*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick* ';By turns hilarious and provocative, it's an affecting character study and modern mythic retelling.
'Heather Christle's poems may well be one of the places readers turn when they want to know what it was like to be young and paying attention in the early 21st century .
Guillaume de Machaut, the most important poet and musician of fourteenth-century France, had considerable influence on subsequent generations of writers in both France and England.
The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry';a ';best' anthology that really lives up to its title' (Chicago Tribune)collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.
inside sadness is glory / if you see it right way round, / find the seam, reverse it to perspectivize, / unwind light, joy's unravelling spoolInspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous natural environment.
';Drew may have lived many years among the Yanks, but his Mississippi roots are having their say, shining through in every irreverent/reverent syllable.
A moral exemplum about courtship and marriage, this "e;essentially Canadian"e; tale, which takes place in the 1760s, reflects its author's profound and sometimes disturbing knowledge of the bicultural and bilingual society in which she lived.
What the Earth Seemed to Say is a powerful collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from one of Americas most daring and courageous poets.
CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN SPRING 2023Feminist poems both serious and absurd that question our obsession with productivity instead of with care.
Ana Blandiana is one of Romanias foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her countrys strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize.
Paper Bridge is the first bilingual collection by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno, a "e;master of the contemporary Ukrainian Ballad, who builds a lifeline for the broken-hearted wanderers, homeless heartbreakers, hopeless romantics, and helpful ironists,"e; in the words of Valzhyna Mort, winner of the Griffin Poetry prize.
This collection, which won the 2015 Costa Poetry Award, is an exhibition of the Dundee-born poet's stunningly accomplished adoption of the sonnet's ancient structureThis collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward Prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty luminous sonnets.
Rich in river imagery and an intense sense of the passage of time, The Wash explores the incessant music that permeates journeys with a destination unknown.
The mind is made / of pleasures and / uncertainty, inviting / as it yearns to be both / puzzle and adversity Full of philosophical digressions, questions, and answers, Knots forms a series of cyclical narrations, a kind of verbal asymmetry or mathematician's knot, continuously mirroring its ideas and subject matter in a play of language and contrasting points of view.
Tenth Anniversary Expanded EditionFirst released in 2011, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine was the debut poetry collection from Tennessee poet Jesse Graves and was awarded the 2011 Weatherford Award in Poetry from Berea College, the Book of the Year in Poetry Award from the Appalachian Writers' Association, and the Thomas and Lillie D.
Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry.
Null Set collects the slightly obsessive possibilities that rise when we give them the spaceodd jobs, trouble-making, and farm boy rambling, all in dialogue with mathematics, or William Faulkner, or other poets.
Karl Otto Conrady zeichnet in seiner Biographie alle wichtigen Stationen des Goetheschen Lebens auf dem Hintergrund der von Kriegen und der Französischen Revolution bestimmten Epoche nach.
"e;Nearly two decades after the death of Kurt Cobain, a friend and fellow musician not only continues to mourn his suicide, but also rages against the culture that he holds responsible.
Clare Shaw's fourth collection Towards a General Theory of Love shows that poetry can say as much as about who we are - and especially how we feel - as psychology.
A visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetryBeguiling, outrageous, playfully morbid and frequently stunning in its surreal flights of imagination, The Book of Frank follows the eponymous figure as he grows from his troubled childhood into an adult travesty of the ostensibly straight family man in a male-dominated world.
