Poetry

Mosquito: Poems

by Alex Lemon

A lyrical memoir in poetry form inspired by the award-winning author’s serious illness

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic00

by R. Narayan

A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki...

Good Poems for Hard Times

by Various

Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio's The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology Good Poems are perfect for our troubled times. Here, readers will...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century.

THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC...

Paradiso Diaspora

by John Yau

John Yau has won acclaim as a poet who is able to seamlessly merge a strict yet eccentric methodology with wild flights of the imagination. His poems are dazzling explorations of the multiple, shifting sands...

Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)

by Herman Melville

While best known for such novels as his monumental Moby-Dick, Herman Melville was also an extraordinarily gifted poet. This is the most complete anthology of Melville’s poetry ever published in a single volume....

An Almost Pure Empty Walking

by Tryfon Tolides

In his debut collection, chosen by Mary Karr as a winner of the 2005 National Poetry Series, Tryfon Tolides weaves together poems that speak of desire, loss, and small joys. Tolides was born in a tiny village...

Extended Family

by Linda Chase

Extended Family is a sensual celebration of the varied relationships that make up lives richly lived: from the subtle, intimate interactions of close family members and lovers, to the mutual rewards and stresses...

Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New & Selected

by John Tranter

Winner 2006 CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry (Victorian Premier's Literary Awards)

Urban Myths: 210 Poems brings the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia,...

A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

by Fernando Pessoa & Richard Zenith

Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, Fernando Pessoa left a prodigious body of work, much of it under "heteronyms"—fully fleshed alter egos with startlingly different styles and points of...

Book of Sketches

by Jack Kerouac & George Condo

A never-before-published book of poems by Jack Kerouac-in a deluxe package

In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on...

Play Out The Match

by Michael Knox

Vivid and lyrical, the poems make use of various voices, speakers, and landscapes to explore the surreptitious aspects of fear and indifference, tenderness and fragility.

The Butterfly Effect

by Susan Hawthorne

The flap of a butterfly's wing in one part of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side, just as the word "lesbian"—a force full of vitality and world-changing creativity—can destroy families...

Apostrophe

by Bill Kennedy

In the tradition of the phonetic poems of Hugo Ball and the "readymades" of Dada, this exploration of the nature of verse straddles the line between form and nonsense, between intention and happy accident. An...

Hoodlum Birds

by Eugene Gloria

In Eugene Gloria’s acclaimed first collection of poems, Drivers at the Short-Time Motel, ephemeral lives, and souls lost in the tattered fabric of war, displacement, and ruined love, found hope, redemption,...

Wind in a Box

by Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase. He is very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man. In his...

Poems

by Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd & T. W. Higginson

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family of good standing within their Massachusetts community. She had fewer than a dozen poems published in her lifetime, though...

Songs of Innocence and Experience

by William Blake

Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books of poetry by William Blake. Songs of Innocence honors and praises the natural world, the natural innocence of children...

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

by Mahmoud Darwish & Jeffrey Sacks

An autobiography in poems and haunting song of the Palestinian people.

The Welcome

by David Friedman

Fables for the modern age