The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United StatesEven the men in black armor, the onesJangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they so buffered against
So often (let’s be honest here) we poetswill invent dreams, for our own strategic purposes.But this one is real, and one of the fewI remember. I awoke in the future.&nbs
“To my mind, what distinguishes Marchant’s work is his willingness to take a hard look at human suffering while maintaining his unflinching, delicate tone.” —The Journal
Whenever she speaks to a stranger in her native Korea, Jane Jeong Trenka is forced to explain what she is. Japanese? Chinese? The answer - that she was adopted from Korea as a baby and grew up in the
A sequence of 50 poetic works based on the life and paintings of Edward Hopper is an award-winning translation from the Catalan that follows a poetic subject in transit from small-town origins to city
On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the fourth ever inaugural poet and a central participant in one of the most closely watched inaugurations in American history. Selected by Barack Ob
On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the fourth ever inaugural poet and a central participant in one of the most closely watched inaugurations in American history. Selected by Barack Oba
The new poetry collection by Catie Rosemurgy, author of My Favorite ApocalypseCatie Rosemurgy's second collection, The Stranger Manual, is a wild rush across the American grain. The poems follow an u
An unsentimental vision of the west, new and old, comes to life in a gritty new collection of stories by the author of Snow, AshesIn Ghosts of Wyoming, Alyson Hagy explores the hardscrabble lives and
The new poetry collection by Tony Hoagland, the award-winning author of What NarcissimMeans To Me and Donkey GospelIn Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Tony Hoagland is deep ins
“A story of heroism and of touching romance in a time of fear and danger.”—USA TodayThere are two voices intertwined in the narrative: those of Jack and Rochelle. Now and then
A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, “one of America’s finest writers” (Tom Perrotta)Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and
A whimsical volume of short pieces by the Whitbread Poetry Award- and T. S. Eliot Prize-winning writer of Landing Light seeks to revitalize the classic pith of the aphorism, presenting a series of bri
Through a collage of reflections on people, places, and times that have been part of her life, she shows the origins and requirements of "a vocation that has no name." She finds proof of this in the
Essays and critical writings on contemporary poetry by Stephen Burt, “the finest critic of his generation” (Lucie Brock-Broido)Stephen Burt’s Close Calls with Nonsense provoke
Formal and a little defensive in his encounters with curious locals, Eric Loesch starts renovating a rundown house in the small, upstate New York town of his childhood. When he inspects the title to
We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and one of the first days of Jul
Donald Revell argues for the transformation that imaginative experience elicits through poetry. "The art of poetry is not about the acquisition of wiles or the deployment of strategies," Revell write
