Poetry

Their Backs to the Sea: Poems and Photographs

by Margaret Randall

Detailing the natural and human history of Rapa Nui—more commonly known as Easter Island—this extraordinary collection of poems and photographs links together the ancient inhabitants of the most isolated,...

Harbingers of Books to Come: A Texan's Literary Life

by Dave Oliphant

The first major autobiography by a Texas poet, this noteworthy account traces the life and times of a poet, publisher, critic, and teacher from his childhood to the present day. This remarkable life is examined...

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.

Among the Angels of Memory: Entre los angeles de la memoria

by Marjorie Agosin & Laura Nakazawa

This bilingual (facing-page English and Spanish) poetry collection documents the Jewish-Chilean-American author's search for remnants of her grandmother's life during the Holocaust in Prague and Vienna, and...

Triangles of Light: The Edward Hopper Poems

by James Hoggard

Conjuring the voice of Edward Hopper, this powerful collection of poetry investigates the mind of an iconic American painter. Lyrical and beautifully crafted, the poems convey both frightening and amusing messages...

Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives: Fronteras: Dibujando Las Vidas Fronterizas

by Steven P. P. Schneider, Reefka Schneider & Norma E. E. Cantu

Featuring 25 drawings in charcoal, conte crayons, and pastels, this handbook pairs portraits of people who live and work along the U.S.–Mexico border with bilingual poems that have been inspired by each of...

Crazy Love: New Poems

by Pamela Uschuk

Through bold and innovative language, a strong female narrative explores the world and provides a voice for those who have been silenced in this empowering and inspirational collection of poetry. Examining a...

A Mix of Bricks & Valentines: Lyrics 1979-2009

by G. W. W. Sok & John Robb

A showcase of the lyrics that G. W. Sok wrote during the three decades that he was with the band The Ex, this musical compendium features more than 250 pieces: a mixture of lyrics, poetry, and political ranting....

Wisdom Teeth

by Derrick Weston Weston Brown

This debut poetry collection reveals the ongoing internal and external reconstruction of an artist's life and environment, as told through a litany of forms and myriad voices. The poems represent the quintessence...

Suspended Somewhere Between: A Book of Verse

by Akbar Ahmed

This collection spanning a half century of writing gives a front row seat to a world in turmoil—from the forbidding valleys and mountains of Waziristan in the tribal areas of Pakistan to the think tanks and...

Curves and Angles: Poems

by Brad Leithauser

Brad Leithauser’s “most satisfying collection in years” (Library Journal), a bracing poetic journey that begins in a warm, peopled world and concludes in a cooler and more private place, embracing love...

The Fall

by D. Nurkse

In this elegant collection, D. Nurkse elegizes a lost father, a foreshortened childhood, and

a young marriage. From the drenched lawns of suburbia to the streets of Brooklyn, he delivers up the small but crucial...

Civil and Civic

by Jonathan Bennett

Boundaries between private sectors and public realms are questioned in this medley of contemporary poems from an established Canadian voice. Themes of medicine, the military, science, public relations, social...

The Anatomy of Clay

by Gillian Sze

Taking off from the myth of human creation, this poetic collection explores the individual as a sentient mystery. The first section examines overlooked moments with urban characters—the woman on the bus, a...

Augustine in Carthage: And Other Poems

by Alessandro Porco

Equally crude and charming, locker-room macho and sensitive, these poems are always singularly marked by formal ingenuity and stylistic élan. A deeply felt and original collection, this work understands that (as...

Wasps in a Golden Dream Hum a Strange Music

by Asher Ghaffar

Illustrating the border between India and Pakistan both literally and metaphorically, this debut collection of poetry explores the dimensions of race and analyzes media depictions of the war on terror. Combining...

The North End Poems

by Michael Knox

Focusing on the tough and gritty North End of Hamilton, the individual pieces in this collection form a long narrative that artfully explores issues of masculinity.

The Real Made Up

by Stephen Brockwell

The theme of imitation—a facet of humanity which affects all actions and speech—forms the central focus of this imaginative collection of poems. The degree to which imitation is never just a simple act of...

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.

Gutted

by Evie Christie

Energized with the language of now and the wide scope of popular culture, this collection manages to revel in the beauty of fragility and discover awe in the smallest things.