Poetry

Long Lens: New and Selected Poems

by Peter Makuck

A well-deserved new and selected collection representing forty years of poetry, including twenty-five new poems.

Beautiful in the Mouth

by Keetje Kuipers & Thomas Lux

Selected by Thomas Lux as the winner of the eighth annual A. Poulin, Jr., Poetry Prize.

Chaos Is the New Calm

by Wyn Cooper

A sonnet and sonnet-like poetry collection ranging from travelogue to monologue, social commentary to solitary musing.

The Poetry of Paul Muldoon

by Jefferson Holdridge

The Poetry of Paul Muldoon introduces the student and general reader to the critical discussion surrounding Muldoon’s oeuvre, as well as to his major themes. It examines the poet’s meditations on culture...

Robert Burns: The Lassies

by George Scott Scott Wilkie

During his short life Burns wrote a great deal of poetry to or about women. Some were written as love poems or songs, intended to sway the heart of whoever had caught his eye, others in honour of a more casual...

Remember to Dream: For Tomorrow Must Come

by Rita L. Nicholson

Synopsis:

The poetry in Remember to Dream: For Tomorrow Must Come deals with serious subjects such as depression and healing.

According to author Rita L. Nicholson, we tie so much of our self-image into our...

Black Dog, Black Night: Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry

by Paul Hoover & Nguyen Do

The poems in Black Dog, Black Night highlight an aspect of Vietnamese verse previously unfamiliar to American readers: its remarkable contemporary voices. Celebrating Vietnam’s diverse and thriving literary...

Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns

by Beata Grant

Beata Grant renders a great service by recovering and translating the enchanting verse — by turns assertive, observant, devout — of forty-eight nuns from sixteen centuries of imperial China. This selection...

Buffalo Dance

by Frank X Walker

" Winner of the 35th Annual Lillian Smith Book Award, 2004 A BookSense 76 Spring 2004 Top 10 Poetry Book! Read an excerpt from the book Listen to Frank X Walker reading on NPR's ""This I Believe"" segment of...

Intwasa Poetry

by Jane Morris

The fifteen poets who are brought together in this collection have all read from their work at the Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo. There is a diversity in their work. The poems of love, of sensuality, of humour,...

A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme

by Calvin Trillin

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.

Somehow, despite everything Calvin Trillin wrote about the Bush Administration in Obliviously On He Sails, his 2004...

Azaleas: A book of Poems

by Kim Sowol & David McCann

Available for the first time in English, Azaleas is a captivating collection of poems by a master of the early Korean modernist style. Published in 1925, Azaleas is the only collection Kim Sowol (1902-1934)...

The Second Child: Poems

by Deborah Garrison

Nine years after the stunning debut of her critically acclaimed poetry collection A Working Girl Can’t Win, which chronicled the progress and predicaments of a young woman, Deborah Garrison now moves into...

Trapeze

by Deborah Digges

These lush, rewarding reflections on a woman’s passage into midlife are grounded in our intimacy with nature and mortality. Deborah Digges, now in her fifties, looks back in such poems as “Boat” to see...

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

by Billy Collins

Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels...

Hafiz: The Mystic Poets

by Gertrude Bell

Infused with the spirit of love and joy, this unique collection offers insight into Hafiz's spiritual philosophy and carefree mysticism that addresses the earthly beauty, pain, ecstasy and longing that define...

Journeys of Simplicity: Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Bash?, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard & Others

by Philip Harnden

Where do our journeys take us? How do we find our way? You are invited to consider a more graceful way of traveling through life. With arresting clarity, Journeys of Simplicity offers vignettes of forty travelers...

Winter Cranes: Poems

by Chris Banks

Inspired by a group of herons resting near the author’s home towards the end of a long and difficult winter, this collection of poems employs the crane—the symbol of longevity, immortality, and good fortune...

Natural History

by Dan Chiasson

Dan Chiasson, hailed as “one of the most gifted poets of his generation” upon the appearance of his first book, takes inspiration for his stunning new collection from the Historia Naturalis of Pliny the...

Scallywag: Confessions of a multi-mom

by Jacoba Combrinck

Parenthood is one of life's greatest challenges, but also brings deep joys. This collection is an honest account of the journey of a mature mom who juggles work, family and community.