American poetry - 21st century

  • The Shadow of Sirius

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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

    Featured on NPR’s “Fresh Air” and “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS.

    Honored as one of the “Best Books of the Year” from Publishers Weekly.

    “A collection of lu

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    • Author: Merwin, W. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 130
    • Publish Date: October 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 1556593104
    • Language: English
  • Lo

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    Lo maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman–tender, hungry, hopeful–who manages to emerge. In a series of lyric odes and elegies, Lo explor… [more below]

    • Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
    • Author: Crowe, Melissa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: May 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1609388992
    • Language: English
  • Latitude

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    Chosen as the winner of the 2021APR/Honickman First Book Prize by Guggenheim Fellow Ada Lim n, Natasha Rao’s debut collection Latitude abounds with sensory delights, rich in colors, flavors, and sound… [more below]

    • Author: Rao, Natasha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 07 2021
    • ISBN10: 0986093831
    • Language: English
  • Selected Books of the Beloved

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    An expansive, lyric testament to the formidable mystery of love, spanning several previous volumes all in dedication to the beloved.

    For more than a decade, Gregory Orr has been writing toward “the Bo… [more below]

    • Author: Orr, Gregory
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: August 23 2022
    • ISBN10: 1556596537
    • Language: English
  • Schizophrene

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    Schizophrene traces the intersections of migration and mental illness as they unfold in post-Partition diasporic communities. Bhanu Kapil brings forward the question of a healing narrative and explore… [more below]

    • Author: Kapil, Bhanu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 19 2011
    • ISBN10: 0984459863
    • Language: English
  • Charm Offensive

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    Charm Offensive, Ross White’s debut poetry collection, explores the space between Dickinson’s directive to tell the truth slant and the universal reality of seeing the truth slant without knowing it. … [more below]

    • Author: White, Ross
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: June 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1913606627
    • Language: English
  • Everything

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    The poems in Everything, Andrea Cohen’s seventh collection, traffic in wonder and woe, in dialogue and interior speculation. Humor and gravity go hand in hand here. Cohen’s poems have the rueful iron… [more below]

    • Author: Cohen, Andrea
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: February 15 2021
    • ISBN10: 1945588683
    • Language: English
  • Coeur de Lion

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    Now that I am not addressing you
    But the “you” of poetry
    I am probably doing something horrible and destructive.
    But this “I” is the I of poetry
    And it should be able to do more than I can do.

    Just a few m

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    • Author: Reines, Ariana
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: November 01 2011
    • ISBN10: 1934200484
    • Language: English
  • Corvus and Crater

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    “Each poem in Corvus and Crater is a lens, a tractate, the short alphabet of light, a meditation. Begun from a limitation–54 poems with 54 syllables to commemorate a birthday of the same number–thes… [more below]

    • Author: Hollowell, Erin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: July 25 2023
    • ISBN10: 1915022312
    • Language: English
  • Love by Night: A Book of Poetry

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    More of a story than a collection of poetry, Love by Night will whisk you away from your world and into the dreamy romantic night.

    Love by Night begins with anxious hesitation and nervous attraction,

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    • Author: Williams, Sk
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: February 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 1524861197
    • Language: English
  • Rocket Fantastic: Poems

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    Like nothing before it, in Rocket Fantastic explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vu

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    • Author: Calvocoressi, Gabrielle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 18 2018
    • ISBN10: 0892554924
    • Language: English
  • Swimming Lessons: Poems

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    Instant New York Times Bestseller

    The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity.

    I seem to be your new favorite n

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    • Author: Reinhart, Lili
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: September 29 2020
    • ISBN10: 1250261759
    • Language: English
  • American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time

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    A landmark anthology envisioned by Tracy K. Smith, 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States

    American Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. 22nd

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    • Author: Smith, Tracy K.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: September 04 2018
    • ISBN10: 1555978150
    • Language: English
  • Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems

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    “An untrammeled renegade genius… Here is a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.”–Publishers Weekly

    Starred Review in

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    • Author: Harrison, Jim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: May 28 2019
    • ISBN10: 155659528X
    • Language: English
  • Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry

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    A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins.

    Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poet

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    • Author: Collins, Billy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: March 25 2003
    • ISBN10: 0812968875
    • Language: English
  • This Afterlife: Selected Poems

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    A selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator.

    This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings’s four

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    • Author: Stallings, A. E.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 0374600694
    • Language: English
  • In a Few Minutes Before Later

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    “[Hillman’s] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful.” –Harvard Review

    Finalist for the Four Quartets Prize, given by Poetry Society of America, 2023

    An iconoclastic ecopoet who has led t

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Hillman, Brenda
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 0819500151
    • Language: English
  • Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

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    WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY

    A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the War

    I’m a song, changing. I’m a ligh

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    • Author: Phillips, Carl
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: February 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 0374603766
    • Language: English
  • The Best American Poetry 2023

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    Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).

    Since its debut in 1988, T

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    • Series: Best American Poetry
    • Author: Lehman, David
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1982186763
    • Language: English
  • Hotel Oblivion

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    A specter, haunting the edges of society: because neoliberalism insists there are no social classes, thus, there is no working class, the main subject of Hotel Oblivion, a working class subject, does … [more below]

    • Author: Cruz, Cynthia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: February 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1954245114
    • Language: English
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