“Her lusher effusions gain astringency from an achingly palpable heartbreak, and from an increased awareness of technology, commodity, politics: swoon meets zoom.” —Boston Review“Jane Miller is by far
“Bracingly candid, gracefully elegiac, tough, and passionate, Harrison travels the deep river of the spirit.” —Booklist“[Jim Harrison] is still close to the source. . . . Dead Man’s Float is, as its
“Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.” —The New Yorker“Wright gets better with each book, expanding the reach of her art;
“David Orr is an authentic iconoclast. His criticism is exuberant and original. Dr. Johnson, my critical hero, urged us to clear our mind of cant. Orr has cleared his. He will enhance the perception o
“[Twichell ’s poems] open out into a stark, sometimes bewildered clarity.” —The Washington Post“Suppose you had Sappho’s passion, the intelligence and perspicacity of Curie, and Dickinson’s sweet wit
"[Brimhall] allows us brief visions, glimpses, of experiences more lush and raw than our own."—The Rumpus"With a stunning mastery of metaphor, linguistic precision, and a soulful determined vision, Br
"With astringent understatement and wry economy, with nuance and intelligence and an enviable command of syntax and poetic line, Victoria Chang dissects the venerable practices of cultural piety and s
"Over the last two decades Shaughnessy has stripped herself down to a voice that can sing plainly about disappointment and love in hard circumstances and the lost art of the mix tape."—The Paris Revie
?Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry.”?Los Angeles Review of Books?Truth-telling, raw, fierce with feeling.”?Brenda Shaughnessy ?Dimitrov can sound at once hip and naive, devoted to the
?[A] rare occurrence in the poetry world.”?American Book ReviewAs a child, Ghassan Zaqtan lived in a refugee camp near the River Jordan. While that painful experience deeply influenced his poetry, whe
Within a decade of her death in 1987, each of Ann Stanford's ten books had slipped out of print and her final manuscript—completed just before she died—remained unpublished. Through the effort of two
?Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent abandon.”?Houston Chronicle?Shapero’s poetics has real-world import for the way we use language to talk
?Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power.” ?Publishers Weekly?Every poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clean lines and imagery that dazzles.”?The Washington Post?For Kasisc
Over the past 25 years, Twichell’s reputation and reach has broadened with each new book. She is a poet whose books are anticipated and consistently receive stellar national review attention:“A major
"There isn't a flaw or misstep or a lack of humility on a single page. . . . I invite you to turn to just one page, to any page, and to let what's there wash over you with its beauty, its clarity, its
"Essential for all poetry collections. . . . Translator Joseph Cadora renders a beautiful new edition complete with commentary on each poem, based on Rilke's letters, numerous biographies, and re
"Ted Kooser must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple." Michael Dirda,The Washington Post"Readers [of Splitting an Order] will f
Starred Review in Publishers Weekly: "Through the cadence of these poems, which sometimes resemble lullabies in their dreaminess and gorgeous lyricism, Landau captures the ways humans persist, despit
