A wondrous collection from Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of The Rain in Portugal “The poems are marked by his characteristic humor and arise out of small, banal moments, unearthing the extraordinary or...

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...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“A comprehensive biography of . . . one of the most acclaimed poets of her generation and a face of American feminism.”—New York TimesA major American writer, thinker, and activist, Adrienne Rich (1929–2012)...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The #1 bestselling and beloved poetry anthology, now in paperback! "Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection." -Margaret Renkl, New York Times "A lovely book to take with you...

The twentieth-anniversary edition of the influential first poetry collection by Richard Siken An Atlantic choice for "Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)" Since winning the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, Crush has...

John Koethe unravels timeless questions of death, math, meaning, and much more in this mesmerizing collection.John Koethe, one of our most philosophically sophisticated poets, has written a book of pithy, contentious, witty poems about our perennial,...

In award-winning poet Robin Walter’s debut collection, Little Mercy, writing and looking―seeing feelingly―become a practice in radical care. These poems pursue moments of shared recognition, when looking up to see a deer across a stream, or when sunlight...

Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth collection is a book as lustrous as the metal of its title. This beautiful, slender collection—small and weighted like a coin—is Rowan Ricardo Phillips at his very best. These luminous, unsparing, dreamlike poems are as...

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best CollectionFinalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPRNamed One of the Best Poetry Collections of the Year by The Guardian, Literary Hub, and...

In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti cofounded City Lights, the first paperback bookstore in the United States, a Mecca for millions. His Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling volumes of poetry by any living American poet. Born in Yonkers, New...

In Noah Ross's new book THE DOGS, Ross opens the question of authority and possession in what he deems an illicit act of translation. THE DOGS may begin with Herve Guibert's Les Chiens, but through multiple reiterations of translation, Guibert's text...

Black Box Named Like To Me Challenges The Limits Of Syntax And Image To Hold The Full Scope Of The Imaginary In Its Grasp, Touching On Questions Of Motherhood, The Future, Memory, And The Acquisition Of Language. The Page Is A Zone For Play, Here, Both...

Longlisted Pat Lowther AwardA revolutionary call to arms wherein the arms are love, art, self-definition, and community care as an alternative to so-called care under carceral capitalism. Borrowing and disrupting the forms of patient records, psychiatric...

"Where fear collides with the little shield of love."Manahil Bandukwala's second collection of poems is a meditation on love during times of social and political upheaval. As a sunflower's growth reaches toward the sun, so, she suggests, is a lover's...

A dazzling new double-bill about being alive these times, by Paul Killebrew, who John Ashbery said "plunges us into a world we inhabit but seldom notice, forcing its horror on us but also reminding us why we go on coping with it." Paul Killebrew's new...

In October 2023, upon witnessing the escalation of Palestinian genocide, Ktunaxa poet Smokii Sumac began writing poems reflecting on the stories of Palestinians in Gaza who were risking their lives to share news of the genocide of Palestinian culture,...

Collected for the first time, four landmark works of queer experimental poetry by reclusive cult poet David Melnick, known for his prowess with invented language and sound poetry.David Melnick's Nice: Collected Poems spans twenty crucial years of gay...

Ece Temelkuran is arguably Turkey’s most accomplished young writer. In Book of the Edge, she describes an allegorical journey wherein the speaker, or explorer, encounters strange creatures, including a butterfly, bull, swordfish, sow bug, and cruel city...