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Theory for moving houses
You are asking me where I live and it’s making me think all these things about space, where I start and end in space and where space starts and ends in me and when, in space, I am a body and when I’m a book, in space. So begins Renee Gladman's Theory for Moving Houses, and with these lines we ...
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Pathemata, or, the story of my mouth
***Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay***Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009’s Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pa...
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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...
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Opera fever
The poems in Chelsey Minnis’s Opera Fever read like a dangerous bodice-ripper, glamorous and haunted. From the covid claustrophobia in which they were written, these poems sharply maneuver from steamy observations to gravitas (and then some groaning under the fur coats../Let's be very hard on vei...
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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...
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Listen to the golden boomerang return
Following their book AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry), CAConrad's Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return shifts its attention from the previous book’s focus on communing with animals who are extinct toward communicating and caring...
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Mirror nation
***Winner of the 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry***Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award–winning DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020).Much like Proust's madeleine, a spinning Mercedez ...
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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...
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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...
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Bluets
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A Guardian Book of the Year A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has ent...
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Ecodeviance
Twenty-three new (Soma)tic exercises and rituals for creating an "extreme present" and their resulting poems.
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A beautiful marsupial afternoon
"This mechanistic world has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry."—CAConrad
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The book of frank
A portrait equal parts hope and cruelty, this searing, compelling book is an enduring fan favorite by Philadelphia-based poet CAConrad.
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Madness, rack, and honey
Cultural criticism meets poetry memoira contemporary master reflects on a life dedicated to poetry.
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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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The book
Following the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle’s latest prose publication The Book, now in softcover.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle’s legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) “the patron saint of childhood and the everyday.” 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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I imagine i been science fiction always
Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeMinnesota Book Award winnerA Best Book of 2025 by the New York Public LibraryOn the heels of Sho (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and Optic Subwoof (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney's visual poetry masterpiece, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Alway...
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The passenger
In his latest collection, Toronto-based poet Dale Martin Smith invites us into a vivid lyric landscape, a looping personal voyage of reckoning and return.In a series of spare evocative poems, framed by two lyric essays, Smith presents a search for meaning in terms of memory, the self, and nationa...
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Mother
Dorothea Lasky’s stunning new collection of poems presents an unfurling, terrifying, and fiercely loving embodiment of motherhood as a force of creation.Inspired by Bernadette Mayer’s The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, Lasky writes from the inner realm of a third pregnancy and gu...
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Feel recordings in the evershift
In richly immersive and sonically engaging poems, American Book Award winner Edwin Torres sculpts language toward a landing place for sensorial and ecological input.Torres’s new collection, feel recordings in the evershift, investigates ecology and the body as fields of perception, seeking to rec...
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Preserving fire
Texts that elucidate the poetics of a major American poet at the center of the vibrant Beat and Surrealist movements.
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Something for everybody
A diverse set of poems from a deeply connected New York poet writing from the center of the contemporary.
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Experience in groups
Poems that reimagine poetry’s ancient dream of collective life from within the nightmare and necessities of our present.
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Body & glass
This poet's formal experiments once again bring into relief the beauties and absurdities from the dead past as they live on in our present age.
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The most of it
Delectable fables with questionable morals--sweet and sharp and over too soon.
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My private property
A new collection of exciting and vivacious prose poems, essays, and more in-between from lauded poet Mary Ruefle.
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Blood snow
Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer PrizeListed in The Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books of 2022Longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in PoetryAmerican Book Award–winning poet dg okpik’s second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion,...
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One morning—
A sharp new collection in response to a kaleidoscopic modern culture by a defining poet of her generation.
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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.
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The tiniest muzzle sings songs of freedom
With poetic play and an ardent humanity, Magdalena Zurawski wrestles with the global and constant struggle for justice inherent to contemporary life.
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Love three
A thought-provoking, sustained meditation on sex, love, power, and poetry.
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God's green earth
Visionary poems from a masterful poet guiding imagination and language through the daily sublime.
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The shore
Capacious works that explore social and political strife with simultaneous tenderness and strength.
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Dmz colony
A powerful work of cultural memory that recovers voices from Korea's heartbreakingly violent postcolonial history.
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Animal days
Brilliantly assembled poetic fragments elucidate the undone and chaotic experiences surrounding a body in the midst of illness.
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Underworld lit
An epic journey through multiple hells taking place just below the surface of a college professor’s day-to-day life.
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Scenes of life at the capital
A much-needed portable edition of Philip Whalen's inimitable masterpiece.
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The sky contains the plans
Poems that speak the literal language of dreams.
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Dunce
A stunning new collection of poems from Mary Ruefle inviting the many readers of her prose to discover the central form of her literary imagination.
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The problem of the many
In his highly anticipated third book, Timothy Donnelly considers our fraught present from a perspective at once epic and personal.
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Animal
The third book in Wave’s Bagley Wright Lecture Series presenting the vibrant and generous poetics of Dorothea Lasky.
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Woods and clouds interchangeable
Humorous and wildly inventive poems from a master of absurdist poetic theater.
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Hear trains
Masterful poems that guide readers through the interconnections of natural and readerly life as it is powerfully expressed in the dynamic resonances of language.
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Soundmachine
Rachel Zucker sweeps all the corners in this maximalist project of poems and prose, navigating love, loss, and personal and political despair.
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Grief sequence
With staggering emotional honesty, Prageeta Sharma confronts the sudden loss of her spouse to cancer.
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