Poetry

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sorted Books

by Nina Katchadourian

Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian's playful photographic series proves that books' covers—or more specifically, their spines—can speak volumes. Over the past...

The Unswept Room

by Sharon Olds

From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.

From poems that erupt out...

Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700: From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts

by Robert M. Schuler

Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological...

Child Made of Sand: Poems

by Thomas Lux

In Child Made of Sand, Kingsley Tufts–winner Thomas Lux demonstrates a restless energy to explore new territory while confirming his place in the pantheon of contemporary American poetry.

Darlington's Fall: A novel in verse

by Brad Leithauser

The hero of this one-of-a-kind novel is Russel Darlington, a born naturalist and an unlikely romantic hero. We meet him in the year 1895—a seven-year-old boy first glimpsed chasing a frog through an Indiana...

Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads

by George Meredith & Criscillia Ann Benford

Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside occupies a distinctive and somewhat notorious place within George Meredith’s already unique body of work. Modern Love is now best known for the emotionally intense...

The Selvage: Poems

by Linda Gregerson

The poems in Selvage, Linda Gregerson’s first collection since her Kingsley Tufts Award winning Magnetic North, allude to Milton, to the great myths of Ariadne, Theseus, and Dido, and include a magnificent...

Selected Poems

by Victor Hugo

This generous, varied selection of poems by one of France's best-loved and most reviled poets is presented with facing originals, detailed notes, and a lively introduction to the author's life and work.

Steven...

Thrall: Poems

by Natasha Trethewey

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard explored Natasha Trethewey’s relationship with her black mother. Now, her new collection, Thrall, takes on the uneasy relationship between her and her white father....