Poetry

The Fabliaux

by Nathaniel E. Dubin & R. Howard Bloch

Bawdier than The Canterbury Tales, The Fabliaux is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature.Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries,...

The Late Parade: Poems

by Adam Fitzgerald

A debut collection that welcomes a new modernist aesthetic for the twenty-first century.Aswirl with waking dreams and phantom memories, The Late Parade is a triumph of poetic imagination. To write about one...

River Inside the River: Poems

by Gregory Orr

Three gorgeous poetic sequences that combine the intensity of lyric with the thematic scope and range of narrative and myth.From the acclaimed American poet whose work the San Francisco Review called "mystical,...

The Fall of Arthur

by J.R.R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien

The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skillful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative...

What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems

by Kim Addonizio

Poetry from the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the National Book Award.From lilting lines about a love that "dizzies up the brain's back room" to haunting fragments betokening death and decline in a suffering...

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing

by Kevin Young

The Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of...

Voices of Silence: The Alternative Book of First World War Poetry

by Vivien Noakes

The poetry of the First World War has determined our perception of the war itself. This volume features poetry drawn from old newspapers and journals, trench and hospital magazines, individual volumes of verse,...

The Gone and the Going Away

by Maurice Manning

With The Gone and the Going Way, Pulitzer finalist Maurice Manning returns us to the beloved and lamented lives and landscape of the hill people of his native Kentucky.

The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)

by Alice Walker

In this luminous collection of poems, Walker casts her eye on history, politics, and nature, as well as world figures. In tributes to such people as Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, and the Dalai Lama, she reminds...

New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

by Charles Simic

The first ever volume of new and selected poetry from one of our most celebrated and acclaimed poets, Charles Simic.

Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens

by Yasmin Haskell

Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens was a cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet of the eighteenth century. A Catholic, he was in many ways an outsider on his own turf, the peat country of Protestant Groningen, and...

Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

by Muhsin J. al-Musawi

Since the late 1940s, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic...

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

by Mahmoud Darwish, Sinan Antoon & Amira El-Zein

Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. A legend in Palestine, his lyrics are sung...

A Glossary of Chickens: Poems

by Gary J. Whitehead

With skillful rhetoric and tempered lyricism, the poems in A Glossary of Chickens explore, in part, the struggle to understand the world through the symbolism of words. Like the hens of the title poem, Gary...

The Ecopoetry Anthology

by Laura-Gray Street, Ann Fisher-Wirth & Robert Hass

Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament, the work...

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...

Collected Poems

by Sean O'Brien

This collection, drawing on almost forty years of verse, represents the definitive guide to one of the leading English poets working today. It will allow the reader the chance to survey both the remarkable variety...

The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

by Yehuda Amichai, Chana Bloch & C.K. Williams

Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's...

A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective

by William F. Zak

A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare’s Sonnets as Curious Perspective, by William F. Zak, seeks to identify in Shake-speare’e sonnet sequence the structural and thematic features of the satirical tradition...

International Who's Who in Poetry 2005

by Europa Publications

The 13th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary...