Poetry

Poems

by Hermann Hesse

Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and...

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,...

One Big Self

by C.D. Wright

Emerging from society's most hidden and reviled structures is a poetry of majestic, riveting intensity.

Blue Dusk: New & Selected Poems, 1951-2001

by Madeline DeFrees

In carefully crafted, passionate, and elliptical language, deFrees reclaims 'her inheritance of nerve and bone'Library Journal

Mars Being Red

by Marvin Bell

A moving, intensely political book from a poet whose "interrogations run deep." (Poetry)

Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages

by Matsuo Basho & Hiroaki Sato

Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689...

Quipu

by Arthur Sze

Sze's poetry is bold and versatile and brings together "disparate realms of experience." -The New Yorker

A Clown at Midnight: Poems

by Andrew Hudgins

National Book Award finalist Andrew Hudgins offers a meditation on humor, ruminating on the consolations and terrors, delights and discomforts of laughter.

Crisis

by Hermann Hesse

This collection of poems, written during the same period as Steppenwolf, was first published in 1928 in a limited edition of 1,000 copies.  Hesse's uneasiness about the degree of self-exposure in these quite...

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...

Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

by Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound has been called "the inventor of modern poetry in English."The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very largely determined the directions of creative...

The Narrow Circle

by Nathan Hoks

Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Dean Young

John Ashbery called Reveilles, Nathan Hoks's debut book, a "dazzling" collection and Hoks a poet whose "fine gradations of observation turn...

Rough Day

by Ed Skoog

“Ed Skoog’s poetry is so ambitious…it knows how to fishtail with images and turn with ease.” —The Stranger

This Art: A Copper Canyon Ares Poetica Anthology

by Michael Wiegers

This anthology pays tribute to the art of poetry and Copper Canyon's 30-year dedication to publishing it.

Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems

by Chase Twichell

Collecting the work of a poet whom Publishers Weekly called "a major voice in contemporary poetry."

Invasions: New Poems

by Adam Kirsch

In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life. His connected poems use traditional forms...

The Big Smoke

by Adrian Matejka

From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that examines the myth and history of the prizefighter Jack Johnson

The legendary Jack Johnson (1878–1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated...

Poems 1959-2009

by Frederick Seidel

These are the collected poems of a master whose work includes many of the most compelling, savage, and tender poems in the language. Frederick Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, “the best American...

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...