“Dennis O’Driscoll . . . is one of the most interesting poets now writing in English.”—Adam Kirsch, Slate"Dennis O'Driscoll has produced an extraordinary body of work...Some of his poems have already
This first complete English translation of Pablo Neruda's Fin de mundo (World's End) appears in a bilingual edition by noted Neruda translator William O'Day.In this book-length poem, Neruda confronts
“[A] confident, mystical, expansive project.”—Publishers Weekly“[D]azzling and timeless . . . focus is so unwaveringly aimed toward the transcendent—not God, but the beloved—that we seem to slip into
“A book by Joseph Stroud is a rare and exciting event.”—The Bloomsbury Review"In just four books since the 1960s, the calm, California-based writer—whose works also describe his travels in Vietnam, La
“Progressive, passionate, and unfailingly feminist, Kaufman is a breathtakingly fine poet.”—The Nation“If someone is going to be exalted as a representative voice of Jewish or Israeli life in contempo
"I bite my eyes shut between these songs." So begins Flood Song, a concentrated, interweaving, painterly sequence in which Native tradition scrapes against contemporary urban life. In his second book
The poems in Preliminary Report vary in form from short personal lyrics to prose poems and long meditative pieces, and in subject from global politics to philosophy, mysticism, love and family, Strang
“Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination . . . [he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal
“[Twichell’s] poems generate the requisite heat with the poet’s precise, original and frequently brilliant use of language. . . . A major voice in contemporary poetry.” —Publishers Weekly“[Twichell’s
Norway's Rolf Jacobsen is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers yet, as Robert Bly points out in his introduction: "This magnificent poet is so little known in the United States." This bilingual edit
Contradiction and ambiguity are essential to the poetry of Madeline DeFrees. Her work is concentrated, multi-layered, spliced with humor and characterized by a passionate interest in every aspect of w
Cesare Pavese was one of Italy’s great post-war writers. His poetry was revolutionary—both artistically and politically—rejecting the verbal and philosophical constraints of tradition and utilizing di
“One can only wish for more poets like David Lee.”—Chowder ReviewSet in the American Southwest, So Quietly the Earth is a book of landscape meditations on philosophical, theological and environmental
“Her poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness, their humor, their youthfulness, their wild aptness, their strangeness, their sudden familiarity, the authority of their insights, the moral
An unruly paean to American poetry, Cooling Time blurs the divisions between poem, memoir, and essay, while borrowing regularly from the peculiarities and backwaters of the American idiom. The book's
The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth’s poems of nature and prote
“An aging poet’s failing eyesight informs this collection . . . some of which recall the spirit of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Dark but not hopeless, they spring from Stone’s lucid inner vision, whic
“It’s rare in contemporary poetry to find a book as boldly celebratory as Peter Pereira’s new collection.”—Chase TwichellIn What’s Written on the Body, physician Peter Pereira explores the body, medic
