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 ...

Unnameable

Anna Gual’s poems express life in all its unexpectedness, whether she is exploring relationships between human beings and the rest of our universe, between and within bodies, or language itself. Scientific inquiry informs her work as she observes both the visible and the invisible. She is a leadi...

Vapor

Sara Eliza Johnson’s much-anticipated second collection traces human emotion and experience across a Gothic landscape of glacial and cosmic scale.With a mind informed by physics, and a heart yearning for sky burial, Vapor’s epic vision swerves from the microscopic to telescopic, evoking an Anthro...

Virgin

“By leaning into the many registers of heartbreak, Sotelo makes something incredibly beautiful.”—Ross Gay

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.”

Volando bajito

Walking the dog's shadow

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

Water & salt

The poems in Water & Salt travel across borders between cultures and languages, between the present and the living past.

What to eat, what to drink, what to leave for poison

What we ask of flesh

Through biblical re-tellings, narratives, and lyric poems, this young African-American poet examines and heals wounds of flesh and spirit.

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.

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.

Which walks

A series of poems that explores walking, writing, and making as divinatory practices.Documenting (and interrogating) the poet’s daily walks, Which Walks investigates the twin practices of walking and art-making while aging. Gender is also a central concern in this intensely feminist work. Moriart...

White blood

White Blood contemplates the complex legacies of slavery and discrimination in the Upper South.

Why god is a woman

Set on a magical island where men are the second sex, story-driven prose poems upset gender-roles, tangling myths and logic.

Wild honey, tough salt

Wild Honey, Tough Salt gathers citizen poems for tough times—with testaments for world community, spells for peace, earth blessings, and family consolations.

Wilder

“Long after I finished reading Wilder, I was in grief that its beauty had ended, and also in grief over the spoiled world it describes.” —RICK BAROT

With my shadow

“There is an air of earnestness and sincerity about [Domin’s] poems—they don’t perform linguistic tricks . . . They are highly specific, idiosyncratic, and beautifully ordinary. Reading her, one is filled with a sense of natural wonder . . . Kafatou, who knew Domin, has sympathetically rendered a...

Women in public

Women in Public dismantles and reassembles the humor, absurdity, and terror that inform interactions with gender, sexuality, and amorous consumption.

Work & days

A poet hailed as "stunning" reveals a fierce and sensual intelligence in a meditation about farming, reproducing, and what it means to try to forge a relationship with the earth.

Wound from the mouth of a wound

“[This collection] feels like we’re holding a small thunderstorm in our hands.” —AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL

Yannis ritsos

Year of the dog

A Latina feminist chronicle of the Vietnam War era in documentary poems that highlight the voices of women relegated to the margins of history.

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...