A roll of the dice

A contemporary and authentically designed translation of one of Stéphane Mallarmé's most famous poems.

All that's left

Poems for social justice by San Francisco's poet laureate, including his autobiographical inaugural address.

All this time

Cedar Sigo’s fourth collection evoke ancestors and mentors in ways that speak to the devotional practice of writing itself.

American children

In his fifth collection, Simmerman creates an elegy-in-verse with technical mastery, wit and passion.

And then we became

Reaching from the kitchen table to the stars, ruminations on who we are, and how we became who we are.

And those ashen heaps that cantilevered vase of moonlight

And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight, Lynn Xu's book-length poem, is a brilliant embodiment of time's effect on languages and histories.

Animal days

Brilliantly assembled poetic fragments elucidate the undone and chaotic experiences surrounding a body in the midst of illness.

Another last day

“The times have never been darker, yet Alex Lemon’s imagination has never been more hopefully wild.” —RICK BAROT

Baby

Mangled diction from the cusp of childhood.

Becoming weather

Blending Frank O’Hara’s keen eye and Jeff Tweedy’s heartache, this collection celebrates urban America, in its bustling, maddening glory.By cataloging the movements and moments of a constantly shifting city, Martin’s poems posit a metropolis that is always already dancing and where no one dances ...

Bleed through

The best of Davidson’s forty-year career, these poems grapple with larger philosophical questions through the sieve of language and form.Ghost texts—the overheard conversation, the remembered line, the daily paper—clamor to enter the poems in Michael Davidson’s Bleed Through. Here, the page is a ...

Blessing the boats: new and selected poems 1988-2000

The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.

Book of my nights

Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems...

Boomerangs in the living room

Rex Wilder’s second collection introduces the world to a new form: the boomerang, a four-line nouveau haiku, an anti-Tweet that aims for permanence in an evanescent world. These \u201cadmirable throwaways\u201d (so nicknamed by Richard Wilbur, who advised the author on their shape) must rhyme the...

Brand new spacesuit

With wry humor and acute attention to detail, John Gallaher's latest poetry collection captures the pain and joys of caretaking.

Bright dead things

Bright hunger

A new collection of poetry by one of America's most celebrated lyric poets.

Broken hallelujahs

Poetic rhythms and references from hip-hop to high academy, opera to MCing, breakdancing to ballet!

Burning of the three fires

The winner of the National Poetry Series returns with a third collection of oddly reverent, warily nostalgic, deeply haunted, always suprising poetry.

Bye-bye land

A medley of voices in dialogue with each other, this book-length poem underscores the destructiveness and hypocrisy of American venture.

Chaos is the new calm

A sonnet and sonnet-like poetry collection ranging from travelogue to monologue, social commentary to solitary musing.

Chariot

Timothy Donnelly’s fourth collection of poems, Chariot, ferries the reader toward an endless horizon of questioning that is both philosophical and deeply embodied. “How did we get here?” he asks in his title poem—one of several in conversation with French symbolist Odilon Redon—to which he respon...

Citizen

In Citizen Aaron Shurin has collected sixty-eight vibrant new poems that are by turns romantic, visceral, edgy, and unabashedly beautiful.

City bird and other poems

An underground denizen of San Francisco soars above it in a state-of-the-art long poem."These poems about San Francisco challenge the media narrative of a city in decline, paying tribute to its joys. Dunagan weaves in allusions to artists, including Joan Brown and Jay DeFeo, poets Bill Berkson an...

Click and clone

An innovative, whimsical exploration of the effects of technology on everyday life.Click and Clone explores the tone and timbre of American life as it has been colored by the new metaphors and images brought to us by our continuing technological revolution. Equi is interested in a new form of rea...

Color

Color (1925) is a collection of poems by Countee Cullen. Published the same year Cullen entered Harvard to pursue a masters in English, Color was a brilliant debut by a poet who had already gained a reputation as a leading young artist of the Harlem Renaissance. Deeply personal and attuned to poe...

Curios

A debut collection featuring a new form of koan-like poetry.

Darling vulgarity

Vivid and sensual new poems from the editor of the prestigious Contemporary American Poetry.

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...

Decoy

Subversive and witty, Equi adeptly slips around corners and peers through keyholes, ultimately proving that the best poems take us by surprise. "Exceedingly delicate work, infused with a sly and bawdy humor.... leaves the reader eager for more.... one of the most enjoyable and rewarding books of ...

Deep code

Deep Code explores “side language,” as a subset of other languages, whether slang or metaphor, to both communicate and obfuscate.

Disclamor

Meditations on war and beauty by a celebrated, fiercely intelligent, and startlingly original young poet.

Divine blue light (for john coltrane)

From Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where Césaire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light further affirms Alexander’s status as one of the most unique and innovative voices in contempora...

Dmz colony

A powerful work of cultural memory that recovers voices from Korea's heartbreakingly violent postcolonial history.

Doubled shadows

The first collection of the avant-garde Chinese poet Ouyang Jianghe in an English translation.

Earliest worlds

The velocity of language, the ferocity of poetry unearth our most thinking, feeling, erotic selves in this powerful debut.This impressive debut of a major new voice in poetry begins with Blue Guide, a poem cycle of meditations on light and dark, probing theopposing/complementary nature of these u...

Earthly delights

From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a new collection of philosophical, elegiac, and wry meditations on film, painting, music, and poetry itselfEarthly Delights begins with an invocation to the muse and ends with the departure of Odysseus from Ithaca. In between, Troy Jollim...

Encouragement for a man falling to his death

The winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2007.

Ennui prophet

2007 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award winner returns with prose poems about post 9/11 America and his mother's Alzheimer's Disease.

Exceptions and melancholies

Exhilarating, dangerous new poems and a generous selection of previous work.

Exhibit of forking paths

National Poetry Series winner Grinwis elegantly fuses poetry to circuitry.These poems pair electrical circuit diagrams with prose poems to create an artful labyrinth of science, intellectual landscapes, and urban scenes. The title of the collection comes from a story by Jorge Luis Borges, “Garden...

Feel recordings in the evershift

In richly immersive and sonically engaging poems, American Book Award winner Edwin Torres sculpts language toward a landing place for sensorial and ecological input.Torres’s new collection, feel recordings in the evershift, investigates ecology and the body as fields of perception, seeking to rec...

Feelings above sea level

A Chinese/English edition of prose poetry from a Taiwanese surrealist.

Flight

The poems in Katharine Coles’s Flight playfully engage the spiritual and natural worlds through the human constructs of science, art, philosophy, and history

For as far as the eye can see

"I shall settle for the paradise of what I see … this rectangle of twelve lines … a window."

Four incarnations

From street-gang punk, to navy recruit, to rent-a-Santa, a collection of poems celebrating the possibilities of the individual.Robert Sward has been writing poetry since age fifteen when his couplets informed other members of his Chicago street gang where meetings were to be held. The poems in Fo...

Front lines

For Hirschman, the political is the most lyrical. This fine selection of his poetry embodies both.

Fuel

Poems that find meaning in a world where we are "so tired of meaning nothing."