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A meditation on damage, aging, and injustice from a poet whose work "live[s] in a realm of classical purity" (Anthony Hecht). Hindsight arises from a tormented time in our country's history. Some poems contemplate the shocks of the COVID-19 assault...

A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award winnerAlgarabía follows Cenex, a trans being who narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf. An inhabitant of a colony of Earth...

*2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Longlist*The New Economy memorializes the world's pleasures and perils told through the point of view of an aging, ungendered body.A devotional to the ungendered vessel as it ages, dreams, and survives. A practice of radical...

A reckoning with psychological and ecological crises from a poet whose work has been praised as “beautiful and riveting” (Los Angeles Review of Books)A poetic representation of PTSD and its evocative bewilderments, Paula Bohince’s mesmerizing new...

An “astounding” (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems – Winner of the National Poetry Series CompetitionIn this ­­­powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health...

The debut collection from a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient whose “astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable” (Tracy K. Smith)   The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett’s mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, presents songs...

I Do Know Some Things is a brave book, both in content and method. It is brave to write about childhood scars and the heartbreak the dead leave behind. It is brave to reconfigure one's life in the aftermath of a stroke. Richard Siken presents these...

A collection that explores the beauty of survival in the face of upheaval and loss. Marina Carreira's Dead Things and Where to Put Them shares the hardships of marriage and motherhood during a pandemic. The exploration of loss within the context of...

A collection of poetry showcasing the diversity of subjects and forms in Yau's writing. This collection brings together work from half a century of writing by John Yau. Preoccupied with forms and musical structures, Yau's work includes sestinas,...

In his extraordinary second collection, poet Jeffrey Pethybridge confronts the ethical disaster of the torture program that the United States used to advance the so-called global war on terror. The poems in Force Drift recall Gilles Deleuze's insight...

An irreverent and unapologetically Jersey meditation on friendship, family, aging, and gentrification. In The Jersey Slide, veteran poet and proud Hoboken resident Danny Shot revels in the quotidian richness of his experience as a first-generation...

An American long poem in three sections by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian that moves between decades of tumultuous life in New York City and explosive parts of the Middle East. In an inventive, elliptical language, New York Trilogy...

Poems set in a state of heavy surveillance as the speaker navigates uncertainty and shifting realities. Through the poems in Turncoat, Molly Bendall's sixth collection, the speaker and other figures dwell under the ever-present eye of surveillance by...

Afrofuturist poetry that envisions Black people finding new worlds of freedom. Following the traditions of Eve L. Ewing, Rio Cortez, and Douglas Kearney, jason b. crawford's YEET! envisions the Black community lifted off the earth and set free towards...

Prue Shaw's absorbing, highly accessible introduction to the Commedia promises to be the essential edition for years to come. The Commedia, Dante's epic story of one man's journey from the darkness and terror of hell to the revelation of divine light in...