American poetry
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Magic City
$15.95 Add to cartAn award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.
Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He po
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Komunyakaa, Yusef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: October 09 1992
- ISBN10: 0819512087
- Language: English
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Poems for Love: A New Anthology
$14.99 Read moreA complex and truly timeless emotion, love – whether passion or heartbreak, infatuation or flirtation – has provoked some of the greatest names in literature to write verse of outstanding beauty.
Part- Author: Trollope, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1035026724
- Language: English
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Dunce
$18.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
A finalist for both the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award and a the LA Times Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award.
Through her ma
- Author: Ruefle, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1940696992
- Language: English
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Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
$25.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the poems of Fr
WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY- Author: Bidart, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537690
- Language: English
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Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63
$16.95 Add to cartFrom Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where C?saire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #63
- Author: Alexander, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868702
- Language: English
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Naked for Tea: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartNaked for Tea, a finalist in the Able Muse Book Award, is a uniquely uplifting and inspirational collection. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s poems are at times humorously surreal, at times touchingly rea
- Author: Trommer, Rosemerry Wahtola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1773490168
- Language: English
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The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems
$19.99 Add to cart“No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”
—Atlantic MonthlyThe National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With
- Author: Hass, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0061923907
- Language: English
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When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds
$19.99 Add to cartA luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.
- Author: Markus, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0814348505
- Language: English
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Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
$24.95 Add to cartConjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selec
- Author: Nelson, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 12, 2012
- ISBN10: 0807147346
- Language: English
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Unleashed: Poems and Drawings
$15.95 Add to cartWith a hearty dose of humility and humor, Unleashed is a book of diversified poems and drawings primarily taken from a variety of life experiences, traumas, and events that have happened over a lifeti
- Author: Thomas, Betty Nadine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1578691540
- Language: English
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The Narrow Road to the Interior
$17.99 Add to cartKimiko Hahn, “a welcome voice of experimentation and passion” (Bloomsbury Review), takes up the Japanese prose-poetry genre zuihitsu–literally “running brush,” which utilizes tactics such as juxtapos… [more below]
- Author: Hahn, Kimiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330273
- Language: English
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Refusing Heaven: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartMore than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. I… [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 037571085X
- Language: English
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I Hope She Finds This
$22.99 Add to cartA care package, left by r.h. Sin, found by you.
From New York Times bestselling author, r.h. Sin, comes a care package of two new poetry and prose collections boxed together in an elegant slipcase.Aut
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1524871133
- Language: English
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Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George
$35.00 Add to cart‘Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.’ – Olivia Harrison
Olivia Harrison pres
- Author: Harrison, Olivia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1905662734
- Language: English
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A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015
$16.95 Read moreThis collection of Wendell Berry essays and poems–all written outdoors on the Sabbath–“[shines] with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and won… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1619029421
- Language: English
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Water & Salt
$17.95 Add to cartLena Khalaf Tuffaha’s debut, Water & Salt, sings in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage. These poems alternately rage, laugh, celebrate and grieve, singing in the voices of… [more below]
- Author: Tuffaha, Lena Khalaf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1597090298
- Language: English
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Boris
$7.95 Add to cartBoris is a big gray cat who loves sleeping and playing and exploring and hunting. And his owner loves him for all of his simple cat ways.
But Boris, typical as he may be, is part of a much larger stor- Author: Rylant, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0152058095
- Language: English
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Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets
$22.95 Add to cart“Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging…potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit.”–Washington Post
“Terrifying and fearlessly inventive.”–New York Times- Author: Coleman, Wanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1574232533
- Language: English
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Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection
$19.95 Add to cartThis anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. These poets, from all walks of life, and from all over America, prove to us the possibi
- Author: Crews, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1732743452
- Language: English
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The Best American Poetry 2021
$20.00 Add to cartThe 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing renewed proof that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that … [more below]
- Series: Best American Poetry
- Author: Lehman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1982106638
- Language: English
