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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Olds (Author)A Stunning 45th Anniversary Release of Sharon Olds's Satan Says in a Deluxe Hardcover Edition for Fans of Olds's Poetry, All Poetry Enthusiasts, and Collectors Alike 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 Poetry Series in 1980 and received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center A...

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Report copyright infringementby Rickey Laurentiis (Author)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 lyric talent. "Call Rickey Laurentiis' stylistic range virtuosity or call it correctly, necessity," Terran...

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Report copyright infringementby Rob Macaisa Colgate (Author)Brilliant and innovative, Rob Macaisa Colgate's debut poetry collection, Hardly Creatures, takes the form--visually and metaphorically--of an accessible art museum. Through nine sections that act as gallery rooms, the book shepherds the reader through the radiance and mess of the disability community. At the heart of the collection is an exploration and recognition of access intimacy. Marked with universal access symbols to guide the...

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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 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 simila...

Algarabía: The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya / La Canción de Cenex, Hijo Natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyya

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Report copyright infringementby Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Author)A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award winner Algarabía follows Cenex, a trans being who narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf. An inhabitant of a colony of Earth in a parallel universe, Cenex leads us through his years as an experimental subject, a stay in suburbia, and not-so-far-off lands as he struggles to find a name, a body, and a s...

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Report copyright infringementby Harryette Mullen (Author)Harryette Mullen is one of contemporary poetry's most influential voices, for her inventive language play, keen wit, formal experimentation, and pointed critique of American culture. In Regaining Unconsciousness, her first new collection in twelve years, Mullen confronts the imminent dangers of our present to sound an alarm for our future, to wake us out of our complicity and despondency: Can we, even still, find our way to our unconsci...

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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 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sasha Debevec-McKenney (Author)In her best imitation of a historian, poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney combs through the past. Joy Is My Middle Name is about crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasily through cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism, and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with ease.This remarkable debut collection showcases Debevec-...

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 Today"I made, of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Shonda Buchanan (Author)Shonda Buchanan weaves a prism of language, sound and light around and through the life of concert pianist, singer and Civil Rights activist, the incomprehensible Nina Simone. With this book, Buchanan is declaring this The Century of the Black Woman, providing a realistic glimpse into not only Simone's life, but the lives of Black women in America, past and present, and their choices in a myopic, unforgiving country. A grandchild of ensl...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Siken (Author)I Do Know Some Things is a brave book, both in content and method.It is brave to write about childhood scars and the heartbreak the dead leave behind. It is brave to reconfigure one's life in the aftermath of a stroke. Richard Siken presents these subjects directly, without ornament, and with nothing to hide behind, confronting the fact that he can no longer manipulate the constructions of form, or speak lies that tell the truth. In spite ...

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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 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gbenga Adesina (Author)Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize 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 carried his dead father across the sea; a young Black father, tired of fear and breathlessness, travels with his son in search of the ghost of James Baldwin--t...

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 SEVENTH PUBLISHED--AND FIRST POETIC--WORK covers a range of intimate themes and topics, including love, the loss of love, parenting, Duchovny's own parents (in particular his father, who looms large throughout the work), alienation, and other emotional quandaries. Fans of Duchovny's fiction will recognize the insightful and clever play of words that, in this new form, distill to an emotionally impactful portrayal of what...

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Report copyright infringementby David Gate (Author)A moving manifesto in poems and essays, inviting readers to embrace their humanity and live fully alive in our age of social change, hyper-capitalism, and pervasive loneliness yes, everyone is struggling right nowso please be gracious be kind & patient, but subvertevery institution that relies on our suffering Something isn't right. Every generation thinks that, but we have more cause than most. The way our society has been constructed is...

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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. Author BiographyAndrew Grace was born and raised on Shadeland Farm in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.He is the the author of three books of poems, A Belonging Field (Salt Publishing), Shadeland (Ohio State University Press) and SANCTA (Ahsahta/Foundlings). His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, New Criterion and Adr...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Kay (Author)A vulnerable, searching collection about facing the beautiful & difficult parts of our humanness with compassion & wonder "This is a book that will make you feel simultaneously alive and less alone."--Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Timesbestselling author of There's Always This Year from somewhere down a hallway of locked doors, a voice asks / What if you aren't as bad as you suspect you are? / What if you'll never be as good as you ache? ...

Beautiful Chaos: On Motherhood, Finding Yourself, and Overwhelming Love

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Urlichs (Author)INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER From Instagram sensation Jessica Urlichs, an inspiringly vulnerable collection of poems exploring the sacred, tender, and beautifully chaotic moments of motherhood. You are a motherbut never, just When poet Jessica Urlichs became a mother, she learned that the everyday ordinary is extraordinary. In Beautiful Chaos, Jess chronicles it all--the highs, the lows, the confusion, the loss of identity, the b...

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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. Water expands on Gold, Haleh Liza Gafori's inspired and widely praised translation of the lyric poetry of the Persian mystic Rumi. As in Gold, Gafori renders with fluid grace and moving imm...

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)The long-awaited sophomore poetry collection by award-winning writer Cathy Linh Che, on familial estrangement, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. The follow-up to her acclaimed poetry debut Split, Becoming Ghost documents Cathy Linh Che's parents' experiences as refugees who escaped the Vietnam War and then were cast as extras in Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now, placing them at the margins of their own ...