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Refusing Heaven

National Book Critics Circle for Poetry 2005

by Jack Gilbert

More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing...


Education by Stone: Selected Poems

by Joao Cabral de Melo Cabral de Melo Neto & Richard Zenith

Perhaps the single most important Brazilian poet of the 20th century. Same vein as Wallace Stevens and James Merrill.


Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown: Poems by Zen Monks of China

by Charles Egan

Compiled by a leading scholar of Chinese poetry, Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown is the first collection of Chan (Zen) poems to be situated within Chan thought and practice. Combined with exquisite paintings...


Breathing Room: Poems

by Peter Davison

"Peter Davison, for years, has pondered with clear insight the perspectives of affection, attachment, loss, and memory, his language spare and his tone classical and deceptively quiet. The poems of this new...


The Willow Grove

by Laurie Sheck

Laurie Sheck interweaves the contemporary with the mythic, creating a realm in which such things as radios, skyscrapers, expressways, and mannequins are at once familiar and strange; immediate, yet tinged with...


Black Series: Poems

by Laurie Sheck

In her remarkable Black Series, Laurie Sheck turns the ordinary world inside out and shows us its glittering seams. Her long, elegantly quizzical lines convey a haunted vision of human striving which is in part...


Captivity

by Laurie Sheck

The “exquisite and haunting” (Booklist) collection of poems built around the language and mystique of American captivity narratives in which Sheck enters the vivid life we live inside our own minds and selves,...


Ballistics: Poems

by Billy Collins

In this moving and playful collection, Billy Collins touches on an array of subjects—love, death, solitude, youth, and aging—delving deeper than ever before into the intricate folds of life.


We Had Our Best Discussions in the Bathtub

by Dean Davies

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Poetry, as described by the author, Dean Davies, has to do with relationships "with others and with myself." After teaching for twenty years, he left to write novels and poetry and because he got...


Galaxy Pizza and Meteor Pie

by Darren Sardelli

If you're a fan of funny and witty poetry, Darren Sardelli's book, Galaxy Pizza and Meteor Pie (And Other School Poems That Are Out of This World!), will be a wonderful edition to your poetry collection. His...


We Speak Your Names: A Celebration

by Pearl Cleage

For centuries, African American women have been remaking the world, giving testament to the power of hope, courage, and resilience. But it took the inspired generosity of Oprah Winfrey to honor fully the many...


Earlier Poems

by Franz Wright

The haunting collection of poems that gathers the first four books of Pulitzer winner Franz Wright under one cover, where “fans old and new will find a feast amid famine” (Publishers Weekly), and discover...


Uproar: Antiphonies to Psalms

by Brooks Haxton

In this book of homemade psalms, Brooks Haxton brings the poetry of the original psalmists, their awe and their music, into our world of jet planes and space travel, automatic rifles and suburban pleasures....


The Human Condition: New Poems

by Paul Christensen

The Human Condition merges the personal and the political-historical, focusing the reader on America's on-going conflicts by engaging the reader in the poet's personal lyricism and considerable travel experience....


On the Line: Poems

by Kamala Platt

With gentle yet sardonic wit, this collection of poetry considers the transcultural experience and encourages engaging with the world, both intellectually and emotionally, despite feelings of isolation. Fusing...


Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

by Sonia Sanchez

An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, Shake Loose My Skin is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual, and political powers of the award-winning Sonia Sanchez.


The Shout

by Simon Armitage

Now in paperback, the powerful selected work of Simon Armitage, the most distinctive poetic voice of contemporary Britain.

Simon Armitage is arguably the leading British poet of the past twenty years. His knowledge...


My Favorite Warlord

by Eugene Gloria

A third collection from an award-winning poet whose "gift is breathtaking" (Naomi Shihab Nye)

The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet's sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria's rich and...


Blue Hour: Poems

by Carolyn Forche

"Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth,' is a transcription of mind passing from...


Maestro of Solitude

by Robert Bonazzi

Highlighting work from the 1990s into the new millennium, Robert Bonazzi’s fifth book of poems—his first in 20 years—draws upon the slow-gathering wisdom of late middle age. These poems are dialogues between...