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
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
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
A rich, entertaining collection by Trinidad's foremost storyteller. In these vivid stories, Earl Lovelace paints a compassionate, often humorous portrait of everyday life in Trinidad. Ordinary people
From the New York Times best-selling anthologist, Elise Paschen, comes The Eloquent Poem, a groundbreaking collection of new poems by 128 contemporary poets, including Mary Jo Bang, Marilyn Chin, Bill
Haunted by thevoices of those committed to the notorious Virginia State Colony, epicenter ofthe American eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century, thisevocative debut marks the eme
"One of the great, shattering, open-hearted legacies of twentieth-century English poetry."---Edward Hirsch"A superb volume."---Harold Bloom"The poems delve as deeply into the contradictions of the hum
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
Conversations with twenty successful authors about conquering the demon of rejection. Every author, from unpublished to bestselling, experiences rejectionfrom agents, editors, publishers, critics, eve
Powerful personal narratives by the renowned author of Living Up the Street. These small essays are not unlike Dutch paintings of the sixteenth century. They are clear and precisely rendered, and are
Curt Flood was a dazzling center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals when, in 1969, he was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. But instead of accepting his fate, Flood shocked baseball by suing the
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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
After his successful first novel, Meir suffers writer's block. Then his father, poet and charmer of women, who supposedly died decades earlier, contacts him and they arrange to meet. Fragmented, trou
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,
The first and still the most complete anthology of the best U. S. Latino and Latina poets from diverse origins in the Latin world: Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico,
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
A fifteenth-century instruction book for women provides an inside look at life in medieval France and discusses the role of women on each economic level
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
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
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
In thisbook-length poetry sequence, a mother inherits a leather box that was hergrandmother’s. Her daughter joins her on a reconstruction of family history.Together they traipse through graveyards and
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
The peerless translations of this hauntedand hauntingHolocaust poet, including ten new poems and an illuminating essay by the translator. Paul Celan is one the twentieth century's most essential poet
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
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
Following her mother's death, nearly twenty years after her time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana, Sandra Meek began traveling extensively through Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. During thi
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
