Hoodwinked

Hernandez' third collection is blunt and undeceived. His odes to mortality are laced with wit and sadness rising like helium.

Horror vacui

Innovative debut collection mixing surrealism, autobiography, and elegy.

Horses

“Beauty is possible even when it appears impossible. An astounding book.” —Joy Harjo, author of Washing My Mother's BodyNavajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets’s highly anticipated second collection patiently tracks the impacts of climate change on the land and its myriad inhabitants.“For now, go...

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...

How to be perfect

Required reading for humans.

Howl and other poems

The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & Other Poems HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United States p...

Howl on trial

The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents, and photographs.

Human directional

Following her big hit, American Amnesiac, Raptosh's Human Directional zigzags across consciousness, searing through old patterns of thought and offering.

Human resources

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Ryann Stevenson’s Human Resources is a sobering and perceptive portrait of technology’s impact on connection and power. Human Resources follows a woman working in the male-dominated world of AI, designing women that don’t exist. In discerning verse, she work...

I built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)

I greet you at the beginning of a great career

One of the longest relationships between a publisher and a writer, documented in an intimate correspondence spanning their respective careers.

I have to go back to 1994 and kill a girl

2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prizewinner, selected by Lynn Emanuel. Poetry with a Sonic Youth soundtrack.

I know where i'm going

Fran Carlen's poetry reads as if it had been written at the turn of the last century, on the continent, had been forgotten, and then found its way to the present day in a steamer trunk; as if a translation of a romance language, where the translation doubles as the original; everyday concerns met...

I know your kind

"This work quakes and blooms and dares us to try to resist the world's grace."-Ada Limón

I'm no longer troubled by the extravagance

Mapping human fragility, lost lovers, and mysterious pasts, this new collection is an exploration of the extravagance of being alive.

Iggy horse

In Michael Earl Craig’s sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar.Whether he is writing about the cadaver that Hans Holbein the Younger used as a model, Montana as the “Italy of God,” or the milking rituals in Kelly Reichardt’...

Ill angels

Ill Angels explores love, music, death, language, and the idea of American self-hood in an era of increasing political divides.

Immediate song

“Unmistakably of today’s America, even as it mines the timeless concerns of loss and memory.” —WAYNE MILLER

Improvisation without accompaniment

Set in the backdrop of rural Texas, Matt Morton’s debut poetry collection reaches for existential meaning within life's joys and griefs.

In accelerated silence

“Both carefully observed and daringly philosophical . . . The cosmos aches, as it did for Orpheus and for Gilgamesh, and as it did for Eve.” —MARK DOTY

In memory of an angel

The first full-length collection in fifteen years from New York School prodigy and master of lyrical abstraction David Shapiro.

In the futurity lounge / asylum for indeterminacy

Welish fuses poetry with visual art and architecture.

In the ice house

Inside/out

First-ever collection of Marilyn Buck's poetry, searing, soaring, a living tribute to her indomitable spirit, revolutionary intelligence and poet's vision.

Interrobang

Je nathanael

Je Nathanaël is an endangered text. Neither essay nor poem nor novel nor sex-show, what it takes from language it gives back to the body

Joie de vivre

A selection from twenty years of poetry from one of the key avant-garde women poets of the post-Language generation.

Kaddish and other poems

The deluxe fiftieth anniversary edition.

Keeping / the window open

From Dada to translation, from conversations to collage, this book chronicles the artistic antics and profoundly original minds of Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop.

L-vis lives!

L-vis Lives! in this poetic novella on the collision or race, art, and appropriation in American culture.

Lamp of the body

Land sparing

Winner of the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize

Landscapes on a train

A radiant new book-length sequence chronicling the ways observation creates landscape

Last mojito, the

Last train to the missing planet

Expect the unexpected, while being entertained, engaged, inspired: experience the always present but rarely recognized miraculous moments of our everyday lives in this anticipated third collection from Kim Dower.

Late

Woloch's poems are devotional and incantatory--prayers spoken to, and on behalf of, a difficult world.

Laura's desires

Laura’s Desires is a diptych of two formally distinct long poems, each approaching various pop-cultural artifacts as a way to engage with longing, vulnerability, and the possibility of liberation. Referencing pop culture artifacts, from hit ’90s singles like Selena’s “Dreaming of You” to heroines...

Legible heavens

New work from the National Book Award finalist.

Lessons from summer camp

In Lessons from Summer Camp, Jim Tilley takes a fifty-year retrospective look at a ten-year period during his childhood and adolescence to discover what summer camp was really about. In both a wistful and an appreciative look back on the days of our youth, the poems reminisce on the memorable eve...

Letters to a young brown girl

Reyes’s unapologetic intersectionally feminist “tough love” poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.

Letters to guns

Life watch

In turns both surreal and quietly meditative, Barnstone's book is a notable achievement.

Litany for the city

Selected by Jane Hirshfield as Winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.

Lite year

A classical frame—the agricultural year, its gleanings and turnings—rendered in a most modern mode, prismatic interiority with trimmings of digital criticality.

Little hill

Award-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment.