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A different species of breathing
This selected work of Sue Goyette's poetry brings together work from eight books of poetry to show that Sue Goyette has sustained a practice of witnessing and reinterpreting the world for her readers. Introduction by Bart Vautour. Interview with the poet by Erin Wunker.
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A fire in her brain
A profound and moving sequence of poems exploring genius and mental illness through the lives of Lucia Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath A Fire in Her Brain examines the porous boundary between the spark of genius and a mind in conflagration in the lives and works of Lucia Joyce, Virginia W...
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A journey in translation
This book explores the amazing journey of Anne Hébert’s writing into English by people “in the middle” of the process of editing, publishing, distributing, and preservation.
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A possible trust
A Possible Trust is a selection of Ronna Bloom's poetry by poet and editor Phil Hall. The book includes an introduction by Hall, and an afterword by Bloom that traces the relevance of photography, psychotherapy, and meditation in her work.
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A violence
A reckoning with psychological and ecological crises from a poet whose work has been praised as “beautiful and riveting” (Los Angeles Review of Books)A poetic representation of PTSD and its evocative bewilderments, Paula Bohince’s mesmerizing new collection, A Violence, is written at inflection p...
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Atom and void
A collection of wry and fiercely intelligent sonnets from a widely praised poetAaron Fagan’s Atom and Void is a dazzling and haunting meditation on existence and impermanence. This collection of sonnets delves into the fragility of perception, the boundaries between self and other, and the ways l...
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Aurora americana
From an award-winning poet, an exciting new collection that explores exile and return, from North Africa to North AmericaIn Aurora Americana, Myronn Hardy, an American poet who moved back to the United States after living for years in Morocco, reflects on exile and return as he describes the expe...
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Avant canada
Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and supporting creative works on a representative array of Canadian, literary avant-garde movements from the past 50 years. Featuring 28 of the best writers and critics in the field, it offers an essential overview of the past, present, a...
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Centuries encircle me with fire
The introduction and translated poems of Mandelstam within are the gold-standard for critics and readers who don’t know Russian. They expertly illuminate other Mandelstam translations, not replacing them, but rather allowing for a better understanding of what they specifically contribute.
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Dear ms. schubert
The first complete English translation of Ewa Lipska’s exciting “Dear Ms. Schubert” poemsEwa Lipska is one of Europe’s most compelling and important poets, but relatively little of her recent work has been translated into English. A Polish-English bilingual edition, Dear Ms. Schubert is the first...
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Even time bleeds
A vibrant and compelling bilingual edition of poems by the acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize–winner Forrest GanderEven Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of the work of Jeannette Clariond, a major contemporary Mexican poet known for her sensuous lyricism ...
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Hosts and guests
An exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by Colorado Review as “a seduction by way of small astonishments”Nate Klug has been hailed by the Threepenny Review as a poet who is “an original in Eliot’s sense of the word.” In Hosts and Guests, his exciting second collection, Klug...
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I entered without words
An innovative and inviting book of poems about the places where language and landscape convergeIn this strongly visual and environmentally engaged collection, award-winning poet and translator Jody Gladding explores landscape as a source of language in lyrics that operate as physical acts in thre...
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Literature, exile, alterity
This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian émigré poets as a case study for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets’ diasporic and transnational connections both with their country of origin and t...
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New york elegies
Ukrainian poets connected themselves to a powerful myth of New York, the myth of urban modernity and problematic vitality. The city of exiles and outsiders sees itself reflected in the mirror that newcomers and exiles created. By adding new voices and layers to this amalgam, it is possible to obs...
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Please make me pretty, i don't want to die
The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetryPlease make me pretty, I don’t want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery...
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Prickly moses
Compelling poems that celebrate language as it encounters the nameless variety of the natural world, from Australia to ItalyAn uncanny blend of the external and the intimate has been a hallmark of Simon West’s poetry for nearly twenty years. In this new collection, the Australian poet and Italian...
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Robert pinsky: the first two books of poems
The remarkable first two books of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorAward-winning poet Robert Pinsky’s first two collections—Sadness And Happiness and An Explanation of America—announced the arrival ...
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Space between her lips
This book presents some of the most vibrant, exciting, and intellectually challenging poetry in Canada. Christakos plays language games that bring a probing and disturbing humour to perfectly serious themes that range from childhood and children to women in contemporary techno-capitalist society ...
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The collected poems of miriam waddington
This anthology brings together, for the first time, the complete published works of Jewish Canadian poet Miriam Waddington and features a rare selection of previously unpublished poems.
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The contemporary leonard cohen
Essay collection on Leonard Cohen's work organized by the concept of “the contemporary,” which helps to explain Cohen’s staying power and existential depth. The chapters offer related but diverse perspectives—historical, artistic, spiritual—on his songs, poems, novels, and drawings, and examine h...
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The freest speech in russia
The first English-language study of contemporary Russian poetry and its embrace of freedom—formally, thematically, and spirituallySince 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russian poetry has exuded a powerful awareness of freedom, both aesthetic and political. No longer confined to the cultural...
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The key to everything
An intimate portrait of the twentieth-century American poetMay Swenson (1913–1989) was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. The Key to Everything is a biography of this experimental American modernist that draws directly from her unpublished diaries and her lette...
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The shield of achilles
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately desig...
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What the thunder said
A rich cultural history of the creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpieceWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. “But,” as Jed Rasula writes, “The Wast...
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Wild indigo
A stunning poetic narrative about a painter and his lover living on a former Southern slave plantationWild Indigo is a remarkable poetic debut—a lyric narrative set on a former slave plantation in rural Louisiana, where love, art, and history exert competing claims. The speaker, a Black painter, ...
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Zenithism (1921–1927)
This is the first-ever English language anthology of zenithism, an eclectic avant-garde movement unique to the Yugoslav region that existed 1921–1927.
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“quiet spiders of the hidden soul”
This bilingual Ukrainian-English collection for the first time makes the major works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the most important Ukrainian Modernist poets of the twentieth century, available both to scholars and to the general reader.
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