Meddle english

This book gathers a decade of Caroline Bergvall’s innovative pieces, from her long out-of-print performance text Goan Atom, inspired by the graphic contortions of Hans Bellmer’s Doll and violent love fantasies of other radical body-inspired artists, The Shorter Chaucer, a series of contemporary t...

Mischief caprice and other poetic strategies

Monkeys, minor planet, average star

A playful, intoxicating debut by a young poet dedicated to expanding the boundaries of lyric poetry

More sure

A book of poems and augmentations, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in non-binary, queer, and autistic lives. In their stunning debut collection, A. Light Zachary draws power from a vision of life―especially queer and neurodivergent life―as a journey of continuous self-...

Movable tyype

The first new collection by this innovative poet in seven years

Music for porn

A bracing lyrical exploration of the ethical limits of our militarized and eroticized landscape

New selected poems

This new, comprehensive selection of one of America’s foremost modern poets draws on two dozen collections published over six decades. Edited by Paul A. Lacey, it replaces her earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems (1986), and includes selections from both her earlier work and from the six later collect...

No dictionary of a living tongue

No Dictionary of a Living Tongue is formidable in its explorations of art, citizenship, and life as a body amid the social, political, and electronic networks that define us, hold us together, bind us. The poems here take many forms—prose, lyric, epigram, narrative, dialogue fragment, song, music...

North american stadiums

“An engrossing urban pastoral . . . These distinctive poems deserve a wide audience.” —WASHINGTON POST

Otherwise obedient

Paper-thin skin

One of the first Kazakhstani women poets to gain international attention, Tazhi offers incisive and intimate observations in these seemingly spare poems that “pour out a little from an overflowing heart.”

Paraguayan sea

Paraguayan Sea, a sublime love tale of border and gender travestias, moves in a language that defies immigration regulations

Partially kept

A meditation on language and loss–and the partial nature of both–from a leading contemporary poet

Pasolini's our

A philosophical and epigrammatic meditation on a body immersed in language, history and place, refracted through film, photography and architecture

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...

Poems for infidels

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...

Re: f (gesture)

Remembering animals

This song cycle is a raw and mutating cry from within an ecological surround undergoing massive upheaval and duress

Revolt against the sun

The first study of Iraqi female poet, Nazik al-Mala’ika, one of the most important Arab poets of the twentieth century

Ruins

Ruins gathers writings in the form of verses, fragments, and short essays that Gabriele Tinti has dedicated to the “living sculpture of the actor”.

Sailing without ahab

Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville’s epic in bold new lightCome sail with I.We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod’s American voyage steers its course across the curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone a...

Sea & fog

Winner of the 2013 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian PoetryWinner of the 2013 California Book Award in PoetryRunner-Up for the 2013 Arab American Book AwardThese interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a ...

Shadow of the owl

Matthew Sweeney’s final collection brings together poems written during a year of debilitating illness before his death from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018.

Silk poems

Silk Poems takes silk as subject and form, exploring its cultural, scientific, and linguistic complexities

Something for everybody

A diverse set of poems from a deeply connected poet writing from the center of contemporary New York.

Something indecent

Songs of an eastern humanist

This volume collects all of Edward Said's never-before-published poems, offering insight into the personality of the author.

Soundings

Dora Malech’s latest anthology of poems written in the last decade and appearing for the first time in a single volume.

Staying human

Staying Human is the latest addition to Bloodaxe’s bestselling Staying Alive series of world poetry anthologies.

Stem

A wide-ranging collection from a rising poet that showcases her sharp, contemporary voiceIn Stem, Stella Wong intersperses lyric poems on a variety of subjects with dramatic monologues that imagine the perspectives of specific female composers, musicians, and visual artists, including Johanna Bey...

Swirl

Swivelmount

Poems to read in the small hours before dawn, when the sirens start up again. Swivelmount’s concerns – the collapse of subject and world, eros and law, knowledge and bafflement – gain new urgency as Babstock fiercely reimagines and reassembles the remnants into a viable order. At the core of the...

Syllabus of errors

A new collection of poetry from the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. . . we are fixed to perpetrate the species—I meant perpetuate—as if our dutywere coupled with our terror. As if beautyitself were but a syllabus of errors.Troy Jollimore's first collection of poems won the Natio...

Talking cures

"This collection is vivid reminder of Howard's powerful gifts."---New York Times

The battle between the frogs and the mice

Striking illustrations and clever rhyme bring to life an ancient Greek fable about the foolishness of war

The boxer

In The Boxer, Gabriele Tinti returns to the ancient bronze known as the Boxer at Rest, a figure seated, battered, unvanquished, and draws from it a sequence of poems as spare and unrelenting as the object itself.