Selected by Alice Notley for the National Poetry Series, Laynie Browne’s sixth collection casts a spell. In these fragmented poetic tales, characters disappear and reemerge, their charms reconfigured,
A versatile, technically astute poet, Doty masterfully tackles themes of death, beauty and discovery in this collection. Particularly moving is "Days of 1981," in which he recalls the memory of his
The heralded debut collection of poems by the author of What the Living Do (Norton, 1997). Selected by Margaret Atwood as a winner in the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, this uni
Mark Yakich is an original... In the unabashedly unwieldy title and in each poem, there are no borders drawn between the commonplace and the metaphysical. There are journeys, crossings, and departures
A collection of poetry featuring locations ranging from Rwanda to St. Petersburg to Mexico and a vision that stretches across the boundaries of the human experience
Selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett’s mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, presents songs for the living and the
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-BroidoPoet Julianne Buchsbaum has won acclaim for her "rich, lucid, alliterative lexicon, full of apt surprise" (Reginald Shepherd); "there is so
In her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century. From the beeping doors of a prison in New York to
Poems discuss growing up Catholic, pruning the garden, the poet's two grandmothers, the need to pay attention to what is taken for granted, and other subjects
Thaw delves into the issues at the core of a resilient family: kin ship, poverty, violence, death, abuse, and grief. The poems follow the speaker, as both mother and daught
Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson, Big Bird, Ba
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance Hayes. Lauren Berry's bracing and emotionally charged first collection of poetry delivers visions of a gothic South that Flannery O'Connor would re
For in that realm of scorpion and snake his soul cried out and the woman came fashioned from light and veiled in rain. He followed a god through desert wastes. From "Peyote Villanelle". Annotatio
Probing the local genius as expressed in history and customs, Swenson absorbs the anguish of colonization and dictatorship to reveal ordinary people and events with a sardonic humor, pathos and hope.
?Identified, pressed, touched ?repeatedly or restlessly,’ pleasured, hankered after, pointed at with the finger. Laura Wetherington means everything, all of everything. ?The map is not the territory,’
"Like the favorite daughters of a Sufi master, these liberating poems love contradiction and whirling, and intimacy?their seriousness is droll, their humor warm and dark, their fables of selfhood are
