Graywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles BaxterAs much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspirin
The world of Jeffery Renard Allen’s stunning short-story collection is a place like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might sprout wings or copper pennies might f
A whimsical volume of short pieces by the Whitbread Poetry Award- and T. S. Eliot Prize-winning writer of Landing Light seeks to revitalize the classic pith of the aphorism, presenting a series of bri
A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, “one of America’s finest writers” (Tom Perrotta)Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and
“A story of heroism and of touching romance in a time of fear and danger.”—USA TodayThere are two voices intertwined in the narrative: those of Jack and Rochelle. Now and then
The visceral new work by Katie Ford, whose poems “possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night” (The New York Times Book Review)If you respect the deadand re
A brilliant debut novel about a single day in 1953 as lived by six people at an ohio carnivalA small, incongruous man receives an excruciating piece of news. His son has died in a POW camp in Korea.
A hilarious and perceptive examination of the mysteries of childhood and the perils of parenthoodFrom August 1956 through April 1961 I controlled the traffic and streetlights in New York City and nor
A major anthology spanning the diversity of the latest poetry to come out of EuropeNew European Poets presents the works of poets from across Europe. In compiling this landmark anthology, Wayne
"It is impossible to read Tess Gallagher's poems without being drawn into their mesmerizing rhythms and convinced of the rightness of her intense yet unforced images." --Joyce Carol Oates
In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birke
Swirling like eddies in a river come the poems of Alice Oswald, who has quickly become one of the premier British poets writing today. Spacecraft Voyager 1 collects poetry from across her career A--n
Mary Jo Bang’s fifth collection, Elegy, chronicles the year following the death of her son. By weaving the particulars of her own loss into a tapestry that also contains the elements common to
Matthea Harvey's Modern Life introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, A"The Future of TerrorA" and A"The Terror of t
The author of eight books of fiction, Ron Carlson has been praised as "a master of the short story" (Booklist). In this essay, he offers a full range of notes for the writer and gives rare insight in
Time Out Chicago, Top 10 Book of 2005Winner of the 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for FictionNew paperback edition available!Training horses is dangerous—a head-to-head confrontation w
The Water Cure is the chilling confession of a victim turned villain. Ishmael Kidder is a successful romance novelist. His agent is coming to visit her usually productive client. But Kidder's eleven-
All of Jane Kenyon's published poems gathered in one definitive collection, now in paperbackYes, long shadows go outfrom the bales; and yes, the soulmust part from the body:what else could it do?A--f
Donald Revell argues for the transformation that imaginative experience elicits through poetry. "The art of poetry is not about the acquisition of wiles or the deployment of strategies," Revell write
Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the s
“Coomer is clearly an author of serious talent.” —The Washington Post Book WorldInhabiting an island off the coast of Maine left to her by her great-uncle Arno, Hannah finds her lif
We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and one of the first days of Jul
A"A book of unparalleled beauty, sharpness of observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare exactness of language.A" A--The Daily TelegraphI had noticed, more than noticed, the cobwebs, and
The first U.S. publication of Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie, author of The Tree House, winner of the 2004 Forward Prize for best poetry collectionIt isn't mine to give.I can't coax this bird to my han
An innovative and engaging nonfiction debut by “an original new voice” (Publishers Weekly) and the winner of the 2006 Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeIn this sparkling nonfiction deb
An essential collection of essays by important contemporary poets about the forms and rhetorical strategies of lyric poetryWe are delighted when we recognize patterns and continuities, as we are deli
The American debut of Basque writer Kirmen Uribe's A"simple, devastating poemsA" (Bob Holman)Whenever we're saddened everything looks dark,When we're heartened, again, the world crumbles.Every one of
Recyclopedia shows the development of Harryette Mullen's career in her books Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge, all originally published in the 1990s and now made available again to new re
The definitive collection of the poems of Lynda Hull, "perhaps the most intensely lyrical poet of her generation." (Mark Doty)If each of uscontains, within, humankind’s totality, each pos
The remarkable discovery of Landis Everson, first winner of The Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award I stay upright.Nothing makes me go down dusty roads to change my style.I don’t beli
The winner of the 2005 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, Lions Don't Eat Us introduces a fierce and wise new voiceThere’s nothing to be afraid of.Don’t ever let boys kiss you.Be nice. One da
The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thr
Nothing in Elias' measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the 'indescribably beautiful' Eva, foreshadowed the events of that apparently ordinary day. He make
Now in paperback, the highly acclaimed collection by Scottish poet Don Paterson, winner of the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize Dear son, I was mezzo del camminand the true pa
"Lawnboy is, quite simply, the real thing, a novel of mystery and great beauty." —Michael CunninghamThey all thought I was good-natured, upright and responsible, generous, affectionate, and kin
In Blue Front, her fifth book of poetry, Martha Collins describes the brutal, frenzied lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the merciless violence of the
The long-awaited and resplendent new poetry collection by Tess Gallagher, whose poems "are a gift of a poet's heart and soul to her readers" (Robert Coles)Don't sharpen them.Expectation, more d
A distinctive portrait of a 1960s marriage by debut novelist Robert HillEight years and four jobs and five pregnancies and meetings and train schedules and formula and diapers and deadlines and client
