Poetry Book List · 
“Berlin Zoo” · Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere
“Equinox” · Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere
“Laundromat” · Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere
“Mother Carey’s Hen” · David Yezzi, Azores
“Edith and Woody and Nancy and Ronnie” · Turner Cassity, Devils & Islands
“Unto Temptation” · Turner Cassity, Devils & Islands
“The Last Cigarette Girl” · Turner Cassity, Devils & Islands
“Niagara Falls Postcard” · Jennifer Rose, Hometown for an Hour
“Metaphors at Low Tide” · Jennifer Rose, Hometown for an Hour
“Inheritance,” “Hoarding,” “Ska Memory” · Kwame Dawes, Midland
“The Snow Leopard” · Jason Gray, Photographing Eden
“Lake De Noon” · Lee Gerlach, Selected Poems
“At the San Francisco Airport” · R. L. Barth (ed.), The Selected Poems of Yvor Winters
“The Godless Sky,” “Razing the Woodlot,” “The Blighted Tree” · Timothy Murphy, Set the Ploughshare Deep
“The Future Perfect” · Robert B. Shaw, Solving for X
“Orpheus Watches His Daughter Blow Out Candles” and “Orpheus Fixes Himself a Cup of Tea” · James Cummins, Then & Now
“Starr Farm Beach” · Timothy Steele, Toward the Winter Solstice
“Gym Nights” · Timothy Steele, Toward the Winter Solstice
“Faustina” · Timothy Steele, Toward the Winter Solstice
“Under $6 a Bottle” · Dick Davis, A Trick of Sunlight
“Shadows,” “A Monorhyme for the Shower,” “Haydn and Hokusai” · Dick Davis, Belonging
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Azores
Poems
By David Yezzi
Like a voyage to the Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in Azores arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience—a man mourns the fact that he cannot not mourn, a father warns his daughter about harsh contingency, an unnamed visitor violently disrupts a quiet domestic scene.…
Dear Regime
Letters to the Islamic Republic
In his provocative, brave, and sometimes brutal first book of poems, Roger Sedarat directly addresses the possibility of political change in a nation that some in America consider part of “the axis of evil.…
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Pebbles, Monochromes and Other Modern Poems, 1891-1916
Edited by Edwin Cady
By W. D. Howells
For William Dean Howells, the 1880s throbbed with literary warfare over theory and criticism (realism), and social justice. But the terrible climax was more personal and came in the death of his daughter in 1889.…
Pages
New Poems and Cuttings
A unique voice among contemporary American poets, John Matthias has compiled here a major new collection, his first volume of poetry since the publication in 1995 of his retrospective collections of shorter and longer poems.…
Nostos
In choosing the winning manuscript for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, judge Andrew Hudgins remarked: “With immense poetic verve, Pelizzon finds flamboyance in places where it has been forgotten and brings it back to vivid life--and she sees it for what it is.…
The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X
With Variant Readings and Annotations
Edited by Allan C. and Susan E. Dooley
The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X contains critical editions of Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides and Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society.…
All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing
An Explanation of Meter and Versification
Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms.…
Battle of Kosovo
By John Matthias and Vladeta Vuckovic
The Battle of Kosovo cycle of heroic ballads is generally considered the finest work of Serbian folk poetry. Commemorating the Serbian Empire’s defeat at the hands of the Turks in the late fourteenth century, these poems and fragments have been known for centuries in Eastern Europe.…
The Selected Poems of Yvor Winters
Edited by R. L. Barth
By Yvor Winters
Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was a friend, colleague, and teacher to poets of several generations from Hart Crane and Allen Tate to J. V. Cunningham, Turner Cassity, and Edgar Bowers to Robert Hass, Philip Levine, and Robert Pinsky.…
The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XVI
With Variant Readings and Annotations
Edited by Susan Crowl, Roma A. King and Jr.
By Robert Browning
Robert Browning wrote Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day in his seventy-third year. The work is a capstone to the poet's long career, encompassing autobiography as well as influences bearing on the poet's life and career and on Victorian thought and culture in general.…
The Watchers
In the world of Memye Curtis Tucker's poetry, the observed are on display, on trial, on guard, or disappearing, and often changed by the eyes upon them; the gazers are benevolent, threatening, judgmental, separate, invisible.…
The Destructive Element
New and Selected Poems
Turner Cassity is like a highly accomplished traditional composer—Camille Saint-Saëns, say, or Richard Strauss—who does not doubt that the music is the score and the score is the music. That is, poetry is verse and verse is poetry.…
And Still Birds Sing
New and Collected Poems
By Lucien Stryk
Written over a career that spans five decades, And Still Birds Sing is the masterwork of a major voice in American poetry.Bringing together his previously collected poems as well as the three books published since then, a sampling of his renowned translations of haiku, and a generous number of previously unpublished new poems, this latest collection by poet and translator Lucien Stryk is evidence of the popular and critical acclaim for an important contributor to twentieth-century letters.…
Infinite Morning
Poems
About the author of this award-winning collection, final judge Miller Williams commented: “Meredith Carson writes poems so well-controlled in tone that the language of conversation takes on an elegance rarely found in contemporary poetry, but emphatically contemporary.…
The Poems of J. V. Cunningham
Edited by Timothy Steele
The lifework in verse of one of the century's finest and liveliest American poets, this collection of the poems of J. V. Cunningham (1911-85) documents the poet's development from his early days as an experimental modernist during the Depression to his emergence as the master of the classical “plain style”--distinguished by its wit, feeling, and subtlety.…
Private Poets, Worldly Acts
Public and Private History in Contemporary American Poetry
By Kevin Stein
At a time when poets appear tragically detached from the public for which they write, Kevin Stein persuasively demonstrates in Private Poets, Worldy Acts the way a particular group of diverse poets have manifested their communal concerns.…
The Complete American Fantasies
“Fantasies to me, as I wrote in an earlier 1983 edition of American Fantasies, are the active, visionary links between reality and imagination as my characters pursue their destinies. Although we pretend to be a pragmatic, materialistic country, our fantasies, once suppressed by tradition, peer increasingly through the media into our private and public behavior.…
American and British Poetry
A Guide to the Criticism, 1979-1990
This reference volume is a supplement to Alexander’s earlier work covering the years 1928–1978. Its purpose is to provide access to articles, parts of articles, and parts of books of criticism on British and American poets.…
Beltane at Aphelion
Longer Poems
Beltane at Aphelion collects all of John Matthias's longer poems and is published simultaneously with Swimming at Midnight, which collects his shorter poems. The volume includes his exuberant experiments from the 1960s, Poem in Three Parts and Bucyrus, followed by The Stefan Bathory & Mihail Lermontov Poems, his comedic diptych from the 1970s set on a Polish and a Russian ocean liner, and by Northern Summer, his meditation on history and language set in Scotland.…
Swimming At Midnight
Selected Shorter Poems
Swimming at Midnight collects the short and middle-length poems from John Matthias’s earlier books together with twenty poems that have previously appeared only in magazines. It is published simultaneously with Beltane at Aphelion, which includes all of Matthias’s longer poems.…
Beyond the Archipelago
Selected Poems
A collections of 70 poems from one of Malaya’s leading poets, that depict longing, loneliness, modernization, and insights in Malaysian culture.
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