D. Nurkse

The Border Kingdom

by D. Nurkse

In a collection of urgent and intimate poems, D. Nurkse explores the biblical past and the terrifying politics of the present with which it resonates, the legacy of fathers and the flawed kingdoms they leave...

A Night in Brooklyn: Poems

by D. Nurkse

D. Nurkse’s deeply satisfying new collection is a haunted love letter to the far corners of his hometown, Brooklyn, New York, and a meditation on the selves that were left behind in those indelible places....

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...

Burnt Island

by D. Nurkse

D. Nurkse’s Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time. Arranged in three “suites” of lucid,...