Bertrand Russell finds himself in purgatory, tumbling through literal representations of the worlds of ideas he examined in his classic text, A History of Western Philosophy, gulping much-needed air,
WInner of The 2015 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry Hour of the Ox received the 2015 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, selected by Crystal Ann Williams, who called it “a timeless collection written by a p
Bloom in Reverse chronicles the aftermath of a friend's suicide and the end of a turbulent relationship, working through devastation and loss while on a search for solace that spans from local bars to
Collected here are poems from Peter Oresick’s previous books, beginning withThe Story of Glass (1977), and to them are added 36 new poems called Under the Carpathians. His work—known for working class
In The Horse Fair, Robin Becker asks questions about citizenship and participation in the marketplaces—of bodies, of ideas, of objects—in which we function. She investigates how individuals marginaliz
Appearance and disguise?in a Costa Rican rainforest, a West Village repair shop, or an intimate relationship?reveal the turbulence that undergirds daily life, as families and places undergo change. In
Sound of the Ax brings together for the first time over four hundred aphorisms and twenty-six aphoristic poems by one of America’s most essential poets of the twentieth century. Many readers are famil
This book by a major American poet is for poetry readers at all levels, academic and non-academic. It is a sequence of poems that will surprise and delight readers?in the voices of an old woman full o
On The Street of Divine Love is a collection of twenty-five years of Barbara Hamby's poems?word drunk excursions into the American female consciousness with stops in Italy, Paris, and London.
“Reading Jeffrey McDaniel’s gorgeously dark and utterly compelling Chapel of Inadvertent Joy reminds me that he is probably the most important poet in America. The book in your hands was written by
Blood Memory, Colleen J. McElroy'scollection of narrative poetry, emerges from deep seated memories with enormous emotion. Through the rhythms and musicality unique to McElroy's voice, it portrays an
In a collection of autobiographical poems, the poet traces the timelines of her life with calm wisdom, including a cross-country drive to bury her mother's ashes and an imagined final exam given by he
“Paisley Rekdal’s quiet virtuosity with rhyme and cadence, her syntactic fidelity to thought and sensation, her analytical intelligence that keeps homing in and in, her ambitious sentences and larger
“Like many Jews, in and out of the synagogue, I wrestle with sacred tradition like Jacob wrestling the angel. ?The poems gathered here were born of this wrestling, which can never be over.”? —from the
The poems that make up A Map of the Lost World range from tightly-wrought shorter lyrics to longer autobiographical narratives to patterns of homage (in several forms) of poets that Hilles admires and
Orbit connects the intimate with what is farthest from us, mixing what we can imagine with what is daily and near. Landscapes stretch from stable and fulfilling domestic interiors to the destiny of ou
