Poetry

Maine in Four Seasons: 20 Poets Celebrate the Turning Year

by Wesley McNair

It is a commonplace that poetry is the literary form that best expresses our deepest feelings. Those who seldom read poetry regularly turn to it for weddings or funerals. The poems in this gift-size anthology...

Skinned: Selected Poems

by Antjie Krog

One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career.

Part One of Skinned contains poems...

The Heart's Pangaea

by Susan Neale

"Everywhere we have been since beginning/Is Mapped in the memory somewhere," writes Susan Neale at the outset of this ambitiously conceived and enormously satisfying collection of poems. Here is a poet who wants...

The Woman I Kept to Myself

by Julia Alvarez

The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: those of the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They...

Found at Sea

by Andrew Greig

Andrew Greig recounts in poetic sequence the tale of his open dinghy voyage from Stromness in Scapa Flow and an overnight stay on Cava (an island formerly inhabited for over twenty years by two unusual women)...

Rudiments of Flight

by Frances Hatfield

Both revelatory and sensuous, these poems convey passion that trumps death, beauty that shines through shame, and love that is everlasting. Venturing to the edge of the known world and beyond—bearing unflinching...

My Life and My Life in the Nineties

by Lyn Hejinian

New edition of one of the founding works of Language writing

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare & Germaine Greer

INTRODUCTION BY GERMAINE GREER

Shakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. They demonstrate the writer's skill...

Poppy Seeds: Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five, #1

by Allison Davis

Spanning oceans and continents, language and the imagination, the unfathomable distances between people and their desires, Allison Davis's Poppy Seeds creates an "immaculate atlas." Here language is "broken......

Here Both Sweeter: Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five, #2

by Daniel Carter

Daniel Carter's Here Both Sweeter is a book in which you "have a seedling in each pocket," a "body bodies," and words are something you "carve out" so as to make a home. The poems are stories, are seeds, are...

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

by Rainer maria Rilke & Stephen Mitchell

"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.

From the Trade Paperback...

The Iliad

by Homer

The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to venge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and despair, and honor and glory. The major motion picture Helen of Troy...

The Odyssey

by Homer

Journey with Ulysses as he battles to bring his victorious, but decimated, troops home from the Trojan War, dogged by the wrath of the god Poseidon at every turn. Having been away for twenty years, little does...

Idylls of the King

by Lord Tennyson Alfred

In Idylls of the King Tennyson infuses the King Arthur legend with passion and fire. This legendary epic poem brings the Table Round to life. Experience the love affair of Lancelot and Guinevere, join the quest...

Sky Ward

by Kazim Ali

New poems from this poet of "precision and ardor"

Morning Song

by Joanne Lehman

"Under and out from under the shadow of death Joanne Lehman writes in the emptiness between one breath and the next. Her rural Ohio landscape is animated with rough and mild weather, red wing blackbirds, hayfields,...

The Secret Turning of the Earth

by Anthony Libby

"The publication of The Secret Turning of the Earth announces the arrival of an American poet who moves through space and time?the Venice of 1740, Paris in 1900, 1948 Boston, present day Columbus, exercising...

The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

by , Ernest Dowson

This classic book contains the poems and prose of the well-known Ernest Dawson, and would make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with a passion for poetry and short literature. Many of the earliest...

The Lord Is My Shepherd: Resting in the Peace and Power of Psalm 23

by Robert J. Morgan

Bestselling author Robert J. Morgan explores the rich meaning and transcendent comfort of the world’s best-known and most-loved poem: Psalm 23.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He makes me to lie...

A Lover's Complaint

by William Shakespeare

From off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sist'ring vale, My spirits t'attend this double voice accorded, And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale, Ere long espied a fickle maid...