Poetry

My Father Was a Toltec: and Selected Poems

by Ana Castillo

Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country’s most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as...

The Poems

by William Shakespeare

The Poems

Shakespeare's greatest achievement in nondramatic verse was his collection of 154 magnificent sonnets that portray a tumultuous world of love, rivalry, and conflict among a poet, an aristocratic young...

The Lamp with Wings: Love Sonnets

by M.a. Vizsolyi

A winner of the 2010 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by Ilya Kaminsky (author of Dancing in Odessa, recipient of the 2004 Whiting Award, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, among other honors, and co-editor...

Sono: Cantos

by Sarah Arvio

Here is Sono, a new collection of bracingly original poems, from the prizewinning author of Visits from the Seventh. Composed during a long stay in Rome, these cantos look outward in order to look inward, transforming...

What Comes Down to Us

by Jeff Worley & Ed McClanahan

What Comes Down To Us features twenty-five of Kentucky's most accomplished contemporary poets. Together they serve to illustrate the diversity and richness of poetry being written today in the Commonwealth....

Final Mask

by Russell Buker

The poems in Final Mask are not about a particular theme, but rather, a journal/diary of man noticing how all aspects of his life coalesce into his reverence for his life and all those around him. "Someone once...

The Day the World Ends: Poems

by Ethan Coen

From one of the most inventive and celebrated filmmakers of the twentieth century, and co-creator of such classics as Fargo, No Country for Old Men, and True Grit, a collection of poems that offers humor and...

New Covenant Bound

by Tony Crunk

"Our only sin was not having what they thought was enough. And being forced to take what they called help."

Pain and anger resonate deeply in the voice of New Covenant Bound's central narrator. Forced from her...

When Winter Come

by Frank X Walker

A sequel to the award-winning Buffalo Dance, Frank X Walker's When Winter Come: The Ascension of York is a dramatic reimagining of Lewis and Clark's legendary exploration of the American West. Grounded in the...

To the Tune of Me

by Evelyn Leah Belvin, Tom Centolella & Kathy Evans

come, let us share eyesights I will show you a shining drop on a leaf, what will you show me? - Evelyn Leah Belvin To the Tune of Me is a sharing of many such shining drops, fictions and revelations, imaginings...

Music of the Sky

by Patrick Laude & Barry McDonald

A collection of spiritual poetry from antiquity to the present, reflecting many styles and expressions of our experince of the sacred through the medium of poetry. Organized into three universal dimensions of...

The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

This comprehensive collection of Emerson's work includes his Address to Harvard Divinity College, his poetry, and the famous essays "Self-Reliance" (Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist), "Compensation",...

Poems After Midnight: A Knopf Poem-a-Day Selection

by Knopf

Most poets are or have been at one time or another members of what Mark Strand here calls “The Midnight Club”: they are insomniacs, or feel most productive in the middle of the night, or, if nothing else,...

Painting Trees

by Naomi Myles

With quiet surety, Naomi Myles cultivates a contemplative wordscape allowing that " . . . some roots be hidden and some exposed." And in this crafted world we are asked to think of windows framing the past,...

Nine Horses: Poems

by Billy Collins

Nine Horses, Billy Collins’s first book of new poems since Picnic, Lightning in 1998, is the latest curve in the phenomenal trajectory of this poet’s career. Already in his forties when he debuted with a...

Sam's Book

by David Ray

Eloquent and accessible poems commemorating the "stunning blast" of loss

House of Light

by Mary Oliver

Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award

Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award

This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary...

Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

by W.G. Sebald

“A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre.”—Teju Cole, The New Yorker

German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability...

Shakespeare: Poems

by William Shakespeare

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Shakespeare contains selections from Shakespeare's work,...

Left-Handed: Poems

by Jonathan Galassi

An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation.

Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with...