Award-winning essayist and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips presents a bracing renewal of civic poetry in Living Weapon.. . . and we’d do this againAnd again and again, without everKnowing we were the weapon ourselves,Stronger than steel, story, and hydrogen...

A darkly humorous collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and ProsperityIf Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe...

Three Poems, Hannah Sullivan’s debut collection, which won the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize, reinvents the long poem for a digital age.“You, Very Young in New York” paints the portrait of a great American city, paying close attention to grand designs as well...

Winner of the 2022 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for PoetryIn a new collection that is "a force of nature" (Amy Gerstler), renowned Native poet Heid E. Erdrich applies her rich inventive voice and fierce wit to the deforming effects of...

Selected by Kazim Ali as a winner of the 2019 National Poetry Series, Thrown in the Throat “gloriously stakes new territory in queerness.”Finalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardA Boston Globe Best Book of 2020A Lambda Literary “Most Anticipated...

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world. Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has...

Winner of the 2020 Read Russia PrizeA new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony WoodA Penguin ClassicPushkin's The Bronze Horseman, based on the statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg and the great flood of...

"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life -- yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing...

A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest...

The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).Since 1988, The Best...

Elie Wiesel’s heartbreaking narrative poem about history, immortality, and the power of song, accompanied by magnificent full-color illustrations by award-winning artist Mark Podwal. Based on an actual event that occurred during World War II.It is the...

Poetry. "A fearless exploration of how to proceed with inhabiting our language, when our words and our beloved lucid and reasonable sentences no longer seem to adhere to a common notion of reality. This poet is opened up to the fluid nature of our...

Poems that examine the creative achievements of the human hand, from cave art to contemporary photography.John Reibetanz's twelfth collection, By Hand, begins with an epigraph from Lewis Mumford: "Until modern times, apart from the esoteric knowledge of...

Poems that highlight an excess, an emptiness, and a wilderness on the other side of use.In Unidentified Poetic Object, his twelfth collection of poetry, Brian Henderson strikes from language an "alphabet of lightning": an animacy and urgency in which...

Poetry. In Ish Klein's fourth full-length poetry collection, THE NEW SUN TIME, the poet's immense heart and kaleidoscopic talents are on display in powerful poems about the love, terror, humor, and music of the shared world.

Winner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein AwardWinner, 2021 Ohioana Book Award in PoetryWinner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in PoetryBe Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and ‘80s as a...

Khaled Mattawa’s poetry contains “the complexity of a transnational identity” (MacArthur Fellowship citation)Fugitive Atlas is a sweeping, impassioned account of refugee crises, military occupations, and ecological degradation, an acute and probing...

A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poetThough Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon’s thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and...

A bilingual collection of poetry, from elegies to poem memoirs, by a revered French master.For more than four decades Claire Malroux has blazed a unique path in contemporary French poetry. She is influenced by such French poets as Mallarmé and Yves...

A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers.Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable...