A Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Though known primarily as a poet, Fernando Pessoa, a writer of "remarkable genius" (Washington Post) wrote prose widely, in several languages and in every genre. Now newly expanded and revised...

I have a Name is a vital engagement with life and an unflinching stare at death, concluding that love transcendent is a reality,Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1997)The wondrous subtlety of David Ignatow's art is brought to bear on the...

Poetry. A collection of poems from the author of Beginning with O, for which she won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1976.

Tina Modotti, know to a few as the beautiful Italian actress in Erich von Stroheim's silent film Greed, was also a dedicated political activist and photographer whose best work has a powerful dignity and integrity. She lived with Edward Weston in...

Poems portray the author's experiences and explore a variety of themes, including dreams, flight, music and sports

Andrew Hudgins imagines himself in the life of a now largely forgotten poet, Sidney Lanier, who served as a soldier for the Confederacy.

By Mark Jarman.

“Bonfire is a passionate, controlled book by an extraordinary poet. First is evident the lucidity of intelligence; then the radiance; and finally the sheer power.”—Josephine Jacobsen"From deep places, these poems allow things to well up: memory, love,...

Text: English (translation) Original Language: Polish

Book by Morgan, Robert

With a quiet eloquence, the poems in Long Walks in the Afternoon follow “the deep imagination’s long tap into the dark”―inward toward the still and radiant center of the self. But Margaret Gibson’s poetry is not self-serving or isolationist. She writes...

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Poems deal with marriage, love, music, travel, mortality, myth, nature, and the past

ALIVE AND TAKING NAMES is vivid in its imagery and metaphor. Mature in insight and frequently angry and daring, the collection is an appropriate sequel to Inez' award-winning THE WOMAN WHO LOVED WORMS, described the the New York Times as “Innovative,...

Poems deal with snow, the family, mortality, grief, torture, history, warfare, food, travel and vanity

Poems consider time, language, children, artists, history, nature, and dreams