Subjects Freshman Year Reading African American Studies African Studies American Studies Anthropology Art, Film, Music and Architecture Asian Studies Business and Economics Criminology Education Environmental Studies Foreign Language Instructional Materials Gender Studies History Irish Studies Jewish Studies Latin American & Caribbean Studies Law and Legal Studies Literature and Drama Literature in Spanish Media Issues, Journalism and Communication Middle East Studies Native American Studies Philosophy Political Science Psychology Reference Religion Russian and Eastern European Studies Science and Mathematics Sociology Study Aids


E-Newsletters: Click here to be notified of new titles in your field
Click here to request Desk/Exam copies
Freshman Year Reading
View Our Award Winners
Click here to view our Catalogs

53 Featured Titles

Sort: Author  Date  Format  Price  Title


Exam Copy
I Praise My Destroyer
Poems
Written by Diane Ackerman


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 22, 2000
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77134-0 (0-679-77134-4)

In her first new book of poetry since Jaguar of Sweet Laughter, Diane Ackerman combines her deep understanding of the world with her immense passion for language to craft richly sensual poems that "honor all lifewherever and in whatever formit may deal."

Imbued with ravishing imagery, these exuberant and lyrical explorations... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
Listen Up!

Written by Zoe Angelsey


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42897-4 (0-345-42897-8)

"Today, the poetry scene flourishes at New York open-mic spots like the Nuyorican Poets Café, Brooklyn's YWCA Tea Party and Harlem's Sugar Shack. Progeny of hip poets--the Beats of the 50s and protest poets of the 60s and 70s--these up-and-coming literati cast their diverse spells of word beats inspiring young contemporaries... Read more >

Exam Copy
Collected Poems

Written by W. H. Auden
Edited by Edward Mendelson


Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64350-0 (0-679-64350-8)

Selected by the Contemporary Poetry Review as one of the Best Books of 2007, winning in the category of Book of the Year

To commemorate the centennial of W. H. Auden’s birth, the Modern Library offers this elegant edition of the collected poems of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth... Read more >

Exam Copy
Dante
Poet of the Secular World
Written by Erich Auerbach
Translated by Ralph Manheim
Introduction by Michael Dirda


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-219-3 (1-59017-219-1)

A precursor and companion to Erich Auerbach’s majestic Mimesis, DANTE: POET OF THE SECULAR WORLD is both a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the greatest poets and a brilliantly provocative and stimulating essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, acclaimed by writers and scholars as various as... Read more >

Exam Copy
The Poetics of Reverie

Written by Gaston Bachelard


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 1, 1971
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6413-9 (0-8070-6413-0)

In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relation between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of reference. Read more >

Exam Copy
Kabir
Ecstatic Poems
Translated by Robert Bly


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 15, 2007
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6380-4 (0-8070-6380-0)

Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir’s immense importance to the contemporary reader and... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
Lorca & Jimenez
Selected Poems
Translated by Robert Bly


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 30, 1997
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6213-5 (0-8070-6213-8)

A unique gathering of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, with the original Spanish versions and powerful English translations on facing pages. In a new preface, editor and translator Robert Bly explores what the poems reveal today about politics, the spirit, and the purpose of art. Read more >

Exam Copy
Rain; road; an open boat

Written by Roo Borson


Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $18.99
ISBN: 978-0-7710-1298-3 (0-7710-1298-5)

The first new collection of poetry from Roo Borson since her highly acclaimed collection Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, winner of three major prizes, including the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Roo Borson’s new collection continues the exploration of form, tone, musicality, and content begun in her widely acclaimed previous collection. Here, co-existing... Read more >

Exam Copy
The Voice That Is Great Within Us
American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Written by Hayden Carruth


Format: Paperback, 768 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: September 1, 1983
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-26263-6 (0-553-26263-7)

This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period-along with short biographies of each. Read more >

Exam Copy
Decreation

Written by Anne Carson


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7890-5 (1-4000-7890-3)

In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates “decreation”—an activity described by Simone Weil as “undoing the creature in us”—an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of its definition? Where else can we start?

Anne Carson’s Decreation starts with... Read more >


Available
May 28, 2013
Exam Copy
The Difficulty of Being

Written by Jean Cocteau
Translated by Elizabeth Sprigge
Introduction by Geoffrey O'Brien


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-290-1 (1-61219-290-4)

By the time he published The Difficulty of Being in 1947, Jean Cocteau had produced some of the most respected films and literature of the twentieth century, and had worked with the foremost artists of his time, including Proust, Gide, Picasso and Stravinsky.

This memoir tells the inside account of those... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
Poems and Songs

Written by Leonard Cohen


Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-59583-6 (0-307-59583-8)

A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-ongwriters in the world.

In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and... Read more >

Exam Copy
Ballistics
Poems
Written by Billy Collins


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7561-1 (0-8129-7561-8)

A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes USA TODAY, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life—its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy.” His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
Paradise

Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen


Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-64269-5 (0-679-64269-2)

The Divine Comedy is a complete scale of the depths and heights of human emotion," wrote T.S. Eliot. "The last canto of the Paradiso is to my thinking the highest point that poetry has ever reached or ever can reach."

The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

Exam Copy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson


Format: Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-21388-1 (0-553-21388-1)

Edited and with a Foreword by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. This edition contains “Nature” as well as excerpts from Essays, First Series; Essays, Second Series; and Representative Men. A wide selection of Emerson’s poems–and other essays spanning his entire career–is also included. Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
Imagining Paradise
New and Selected Poems
Written by Barry Gifford


Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $32.00
ISBN: 978-1-60980-374-2 (1-60980-374-4)

At once erudite and plainspoken, imaginative and grounded in the grittily lunatic fundamentals of the human heart, here is the author’s definitive selection of his verse: the writings of an underground poet who lasted.

Published in The New Yorker, La Nouvelle Revue Française, and in nearly a hundred magazines and poetry journals... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
The Poetry of Zen

Translated by Sam Hamill and J.P. Seaton


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-425-9 (1-59030-425-X)

A Zen poem is nothing other than an expression of the enlightened mind, a handful of simple words that disappear beneath the moment of insight to which it bears witness. Poetry has been an essential aid to Zen Buddhist practice from the dawn of Zen—and Zen has also had a profound... Read more >

Exam Copy
Miguel Hernandez

Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: NYRB Poets
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-629-0 (1-59017-629-4)

Miguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century. This volume spans the whole of Hernández’s brief writing life, and includes his most celebrated poems, from the early lyrics written in traditional forms, such as the... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
Writing Begins with the Breath
Embodying Your Authentic Voice
Written by Laraine Herring


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-473-0 (1-59030-473-X)

Laraine Herring’s distinctive new approach to the writing craft provides a welcome jump-start for new writers—and will open up a whole world of creativity for people who may not have considered themselves writers before—while also providing keen insights into the craft for seasoned writers. Her secret is to move the focus... Read more >

Exam Copy
Rising Voices

Written by Arlene Hirschfelder and Beverly Singer


Format: Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Ivy Books
On Sale: July 5, 1993
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 978-0-8041-1167-6 (0-8041-1167-7)

An astonishing collection of poems and essays written by young contemporary Native Americans. Words of protest against prejudice and oppression, poems of estrangement and pain, cries for lost worlds and lost identities -- but also songs of celebration and joy for the future. Read more >

Exam Copy
Ten Poems to Open Your Heart

Written by Roger Housden


Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Harmony
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4563-1 (1-4000-4563-0)

Ten Poems to Open Your Heart is a book devoted to love: to the intimacy of personal love and lovemaking, to a loving compassion for others, and to the love that embraces both this world and the next. This new volume from Roger Housden features a few of the same poets... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
Incredible Good Fortune
New Poems
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin


Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-422-8 (1-59030-422-5)

Incredible Good Fortune is Ursula K. Le Guin's sixth collection of poems, spanning the years 2000 to 2005. These poems by the celebrated author of Always Coming Home and The Language of the Night showcase Le Guin's many facets as a writer. Passionate, humanitarian, and sensuously aware of the world's vitality... Read more >

Exam Copy
Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Written by Audre Lorde
Foreword by Cheryl Clarke


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Crossing Press
On Sale: August 1, 2007
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-1-58091-186-3 (1-58091-186-2)

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
Zami A New Spelling of My Name: A New Spelling of My Name
A Biomythography
Written by Geraldine Audre Lorde


Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Crossing Press
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-0-89594-122-0 (0-89594-122-8)

“ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
Archy and Mehitabel

Written by Don Marquis


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 29, 1987
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-09478-8 (0-385-09478-7)

Began as a column for The New York Sun in 1916, Archy, literary cockroach who types out vers libre by banging his head against the keys (but can't reach the shift key), and Mehitabel, the sultry cat
reincarnated from Cleopatra, have since gained a worldwide following. The now classic tale of... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
View pages: 1 | 2 | 3
Page 1 of 3