“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.”
?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
"That calling, at once religious, ethical, and aesthetic, is one that only a genuine poet can hear—and very few poets can explain it as compellingly as Mr. Wiman does. That gift is what makes Ambition
Now in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright’s best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new "retablos" and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writ
Finalist for the National Book AwardDrawing his most outstanding work from nine previous volumes of award-winning poetry, Clarence Major had added a substantial body of new work to present a clear ass
Poetry is China’s greatest art, and for the past eight centuries Poems of the Masters has been that country’s most studied and memorized collection of verse. For the first time ever in English, here i
Gathered in this volume are translations and versions of poems and aphorisms from Asian languages as varied as Urdu, Chinese, Sanskrit, Japanese, Persian, and Vietnamese. Included are poems by some of
The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth’s poems of nature and prote
"[Jean Valentine's] poems are a rare pleasure: serious and graceful, never glib, testimony to the strength and beauty of the lyric as a music of words, not ideas. As elliptical and demanding as Emily
"Compelling, appealing, cinematic . . . Rekdal refreshes the meaning and the image of being displaced in this world." ?The Boston Globe"Rekdal's work deeply satisfies, for it witnesses and wonders ove
Antonio Machado (1875–1939) is Spain’s master poet, the explorer of dream and landscape, and of consciousness below language. Widely regarded as the greatest twentieth century poet who wrote in Spanis
The ChoirI walk and I rest while the eyes of my dead look through my own, inaudible hosannas greet the panorama charged serene and almost ultraviolet with so much witness. Holy the sea, the palpitatin
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
"Essential for all poetry collections. . . . Translator Joseph Cadora renders a beautiful new edition complete with commentary on each poem, based on Rilke's letters, numerous biographies, and re
“Metaphors, puns, surrealist visions, converted into sharp, disturbing little narratives . . . only a poet, and a good one, could have written it.”—The Atlantic MonthlyW.S. Merwin’s acclaimed short pr
Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 presents all the lyric, short narrative, comic, meditative, nature, and erotic poetry the poet has chosen from the past forty-five years, including a section of new
Carol Muske-Dukes calls "McHugh, with her comic-book moxie and her linguistic virtuosity, a kind of Superwoman of poetry. The poems focus on what is within 'eyeshot,' or visible, but their true subje
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
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
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
“David Roderick’s poems are exquisitely made with language that is rich and precise. . . . He convinces us that we are all pilgrims committing our acts of courage as well as our little crimes. This bo
