Throughout her nearly sixty-year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry. She was an essential voice in both feminist and Irish l...

This third collection from award-winning poet and translator James Womack is a long poem remaking the "Elegies" of the "last Roman poet" Maximianus, boldly exploring sex and old age.

With "Habitat Threshold", Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future. The book begins with the birth of...

The poems begin where language fails, where speech becomes disembodied, and syntax skids to a stop that dissolves into gesture. Where its form reaches an end, formlessness offers a space ripe with possibility. Here we find Harpo, reaching into the fr...

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...

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...

In the spirit of a flaneur, the poet goes about her daily life in and around Paris, with an eye for the diversity of human experience in a great city. A new collection from award-winning Canadian poet Beverley Bie Brahic.

HD (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) wrote "Hermetic Definition" at the height of her poetic powers. With her celebrated War Trilogy ("The Walls Do Not Fall", "Tribute to the Angels", and "Flowering of the Rod"), it transcends her earlier purist style, ac...

A moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet. By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet. He had only published a single collection, bu...

Sometime during the twentieth century, the self-mythology of the literary critic fused with that of the cowboy: a lone outrider, practicing a defunct trade, whose consolation was rugged stoicism and a beautiful terrain. John Clegg s startling new col...