Poetry

Modewarre: Home Ground

von Patricia Sykes

In poems that are as concentrated as pearls, Patricia Sykes explores various histories—her own, those of her forebears, and the wider histories of identity and place. Citing the intersection of three distinct...

Earth's Breath

von Susan Hawthorne

Situated between the realms of the real and the fantastic, this collection of eco-poetry relays the ferocious power and long-lasting effects of extreme weather events such as cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons....

The Butterfly Effect

von Susan Hawthorne

The flap of a butterfly's wing in one part of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side, just as the word "lesbian"—a force full of vitality and world-changing creativity—can destroy families...

Blood Relations

von Sandy Jeffs

These poems are an evocative documentation of the harrowing experiences of a child living in a hostile and unhappy home. Pain and bitterness accompany the conflicting emotions of growing up in a family torn...

Bird: And Other Writings

von Susan Hawthorne

Birds don’t fly with leads, says thirteen-year-old Avis when confronted by the limitations imposed on her at school. She has epilepsy and some of the teachers want to stop her participating in the sport she...

False Prophet

von Stan Rice

Stan Rice, who died in December 2002, was a poet of unique, uncompromising vision. Joy and brutality, faith and faithlessness, the beauty of truth and, at times, of untruth–these opposing forces come together...

Sonnets and Salsa

von Carmen Tafolla

This major poetry collection is a fearless depiction of a Latina living in the best and worst of times.

In These Latitudes: Ten Contemporary Poets

von Robert Bonazzi

A unique collection of diverse voices, this collection of 10 contemporary poets represents a wide swath of the American South—from Virginia to Texas. In this small anthology, each poet gives voice to the struggles...

Carta Marina: A Poem in Three Parts

von Ann Fisher-Wirth

A vivid, strange, and beautiful account of a year in Sweden, this poem represents the ways in which wildness and monstrousness, dream and terror, coexist forever with constructions of order. Inspired by a medieval...

Apostrophe

von Bill Kennedy

In the tradition of the phonetic poems of Hugo Ball and the "readymades" of Dada, this exploration of the nature of verse straddles the line between form and nonsense, between intention and happy accident. An...

Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime

von Roger Housden

The fourth volume in the popular series that began with Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime focuses on what it means to be truly human. In it, Roger Housden offers us poems on life and...

Selected Poems

von Vladimir Nabokov & Thomas Karshan

Though we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English....

Driving through the Country before You Are Born

von Ray McManus & Kate Daniels

Dark poems struggling to reconcile a haunting loss and troubled present

Signals

von Ed Madden & Afaa Weaver

Meditations on personal and cultural memory, race, and sexuality in the New South

Night Train

von Anthony Lynch

Outside, the foggy anachronismof steam, a raised flame-refineries manufacturing industrial gothic.The carriage follows a linedrawn beneath the You Yangs,then the lights again, bankingin take-off. Anthony Lynch...

Electricity for Beginners

von Michelle Dicinoski

Poems about falling in and out of love. Poems about houses that shake and flood. Poems about frisbees and families. Michelle Dicinoski's 'Electricity for Beginners' is a lyrical exploration of the sparks and...

Now We Are Four

von Petrina Barson

We have a little tablefor your photo, a candlesome objects you lately touched.But the whole house has become a shrine... 'Now We Are Four' is a collection of poems about intimacy, solitude and family. It charts...

A Soul Whispers: Pictures and poems from a traveler

von Edward Michael Tomasofsky

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Within the pages of the absorbing poetry collection A Soul Whispers: Pictures and poems from a traveler, the reader will find life experiences through the eyes of Edward Michael Tomasofsky. It is...

Complete Poems

von C.P. Cavafy & Daniel Mendelsohn

An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now...

The Alphabet Not Unlike the World: Poems

von Katrina Vandenberg

In her accomplished second collection of poems, Katrina Vandenberg writes from the intersection of power and forgiveness. With poems named for letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and employing such innovative...