Mana Van Duyn's most recent collection is splendidly varied: witty, moving, sometimes astonishing. As Howard Nemerov said of her last book, "It is not only that the best of her poems teaches us so much about life, but that life, over a long time, teaches...

"One of our indispensable poets." ―Miami Herald In his fourteenth collection of poems, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn reveals his concerns, ranging from meditations on salvation and time to the difficulties and pleasures of loving in this "already...

With a powerful introduction by Ross Gay and a moving afterword by Sidney Clifton, this special anniversary edition ofThe Book of Light offers new meditations and insights on one of the most beloved voices of the 20th century.Though The Book of Light...

A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead—to be published simultaneously with his latest work of literary criticism, Watch Your LanguageThe three sections of Terrance...

Named a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick“Among the year's highlights . . . groundbreaking, epic . . . Like visitors exiting the Met’s galleries, readers will emerge from Information Desk bedazzled by the...

Beloved and bestselling poet Jack Prelutsky and New York Times Best Illustrated artist Carin Berger team up to create a new collection of silly, strange, and sensational animal poems! Told through couplets and visually arresting shadow boxes, dioramas,...

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream―and work―toward a more capacious "we"In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes towards openings for the collective dreaming of a more...

In this intimate collection of poetry, spells are cast, hearts are broken, and prayers go unanswered.Sad Sexy Catholic follows the journey of a young twenty-something as she navigates the already difficult task of existing made even harder by trauma,...

Excisions investigates the feeling--the problem and the syntax--of being on a threshold. If you don't know what will happen next, you can't yet say what has happened. These poems arise from states of precise unknowing, desperate imagination, inchoate...

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America’s most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected.These poems celebrating black womanhood and...

Delivered in Young’s classic bluesy tone, this powerful collection of poems about the American family, smoky Southern food, and the losses that time inevitably brings “bristles with life, nerve and, best of all, wit” (San Francisco Chronicle).

The most comprehensive collection of modern Chinese poetry in English translation available today This volume--a completely overhauled and updated version of Michelle Yeh's 1992 classic Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry--brings together modern poetry...

First of two volumes describing the life and work of Wordsworth.

Not Yet by Stanley Moss is best described metaphorically: it is a freight train loaded with poetry that includes Poems on China (Stanley Moss taught English in China thirty years ago), a compartment of Two Raw Fish Poems from Japan, then there's an extra...

"Ovid's Metamorphoses is the original source for classical mythology. Combining the best-known versions of tales from Icarus to Medusa, Ovid's epic compendium of Greco-Roman legend has exerted an influence on European art and culture rivaled only by the...

In this special edition of Jericho Brown’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Tradition,you are invited to participate in an urgent dialogue―sparked by poetry―about what it means to be human. Including a discussion guide and an interview with the author, The...

Debut collection of poems that weaves stories of family history, war, and migration. Dong Li’s The Orange Tree is a collection of narrative poems that braids forgotten legends, personal sorrows, and political upheavals into a cinematic account of...