Exploring begins by looking at what we find at home and then moves into exploring your garden and the the towns and shops around us. The book also covers travel and how we can explore the world around us and what we might find in different places aro...

"Just then, Rahul saw a spot of yellow far away... The yellow glowed beautifully in the morning light. There was something different about this particular yellow and was totally unlike all others. This one entered through his eyes, dissolved in his b...

From the opening poem, an extended elegy for the Cold War's ambivalent mix of irresponsibility and prosperity, to a concluding short memoir of Robert Lowell, "The Italian Visitor" is a book about memory. The title sequence, an account of a 1940s' chi...

A young soldier dons Napoleon's hat. An out-of-work man wanders Berlin, dreaming he is Peter the Great. The famous exile Dante finally returns to his native city to "hang his crown of laurels up". Familial and historical apparitions haunt this dazzli...

Acclaimed as one of America's most passionate and intelligent innovators, Jorie Graham writes poems of luminous formal beauty. Here she selects from the five books that preceded her 2012 Forward Prize-winning collection P L A C E, presenting European...

Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" is far more than a work that tested American censorship laws. In this riveting book, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary...

"I should never ask / directions to my childhood", writes Fred D'Aguiar: there is no way back home. "The Rose of Toulouse" is a book of geographies tracing the various places the poet has lived, their histories, and his own history as he travels away...

In his sixth collection, Mark Halliday continues to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life's emotional mysteries – both dire and hilarious – from the perpetual dissolving of our past to...

"Aeschylus I" contains "The Persians", translated by Seth Benardete; "The Seven Against Thebes", translated by David Grene; "The Suppliant Maidens", translated by Seth Benardete; and "Prometheus Bound", translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the...

"Aeschylus II" contains "The Oresteia", translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of "Proteus", translated by Mark Griffith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedie...