This is a book of letting go, of wild avowals, of unabashed eroticism; at the same time it is a work of integral imagination, steeped in the light of Greek myth that is part of the poet's heritage and imbued with an intuitive sense of dramatic confli...

Though none of us can predict our own futures, there are distinctive factors – individual and collective – that may forcibly turn our attention toward the uncertain.  In the poems in Brightword the speaker, a mother, contemplates the microcosm and ma...

Imagine you are a Palestinian who came to America as a young man, eventually finding yourself caught between the country you live in with your wife and daughter, and the home – and parents – you left behind. Imagine living every day in your nonnative...

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...

How can a person come to understand wars and hatreds well enough to explain them truthfully to a child? "The Bower" engages this timeless and thorny question through a recounting of the poet-speaker's year in Belfast, Ireland, with her young daughter...

Mar Ka lives in and writes from the foothills of Alaska's Chugach Mountains".Be-Hooved", her new poetry collection, creates a layered spiritual memoir of her decades in the northern wilderness. The poems inhabit her surroundings – structured along th...

Iraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author of some forty books in French and Arabic, he began life as a child laborer, with little or no education. As a political prisoner under Saddam Hussein, he learned to read and write Ar...

Chris McCully has translated the Anglo-Saxon Riddles. Now he takes on the greatest Old English epic, devising a highly expressive prosody, and providing a full introduction and rich up-to-date annotation.

Not for sale in Estonia! The French poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: perhaps his most famous pronouncement is "everything in the world exists in order to end up...

Not for sale in Estonia! Among the most influential works of the French poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898), "Un Coup de des jamais n'abolira le Hasard" feels to this day revolutionary and resoundingly contemporary, both for the suggestive power of...