With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan WarComposed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war...

H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies...

A lyrical collection that explores the interplay between poetry and historyIn her new collection, Fiona Sze-Lorrain offers a nuanced yet dynamic vision of humanity marked by perils, surprises, and the transcendence of a "ruined elegance." Through an...

A new collection about violence and the rural Midwest from a poet whose first book was hailed as “memorable” (Stephanie Burt, Yale Review) and “impressive” (Chicago Tribune)Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we...

An inventive and observant collection of lyric poems from the Princeton Series of Contemporary PoetsWith skillful rhetoric and tempered lyricism, the poems in A Glossary of Chickens explore, in part, the struggle to understand the world through the...

The final book of poems from a Beat Generation legend, Mule Kick Blues finds McClure restlessly innovating until the end. "Intelligent, affable and flecked with unconventional typography--as in previous books ... Mule Kick Blues is an estimable coda to a...

Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima's classic Revolutionary Letters on the one-year anniversary...

Expanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals on the one-year anniversary of her passing. By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a...

A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.“Vivid and haunting . . . a model of how to render Latin poetry in English...

For centuries, cats have been worshipped, adored and mistrusted in equal measure. This beautiful gift book contains a selection of essays, stories, and poems on cats by writers from across the ages.In these pages, writers reflect on the curious feline...

A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator.Winner of the American Literary Translators Association...

An epic, single-poem tribute to the spirit of women, this is the first complete and final translation of the great Mexican poet's magnum opus.Forty-four years in the making, Migrations is considered by critics to be a masterpiece of modern Mexican...

Book by Galler, David

Book by Galler, David

Book by Inez, Colette

Review Another Spring Back And Forth Before And After The Beginning Bodies And Souls By Day They Are Singular And Often Lonely Circles Within Circles Complications Conquest A Day When Life Is As It Was Before The World The Door, The Doorway Down...

Anne Hérbert: Selected Poems is the first bilingual collection of poetry by this major world poet.

An award-winning gathering of exquisite poems by a celebrated poet.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992)Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992)The Selected Poems James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British...