Poetry

The Light of Asia

by Edwin Arnold

The Light of Asia, subtitled The Great Renunciation, weaves through its poetic verses the life and philosophy of Prince Siddhartha Gautama who attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree and became the Buddha....

Sandstorms & Mirages

by Cecilia Bravo-Mittmann

WAR IN IRAQ... The body bags keep coming back. Because those that made this sacrifice did it from their hearts. They left behind promising futures, families, and jobs, to protect us - or so they were told. This...

Chimney And Co

by Pamela Douglas

CHIMNEY is a much loved FAMILY CAT who has chosen to tell her own story in poetic form as only a cat can. She charts her life from mischievous kittenhood to thoughtful maturity in the company of two glorious...

Culture of One

by Alice Notley

A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.

Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided...

Chasing Down the Dawn: Stories From The Road

by Jewel

AIready a legendary performer in the music industry, Jewel has been writing poetry, short stories, and prose since she was young. She's also a bestselling author, poet, and actress. Now this uniquely talented...

Wounded Days

by Leticia Luna & Toshiya Kamei

Collected for the first time in bilingual format, Leticia Luna's Wounded Days features poems reflecting Mexico's realities. Raul Zurita, author of Anteparaiso, writes, Wounded Days tackles the specific tragedy...

The Imagist Poem: Modern Poetry in Miniature

by William Pratt

William Pratt's The Imagist Poem has been hailed as the most important anthology of Imagist poetry ever published. This third edition features an expanded selection of poems and an updated introduction by the...

The Aeneid

by Virgil

Aeneas appears in The Illiad in vague snatches and starts as a traveling warrior of great piety who was loosely connected to the foundation of Rome. Virgil weaves these fragments into a powerful myth about the...

The Holy Land

by Maurice Riordan

At the heart of Maurice Riordan's third collection is a sequence of eighteen dramatic idylls set in rural Cork in the 1950s, in which the subdued microcosm of farm and smallholding - of boundary, townland and...

The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010

by Marge Piercy

This new gathering of Marge Piercy’s poems—energetic, funny, political, full of vitality—brings us the heart of her mature work, the first selected since Circles on the Water in 1982.

Here are poems that...

Collected Novels and Plays

by James Merrill

Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems, this second volume in the series of James Merrill’s works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic...

Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution

by Alix Olson & Eve Ensler

Female spoken word artists have become the spokeswomen for a new generation. This demanding oral poetry of the early 21st century has defined a vanguard of lithely muscled voices; women who think and act decisively...

Wayfare

by Pattiann Rogers

A lively new collection from one of America's most celebrated contemporary poets

Denise Levertov has called acclaimed poet Pattiann Rogers "a visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity...

The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt

by Amy Clampitt

When Amy Clampitt's first book of poems, The Kingfisher, was published in January 1983, the response was jubilant. The poet was sixty-three years old, and there had been no debut like hers in recent memory....

Selected Poems

by Amy Clampitt & Mary Jo Salter

When Amy Clampitt’s first collection, The Kingfisher, was published, it was hailed as that rare first book that “signals a major poet in full bloom” (Los Angeles Times). Its author was sixty-three years...

, said the shotgun to the head.

by Saul Williams

The greatest Americans

Have not been born yet

They are waiting quietly

For their past to die

please give blood

Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies...

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays

by William Butler Yeats

Compiling nineteen essays and introductions, a volume with explanatory notes includes Per Amica Silentia Lunae and On the Boiler as well as introductions on Shelley and Balzac and essays on Irish poetry and...

The Best American Poetry 1995

by David Lehman

The Best American Poetry 1995 once again highlights the dazzling spectrum of style and subject matter to be found in the art today. Guest editor Richard Howard's accent is on discovery and surprise, and he has...

When Angels Speak of Love

by bell hooks

From writer, critic, and popular cultural icon bell hooks comes a seductive portrait of passion in fifty soul-stirring poems.

When Angels Speak of Love heralds the debut of a major new poet: bell hooks. World...

The Sweet Breath of Life: A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family

by The Kamoinge Workshop, Frank Stewart & Ntozake Shange

Words and images come together in this inspiring collaboration between renowned poet Ntozake Shange and Kamoinge Inc., a group of acclaimed photographers whose work documents and celebrates the African-American...