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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads SelectionA 2024 NPR "Books We Love" Selection"Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection."-Margaret Renkl, New York TimesPublished in association with the Library of Congres...

The classic of poetry

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

We the gathered heat

A beautiful anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary American poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label “Asian American and Pacific Islander” in today’s world. In this thoughtfully curated, intergenerational collection, poets of multiple langua...

Citizen illegal

Citizen Illegal is a book composed in the space between Mexico & America. It is a celebration of Chicano joy, a shout against erasure, and a vibrant re-imagining of Mexican American life.

Carnival of animals

New animal poems from legendary Hong Kong author Xi Xi

The hurting kind

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.“I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writ...

Transitions

New and selected sonnets from a treasured poet who “insists upon the rawness of experience and the metamorphosis of form with equal fervor and makes them both speak with the same voice” (W. S. Merwin). Over the course of her celebrated fifty-year career, Marilyn Hacker has continuously proven to ...

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Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry PrizeA Reading the West Book Award FinalistFrom one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians.Fady Joudah’s power...

Small wars manual

"Small Wars Manual is a masterpiece, one of those books I read and know at once I’ll be coming back to the rest of my life.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!A Literary Hub Notable Book of the YearFrom award-winning poet Chris Santiago, a far-reaching collection of erasures and original poems examin...

Padam padam

A posthumous celebration of the poet and provocateur Kevin Killian, Padam Padam pulses with camp, pop culture, and pleasure.Kevin Killian—the puckish poet, playwright, novelist, scholar, and impresario of the Bay Area arts community—channeled the charisma of the pop stars. Pulled from his legenda...

Eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers

“There is so much bottle-dark beauty here. Jake Skeets is a new, essential voice in poetry, in literature.” —TOMMY ORANGE

The translator of desires

A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translationThe Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi (1165–1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical Arabic and Islamic civilization. In this a...

Tender buttons

Centennial edition of a classic work of cubist prose poetry with over 100 never before seen corrections by Stein herself.

Howl and other poems

The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative hardcover edition! The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & Other Poems! HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, w...

Fast speaking woman

Firespitter

A long-awaited, comprehensive collection of renowned poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez’s poetry. Like the jazz rhythms that inspired and punctuated her practice, Jayne Cortez improvised her way through and across disciplines, bridging poetry and performance with music and the visual arts t...

Birthstones in the province of mercy

Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, a tender, yearning collection of poems that pieces together identity with the different shapes absence can take.“Blurry eyes mean a longing for home,” writes Bo Hee Moon in her prize-winning collection, “but we’re unsure what home means.” A South Korean adoptee...

Midden

WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY!FINALIST FOR THE JULIE SUK AWARD!SELECTED AS ONE OF NPR'S 2018 GREAT READS!ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 50 MUST READ POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2019!In 1912 the State of Maine forcibly evicted an interracial community of roughly forty-five people from Malaga Island,...

Stone

“Invaluable. . . . [What] comes across in these translations is the verve and immediacy of the poems’ occasions.”—Seamus HeaneyA groundbreaking translation of the brilliant first book by one of the twentieth century’s most important poetsStone—Osip Mandelstam’s 1913 debut—marked the arrival of pe...

All us beautiful monsters

A deeply imaginative collection by a beloved poet with the “ability to slice straight through nerve and marrow on his way to the heart and mind of the matter” (Tracy K. Smith).Having extensively detailed his experience with a traumatic brain injury, Alex Lemon writes with the remarkable ability t...

The book of rain

Named a Best Book of 2025 by Books Without BordersA vivid translation of Abū Zayd alAnṣārī’s early Arabic weather lexicon, Book of Rain reveals a richly detailed linguistic landscape devoted to the many forms of rain.The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.So begins translator Davi...

A guide for making fragments from diaries

Joshua Beckman’s new book, A Guide for Making Fragments from Diaries, gathers poems found or made in various forms—chapter summaries of non-existent books, body poems, an assemblage of his mother’s remarks while painting his portrait, lists of thoughts and things (one of all the uninvited animals...

Fleur adcock: collected poems

Fleur Adcock (1934-2024) was one of Britain's most accomplished poets, unmasking the deceptions of love and unravelling family lives through her poised, ironic poems.This first complete edition of her poetry was published on her 90th birthday, and updates her earlier retrospective, Poems 1960-200...

The breakbeat poets vol. 3

A BreakBeat Poets anthology of writings by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans.

The popol vuh

"Milkweed's Seedbank series is one of the most exciting and visionary projects in contemporary publishing. Taking the long view, these volumes run parallel to the much-hyped books of the moment to demonstrate the possibility and hope inherent in all great literature." —STEPHEN SPARKS, POINT REYES...

The complete poems of anna akhmatova

The definitve collection of Anna Akhmatova in English translation.

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...

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.

A thousand times you lose your treasure

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYA collection inspired by Hoa’s mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam’s diaspora.Hoa Nguyen’s latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- an...

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”.

Tamil love poetry

Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illustrates the five landscapes of reciprocal love: jea...

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...

The nightmare sequence

An extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo—poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed–that bears witness to the genocide in Gaza.The Nightmare Sequence is a searing response to the atrocities in Gaza and beyond since October 2023. Heartbreaking and humane, it is a necessary portrai...

E

Like a game of telephone gone haywire, these mischievous mishearings and homophonic translations remix a classic of 20th Century American poetry.C’mon, take the E pill (is it estrogen? ecstasy? something else entirely?). E practices mishearing as a bodily reworking of language alongside the poet’...

All the world on a page

The rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry, explored through close readings of thirty-four poems by poets ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria StepanovaThe Russian cultural tradition treats poetry as the supreme artistic form, with Alexander Pushkin as its national hero. Modern Russ...

A kiss for the absolute

The first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in EnglishIn 1923, Shuzo Takiguchi’s first year at Tokyo’s Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school two years later, he was hit by a...

Selected poems of philip lamantia, 1943-1966

The original American surrealist returns in a new edition of the 1967 classic."I am eager to do a book of yours," Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote to Philip Lamantia in Nerja, Spain in 1966. "What about SELECTED POEMS OF PHILIP LAMANTIA?" The missive came at the right time, as Lamantia had recently re...

Dmz colony

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

Animal days

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

Drift

A riveting new volume exploring the power and provocation of medieval English and the trope of the seafarer

Troubling the line

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

The carrying

“Exquisite . . . A powerful example of how to carry the things that define us without being broken by them.” —WASHINGTON POST

Another last day

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

Death styles

A record of daily bewilderments and accidental concessions to hope after a momentous loss. In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writin...

Emerald wounds

Rediscover Joyce Mansour, the most significant Surrealist poet to emerge from 1950s Paris.“You know very well, Joyce, that you are for me—and very objectively too—the greatest poet of our time. Surrealist poetry, that’s you.”—André Breton Joyce Mansour, a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt, was 25 ye...

Kiss the eyes of peace

Finalist for the Griffin Poetry PrizeAn authoritative volume representing the vast oeuvre of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and visionary poets.Widely regarded as some of the most important and innovative poetry from postwar Europe, Tomaž Šalamun’s work offers a singularly thrillin...

The shining

As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky’s The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that shapes an entirely unique feminist psychological landscape. Here, Lasky guides us through the familiar rooms of the Overlook Hotel, both realized and imagined, inhabiting characters and spaces that ha...

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...

Ante body

Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in PoetryAn incisive poetic sequence that tracks the relationship between migration and complex traumas in this unsparing critique of the unjust conditions that brought us the global pandemic. Ante body is a poetics of [un]rest. A project that started as an...

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 ...