A Brilliant And Unsparing Examination Of America In The Early Twenty-first Century, Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely Invents A New Genre To Confront The Particular Loneliness And Rapacious Assault On Selfhood That Our Media Have Inflicted Upon...

Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize A Reading the West Book Award Finalist From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the...

An aching meditation on the cyclical nature of grief and memory’s limited capacity to preserve everything time takes from us.How does one make sense of loss—personal and collective? When language and memory are at capacity, where do we turn? Confronted...

An authoritative volume representing the vast oeuvre of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and visionary poets.Widely regarded as some of the most important and innovative poetry from postwar Europe, Tomaž Šalamun’s work offers a singularly...

**Winner of the 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award** An affordable paperback edition of Arthur Sze's Collected Works--which includes many new poems--by one of the most astonishing poets writing today. The Glass Constellation is a...

Veering between past and present, between ecological destruction and human violence, What Comes Back is a search for what has vanished and what remains.Javier Peñalosa M.’s What Comes Back is a procession, a journey, a search for a body of water that has...

In her fourth collection, Nikki Wallschlaeger further proves herself as a singular poet of astonishing emotional depth and formal range.Hold Your Own is a steadfast search for peace, self acceptance, and pleasure in a world that makes those basic rights...

A lyrical masterpiece by the renowned poet with a “Whitman-like rhetorical immensity coupled with a passionately eccentric sensibility” (Carol Muske Dukes, Los Angeles Times)Sidetracks, Bei Dao’s first new collection in almost fifteen years, is also the...

The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova's 2020 stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor--the world had withdrawn from her, time had "gone numb." When she awoke from this state, she began to read...

A bristling, beautiful new collection from “the Dark Prince of American Poetry” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times). In So What, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike across the island of Manhattan, “illegal river to river, wap...

The second collection by "one of the most significant literary figures in the Caribbean" (The Globe and Mail).Assured but chance-inflected, ever rooted in the local but always world-aware, Console reconsiders languages, geographies, and memories as...

Pope's complex 1713 poem has been widely wielded in contemporary debate about colonialism and the nature of crime and society in Britain. Rogers' detailed analysis takes another tack, looking at the way the poem recalls earlier forms of royal panegyric...

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...

The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian "Helle's translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic cladding. . . . The growing popularity of Enheduana gives...

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catullus...

An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey“Searching and intimate, this impresses.”—Publishers WeeklyIn a shotgun house in Gulfport,...

A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated...