Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group / Poetry

Sleeping on the Wing

by Kenneth Koch & Kate Farrell

New Selected Poems

by Philip Levine

The Beforelife

by Franz Wright

In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing...

Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero

by Brooks Haxton

The critically acclaimed poet and translator Brooks Haxton embraces life, from our naked beginnings to the first signs of middle age and beyond, in this inviting collection of poems. The book opens with the...

Sleeping Late on Judgment Day

by Jane Mayhall

"My heart is bursting with homage as I / head off to a hostile eternity," writes Jane Mayhall, now eighty-five, who wrote most of these poems in an urgent outpouring over the last few years. From the decades-outdated...

Special Orders

by Edward Hirsch

In Special Orders, the renowned poet Edward Hirsch brings us a new series of tightly crafted poems, work that demonstrates a thrilling expansion of his tone and subject matter. It is with a mixture of grief...

Collected Poems

by Chinua Achebe

A collection of poetry spanning the full range of the African-born author's acclaimed career has been updated to include seven never-before-published works, as well as much of his early poetry that explores...

Collected Poems, 1954-2004

by Irving Feldman

Irving Feldman is a master chronicler of our collective experience and an overlooked treasure of American poetry. Feldman's rich body of work exhibits his mastery of language from the biblical to the conversational,...