminess and gorgeous lyricism, Landau captures the ways humans persist, despit

HERE: Poems for the Planet is a lovesong to a planet in crisis. Summoning a chorus of over 125 diverse poetic voices, this anthology approaches the impending environmental crisis with a sense of urgen

From the current phenomenon of drawing calligraphy with water in public parks in China to Thomas Jefferson laying out dinosaur bones on the White House floor, from the last sighting of the axolotl to

"By some literary magic—no, it's precision, and honesty—Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes."—Craig Morgan Teicher, “I Reject Walls: NPR

Finalist for the 2019 National Book AwardHonored as a "100 Notable Books of the Year" from The New York Times"By some literary magic―no, it's precision, and honesty―Brown manages to bestow upon even t

“C.D. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one.” —The New York Times“C.D. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-prose you can find in American literature.” —Dave EggersCasting Deep

“Merwin’s verse often gives the impression of language scavenged from the elements, its power reckoned only as its meanings assemble, phrase by phrase, against the white of the page. Simple astonishme

“David Orr is an authentic iconoclast. His criticism is exuberant and original. Dr. Johnson, my critical hero, urged us to clear our mind of cant. Orr has cleared his. He will enhance the perception o

“Bob Hicok is that rarity, a cheerful contemporary poet—if not completely happy, still hopeful and celebrative.” —Los Angeles Review of Books“Yet ultimately the most potent ingredient in virtually

“Tishani Doshi . . . offer[s] an eloquent dissection of the body—its attributes, metaphors, deficiencies and contradictions—all delivered in chromatic, richly textured lines, in which the assured man

“[Twichell ’s poems] open out into a stark, sometimes bewildered clarity.” —The Washington Post“Suppose you had Sappho’s passion, the intelligence and perspicacity of Curie, and Dickinson’s sweet wit

“Bracingly candid, gracefully elegiac, tough, and passionate, Harrison travels the deep river of the spirit.” —Booklist“[Jim Harrison] is still close to the source. . . . Dead Man’s Float is, as its

“It’s hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles as Ursula K. Le Guin.” —Salon“She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what

“Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.” —The New Yorker“Wright gets better with each book, expanding the reach of her art;

“Jones writes brief, simple poems about isolated incidents while gracefully alluding to the complex relationships underlying them.” —Publishers Weekly“Skillful, direct, and surprisingly delicate.” —Th

One of the best-selling English-language translations of the Taoteching.?A refreshing new translation. . . . Highly recommended.”?Library Journal?With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of

In the bold tradition of the “Misty Poets,” Ha Jin confronts China’s fraught political history while paying tribute to its rich culture and landscape. The poems of A Distant Center speak in a voice th

“Kooser . . . must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post“Nothing escapes him; everything is illuminated.”

In her third collection of poetry, Tishani Doshi addresses violence against women by giving bodies abused and buried in the woods a chance to speak at last. Of the women that live on, she writes with

Jenny George’s debut showcases an astonishing poetic talent, a new voice that is intensely focused, patient, and empathic. The Dream of Reason explores the paradoxical relationships between humans and

"Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough, or otherwise—without the sting." —The New York TimesIn this lush, disturbing second collection from Melissa Stein, exquisite images are salvaged fro

“[Bottoms] makes astounding leaps of both faith and doubt, and does so with insight, honesty, and flashes of anger—all characteristic elements of his work.” —The Southern Review“One finds here what on

"Nezhukumatathil’s poems contain elegant twists of a very sharp knife. She writes about the natural world and how we live in it, filling each poem, each page with a true sense of wonder." —Roxane Gay“

"With astringent understatement and wry economy, with nuance and intelligence and an enviable command of syntax and poetic line, Victoria Chang dissects the venerable practices of cultural piety and s

“Olstein places the mystical next to the mundane. . . . She explodes theories of cause and effect and expands our notions of logic, symbolism, and the territory between dreams and waking experience.”

"The greatest poet of the 20th century in any language."—Gabriel Garcia Marquez"His enormous scope was due to the fact that he dared take on the risks of impurity, imperfection, and, yes, banality. He

"Gerber has a gentle touch and an unaffected, articulate voice that can be smart, funny, wise—sometimes all at the same time."—Library Journal"[Gerber] is one of the most adept and accessible of the p

?Perillo’s poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake.”?Booklist?The poems [are]

This Fiftieth Anniversary edition celebrates one of the most ground-breaking books in American poetry. When first published in 1967, W.S. Merwin’s The Lice was ground-breaking. Its visionary urgency d

?Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent abandon.”?Houston Chronicle?Shapero’s poetics has real-world import for the way we use language to talk

?Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power.” ?Publishers Weekly?Every poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clean lines and imagery that dazzles.”?The Washington Post?For Kasisc

?Merwin is one of the great poets of our age.”?Los Angeles Times Book Review?Merwin has become instantly recognizable on the page; he has made for himself that most difficult of all creations, an acco

?Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry.”?Los Angeles Review of Books?Truth-telling, raw, fierce with feeling.”?Brenda Shaughnessy ?Dimitrov can sound at once hip and naive, devoted to the

?[A] rare occurrence in the poetry world.”?American Book ReviewAs a child, Ghassan Zaqtan lived in a refugee camp near the River Jordan. While that painful experience deeply influenced his poetry, whe

?I will call the voice of this poet a ?common’ voice? a voice a poet could take into an entire lifetime of memorable writing.” ?Philip Levine, PloughsharesThis second collection from APR-Honickman win