A stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I.Deep-dyed in language both sensuous and biblical, Ishion Hutchinson's School of Instructions memorializes the experience of West Indian soldiers...

Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry PrizeA New Yorker Essential Read Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric LiteratureA formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the...

In a career-spanning selection of poems, August Kleinzahler captures the essence of the West's greatest music.In A History of Western Music, August Kleinzahler’s rhythmic, wry, kinetic style captures the ineffable power and beauty of great songs and...

"A marvelous book of generous, giving poems." ―Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Everyday Mojo Songs of EarthFar District, the transporting debut by the author of House of Lords and Commons, charts the spiritual path of a poet-speaker caught between two...

A poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, chosen as a National Poetry Series winner by Morgan Parker"Willis’ poetic voice is brimming with personality and curiosity, as musical as it is...

Chronicles the period--from 1912 to 1915--that Frost spent in England, tracing his poetic development and his meeting with important literary figures of the day; including Pound and Yeats

Following the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty of Black relationships, language, and community. In her debut poetry collection, Brittany Rogers explores the audacity of Black...

Best Books of 2023: TIME, Electric LiteratureFrom Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence comes this unflinching collection that intricately mines the experience of being a Black woman in America. Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L...

When Michael Palma's translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante's intricate terza rima form simply could not be rendered in "rhyme-poor" English. But Palma's...

A landmark literary event, What Remains collects Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre—never before published in English—into a single edition. The German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) is world-renowned for her work on totalitarianism,...

A landmark volume of essays from “Ireland’s leading feminist poet” (New York Times Book Review) that celebrates a transformative vision of womanhood, nation, and poetry.Eavan Boland was a trailblazing poet, critic, teacher, and essayist. Carving a path...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one's relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world," Elizabeth Willis writes in her visionary work that delves deep into...

A gorgeous fusion of poetry and image by “one of the foremost poets of our time” (The Christian Science Monitor).“A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth”―Dunya MikhailIn her marvelous new poetry collection Tablets:...

An innovative and accessible guide to writing and reading poetry by an acclaimed poet and beloved professor of poetry. What makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? In Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens, acclaimed poet and teacher Paisley Rekdal...

SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JOYCE CAROL OATESBetween them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche....Dickinson never...

The collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities. Halal If You Hear Me features poems by Safia Elhillo, Fatimah...

In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim...

When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York...

Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke's distinctive voice and vision--where clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery and first-person poetry discovers its full lyric...