Starred Review in Publishers Weekly: "Through the cadence of these poems, which sometimes resemble lullabies in their dreaminess and gorgeous lyricism, Landau captures the ways humans persist, despite our collective anxiety, in our longing for 'something...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for PoetryThe 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn ForchéWhen I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter whatthe current gives. When we reach the...

Dark humor in bit size pieces. Short, concise descriptive true accounts of real people. Some may sound like your relatives others you will be glad you never met. As seen online. "Briefs" the book, now available in paperback.

Book by Asekoff, L. S.

A Point Is That Which Has No Part is a book about strangeness, about making the vision strange enough that truth will reveal itself. The music of the mind is brought into congruence with the music of the page, or the arbitrary but beautiful and delicate...

Poems deal with the past, mortality, war, Europe, spring, America, travel, identity, meaning, and language

Generous, penetrating, relentlessly sonic poems that record the creative potential of the body and the boundaries of the self.

Drawing equally from Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, John Berryman, and Robert Frost, Samuel Amadon’s award-winning Like a Sea is a collection of poems where personality is foregrounded and speech is both bizarre and familiar. Central to this weirdly...

Playfully invading the traditional territories of poetry, Sally Van Doren throws into question form, subject matter, and the sound and meaning of words. The poems in Sex at Noon Taxes mix straightforward narrative, midwestern vernacular, and linguistic...

“Gerald Stern is the most expansively celebratory poet in years. He is akin to a natural force.”―Georgia Review The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the same passion and swiftness as Gerald Stern’s previous work, move into an area of...

The work of this “eminent, still-wild spirit of Central Europe” (Publishers Weekly) continues to electrify. In The Blue Tower, language is remade with tenderness and abandon: “Rommel was kissing heaven’s dainty hands and yet / from his airplane above the...

This translation of all the poems in the main body of the work of George extensively revises the first publication of The Works of Stefan George which appeared in 1949. The editors have also expanded the volume, adding a number of George's early poems...

The Ardors is the work of a brilliant thinker as well as a poet of profound emotional and religious feeling. Taking as its starting-point the word 'Pearl," she uses language to delve aggressively but with great elegance into the nature of the human soul,...

Over the past 25 years, Twichell's reputation and reach has broadened with each new book. She is a poet whose books are anticipated and consistently receive stellar national review attention: "A major voice in contemporary poetry."--Publishers Weekly "A...

A radical, urgent collection of poems about Blackness, the self, and the dismantling of corrupt powers in the fight for freedom. A PEN America Literary Award WinnerJonah Mixon-Webster works at the intersections of space and the body, race and region,...

WINNER OF THE 2007 CAVE CANEM POETRY PRIZESelected by Claudia RankineProse poems that profile the interrelationship of the two central characters, looking deeply into their psyches and thoughts of race, class, and identity.

In these poems, Wheeler's focus is on the language of poetry. Convinced that language is itself formative, that it "makes" us, Wheeler does not hesitate to question her own voice and to offer the reader a choice of voices.