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Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Coste Lewis (Author)The National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image Award winner returns with another inventive and boundary-breaking book: a sensual journey ignited in the archives of iconic queer Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy. In her first book, Robin Coste Lewis's poems exploded the imagery of the Black female figure from antiquity through the present day. Her second book was an expansive hybrid photographic and poetic study of human migra...

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Report copyright infringementby Iain Haley Pollock (Author)Memory, story, impressions, witness, culpability, our very humanness course through this book and strip us, via our interaction, of pretense. The poems are language- and image-driven narratives that present us with deep and abiding love, a need for orienting oneself, for respecting the process of orientation. They also dwell in the instantaneous shifts, the sudden changes that simultaneously jar and reassure us. The dreamy realism of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Billy Collins (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and mysteries of daily life. "Among the best poems that [Billy] Collins has ever written."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR "Witty, wry and tender when it hurts, Water, Water is a pleasure to read and easy to give."--The Washington Post "Collins remains the most co...

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Report copyright infringementby Joey Kidney (Author)Through this genuine and personal collection of poems, Joey Kidney shares gentle reminders that though life can be overwhelming and unpredictable, we all have the ability to hold tight to hope. Sometimes we just need a little help remembering. With over 10 million followers across his vast social media platform, Canadian-born writer Joey Kidney has built a thriving international community of supporters seeking his brotherly advice on life, l...

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Report copyright infringementby Whitney Hanson (Author)From Instagram phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Climate, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems i don't worry about the weather anymorewhen it rains, i dancewhen the sun shines, i dancethrough it all, i will dance--from Climate Honest, poignant, and relatable, Climate is a journey in embracing change both internally and externally. It guides us through all the weather we may face, from t...

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Report copyright infringementby Fargo Nissim Tbakhi (Author)TERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages--interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical--constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians.It moves through sections of varying experimentalism, from an invented visual form (the Gazan Tunnel) to all-caps queer ecstatic, attempting to carve out a space for the negotiation of an alternative subjecthood.The voices in this collection are driven by ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennae Cecelia (Author)When vulnerability is hard, Deep in My Feels is the perfect poetry collection to remind you that sharing your feelings is not only okay, but necessary. Through the evocative verses of her fourteenth book of poetry, Jennae Cecelia invites readers to explore the rich tapestry of love, loss, and hope that defines the human condition as she walks with you on a journey of self-discovery and emotional liberation. Deeply vulnerable and innately ...

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Report copyright infringementby Shannon Jade (Author)A Song for the Earth is a lyrical novel in verse written by an environmental scientist and designed to offer a hopeful perspective on the climate crisis. #1 BESTSELLER IN NATURE POETRY (INGRAMSPARK) WINNER, REGAL SUMMIT BOOK AWARD (POETRY) 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST, ABLE GOLDEN BOOK AWARDS 2025 NOMINEE, VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS 2026 NOMINEE, FIVE ISLANDS POETRY PRIZE 2025 The wide, wild world is made of wonder, but as climat...

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Report copyright infringementby Salaam Green (Author)I want to know what you know about my peopleI said to the caretaker's granddaughter. I want you to tell me something about them. The Other Revival is a story of homecoming. This collection of poems revolves around a house built in Harpersville, Alabama in 1841. Thirty-nine people enslaved by Samuel Wallace, the owner of the property, constructed the house and worked the land. For generations, the house remained in the Wallace family and is ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Lehman (Author), Terence Winch (Author)Guest edited by Terence Winch--NEA Fellow and editor of the "pick of the week" on the Best American Poetry blog--the 2025 edition marks a poignant farewell to series editor David Lehman, celebrating more than three decades of poetic excellence. For thirty-eight years, The Best American Poetry series has won widespread acclaim as the nation's most influential and vital poetry anthology. BAP, which has inspired similar...

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Report copyright infringementby Henri Cole (Author)FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD IN POETRY Henri Cole pins the complexities of aging and the mystery of the passage of time to the page. The Other Love is most of all a reflection on aging and the passing of time. It is here that the struggle between form and chaos is most poignantly palpable in Henri Cole's ravishing new book. The Other Love is also a way of seeing the world, an attitude more than an emotion, a love of things and people as they a...

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Report copyright infringementby Virgil (Author), Scott McGill (Translator), Susannah Wright (Translator)Crafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman Empire, Virgil's Aeneid is a tale of thrilling adventure, extreme adversity, doomed romance, fateful battles, and profound loss. Through its stirring account of human struggle, meddling gods, and conflicting destinies, the poem brings to life the triumphs and trials that led to one of the most powerful societies the worl...

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Report copyright infringementby Bobby Elliott (Author)Winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeFinalist for the 2026 Norma Farber First Book Prize A one-of-a-kind debut that asks what we owe those we love, The Same Man is an aching chronicle of the early days of parenthood and the wounds of the past. Haunted by memory and powered by the demands and joys of new life, Elliott's poems wrestle with the father-son relationship at their core and the deep, unspoken harms that shape us. A ...

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Report copyright infringementby Natalie Shapero (Author)*2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Longlist*In Stay Dead, Shapero examines performance, power, comedy, and despair through the lenses of method acting and abstract expressionism.The politics of labor and performance collide with comedy and tragedy in Natalie Shapero's fourth poetry collection, Stay Dead. Shapero's unflinching poems explore theories of acting, discourses of survival, privacy and publicity, power and punchlines, and the language of...

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Report copyright infringementby Aja Monet (Author)Florida Water is a collection of poems that, like the cleansing waters of spiritual baths, rinse, reflect, and reveal the raw truths that lie within. In this vulnerable meditation, aja monet reflects on her migration to South Florida in search of love, connection, and belonging, unearthing the delicate balance between the poet, lover, and community organizer. These poems lay bare the tender dance of relationships, entwining the personal with ...

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy Cope (Author)"[Cope] writes the sort of poems almost no one does any longer . . . She seems always to know what to say, and what to do, in dark moments." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book ReviewThis volume comprises the full poetic works of one of England's wittiest, most beloved writers, and includes many previously uncollected poems.When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986, Wendy Cope became that rarest of creatures: a celebrated ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Olds (Author), Diane Seuss (Introduction by)A Stunning 45th Anniversary Release of Sharon Olds's Satan Says in a Gorgeous Hardcover Edition for Fans of Olds's Poetry, All Poetry Enthusiasts, and Collectors Alike Ms. Magazine Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026 This 45th anniversary hardcover deluxe edition of the bestselling debut collection of poetry by Sharon Olds now includes an introduction by Diane Seuss. Satan Says was originally published in the Pitt Poe...

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Report copyright infringementby Rickey Laurentiis (Author)LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY - From Whiting Award-winner Rickey Laurentiis, a mythic, lyric, decade-in-the-making new collection of masterful poems that probe the meanings of trans/formation and re-creation, a new classic about gender and love When Rickey Laurentiis debuted in 2015 with Boy with Thorn, the poetry world heralded the arrival of an astonishing new ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rhoni Blankenhorn (Author)Winner of the 2024 Trio Award, Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet explores landscapes of grief, desire, and identity. How does memory collapse time? In what ways do mourning and longing echo each other? What violence persists beneath narrative and aesthetic surfaces, upholding systems of belief and power? This debut poetry collection revolves around imagination as an act of resilience and rebellion. Blankenhorn's speaker communes with ...

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Report copyright infringementby Marissa Davis (Author)From a prizewinning poet whose work "points to an unfathomably bright future for the canon" (Danez Smith), a stunningly lush collection about desire, resilience, and our fraught and ecstatic relationship with the natural world A collection as remarkable for the force of its feeling as for the range of its vision, End of Empire explores the tensions of Black and American identity within an ecological framework. Inspired by the language and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Bernadette Mayer (Author)This landmark early book (its original printing by Angel Hair Books was 750 copies, and they are now extremely rare) by the late great Bernadette Mayer is finally available again, both as a tribute and a joy to read. Mayer was a marvelous poet in every stage of her long and prolific writing life, but many fans most admire her restless, powerful, sexy, and erudite early work. One of her signal elements is a certain deadpan wit, on full d...

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Report copyright infringementby Miranda Cowley Heller (Author)From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace, a Reese's Book Club Pick, comes a debut poetry collection that paints a moving portrait of a rich life from childhood to love to marriage to motherhood to divorce and beyond. "Breathtaking . . . will change the way you see the world." --Daisy Goodwin, author of The American Heiress If I could fly backward, I would.To the safety of branches, to the timewhen my heart ...

Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Fant (Author)The acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life-affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine--the second book in a creative collaboration between Amistad and Moore Black Press.At age fifteen, Barbara Fant tragically lost her mother, and her world was suddenly upended. "I became an angry teenager. I was mad at the world.," she recalls. "I even stopped praying, bu...

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Report copyright infringementby M. Mick Powell (Author)A dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the life stories of Aaliyah Haughton, Whitney Houston, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, and others to explore sexuality, survival, queer mourning, and the afterlives of stardom "Poet m. mick powell's debut collection . . . resurrects their vivid lives and artistry to paint a more humanizing picture of their legacy."--USA TodayA DEBUTIFUL ...

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Report copyright infringementby Shonda Buchanan (Author)Nina Simone's ghost lives in these poems by award-winning author, Shonda Buchanan. Like the icon's life and art, The Lost Songs of Nina Simone is complex, daring, sensuous, hard and soft all at once.Author BiographyFor the last 25 years, award-winning author Shonda Buchanan (Black Indian, Equipoise: Poems from Goddess Country, Who's Afraid of Black Indians?) has been on the hunt for Nina Simone and the impact of the icon's life, work and...

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Report copyright infringementby Georgie Jones (Author)This a love letter to real life, however it shows up; an antidote to the highlight reel that is social media, a tribute to the unfinished, the unfiltered, the uncertain.In this debut collection of poetry, stories and questionable choices, Georgie Jones, with her signature wit and warmth, explores the exquisite messiness of modern existence and makes the chaos feel, somehow, like home. She can't promise any answers, but she can make you fee...

The New Book: Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things

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Report copyright infringementby Nikki Giovanni (Author)Nikki Giovanni's extraordinary final collection--a landmark of American literature which speaks to the fury and upheaval of our time, as well as the triumphs and delights of her remarkable creative life.For decades, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has been at the forefront of American culture. The New Book is a towering work of protest against the divisions of our time, leavened with moments of joy and reflection about her indelible legacy, her f...

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Report copyright infringementby Latorial Faison (Author)Nursery Rhymes in Black is a poetic recollection of race, roots, culture, and identity. Paying homage to the memory and work of elders and ancestors, Latorial Faison remembers her own matriarch, mother, grandmother-the rich memories of having grown up in rural, historic Southampton County, Virginia. These poignant poems mark significant moments and tell the lives of the people along the author's journey through the post-segregation Jim C...

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Report copyright infringementby Gbenga Adesina (Author)Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in PoetryWinner of the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardFinalist for the 2026 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry CollectionLonglisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry In Gbenga Adesina's groundbreaking debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and spiritual odysseys, we encounter figures embarking on journeys haunted by history--a son keeps dreaming he c...

Haiku: Japanese Poems for the Four Seasons

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Report copyright infringementby Ornella Civardi (Author), Kaori Yamaguchi (Illustrator)Perhaps no poetic form evokes nature so effectively as the haiku. Made up of just seventeen syllables, it conveys an impression with almost the same immediacy as our own senses--it can be as ephemeral as a breath and as powerful as lightning. This delightful volume presents some 140 haiku by masters of every period--including Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki--arranged according to the kigo (or word linked to a...

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Report copyright infringementby Triin Paja (Author)"Triin Paja's debut collection, Sleeping in a Field, shimmers and shines like 'half-limbed light' dancing off 'the grey eyes of the sea.' These poems read like hymns, like devotions--to the world and its imperiled creatures and to beloveds--but they are grief songs, dusk-lit funeral chants that celebrate the wild beauty of a thing even as it passes. As 'seagulls sail in an arc of hunger, ' forests' 'mossy legs' are clearcut, leaving a black w...