A stark and gripping tale of childhood grief from one of the most exciting new voices in Dutch literatureTen-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm whe
A seductive, unclassifiable blend of autobiography and fiction set in Reno, from the preeminent Basque authorNine months as a writer in residence can prove unnerving for anyone. For Bernardo Atxaga, n
A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in IndiaJohn Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalayas. Michael Spender was the first to survey th
The transformative new book from “one of the most important American poets at work today” (Dunya Mikhail)I am content because before me looms the hope of love.I do not have it; I do not yet have it.It
Tess Gallagher’s new poems are suspended between contradiction and beautyIs, Is Not upends our notions of linear time, evokes the spirit and sanctity of place, and hovers daringly at the threshold of
Now in paperback, a major career retrospective by the California Poet Laureate, Dana GioiaSo much of what we live goes on inside—The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied achesOf unacknowledged love are n
The Award-winning poet Carl Phillips grapples with issues of authority, identity, and beauty in these sensual and deeply intelligent essaysThe "coin of the realm" is, classically, the currency that f
Nine-year-old Jallal is old enough to know that his life in Algeria is precarious at best - friends are as likely to kill you as save you. Having run away from home, he lives by selling peanuts and s
A rising star in the United Kingdom, contemporary Scottish poet Paterson is poised to become a major voice of our time. The London Review of Books calls him "one of the most talented Scottish writers
Harvey, whose debut collection was praised by the New Yorker as "intensely visual, mournfully comic and syntactically inventive," offers her second stunning collectionUnits are the enginesI understan
The winner of the 2005 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, Lions Don't Eat Us introduces a fierce and wise new voiceThere’s nothing to be afraid of.Don’t ever let boys kiss you.Be nice. One da
A chilling and masterful second poetry collection by the author of the award-winning The Anchorage Sometimes the heart breaks. Sometimesit is not held hostage. The red worldwhere cells prepare for th
The Celebrated poet and author of Can Poetry Matter?offers another bold, insightful collection of essays on literature's changing place in contemporary culturePoetry is an art that preceded writing,
Nothing in Elias' measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the 'indescribably beautiful' Eva, foreshadowed the events of that apparently ordinary day. He make
Now in paperback, the highly acclaimed collection by Scottish poet Don Paterson, winner of the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize Dear son, I was mezzo del camminand the true pa
In Blue Front, her fifth book of poetry, Martha Collins describes the brutal, frenzied lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the merciless violence of the
"Black's poems, in their measured grace, have a quiet intensity, animated by her passion for a clarity of understanding, in the art as in the life."-Stanley Kunitz I have not handled the ordinary wel
William Kittredge’s relationship to the spare, often unforgiving Western landscape is fraught with contradictions. Having grown up on a cattle ranch in Oregon, he has an intimate connection to
Matthea Harvey's Modern Life introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, A"The Future of TerrorA" and A"The Terror of t
Swirling like eddies in a river come the poems of Alice Oswald, who has quickly become one of the premier British poets writing today. Spacecraft Voyager 1 collects poetry from across her career A--n
