“One of America’s greatest living poets.”—The Washington Post Book World“Merwin keeps his language simple but his perceptions complex. Classical in their lines of inquiry and restraint yet vital in th
“Directed by Desire . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry.”—BooklistNow in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan’s -poetry. Collecting t
Collects works by American poet Hayden Carruth, including lyrics; narratives; comic, meditative, and erotic poems; and reflections on the natural world.
“Metaphors, puns, surrealist visions, converted into sharp, disturbing little narratives . . . only a poet, and a good one, could have written it.”—The Atlantic MonthlyW.S. Merwin’s acclaimed short pr
Inspired by visits inside Louisiana state prisons - where MacArthur Fellow C. D. Wright accompanied portrait photographer Deborah Luster - One Big Self bears witness to incarcerated men and women and
“In this rhapsodic series of poems, Rios presents the story of Ventura and Clemente Rios, a married couple living near the United States-Mexico border. . . . Rios’s project [is] indebted to magic real
"That calling, at once religious, ethical, and aesthetic, is one that only a genuine poet can hear—and very few poets can explain it as compellingly as Mr. Wiman does. That gift is what makes Ambition
“With a bitter and withering irony and an eye for shocking beauty . . . Seiferle cuts straight to the emotionally honest kernel within family, spirit and myth.”—Publishers WeeklyPoet Rebecca Seiferle
“Maram al-Massri comes as a shock. She writes about all the taboo subjects—physical passion, faithlessness, adultery, loneliness, despair—with candor and intensity that would mark her out even to West
Presents one hundred fifty poems in Chinese and English translation by a classic eighth-century Chinese poet little known in the West, with explanatory notes accompanying each one.
“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
