We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces – time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion – win victories over us each day. We all "know" this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained – in...

An abundant, moving collection by the leading formal poet and Persian translator of our time. Including poems from eight previous collections, new poems, and excerpts of Davis verse translation from medieval Persian poetry (some over 700 years old).

In "The Little Sublime Comedy" John Gallas reanimates one of the great works of world literature for the twenty-first century. Relocated from medieval Italy to modern-day New Zealand, Dante's "Divine Comedy" is given a new lease of life in Gallas's d...

One of Barnes & Noble's Leatherbound Classic Editions, this anthology of love poems features a durable bonded-leather binding and distinctive gilt edging.

Called "the master of the poetic one-liner" by the New York Times, acclaimed poet and critic Lloyd Schwartz takes his characteristic tragicomic view of life to some unexpected and disturbing places in this, his fourth book of poetry. Here are poignan...

"Ach! I misspoke. What I mean to say is this..." In Long Pass, Joey Connolly's first collection, the poet – in love, in puzzlement, in frustration or in elegy – keeps catching himself out, starting again. He wants to speak truthfully. He wants to say...

"The evening forgives the alleyway", Reginald Gibbons writes in his tenth book of poems – but such startling simplicities are overwhelmed in us by the everyday and the epochal. Across the great range of Gibbons's emblematic, vividly presented scenes,...

From "Let Me Hear You": Outside is inside now The pyramid whose point we are is weightless and invisible and has become itself the night in which alone together on a high plateau we go on shouting out whatever name those winds keep blowing back into...

One of the central figures from a remarkable generation of French-language poets, Pierre Chappuis has thus far only been represented in English translation in fragments: a few poems here and there in magazines, online reviews, and anthologies. "Like...

Not for sale in Estonia! "Life in the Folds", originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux's (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a laboratory of fantastical, destructive...