How I Discovered Poetry
A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets. Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist...
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In the vein of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky, this illustrated book of humorous poems will guarantee giggles Artist, poet, and award-winning author Douglas Florian successfully captures the...
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Short, sharp musings on things profound and mundane (and sometimes both) from the Pulitzer Prize winning poetC. K. Williams has never been afraid to push the boundaries of poetic form-in fact, he’s...
View ArticleCollected French Translations: Poetry
An essential, vibrant collection of masterful translations by one of the finest poets at work today Collected French Translations: Poetry, the first volume of a long-awaited two-volume collection of...
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This selection of the major poems James Joyce published in his lifetime is accompanied by his only surviving play, Exiles. Joyce is most celebrated for his remarkable novel Ulysses, and yet he was also...
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The Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) is a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean...
View ArticlePlundered Hearts
At last-a definitive selection of the elegant work by a poet at the forefront of American poetry for more than three decades. With his first several books, J. D. McClatchy established himself as a poet...
View ArticleLines of Defense
In his seventeenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn confronts the lines we fight against and the ones we draw for ourselves. Lines of Defense poignantly captures the absurdities...
View ArticleRed Doc>
Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. “Red Doc”> continues...
View ArticleCaribou
A powerfully moving meditation on life, nature, and the beyond, from one of our finest American poets This is an old man’s poetry, written by someone who’s spent his life Looking for one truth. Sorry,...
View ArticleThe Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott’s celebrated, inimitable, essential career “He gives us more than himself or ‘a world’; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.” To...
View ArticleTo a Nightingale
To a Nightingale traces the presence of this richly interpreted muse through the words of Ovid, Hafiz, Shakespeare, Milton, Shelley, Keats, T.S. Eliot, W.S. Merwin and many more. The collection reveals...
View ArticleThe Collected Poems of Denise Levertov
How splendid and impressive to have a complete, clear, and unobstructed view of Denise Levertov at last. Covering more than six decades and including, chronologically, every poem she ever published,...
View ArticleCorrespondences
A rare and beautifully produced “accordion” book by renowned novelist and poet Anne Michaels and acclaimed artist and writer Bernice Eisenstein that will cause a stir for both its form and its content....
View ArticleBurning the Midnight Oil
A creativity companion for writers, artists and anyone who needs a jolt of inspirationIn Burning the Midnight Oil, word-wrangler extraordinaire Phil Cousineau has gathered an eclectic and electric...
View ArticleFor All of Us, One Today
“For All of Us, One Today” is a fluid, poetic account of Richard Blanco’s life-changing experiences as the inaugural poet in 2013. In this brief and evocative narrative, he shares the story of the call...
View ArticleBefore the Door of God
Before the Door of God traces the development of devotional English-language poetry from its origins in ancient hymnody to its current twenty-first-century incarnations. The poems in this volume...
View ArticlePoetry of the First World War
The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as ‘What...
View ArticleTombo
Explosive language, rough sensuousness, and an unflinching eye — here is a poet who doesn’t look away and is committed to poetry’s first purpose: to bring song. Tombo is a book of lyrics fueled in...
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