In Dean Young’s sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the
THE RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION BY EAMON GRENNAN, WHOSE POETRY “ILLUMINATES, CLARIFIES, AND DIRECTS OUR GAZE TOWARD WHAT IT IS WE LOVE BUT OFTEN OVERLOOK” (THENEWYORKER)Out of Sight collects
“It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see,” Mark Doty begins. “But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August
A finely crafted debut, winner of the 2009 Bakeless Nonfiction PrizeKim Dana Kupperman’s essays plumb the emotional and spiritual depths of a transitory life. Her episodic “missives”
The powerful and influential last poems of an unsung master, now again available, with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Mark DotyJames L. White’s The Salt Ecstasies—originally publishe
Winner of the 2009 Bakeless Fiction Prize, a confident debut collection about life on and around the Mattaponi Indian Reservation Set on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation and in its surrounding counti
THE UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION OF THIS VITAL ANTHOLOGY, WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR CHARLES SIMIC When The Horse Has Six Legs was first published in 1992, as war and hatred tor
“Castle tells a terrific story, dire and confusing and convincing.” —Scott Bradfield, The New York Times Book ReviewEric Loesch, a private man with a shadowy past, returns to his ho
A brilliant and unnerving debut novel about the mysteriously ill patients at a remote hospital in FinlandIn a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto, a curving co
An adventurous exploration of the "I" in American culture, by the author of Neck Deep and Other PredicamentsMe. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. In contemporary America,
"The most accomplished novel to date by an internationally celebrated writers" (Bookforum), now in paperback.David Imaz has spent many years living in exile in California, far from his native Basque C
An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voiceFor a leper, many things are impossible, and many other things are easily done. Babalao Chuck said he could fly to the other side of the
"A brilliantly inventive writer ... he understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildy funny." --A.S. ByattObabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial collection about life i
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
An unsentimental vision of the west, new and old, comes to life in a gritty new collection of stories by the author of Snow, AshesIn Ghosts of Wyoming, Alyson Hagy explores the hardscrabble lives and
The new poetry collection by Tony Hoagland, the award-winning author of What NarcissimMeans To Me and Donkey GospelIn Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Tony Hoagland is deep ins
The new poetry collection by Catie Rosemurgy, author of My Favorite ApocalypseCatie Rosemurgy's second collection, The Stranger Manual, is a wild rush across the American grain. The poems follow an u
Fifty years ago, the terms mourning and melancholia were part of the psychological lexicon. Today, in a world of rapid diagnoses, quick cures, and big pharmaceutical dollars, the catch-all conc
A sequence of 50 poetic works based on the life and paintings of Edward Hopper is an award-winning translation from the Catalan that follows a poetic subject in transit from small-town origins to city
The timeless exchange of advice and friendship between two of our greatest literary talentsDear Leslie: Of course I can’t know whether or not the world looks strange to God. But sometimes it looks str
Poems by the author of Elegy, Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry The goblet mouth on the table speaks To your thirst, saying, Longing, your longing, is infinite.&n
The winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and a 2008 New York Times Notable Book Look at her—It’s as ifThe windows of night have been sewn to her eyes. —from “Ode to History”
The second collection by the award-winning poet Joanna Rawson, whose “intense language recalls the hothouse prose of Cormac McCarthy” (Kirkus Reviews)The sky threatens to answer a prayer
Selected stories from a renowned poet and prose writer “who savors the elegance of simplicity and whose stories resonate and linger” (The New York Times Book Review)Tess Gallagher’s
In the spring of 2007, a brilliant and well-known computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his beautiful, estranged wife, Nina. Despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence
John D'Agata leaves no tablet unturned in his exploration of the roots of the essay. In this exploration of the roots of the essay. In this soaring anthology, he takes the reader from ancient Mesopot
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,
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawre
Whenever she speaks to a stranger in her native Korea, Jane Jeong Trenka is forced to explain what she is. Japanese? Chinese? The answer - that she was adopted from Korea as a baby and grew up in the
Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible,” asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and on
Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with a strange name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor,
“To my mind, what distinguishes Marchant’s work is his willingness to take a hard look at human suffering while maintaining his unflinching, delicate tone.” —The Journal
So often (let’s be honest here) we poetswill invent dreams, for our own strategic purposes.But this one is real, and one of the fewI remember. I awoke in the future.&nbs
Essays and critical writings on contemporary poetry by Stephen Burt, “the finest critic of his generation” (Lucie Brock-Broido)Stephen Burt’s Close Calls with Nonsense provoke
Formal and a little defensive in his encounters with curious locals, Eric Loesch starts renovating a rundown house in the small, upstate New York town of his childhood. When he inspects the title to
Finally available in the United States, a singular story collection that Time Out declared ?unsettlingly brilliant?Astudent?s suicide note is not what it seems. A high school football rivalry t
On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the fourth ever inaugural poet and a central participant in one of the most closely watched inaugurations in American history. Selected by Barack Oba
Through a collage of reflections on people, places, and times that have been part of her life, she shows the origins and requirements of "a vocation that has no name." She finds proof of this in the
On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the fourth ever inaugural poet and a central participant in one of the most closely watched inaugurations in American history. Selected by Barack Ob
A celebrated international author, listed among the “21 top writers for the 21st century” (The Observer, U.K.)As David Imaz, on the threshold of adulthood, divides his time between
