Poetry

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

Lost and Certain of It

by Bryce Milligan

Lost and Certain of It is a genre-blending collection of Bryce Milligan's poetry and music. Travelling from Texas to New Orleans and from funerals to bus stops, these lyrical and imaginative writings cross...

Drive: The First Quartet: New Poems, 1980��2005

by Lorna Dee Dee Cervantes

This five-part collection of poems ranges from highly political to gently playful and personal.

Orlando Furioso

by Lodovico Ariosto

Orlando Furioso ("The Frenzy of Orlando", more literally "Mad Orlando"; in Italian furioso is seldom capitalized) is an Italian romantic epic by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture....

The Light of Asia

by Edwin Arnold

The Light of Asia, subtitled The Great Renunciation, weaves through its poetic verses the life and philosophy of Prince Siddhartha Gautama who attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree and became the Buddha....

The Aeneid

by Virgil

Aeneas appears in The Illiad in vague snatches and starts as a traveling warrior of great piety who was loosely connected to the foundation of Rome. Virgil weaves these fragments into a powerful myth about the...

New and Selected Poems

by Michael Ryan

“Ryan is a scrupulously observant poet with a gift for going for the jugular . . . His work is finely honed, provocative, questing, and humane.” – Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Book World

Michael Ryan’s...

Growing Old Together

by Robert W. Nero

Poems in tribute to the author's wife, Ruth - and to "Lady Grayl," the great gray owl Nero adopted in 1984 and who lived with the couple until her death in 2005.

Eyes with Winged Thoughts: Poems and Photographs

by Gordon Parks

In Eyes with Winged Thoughts, the forty-four photographs and fifty-eight poems, reflecting on his long and extraordinary life, offer a rare glimpse of his thoughts and feelings about everything from romantic...

David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer

by David Meltzer

One of the most respected poets of the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance periods, David Meltzer has kept alive interest in the interface between jazz and poetry that exploded in the 1950s. This new edition...