Underground rivers

Studies in the hereafter

A disillusioned office bureaucrat in the afterlife has come to realize that maybe heaven isn't all it's cracked up to be. Bored by the endless routine of work, golf, and vegan food, he finds his one saving grace in his Field Studies: detailed reports he compiles on the living in order to determin...

Vanishing point

The seventh collection of poetry by seriocomic master William Trowbridge, “One of America's best and wittiest poets.”

Testify

A poignant and astonishing debut, Testify interrogates race in America without feigning easy answers. In these poems Manuel crafts ambivalent spaces that seek steady reconciliation between past and present, self and family, faith and skepticism. As racial tensions heighten across the count...

Possession

Poems for infidels

Rooftops of tehran

“In Sholeh Wolpe’s Rooftops of Tehran , an unforgettable cast of characters emerges, from the morality policeman with the poison razor blade to the crow-girls flapping their black garments, from the woman with the bee-swarm tattoo emerging from her crotch to the author as a young girl on a Tehran...

Power

Stories of the sky god

Spirits distilled

Sound

Sleep and death the dream

Swirl

The sun takes us away

As burning leaves

Winner of the 2015 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award selected by Carl Phillips, As Burning Leaves offers spaciousness and breath. Both homesick and sick of home, it chronicles a landscape of longing scored with traces of film, contemporary art, and song. Vivid and vital, Jesiolowski’s queer in...

Song for chance

Snake: second wind

Snake: Second Wind continues the apocalyptic narrative introduced in its prequel, Snake, where all organic forms are destroyed by the planet Earth in a retributive act of self defense. From these destroyed forms the genderless eternal voice of snake is born. In Second Wind the poems—with choral a...

Something indecent

When rain hurts: an adoptive mother's journey with fetal alcohol syndrome

Some help from the dead

The yellow door

The walled wife

A woman is buried alive so a church might rise—this ancient tradition of immuring women alive continues today—Davis’s collection The Walled Wife attempts to tear those walls down.

When the world breaks open

In this poignant and unabashed self-examination, Seema Reza uncovers the lessons she learned through motherhood and a failed marriage, and how she used her discoveries to make a meaningful difference in the world.

The world's smallest bible

The red bowl

What does Diablo do after he becomes a telephone phone in the desert? Why is the smallest of the tarantulas frozen to the boulders after midnight, while the other spiders play baseball with the old man Jose? Who loved Scarletta better than angels? The Red Bowl is an archetypal fable in first pers...

Dementia, my darling

As with Constantine's previous titles, Dementia, My Darling can be enjoyed at random or in order. However, when taken in sequence, the poems construct a thesis on life as we remember it from moment to moment. What is your first memory of love? How soon will you forget answering that question?

The meaning of names

2014 OMAHA READS SELECTION 2016 ONE BOOK, ONE NEBRASKA WINNER Stuart, Nebraska is a long way from the battlefields of Western Europe, but it is not immune to the horrors of the first Great War for Peace. Like all communities, it has lost sons and daughters to the fighting, with many more giving...

Death of a circus

Modern love and other tall tales

Vocabulary of silence

The luckless age

The size of our bed

In these poems are letters to a dead husband, Armenian, English/German ancestry, marriage, illness and death, recovery and the bloody spine of war, always war, with hard won wisdom, acceptance and protest.

My life in clothes

Daphne’s lot

Misread city

New hope for the dead

We did not fear the father

Snake

In Snake, Snake is the last thing left alive. HeÆs all that remains of our voices. The bodies of all living animals and plants have escaped down the Dreaming Way, leaving behind a residual ego trapped inside Snake: the sole survivor the Earth must destroy to complete the cleanse and start over....

News & selected poems

What the willow said as it fell

This book-length poem by the current Poet Laureate of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Andrea Scarpino, asks the reader to sit with and inside the body's many losses, to grow comfortable and restless in its vagaries, and to acknowledge the myriad ways the body shapes and informs our lives. Incorporati...

Did pirates rip her arms off?

Vampire planet

Vampire Planet is an eclectic, witty, and often moving New & Selected collection of poems from a writer whom former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins calls “the wisest, most entertaining wise guy in American poetry.”

What does a house want?

Devilfish

Necessary deaths

Adroitly told, Geoffrey Clark's collection of stories Necessary Deaths will appeal to anyone who has faced difficult choices regarding the care of animals. Mr. Clark's characters struggle to learn how to let go and confront loss. His stories examine the themes of violation of innocence, and the a...

The scarlet libretto

More daring escapes

Obliterations

Every day we are forced to integrate the world's news into our personal lives; we all have to decide what parts of the flood of news resonate with us and what we need to turn away from, out of necessity or sensitivity. Obliterations—a collection of erasure poems that use The New York Times as the...

Mystery bruise

The traveler's vade mecum

Everyman's meets Twitter. Most anthologies gather poems already written. This is a crowd-sourced compilation of new poems, inspired by a tweet that linked the anthologist to an historical document. It's a compendium of new works by sixty-five poets, including some of the most celebrated working t...