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 The Key to Everything is a biography of this experimental American modernist that draws directly from her unpublished diaries and her lette...

The keys to the jail

This highly anticipated second collection boldly addresses female anger, reaching beyond traditional roles for a new place in the world.

The late show

Pop-culture, private memory, and formalist sensibility meet in David Trinidad's long-awaited new collection.

The messianic trees

Selected Poetry ranging from early work in 1973 up to the early 21st century

The milk hours

“A poet of our precarious moment . . . James’s searing attention is upon the fleeting, the untethered, upon fecundity and decay, the cosmic and the molecular.” —CAROLYN FORCHÉ

The mirrormaker

“Brian Laidlaw is a poet of tremendous lyric gifts and emotive modulation, full of jubilance and unwavering freshness.” —ALEX LEMON

The negroes send their love

An extraordinary new work, epic in scale and lyrical in flight, by the award-winning author of Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. “How big is a home?” “What is space without reaching?” “You ever think about being remembered?”Posing questions that belie their simplicity, Sean Hill’...

The new world

From an “uncommonly fluent” and “rewarding” poet (The Observer), a collection of miniature epics that asks: can grace be found amid disarray?The New World, Anthony Carelli’s new collection of poems, is an American travelogue that unfolds in a series of darkly comic episodes, with allusions to Dan...

The orchard

An ambitious new collection by the Yale Younger Poets Prize and Lamont Poetry Award winner.

The other sky

In dialogue between poetry and visual art, The Other Sky probes the depths of the psyche: childhood roots, reveries, tensions.

The poetics of the everyday

Wallace Stevens once described the "malady of the quotidian," lamenting the dull weight of everyday regimen. Yet he would later hail "that which is always beginning, over and over"—recognizing, if not celebrating, the possibility of fresh invention. Focusing on the poems of Wallace Stevens, Rober...

The poetry deal

The first full-length collection of new poems in decades from San Francisco's groundbreaking feminist Beat poet.

The reindeer camps

Three-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Sutter makes ballads, sonnets, and free verse sing with a Midwestern accent.

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 rooster's wife

New prose poems by an American master, surrealist comic genius, magician of metaphor and imagination.

The seasons

Merrill Gilfillan projects an elegant cool, and ... a savage intensity.... He has the gift.--Poetry Project Newsletter

The shape of the journey

An authoritative, best-selling edition of poetry by acclaimed novelist--now available in paper.

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...

The shore

Capacious works that explore social and political strife with simultaneous tenderness and strength.

The sky contains the plans

Poems that speak the literal language of dreams.

The spoils

Deeply lyric meditations on power, ecology, and political engagement.Beginning with the delivery of a diplomatic soccer ball to Henry Kissinger and culminating in a transformative road trip through the Deep South, these three poem cycles navigate the contradictions of modern life and morality. Fr...

The stick soldiers

Iraq war veteran's Poulin Prize–winning debut poetry collection explores war, masculinity, and return to civilian life. Introduction by Cornelius Eady.

The summer of dead birds

A queer poet documents depression and grief in this autobiographical novel-in-verse.  how does a person dislodge the scenesthat burn inside them like arsoned cars? Ali Liebegott is reeling from a fresh, painful divorce. She wallows in grief and overassigns meaning to everyday circumstance, clingi...

The tiniest muzzle sings songs of freedom

With poetic play and an ardent humanity, Magdalena Zurawski wrestles with the global and constant struggle for justice inherent to contemporary life.

The tranquilized tongue

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

The trembling answers

A master of neo-confessional poetry, Craig Morgan Teicher charts new territory in his fierce exploration of family, fatherhood, and poetry.

Theophobia

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

There are trans people here

There Are Trans People Here is a testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and culture.

There you are

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

These trees, those leaves, this flower, that fruit

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award FinalistA thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good—a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father. With These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit, Hayan ...

Time remaining

An exuberant collection celebrating the body and the soul of language, wringing delights and amazements out of the latter years of life.In his seventh decade and seventh full length collection, poet James P. Lenfestey dazzles with a suite of odes to parts of the body—heart, belly, ankle, teeth, e...

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.

To make room for the sea

“That’s the magic of this book—the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page.” —MAGGIE SMITH

To the green man

Eighth collection by master of the narrative poem and editor of The Reaper.

Tomaž

Assembled using recorded conversations with the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun, this book-length poem by Joshua Beckman spans the first forty years of Šalamun’s life in his own words.

Toucans in the arctic

An inspired truant from any number of poetical schools.

Trance archive

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

Trip trap

On a rainy night in San Francisco, just before Thanksgiving in 1959, Jack Keroauc, Lew Welch, and Albert Saijo piled into Welch's car and set off on a cross-country trip, headed for New York City and then on to Keroauc's mother's home on Long Island. Trip Trap is a record of that journey, notes ...

Triptych

Triptych is of lyric emergencies, love, self, and rediscovering one’s muse through the timelessness of art, song, and poetry.

Troubling the line

The first-ever collection of poetry by trans and genderqueer writers

True faith

Ira Sadoff's ninth book shows a seasoned poet at the height of his powers: class, religion, politics with sharp wit.

Truth, war and the dream game

A dynamically shifting vision of the world made visible in intricate explorations that seem to recall Kafka’s castle halls, and the twists and turns in Borges’s labyrinth.Utilizing the ancient tradition of the parable, Lawrence Fixel presents narrators in settings with which they are uncomfortabl...

Tula

Two of everything

An abundant and anticipatory collection of poems exploring the season of waiting that precedes adoption.From Guggenheim fellow and celebrated author Sally Keith comes an incantatory collection of poems on the transformative process of nurturing new life and the practical challenges of starting a ...

Ultramarine

The chromatic, linguistically playful, erotic conclusion to Wayne Koestenbaum’s acclaimed trance poem trilogy. Ultramarine distills gleanings from four years of Koestenbaum’s trance notebooks (2015-2019) into a series of tightly-sewn collage-poems, filled with desiring bodies, cultural touchston...

Unlocking the exits

Eliot Katz’s poems are exuberant democratic earth-watch, spiced with surreal imaginings, utopian cravings, and activist humor.In his new collection of poems, Eliot Katz dances with tenacity on the fine line between poetry and politics—engaging in a democratic earthwatch that is spiced with surrea...

Venison

At stake are no less than the origins and mysteries of flesh and touch---food.

Voice-over

Synthesizing twenty years of influences, Equi constructs a collage of voices—undoubtedly American, exquisitely her own.“Nothing needs usbut we needa lot of reassurancebefore we can reassurethose things we thoughtwe needed that they exist too.”

Voices in the distance

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson (1923-2012) was a leading figure in American letters for more than half a century. Born in Jamaica, the son of a lawyer of Scottish descent and a Russian mother, he emigrated to America at the age of 17. Voices in the Distance was the first selection of h...