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Catching Light
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch in the... Read more >
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch in the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Catching Light
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $29.95
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch in the... Read more >
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $29.95
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch in the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Anchor Book of Sixteenth Century Verse
Edited by Richard D. Sylvester
Format: eBook, 648 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $16.99
This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than normalized, texts, the volume includes complete, non-excerpted poems by John Skelton, Philip Sidney and others. The selections - which include such works as 'The Steele Glass'. Richard S. Sylvester examines the... Read more >
Edited by Richard D. Sylvester
Format: eBook, 648 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $16.99
This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than normalized, texts, the volume includes complete, non-excerpted poems by John Skelton, Philip Sidney and others. The selections - which include such works as 'The Steele Glass'. Richard S. Sylvester examines the... Read more >
The Great Ledge
Written by Peter Davison
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison's last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, ' Davison will not let things break him. His voice is his; he has earned it and can use it, and as a result is surely one of our better poets.' That sense of this... Read more >
Written by Peter Davison
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison's last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, ' Davison will not let things break him. His voice is his; he has earned it and can use it, and as a result is surely one of our better poets.' That sense of this... Read more >
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Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
Poems
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society. Read more >
Poems
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society. Read more >
Monolithos
Poems '62-'82
Written by Jack Gilbert
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $12.99
This is Jack Gilbert's first book since the now-legendary Views of Jeopardy appeared as the 1962 entry in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Beat poetry was much in vogue at the time, a discursive poetry that rages against things as they are. Perhaps it was for this reason the strict... Read more >
Poems '62-'82
Written by Jack Gilbert
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $12.99
This is Jack Gilbert's first book since the now-legendary Views of Jeopardy appeared as the 1962 entry in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Beat poetry was much in vogue at the time, a discursive poetry that rages against things as they are. Perhaps it was for this reason the strict... Read more >
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Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well
Poems
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 72 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
This collection of thirty-six poems is, once again, eloquent evidence of Maya Angelou's continuing celebration of life: Here are poems of love and memory; poems of racial confrontation; songs of the street and songs from the heart. Read more >
Poems
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 72 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
This collection of thirty-six poems is, once again, eloquent evidence of Maya Angelou's continuing celebration of life: Here are poems of love and memory; poems of racial confrontation; songs of the street and songs from the heart. Read more >
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Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 44 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities. Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 44 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2013
Price: $9.99
Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities. Read more >
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Across the Land and the Water
Selected Poems, 1964-2001
Written by W.G. Sebald
Translated by Iain Galbraith
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $14.00
“A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre.”—Teju Cole, The New Yorker
German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges. Now comes the... Read more >
Selected Poems, 1964-2001
Written by W.G. Sebald
Translated by Iain Galbraith
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $14.00
“A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre.”—Teju Cole, The New Yorker
German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges. Now comes the... Read more >
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Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think
Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
“Pussy Riot are Vvedensky's disciples and his heirs.
Katya, Masha, and I are in jail but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated... According to the official report, Alexander Vvedensky died on December 20, 1941. We don’t know the cause, whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest... Read more >
Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
“Pussy Riot are Vvedensky's disciples and his heirs.
Katya, Masha, and I are in jail but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated... According to the official report, Alexander Vvedensky died on December 20, 1941. We don’t know the cause, whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest... Read more >
Also available as an
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Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think
Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
“Pussy Riot are Vvedensky's disciples and his heirs.
Katya, Masha, and I are in jail but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated... According to the official report, Alexander Vvedensky died on December 20, 1941. We don’t know the cause, whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest or... Read more >
Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
“Pussy Riot are Vvedensky's disciples and his heirs.
Katya, Masha, and I are in jail but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated... According to the official report, Alexander Vvedensky died on December 20, 1941. We don’t know the cause, whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest or... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Coral Road
Poems
Written by Garrett Hongo
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $17.00
Garrett Hongo’s long-awaited third collection of poems is a beautiful, elegiac gathering of his Japanese-American ancestors in their Hawaiian landscape and a testament to the power of poetry, as it brings their marginalized yet heroic narratives into the realm of art.
In Coral Road Hongo explores the history of the impermanent homeland... Read more >
Poems
Written by Garrett Hongo
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $17.00
Garrett Hongo’s long-awaited third collection of poems is a beautiful, elegiac gathering of his Japanese-American ancestors in their Hawaiian landscape and a testament to the power of poetry, as it brings their marginalized yet heroic narratives into the realm of art.
In Coral Road Hongo explores the history of the impermanent homeland... Read more >
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Miguel Hernandez
Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
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 >
Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
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.
Miguel Hernandez
Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
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 >
Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.95
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 a
trade paperback.
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Rimbaud Complete
Written by Arthur Rimbaud
Edited by Wyatt Mason
Translated by Wyatt Mason
Introduction by Wyatt Mason
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2013
Price: $13.99
Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete,... Read more >
Written by Arthur Rimbaud
Edited by Wyatt Mason
Translated by Wyatt Mason
Introduction by Wyatt Mason
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2013
Price: $13.99
Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete,... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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April Twilights and Other Poems
Written by Willa Cather
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $13.50
Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded... Read more >
Written by Willa Cather
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $13.50
Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded... Read more >
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Kindertotenwald
Written by Franz Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $17.00
A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose... Read more >
Written by Franz Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $17.00
A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose... Read more >
Kindertotenwald
Written by Franz Wright
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $12.99
A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose... Read more >
Written by Franz Wright
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $12.99
A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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A Walk with Jefferson
Written by Philip Levine
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 13, 2013
Price: $14.99
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Written by Philip Levine
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 13, 2013
Price: $14.99
Read more >
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Seven American Deaths and Disasters
Written by Kenneth Goldsmith
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $19.95
What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of passionate description. Taking its title from the... Read more >
Written by Kenneth Goldsmith
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $19.95
What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of passionate description. Taking its title from the... Read more >
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The Other Side of the Door
Poems
Written by Jeff Moss
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
A wise and whimsical collection of poems by Jeff Moss about a variety of subjects both real and imaginary.
NOTE: This version does not include illustrations. Read more >
Poems
Written by Jeff Moss
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
A wise and whimsical collection of poems by Jeff Moss about a variety of subjects both real and imaginary.
NOTE: This version does not include illustrations. Read more >
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A Season in Hell & Illuminations
Written by Arthur Rimbaud
Translated by Wyatt Mason
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $8.99
Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Wyatt Mason
“The definitive translation for our time.”
–Edward Hirsch
From Dante’s Inferno to Sartre’s No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell–written when the poet was nineteen–provides an astonishing example of the... Read more >
Written by Arthur Rimbaud
Translated by Wyatt Mason
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $8.99
Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Wyatt Mason
“The definitive translation for our time.”
–Edward Hirsch
From Dante’s Inferno to Sartre’s No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell–written when the poet was nineteen–provides an astonishing example of the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
(A Modern Library E-Book)
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 27, 2013
Price: $12.99
Percy Bysshe Shelley endures today as the great Promethean bard of the High Romantic period who is best remembered for extolling the sublime and affirming the possibility of transcendence.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
(A Modern Library E-Book)
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 27, 2013
Price: $12.99
Percy Bysshe Shelley endures today as the great Promethean bard of the High Romantic period who is best remembered for extolling the sublime and affirming the possibility of transcendence.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
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The Oldest Word for Dawn
New and Selected Poems
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $27.95
New and Selected Poems
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $27.95
From one of our most universally admired poets: a generous selection from his five acclaimed books of poetry, and an outstanding group of new poems.
From the outset, Brad Leithauser has displayed a venturesome taste for quirky patterns, innovative designs sprung loose from traditional forms. In The Oldest Word for...
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Oldest Word for Dawn
New and Selected Poems
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $14.99
New and Selected Poems
Written by Brad Leithauser
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $14.99
From one of our most universally admired poets: a generous selection from his five acclaimed books of poetry, and an outstanding group of new poems.
From the outset, Brad Leithauser has displayed a venturesome taste for quirky patterns, innovative designs sprung loose from traditional forms. In The Oldest Word for...
Also available as a
hardcover.
