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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...

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Report copyright infringementby Taylor Byas (Author)An Audacious Book Club Pick The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black female speaker from object, artistic muse, and victim to subject, critic, and master of her story Resting Bitch Face is a book for women, for Black women, for lovers of art and film criticism, and for writers interested in work that finds a middle ground between poetry...

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Report copyright infringementby David Duchovny (Author) DAVID DUCHOVNY'S DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY covers a range of intimate themes, in particular his relationship with his father, who looms large throughout the work. Here, Duchovny's typically clever wordplay distills to an emotionally impactful portrayal of what the author holds most dear. His approach to poetry is beautifully encapsulated in his introduction: Poetry is not useful. And that is exactly why we need it. It reminds us of two impor...

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Report copyright infringementby Kalehua Kim (Author)Mele, by Kalehua Kim, embodies the meaning of the word "mele" - a Hawaiian song or chant traditionally used to preserve history through the oral tradition. Winner of the Trio House Press Editor's Choice Prize, Kim's debut collection evokes modes of language and culture that shape the contours of memory and expose the fault lines of family and self, as well as the grace and generosity of healing, acknowledgement, and commemoration. The poems ...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Grace (Author)A Brief History of the Midwest is a lyric encapsulation of the hardship and hope of the American Midwest. These poems trace the trajectory of the middle of America from its colonization to the present day. Hardships that range from loneliness to the opioid crisis to the largest earthquake in US history reverberate through the collection's fields, Northern waters, and derelict barns. The losses here are both historical and personal, as is t...

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Dimitrov (Author)A fearless, revelatory collection from one of the most talked-about poets in America, whose poems have been embraced by critics and readers alike as candid, intimate, and magnetically charged ("like catching a glimpse of the full moon in the middle of the day" --Bomb) "Ecstasy is a rollicking paean to pleasure, an ode to realness and resilience." -Tas Tobey, New York Times Alex Dimitrov embraces a life on the edge in New York and the finel...

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Report copyright infringementby Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (Author), Haleh Liza Gafori (Translator)A follow-up to her ground-breaking translations of Rumi in Gold, poet and musician Haleh Liza Gafori translates a new selection of work by the great Persian mystic that will muster the soul and stir the spirit. "Gafori's selection boasts idiosyncratic connections and ear-catching tempo changes, from sequences and litanies to unimprovably terse epigrams: 'Beloved, when your sweetness rains down / th...

Lamentations of Nezahualcóyotl: Nahuatl Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Nezahualcóyotl (Author), Ilan Stavans (Translator), Cuauhtémoc Wetzka (Illustrator)From award-winning author, editor, and translator Ilan Stavans comes a one-of-a-kind retelling of a legendary Aztec ruler's timeless verses.A king, a warrior, and a poet, Nezahualcóyotl was a revolutionary ahead of his time. Born in 1402, the ruler--whose name means 'hungry coyote' in the Uto-Aztecan language of Nahuatl--led the city-state of Texcoco through its age of enlightenm...

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Report copyright infringementby Cathy Linh Che (Author)2025 National Book Award Finalist Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Finalist 2026 APALA Literature Awards - Asian American Poetry Winner Ms. Magazine's Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025 Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collections, 2025 NPR's Books We Love 2025 2026 ALA RUSA Notable Poetry List The long-awaited sophomore poetry collection by award-winning writer Cathy Linh Che, on familial estrangement, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola's Ap...

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Report copyright infringementby César Vallejo (Author), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)The Peruvian poet César Vallejo--one of Latin America's most famous poets--was involved in various literary circles and began publishing his poems in 1914 in magazines, after discovering the works of Walt Whitman, the French symbolists, and the modernist Nicaraguan poet Rubén Dario. He brought out his first book of poems in 1919, Los heraldos negros, and in 1922, he published his famous Trilce, which met a...

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Report copyright infringementby Esther Lin (Author)Cold Thief Place speaks of the experiences of an undocumented American, her parents who fled Communist China and found safety in fundamentalist Christianity, and how she tried to understand them and herself by way of confessional poems. This is a family story. It tells of a mother who fled an authoritarian government and turned that authoritarianism on to her children. Of a father who made a new life--three times on three different continent...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Hutchins (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An exquisite poetry collection from the creator of The Daily Victorian that celebrates the hidden versions of ourselves, and unveils the healing power of nostalgia, imagination, and hope "This is for anyone who doesn't see deep feeling as a bad thing but would appreciate a warm and talented companion while they do it."--Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author of Am I There Yet? Maybe you're not old enough y...

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Report copyright infringementby Ariana Reines (Author)In The Rose, award-winning poet Ariana Reines navigates the intersection of power and surrender. Drawing on the history of "romance" as the troubadours knew it and the titular flower's ancient allegories for sexuality and mystery, Reines plunges into feminine archetypes to explore masculine pain: "I have always liked helpless / & terrible men because they break my mind." In these poems, inherited ideologies of gender performance are re...

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Report copyright infringementby Martín Espada (Author)In this brilliant new collection of poems, National Book Award winner Martín Espada offers narratives of the forgotten and the unforgettable. The poems in Jailbreak of Sparrows reveal the ways in which the ordinary becomes monumental: family portraits, politically charged reports, and tributes to the unsung. Espada's focus ranges from the bombardment of his family's hometown in Puerto Rico amid an anti-colonial uprising to the murder of a ...

I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living

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Report copyright infringementby Josie Balka (Author)INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For fans of Rupi Kaur and Cleo Wade, this first collection of poetry from the viral TikTok poet Josie Balka evokes themes of nostalgia, love, envy, and hope, speaking to the universal longings that live deep in our souls. I've never seen anyone at a public pool with a memorable enough body, good or bad, that I think about it ever again. If this line sounds familiar, it's because you've heard it in the backgr...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Chang (Author)Winner of the Forward Prize for Best CollectionFinalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPRNamed One of the Best Poetry Collections of the Year by The Guardian, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit...

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Report copyright infringementby Louise Glück (Author)A new edition of the Nobel laureate's searing fifth collection of poetry, about "the myth of a happy family" (The New York Review of Books). Louise Glück, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. Ararat, Glück's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father. Here ...

Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Fisher-Wirth (Editor), Laura-Gray Street (Editor), Margaret Ronda (Introduction by)The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative book of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment. Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street, the editors of the daring first volume, have reunited to create Attached to the Living World. The second anthology explores the issues and conversations in ecopoetry over the past decade and features more than 150 establis...

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Lim (Author) Number of Pages: 190 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 30, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby C. D. Wright (Author), Forrest Gander (Editor), Michael Wiegers (Editor)Spanning four decades of writing--and including never-before-seen poems--The Essential C.D. Wright carries the reverence and wisecracking lyricism of poems that reshaped American poetry.The Essential C.D. Wright gathers rare selections across the famed poet's entire oeuvre--from the first book, Alla Breve Loving (1976), through to ShallCross, which was in production at the time of her unex...

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Report copyright infringementby Ty Smith (Author)Introducing Here to Stay (an Anthology) by Ty Smith, a mesmerizing collection of poems that will sweep readers off their feet. In this remarkable anthology, Ty Smith showcases his poetic prowess, taking readers on an emotional journey through the depths of love, loss, and the resilience of the human spirit.Through his evocative verses, Smith explores themes of identity, belonging, and the power of self-expression. Each poem is a window into the...

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

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Report copyright infringementby Ada Limón (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe #1 bestselling and beloved poetry anthology, now in paperback!"Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection." -Margaret Renkl, New York Times"A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike." -Los Angeles TimesPublished in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collect...

In God We Do Not Trust: The Ten Commandments of MAGA and other essays

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Brueggemann (Author)This stirring series of essays by Walter Brueggemann represents the inaugural book for the new imprint, Santos Books. Who better than Walter Brueggemann to inaugurate this imprint? Sinner? Undoubtedly. Saint? By God's grace alone. Walter once told me that progressives dislike him because he still believes in the old formula, that it is by grace alone that we are saved. And then he confided in me, "Conrad, I have to work to stay in tha...

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Report copyright infringementby Hasib Hourani (Author) One more rock thrown onto the pile to tumble the mountain on my chest --Hasib HouraniHasib Hourani's rock flight is a book-length poem that, over seven chapters, follows a single personal and historical narrative centered on the violent occupation of Palestine. The poem uses refrains of suffocation, rubble, and migratory bird patterns to address the realities of forced displacement, economic restrictions, and surveillance technology tha...

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Report copyright infringementby Morgan Richard Olivier (Author)With unapologetically honest reflections and revelations-Morgan Richard Olivier embraces the tears, trials, and triumphs one experiences when seeking development, direction, and detachment. The Tears That Taught Me poetry and prose collection guides readers as they dig through the roots of their struggles, truths, faith, and life lessons.Through pruning, positioning, and reframing-we are able to blossom as we make peace with our p...

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Report copyright infringementby John Koethe (Author)John Koethe unravels timeless questions of death, math, meaning, and much more in this mesmerizing collection. John Koethe, one of our most philosophically sophisticated poets, has written a book of pithy, contentious, witty poems about our perennial, never-satisfied search for meaning. The silent mysteries of the stars and the mute beauty of human graves have deep similarities that Koethe probes in these poems with a wondering, wandering gi...

Love Is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends

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Report copyright infringementby James Crews (Editor), Brad Peacock (Editor), Lisa Congdon (Illustrator)This luminous and open-hearted anthology of poems from the LGBTQIA+ community proves that there is nothing more universal than love. Edited by James Crews with his husband, Brad Peacock, and illustrated by Lisa Congdon, these compassionate poems of connection and affirmation are a celebration of all kinds of love--romantic love, family love, friendship, self-love, and love for nature. The ...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Mitchell (Author), Lao Tzu (Author)The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell"Mitchell's rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom." -- Huston Smith, author of The Religions of ManIn eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-...