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
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
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.
Like nothing before it, Rocket Fantastic reinvents the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vuln
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.
Revealing how poetry and music were the same art in earlier times, a celebration of the connection between the two forms presents 150 poetic pieces written with music as their inspiration in a themati
The "brilliant and challenging" (Library Journal) exploration of living with HIV by the winner of the 1999 James Laughlin Award.First published in 1993, this virtuosic collection defined writing about
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
For years, RandallMann has been hailed as one of contemporary American poetry’s most daringformalists, expertly using craft as a way of exploring racy subjects with trenchantwit and aplomb. His new co
This bittersweet posthumous collection solidifies Rachel Wetzsteon's place among the most talented poets of her generation. Written with her characteristic wit, incisiveness, and flair, it confirms h
In this masterfully offbeat second collection, Aaron Belz writes with a deadpan whimsy that fronts mischievously for keen cultural insights in poems like "You Bore Me," "Asking Al Gore About the Muse
Conversations with twenty successful authors about conquering the demon of rejection. Every author, from unpublished to bestselling, experiences rejectionfrom agents, editors, publishers, critics, eve
An international bestsellera novel of passion by one of Israel's finest writers. In the unlikely setting of a Tel Aviv nursing home, Hamutal, wife and mother, falls in love with a man in a green jack
A centennial volume, with previously unavailable poems, by Turkey's greatest poet. Published in celebration of the poet's one hundredth birthday, this exciting new edition of the poems of the
In this powerful anthology of personal narratives, essays, shaped journals, and poems, eighteen women writers share their experiences with breast cancerfrom diagnosis and treatment, to aspects of mar
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
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
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
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
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
Winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, this potent collection revisits a backwoods Virginia marred by sexual violence. In explosive poems, which explore the confluence of trauma and
A student at NYU in Greenwich Village, Liz McLane is pursuing her dream of becoming a poet and, at the same time, determined to find her birth mother, no matter what the results may be. Through her jo
Published more than fifteen years after the publication of her Juniper Prize-winning first book, Fugitive Red, the poems in Karen Donovan’s second collection continue to mine the language and systems
A poet whose innovations have influenced generations of writers, Thylias Moss is a sort of taxonomist-preacher, whose profound meditation on American culture underlies and propels the dazzling lyrical
Rosal finds trouble he isn’t asking for in his unforgettable new poems, whether in New York City, Austin, Texas, or the colonized Philippines of his ancestors. But trouble is everywhere, and Rosal, ac
Lizzie McLane, the adopted poet-heroine of the widely acclaimed The Secret of Me, is now a high school senior, excited about her future: meeting boys, college, and finally finding her birthmother. The
This staggering volume by a leading poet of Eastern Europe, acclaimed both at home and abroad, includes the entirety of Debeljak's two most recent collections, Unended and Under the Waterline (availa
This collection portrays the gripping history of polar exploration by channeling its most notable figures--Symmes, Mawson, Scott, Cherry-Garrard, Byrd, and Shackleton among them. From their perspecti
From the Fishouse (fishousepoems.org) is a leading on-line audio archive of contemporary poetry that focuses on emerging poets who pay particular attention to the sounds and rhythms of their work
An anthology of twenty-six signature works by the author of A False Spring includes such pieces as his profiles of Wilt Chamberlain, Greg Louganis, and the Williams sisters, in a volume that also feat
Political outrage rustles the high grasses of these ingenious, boisterous poems, alternately set in the lush ecologies of the Florida panhandle and the Aegean coast. Sidney Wade's poems are social an
Fourteen-year-old Lizzie is adopted, but it is something she is not comfortable discussing with others, although she wants to, until a tragic accident makes her realize that it is not something to be
From one of our most charismatic poets, a personal song to America.This pulsating collection picks up the beat and imagery of Patrick Rosal's thrilling debut, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive. Here,
Savyon Liebrecht is known for her hypnotic, emotionally complex stories about friendship, love and family and the subtle impact history and politics have on them. Her new collection focuses on place,
In a single volume, the essential work of a major Modernist poet and thinker. Some see Laura Riding and Laura (Riding) Jackson as virtually two separate writers, the former a strikingly original Mode
Guinea John, mythical ancestor of Blackpeople in Trinidad, put two corncobs under his armpits and flew away from the scene of his enslavement, back to Africa. But his descendants, having eaten salt, w
In Blue Venus, Lisa Russ Spaar explores the intimate relationship between the sensual and the sacred. Her nocturnal poems weave themselves into the very fabric of private fervorlyric, sexual, spiritua
