The classic of poetry

Edward L. Shaughnessy presents a complete English translation of the 305 discrete poems from the Classic of Poetry.

The confessions of doc williams & other poems

The National Book Award finalist's eighteenth volume of nearly sixty poems.

The coronary garden

Poems of love and morality, with subjects as varies as sex, babies, illness, and saints.

The echo chamber

A collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining—and holding up the broken mirror of myth to late-stage capitalism, social media, and our present-day selves.

The flowers of evil & paris spleen

"I am moved...by the mastery of both languages, plus the total absorption of the spirit of Baudelaire.... I recognize Baudelaire's voice in these translations."--Anna Balakian. Includes an incisive introduction to Baudelaire's life, work and influence on modern poetry.

The football corporations

Reading Heyen's uncompromising lyrics you'll be struck with his spikes as they flash upward into your groin, heart, and head.

The heavy bear who goes with me

The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me is the ultimate reader’s companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from five centuries with lively companion commentaries to go with and illuminate each poem. The heavy bear can be many things which go with the bearer: another self or alter ego, the bur...

The language of saxophones

Selections from a lifetime of poetry by one of America's premier "word-musicians," this book is long overdue!

The oasis of now

First U.S. publication of one of Iran's most important contemporary poets. This edition includes an essay/introduction by Kazim Ali.

The orchard

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

The poetry deal

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

The rooster's wife

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

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 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 taste of steel | the smell of snow

Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark’s leading poets. The Taste of Steel and The Smell of Snow are the first two collections in her new series of books focussing on the human senses.

The terrible stories

The long-awaited tenth collection of poetry from the Shelley Memorial Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton.

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 unstill ones

An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old EnglishAn exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, The Unstill Ones takes readers into a timeless, shadow-filled world where new poems sound ancient, and ancient poems sound new. Award-w...

The world's embrace

Poems with great lyric power treat the heritage, history, and aspirations of Morocco and the Arab world.

To the ashes

A Russian poet now living in Germany reflects on exile, authoritarianism, the meaning of home (and homeland), and the perilousness of life in a “stony eternity.”

Tom holland's beowulf

In this unique work, acclaimed historian, Tom Holland takes up Beowulf with his pen at the ready.

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.

Trance archive

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

Translation of the lilies back into lists

From poet, novelist, and teacher Laynie Brown comes Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists, an homage text to the poet C. D. Wright.

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.

Voices of the future

NBA star Etan Thomas helps give voice to the poetic and socially conscious ideas of young people.

Waifs and strays

From the bayous of Louisiana to the pavements of San Francisco, Micah Ballard rounds up his haunting Waifs and Strays.

Walking the dog's shadow

Selected by Tony Hoagland as winner of the ninth annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.

Want

A stunning new poetry collection from the 2001 Kathryn A. Morton Prize-winner, selected by Stanley

Wave if you can see me

<p>In&nbsp;<em>Wave as If You Can See Me,</em>&nbsp;Ludvigson&nbsp;explores the illness and death of her husband, along with her own ventures&nbsp;into the visual arts.</p>

What we carry

Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration.

Whatsaid serif

Exquisite recipes that push the boundaries of vegan cuisine

When i was a poet

An autobiographical masterpiece by a prominent Beat poet, who Ferlinghetti has deemed "one of the greats."

Where river meets ocean

Where River Meets Ocean is the poetic junction of love, politics, creative action, and self-discovery.

Where shadows will

First volume of new series, City Lights Spotlight: selected poems by a major avant-garde woman poet.

Why to these rocks

Fifty years of poems from the Community of Writers’ poetry workshop The Community of Writers (formerly Community of Writers at Squaw Valley) celebrates fifty years of its annual summer poetry workshop in Olympic Valley, California, with this collection of one hundred and forty poems first compos...

Wisp

A dual-language collection examining impermanence as the source of beauty from one of the most acclaimed contemporary poets writing in German.Over the course of a partnership spanning nearly two decades, poets Jan Wagner and David Keplinger have crafted a distinctly collaborative exchange between...

Wonder and wrath

Original and translated poetry from award-winning poet and critic A. M. Juster.

Woods and clouds interchangeable

Humorous and wildly inventive poems from a master of absurdist poetic theater.

Word problems

From Ian Williams, author of Reproduction, winner of the Giller Prize and a June 2020 Indie Next Great Read Frustrated by how tough the issues of our time are to solve – racial inequality, our pernicious depression, the troubled relationships we have with other people – Ian Williams revisits the...

Written in water

Prose poems by one of Spain's greatest poets.

Xoeteox

Electric poems from a long-time performance and visual poet delivered through innovative layouts and designs.

Yannis ritsos

Yi sang: selected works

A ground-breaking retrospective of this major Korean writer of the modernist era, presented in English by award-winning poets and translators.

You and three others are approaching a lake

A sharp-witted investigation of love, work, and human responsibility in the age of consumption and hyperexposure.In a world where we find “everything helping itself / to everything else,” Anna Moschovakis incorporates Craigslist ads, technobabble, twentieth-century ethics texts, scientific resear...

Your father on the train of ghosts

A year of epistolary writing culminating in one of the most extensive collaboration books in the history of American poetry.