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Robert pinsky: the first two books of poems
The remarkable first two books of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorAward-winning poet Robert Pinsky’s first two collections—Sadness And Happiness and An Explanation of America—announced the arrival ...
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Ampersand organ
A fearless, expansive collection that blurs the boundary between body and poem, wielding a liberatory lyric impulse that revels from neuron to nebula and back.Here is a book of many hearts, a revolutionary tide pool, a mycelial space and sensorium where our neural pathways are “always shared, col...
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Even time bleeds
A vibrant and compelling bilingual edition of poems by the acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize–winner Forrest GanderEven Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of the work of Jeannette Clariond, a major contemporary Mexican poet known for her sensuous lyricism ...
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Her wilderness will be her manners
An electrifying feminist poetics combining language and visual collage to explore gender, landscape, taxidermy, and the idea of a “natural body”An innovative book-length poem that delves into the intricacies of natural history dioramas, taxidermy, landscape, and women naturalists, Her Wilderness ...
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Poems in the rough
A collection of Valéry’s prose poemsPaul Valéry began writing poems in various forms of prose and free verse as early as 1892, with Pure Dramas, and continued to do so throughout his life, even during his so-called period of silence, when he had given up writing formal verse. This volume of Valér...
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On poetry, culture, and democracy
“Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.”—Robert LowellTwo important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorFor Robert Pinsky, poetry’s individual, human scale...
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Poems
An authoritative bilingual edition of the great French poetPaul Valéry was one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This bilingual volume, which features the English translations facing the French texts, demonstrates the wide range of Valéry’s poetry, from lyric masterpieces such...
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Faust i & ii
The definitive English version of a timeless masterpieceOne of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe’s most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man’s pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense varie...
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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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Why the assembly disbanded
Pushing the boundaries of Latinx literature and what constitutes a borderlands poetics.Throughout Roberto Tejada’s body of work, the renowned poet and celebrated critic has explored themes of Latinx culture, politics, history, language, and ecologies. In his latest collection, Why the Assembly Di...
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Nocturama
A dazzling second collection from “an immensely gifted poet” (Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine).Spanning Appalachia to California, Will Brewer’s new poems attempt to make sense of some of life’s darkest turns: a father’s bout with leukemia, the slog of mental illness, a friend’s early deat...
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A fire in her brain
A profound and moving sequence of poems exploring genius and mental illness through the lives of Lucia Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath A Fire in Her Brain examines the porous boundary between the spark of genius and a mind in conflagration in the lives and works of Lucia Joyce, Virginia W...
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Dares paradise
Two long poems by eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic poet, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, revived and reintroduced for twenty-first century Anglophone readersLittle of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair’s biography can be confirmed other than his work as a teacher in Scotland’s Ardnamurchan Peni...
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Wild indigo
A stunning poetic narrative about a painter and his lover living on a former Southern slave plantationWild Indigo is a remarkable poetic debut—a lyric narrative set on a former slave plantation in rural Louisiana, where love, art, and history exert competing claims. The speaker, a Black painter, ...
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Well waiting room
A collection of poems that contemplate the bureaucracy of the mind through interior political cabinetsTaking its name from the banal, purgatorial space outside (but inside) a doctor’s office, Well Waiting Room imagines the conversations we have with ourselves at this liminal site as an exchange ...
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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,...
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Cathay
An extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound’s Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916), complete with manuscript sources and the Chinese originals and Pound’s article “Chinese Poetry. Filled out by essays by Haun Saussy, Christopher Bush, and Timothy Billings, this edition resit...
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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...
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The shield of achilles
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately desig...
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Hawk of the mind
Yang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. Hawk of the Mind is a comprehensive collection of Yang Mu’s poetry that presents crucial works from the many stages of his long creative career, rendered into English by a team of distinguished translators, illustrating the distinctive style ...
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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...
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The ghetto, and other poems
At last recovered in this enriching annotated edition, this important but neglected work of American modernism offers a unique poetic encounter with the Jewish communities in New York’s Lower East Side.
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Four reincarnations
Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnatio...
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Wandering mind and metaphysical thoughts
This English-Chinese bilingual edition is the complete first book of poems written by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian. His poems offer an array of snapshots over various themes where politics, dreams, and metaphysical concerns are mixed. With original art works by Gao, this collection advances hi...
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Ritsos in parentheses
Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Academy of American PoetsA bilingual edition of three major poetry collections by one of the most important Greek poets of the twentieth centuryOne of the most prolific and popular of modern Greek poets, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent pred...
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One big time
Lisa Fishman’s latest collection, One Big Time, is a stunning articulation of the author’s “journey-in-place” in the environs around a one-room cabin in Northeastern Ontario over a period of fourteen days in quarantine.Here is the author at her most exacting and exploratory, in poems that hew wit...
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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...
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Days when i hide my corpse in a cardboard box
Ruminations on Hong Kong and its ever-changing borders and dislocations
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Doppelgangbanger
Award-winning poet Cortney Lamar Charleston interrogates the intersections of race, masculinity, and politics through the lens of hip-hop.
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The seasons
Merrill Gilfillan projects an elegant cool, and ... a savage intensity.... He has the gift.--Poetry Project Newsletter
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A complex sentence
In A Complex Sentence, Marjorie Welish builds immersive intertextual environments as she questions the canon of modernist poetry and the ways we talk about poetics.In her sixth collection with Coffee House, Welish continues to explore rhetorical practices such as diagramming, inscription, and quo...
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Collected poems
Anne Stevenson's Collected Poems draws on sixteen previous collections to showcase the work of this major American and British poet.Rooted in close observation of the world and acute psychological insight, her poems continually question how we see and think about the world. They are incisive as w...
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How to laugh
New work from one of the brightest and most radical contemporary British poets.
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Greatest hits
compost mortem.
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Grass roots
Xiang Yang’s poetry stands as elegant testimony to the contemporary Taiwan experience and identity, imbued with cultural details.
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Breathing technique
Knežević fearlessly addresses contemporary concerns (refugees, colonialism, women’s issues) and personal ones (love, life’s choices) with poignancy and wit.
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The summer of dead birds
A queer poet documents depression and grief in this autobiographical novel-in-verse. how does a person dislodge the scenesthat burn inside them like arsoned cars? Ali Liebegott is reeling from a fresh, painful divorce. She wallows in grief and overassigns meaning to everyday circumstance, clingi...
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Far out west
"39 poems of humour and duress, written while attending to remnants of childhood on satellite waves."
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Blood dazzler
A storm's-eye view of the devastation that forever changed New Orleans and America.
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Everything must go
Award-winning poet Kevin Coval and graphic artist Langston Allston bare witness to the effects of gentrification in a Chicago neighborhood.
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My village
A farmer and environmentalist poet who writes of rural life in Taiwan in simple, colloquial poems that depict his vanishing world.
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Night truck driver
A rebel “outsider” poet reflects on life, evil, love, and death, while “observing the advance of darkness.”
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Floral mutter
A math teacher living 1,000 miles from the literary center of Beijing offers daring, restless nature sonnets, free verse, and genre-bending prose poems.
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October dedications
A major English-language collection by one of the seminal figures of the "Misty" Chinese poets.
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The breakbeat poets vol. 4
A BreakBeat Poets anthology that opposes silence and re-mixes the soundtrack of the Latinx diaspora across diverse poetic traditions.
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Enthusiasm
Poetry that seeks to know the worlds we live in.
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I can almost see the clouds of dust
Enigmatic and sensual, Yu Xiang's writings place her at the forefront of contemporary Chinese poetry
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Lorca: selected poems
A new dual-language edition of poems from Spain’s greatest modern poet and dramatist.Federico García Lorca was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was by then an immensely popular figure, celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, ...
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Smoking lovely
Smoking Lovely is one of the foundational texts of anti-gentrification Nuyorican literature, inspiring a whole generation of poets in their attempts to survive and subvert the neoliberal city.
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