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
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
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 Every author, from unpublished to bestselling, experiences rejectionfrom agents, editors, publishers, critics, eve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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This important and passionate collection presents the work of forty-two American poets whose vision and language bear the impress of the AIDS pandemic, now almost in its third decade. It complements P
Set in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s, this is the coming-of-age story of Hector Santinio, the American-born son of Cuban immigrants, who is haunted by tales of “home”--a Cuba of ancestral memor
