Tales of ordinary madness

Exceptional stories that come pounding out of Bukowski's violent and depraved life. Horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.

The banquet

The complete plays, including never before published work, from one of the major writers of the twentieth century.Kenneth Koch was a prominent American poet of the New York School and one of America’s most diversely talented writers. The Banquet celebrates his work as an avant-garde playwright, g...

The columbia companion to the twentieth-century american short story

Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian ...

The difference is spreading

Since its inception in 2012, the hugely successful online introduction to modern poetry known as ModPo has engaged some 415,000 readers, listeners, teachers, and poets with its focus on a modern and contemporary American tradition that runs from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson up to some of toda...

The drug of choice

The welt, the welter, the long black veil of long black hair, sex—wedded and unwedded, the dead, New York.

The first third

The lives of the poems and three talks

Lectures that meander, accumulate, and adjust in an echolocating search for the in-between places where poetry lives.

The meagre tarmac

An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, by a North American master of short fiction.

The most beautiful woman in town

Mad, immortal stories now surfaced from the literary underground.

The people's tongue

A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and more from Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln to Henry Roth and Zora Neale Hurston, from George Ca...

The quotable thoreau

A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations on more than 150 subjects, from beauty to wisdomFew writers are more quotable than Henry David Thoreau. His books, essays, journals, poems, letters, and unpublished manuscripts contain an inexhaustible treasure of epigrams and wit...

The river twice

An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardTaking its title from Heraclitus's most famous fragment, The River Twice is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. The world presented ...

The sound the stars make rushing through the sky

Introducing a dramatic new chapter to American Indian literary history, this book brings to the public for the first time the complete writings of the first known American Indian literary writer, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (her English name) or Bamewawagezhikaquay (her Ojibwe name), Woman of the S...

The stories of fannie hurst

A long overdue rediscovery of one of America's most prolific, important, and essential 20th century women writers.

The tranquilized tongue

If a picture paints 1000 words, "each letter contains 100 films" in the surrealist wordscape of The Tranquilized Tongue.

The unknown poe

Theophobia

Theophobia continues Beasley's postmodern spiritual meditations in the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, and T.S. Eliot.

There you are

An oral history of a poet who intersected with nearly every innovative poetic movement of the late twentieth century.

Thinking about the longstanding problems of virtue

Essays, a play, two poems and a prayer from award-winning playwright Tony Kushner.

To keep love blurry

Inspired by Lowell's Life Studies, Teicher explores troubled spaces between loved ones as a son becomes a husband and father.

Trance archive

Like a chance encounter between Einstein and Breton, Trance Archive embraces philosophy, science, and surrealism.

Twelve branches

Four writers gather stories from the people of St. Paul and weave them into this beautiful collection.What happens when a city gets together, not to read a book, but to write one? Twelve Branches: Stories from St. Paul began as an innovative, artistic project meant to bring together city resident...

Unbound

​​A moving collection of essays that bring poetic insight to the sheer facts of the AIDS epidemic, in an attempt to make meaning from suffering.​​Unbound is a poet’s intimate account of life in San Francisco in the 80s and 90s during the apex of the AIDS epidemic. In his search for meaning, Shuri...

Walden

One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic wor...

Walking the dog's shadow

Selected by Tony Hoagland as winner of the ninth annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.

Wild and whirling words: a poetic conversation

What would poets say about each other's poems if they were really honest?

Women in public

Women in Public dismantles and reassembles the humor, absurdity, and terror that inform interactions with gender, sexuality, and amorous consumption.

Your father on the train of ghosts

A year of epistolary writing culminating in one of the most extensive collaboration books in the history of American poetry.