Deftly making use of historically specific events, "Raghead" examines the Gulf War, relaying untold narratives of occupation and warfare, as well as addressing the violence the war inflicted on the female body and on the land itself. In these poems,...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature's greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Marechal put it, "the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of writing". Taken...

"Novel Houses" visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer...

This riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them. "HoodWitch" tells the story of a young person who discovers that they are "somethi...

The perfect book for paranoid times, "I" introduces us to W, a mere hanger-on in East Berlin's postmodern underground literary scene. All is not as it appears, though, as W is actually a Stasi informant who reports to the mercurial David Bowie look-a...

In "The Iliad "Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. "The Odyssey" is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus,...

The three works of poetry that constitute "Tribunal" were written in the current context of seemingly ubiquitous warfare and the specter of unabashed neo-fascism, ethno-nationalism, and – especially in the United States – reassertions of white suprem...

In "henceforce", Kamden Ishmael Hilliard's poems take us on unimaginable voyages within and beyond the contours of our quotidian experience. This is not simply geographic travel, however: though Hilliard's poems explore air travel, transcontinental l...

This generous new volume is a sequel to "Essays on Departure" (Carcanet, 2006) collecting a quarter century's work by one of the most elegant and pertinent poets working in English. She brings together material from eight books, including a generous...

Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, "Les Miserables" – but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, "La Fin de Satan", left unfinished and not published until after...