“One of the best-read men in the Western world” is how Poetry Review describes Irish poet-critic Dennis O’Driscoll. Quote Poet Unquote, his compilation of contemporary quotations on all things poetry-
Known throughout Europe for her live performances, Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic young poet who writes in Belarusian, working explicitly to reestablish the traditional language of her homeland. Mort's p
"Schafer makes Huerta, who might be seen as 'difficult,' accesible to readers without sacrificing any of the startling images, leaps of meaning, and emotional resonance the poet uses to great effect..
"...spare, psalmlike poems....Together, the poems in this beautifully translated selection...provide us with the autobiography of a poet who felt most at home during winter, in solitude. Hauge deserve
One of the best-selling English-language translations of the Taoteching.?A refreshing new translation. . . . Highly recommended.”?Library Journal?With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of
“Connie Wanek . . . is superb, mature [and] a master of mood and language.”—St. Paul Pioneer Press“No poet I know, with the exception of Jane Kenyon, is as able to discover the magic and depth in ordi
“James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry.”—The Nation"Galvin's poems seem straightforward enough—but they're not....Galvin writes here like a f
"Discursive yet aglitter with images, often abstract and yet insistently regional, the ninth collection from the Arizona-based Rios includes something for almost everyone."—Publishers Weekly"Wonderful
“Classically elegant.”—The New York Times Book ReviewSze's free verse emphasizes at once how difficult, and how necessary, it is for us to imagine our world as a system whose ecologies and societies r
For James Richardson, poetry is speculative and serious play. By the Numbers captivates with its range of line and movement, its microlyrics, crypto-quatrains, and "ten-second essays," its aphorisms
Poems look at mortality, loss, and human impermanence through explorations of topics ranging from Tibetan Buddhist burial rites to Aztec human sacrifice.
"Trakl's poetry is amazing. His reader is gifted with visions of a darker world, an autumnal place of surreal beauty and a dying splendor. It is not a world friendly to people?it is full of death, des
The ChoirI walk and I rest while the eyes of my dead look through my own, inaudible hosannas greet the panorama charged serene and almost ultraviolet with so much witness. Holy the sea, the palpitatin
Alternating between the loveable irrascibility and self-mocking humor reminiscent of the poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan), Budbill's poems view the modern world from the viewpoint of a New England hermit
Half RoundelI make no prayer For the spoilt season, The weed of Eden. I make no prayer. Save us the green In the weed of time.Now is November; In night uneasy Nothing I say. I make no prayer. Save us
