Poetry

Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil

by Zeeshan Sahil, Christopher Kennedy & Mi Ditmar

The first US translation of a major contemporary Pakistani poet. Hard political realities portrayed in deceptively simple and personal language.

Likely: Number 2

by Lisa Coffman

"Lisa Coffman is a major poet in the making. Imagine a voice that combines hear-of-American brooding like James Wright's with a shaded elegance like Elizabeth Bishop's. Imagine Whitman's spirit somewhere in...

For Display Purposes Only

by David Seymour

Poems that borrow from the lexicon of filmmaking to let us find some solace in our facades.

The End of the West

by Michael Dickman

Profiled in The New Yorker, this debut marks a talent to watch for years to come.

Gossamurmur

by Anne Waldman

A fascinating new work from an internationally renowned poet

Acclaimed for her visionary, incantatory verse and her experimental ethos, Anne Waldman's newest book-length poem is an allegory of a radical...

Need Machine

by Andrew Faulkner

I promise I'll write a real one tomorrow. Sorry, guys!

Refuge

by Adrie Kusserow

An anthropologist writes poems about globalization, culture, war, and fieldwork in South Sudan, Uganda, Botswana, and across the world.

Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?

by Maya Angelou

Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities.

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie: Poems

by Maya Angelou

Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist...

Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well: Poems

by Maya Angelou

This collection of thirty-six poems is, once again, eloquent evidence of Maya Angelou's continuing celebration of life: Here are poems of love and memory; poems of racial confrontation; songs of the street and...

Miguel Hernandez

by Miguel Hernandez & Don Share

Miguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century. This volume spans the whole of Hernández’s brief...

Masham Means Evening

by Dawson Kanina

It is six years since Canadian forces began their long struggle to hold Kandahar province. Ten years since Canada opened its embassy in Kabul and launched Operation ATHENA to establish security in the city....

Colony Collapse Disorder

by Keith Flynn

Expansive and innovative, this is the fifth collection from award-winning poet Keith Flynn. A place-based abecedarium, this compilation features two poems representing each letter of the alphabet. Recalling...

Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems

by Robert Wrigley

A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative...

The Stick Soldiers

by Hugh Martin & Cornelius Eady

Iraq war veteran's Poulin Prize–winning debut poetry collection explores war, masculinity, and return to civilian life. Introduction by Cornelius Eady.

White

by Mary E Weems

"Energy, dynamic energy emanates from Mary Weems" careful, observing eyes into her language. These poems offer immediacy, intelligent response, and rich repartee with the difficult urban world of a gentle warrior....

Bloody Versicles: The Rhymes of Crime

by Jonathan Goodman

An updated and enlarged edition of an annotated collection originally published more than 20 years ago, Bloody Versicles serves as two books in one: an anthology of ribald, moralistic, sad, yet amusing and entertaining...

This Is Not How I Imagined It To Be

by Veronica Villano

Veronica Villano was born, an Italian in England, twenty nine years after Gli Azzurri’s second World Cup triumph and fifteen years before their third. She’s still lives here now, five years after their fourth...

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is thought to have written his sonnets for a private audience over several years––before they were first published in 1609. The verses that compose the sonnets are often subversive, elusive...

I Am Nobody's Nigger

by Dean Atta

Revolutionary, reflective and romantic, I Am Nobody’s Nigger is the powerful debut collection by one of the UK’s finest emerging poets. Exploring race, identity and sexuality, Dean Atta shares his perspective...