Red Doc>

Written by Anne Carson

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $24.95

Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. Red Doc> continues their adventures in a very different style and with changed names.

To...

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Stag's Leap
Poems
Written by Sharon Olds

Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $12.99

In this wise and intimate new book, Sharon Olds tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.

As she carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending, Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that...

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The Autobiography of Red

Written by Anne Carson

Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
National book Critics Circle Award Finalist  

"Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje

"This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro

            
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in... Read more >

Phenomenal Woman
Four Poems Celebrating Women
Written by Maya Angelou

Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: January 17, 1995
Price: $11.95

Maya Angelou, the bestselling author of On the Pulse of Morning, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and other lavishly praised works, is considered one of America's finest poets. Here, four of her most highly acclaimed poems are assembled in a beautiful gift edition that provides a feast for the... Read more >

Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion de desesperada y cien sonetos de amor

Written by Pablo Neruda

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $14.00

Premio Nobel de Literatura

“El más grande poeta del siglo xx en cualquier idioma”. —Gabriel García Márquez

Un gran éxito desde el mismo momento de su publicación en 1924 cuando el autor contaba con tan solo diecinueve años, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada causó un fuerte revuelo en la conservadora... Read more >

Purgatorio

Written by Dante
Translated by Jean Hollander and Robert Hollander

Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $21.00

Now I shall sing the second kingdom,

there where the soul of man is cleansed,

made worthy to ascend to heaven.

In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at... Read more >

Paradiso

Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $19.95

With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar... Read more >

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

Written by Maya Angelou

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 13, 1994
Price: $27.00

For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition. Read more >

New and Selected Poems, Volume Two

Written by Mary Oliver

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2007
Price: $16.00

Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published... Read more >

The Trouble with Poetry
And Other Poems
Written by Billy Collins

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.95

Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.

Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and... Read more >