A measure's hush

An essay on man

A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. ...

A life above water

Self-portrait without a bicycle

These poems stitch loss to memory, to colours and smells, to tastes of past and present, canvas and ink.

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.

Beautiful wall

Set in the desert Southwest, Beautiful Wall straddles current realities of immigration and border violence, and a beautiful, familial past.

Sasha sings the laundry on the line

Love laments and narratives about the hardscrabble lives of blue collar workers from Lake Erie to Eastern Europe and Russia.

Six

Why SIX? Because the collection is composed of six poems. And because the perspective in this collection shifts like a kaleidoscope, each image viewable from six possible angles. And because these poems, like the prevalent hexagons of the natural world—honeycombs, for instance—derive strength fro...

Bestiary

The tranquilized tongue

If a picture paints 1000 words, "each letter contains 100 films" in the surrealist wordscape of The Tranquilized Tongue.

Precipitates

Kang Dean's poems creatively explore the various noun and verb meanings of the word "precipitate."

Black sabbatical

A debut collection that sings with gutbucket colloquialisms, hallucinatory interludes, and Kentucky's storytelling tradition.

Special powers and abilities

A futuristic, stunningly imaginative poetic exploration of superheroes, religion, and myth.

The spoils

Deeply lyric meditations on power, ecology, and political engagement.Beginning with the delivery of a diplomatic soccer ball to Henry Kissinger and culminating in a transformative road trip through the Deep South, these three poem cycles navigate the contradictions of modern life and morality. Fr...

Lucy

The eighth Quarternote Chapbook by winner of the National Book Award and PSA Shelley Memorial Prize.

Water & salt

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

Becoming weather

Blending Frank O’Hara’s keen eye and Jeff Tweedy’s heartache, this collection celebrates urban America, in its bustling, maddening glory.

Exhibit of forking paths

National Poetry Series winner James Grinwis elegantly fuses poetry with circuitry.

Complete poems and selected letters of michelangelo

The description for this book, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, will be forthcoming.

Exceptions and melancholies

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

Click and clone

Equi’s innovative poems whimsically explore the effects of technology on everyday life.

Thousand times broken

Three never-before-translated books from Henri Michaux from the period of his mescaline experimentation, with drawings by the author and Matta.

Horror vacui

Innovative debut collection mixing surrealism, autobiography, and elegy.

Equipoise

A book of poems that reads like a two week vacation at the shore.

City lights pocket poets anthology

A comprehensive selection from Ferlinghetti's famed City Lights Pocket Poets Series, published on the 60th anniversary of its founding.

State of exile

A tender, moving, and multi-layered portrait of the pain, loneliness, and permanent nostalgia of exile.

The other side of the postcard

San Franciscans portray the unvarnished life of the city not seen in postcards and travelogues.

C. p. cavafy

C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in mo...

Bright hunger

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

Blessing the boats: new and selected poems 1988-2000

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

The fortieth day

An exciting younger poet explores the rhetoric of prayer and the dizzying possibilities of meditative ecstasy.

Darling vulgarity

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

Lineas conectadas

Two-volume bilingual anthology of Mexican and American Poets, produced in partnership between NEA/Mexican government

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.

To keep love blurry

Inspired by Lowell's Life Studies, Teicher explores troubled spaces between loved ones as a son becomes a husband and father.

The reindeer camps

Three-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Sutter makes ballads, sonnets, and free verse sing with a Midwestern accent.

The folding star

U.S. debut poetry collection by one of Poland's most acclaimed and award-winning younger poets.

The keys to the jail

This highly anticipated second collection boldly addresses female anger, reaching beyond traditional roles for a new place in the world.

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.

Parallel lives

Michael Lind's poems repay the kind of attention we bring to reading the classics.

Doubled shadows

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

The collected poems of lucille clifton 1965-2010

Landmark volume containing all of Lucille Clifton's published work and 55 previously unpublished poems. Foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison.

Carpathia

Eulogies to a dying father, lush lyrics to former lovers in Europe: joy, sorrow, sex, death.

Pictures of the gone world

The volume that launched City Lights' iconic Pocket Poets Series, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first collection of poems, in an anniversary edition.

A phone call from dalian

The first major selection of the mainland Chinese poet in an English translation.

The beautifully worthless

A tender, tragic, absurd and highly original voice, Liebegott's award-winning epic road poem has been compared to Kerouac and Wojnarowicz.

Life watch

In turns both surreal and quietly meditative, Barnstone's book is a notable achievement.

Fissures

Simply the best writing from China, Taiwan, and Chinese authors in exile.

The flowers of evil & paris spleen