Poetry:

Love Haiku
Japanese Poems of Yearning, Passion, and Remembrance
Written by Patricia Donegan

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Price: $16.00

Haiku is celebrated as a concise form of poetry able to convey a singular moment with great clarity. While haiku most often depicts the natural world, when focused on the elements of love and sensuality, haiku can be a powerful vehicle for evoking the universal experience of love.

In this elegant anthology... Read more >

The Intent On
Collected Poems 1962-2006
Written by Kenneth Irby

Format: Hardcover, 704 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $40.00

Kenneth Irby has practiced his craft at the center of the American poetry scene for decades, yet is little known to the mainstream. An associate of the legendary Black Mountain poets as well as of the celebrated seventies L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of literary experimenters, he was a close colleague of writers such... Read more >

The Canterbury Tales

Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $17.00

Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language... Read more >

Lifelines
The Black Book of Proverbs
Written by Askhari Johnson Hodari and Yvonne McCalla Sobers
Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $19.99

This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is... Read more >

Lifelines
The Black Book of Proverbs
Written by Askhari Johnson Hodari and Yvonne McCalla Sobers
Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $19.99

This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is... Read more >

Ants on the Melon
A Collection of Poems
Written by Virginia Adair

Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $15.00

Already singled out by The New York Times and the subject of a feature in The New Yorker, Virginia Adair has, after decades of shunning book publication, decided to collect eighty of her best poems in a volume that will surely be hailed as among the most accomplished works of our... Read more >

The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon

Format: eBook, 1408 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2009
Price: $17.95

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Purgatory

Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen

Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2009
Price: $11.95

A new translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré

Includes an appendix of key sources and extensive endnotes 
 
Arguably the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri's all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife.  In this groundbreaking new translation of Dante's most brilliant, imaginative creation, Purgatory, Dante struggles... Read more >

Amazing Peace
A Christmas Poem
Written by Maya Angelou

Format: eBook, 32 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $9.95

In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” she writes, “and speak the word aloud. Peace.”

Read by the... Read more >

Easy
Poems
Written by Marie Ponsot

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $26.00

Leave it to the graceful Marie Ponsot, now in her late eighties, to view her life in poetry as easeful. As she tells us, pondering what stones can hear, “Between silence and sound / we are balancing darkness, / making light of it.” In this celebratory collection, Ponsot makes light, in... Read more >

Three Centuries of American Poetry

Edited by Allen Mandelbaum and Robert D. Richardson, Jr.

Format: eBook, 768 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $24.00

A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams... Read more >

Haiku
An Anthology of Japanese Poems
Written by Stephen Addiss
Edited by Fumiko Y. Yamamoto and Akira Y. Yamamoto

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.95

More than last year
it is lonely—
the autumn dusk
—Buson

Haiku, one of the most popular forms of poetry, is celebrated here in all its subtle glory. This anthology brings together the most important poets in the haiku tradition—including Basho, Buson, and Issa—along with surprising and lesser-known Japanese haiku poets. In... Read more >

Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus

Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00

Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial... Read more >

News of the World
Poems
Written by Philip Levine

Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $25.00

A superb new collection from “a great American poet . . . still at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review).

In both lively prose poems and more formal verse, Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from Detroit, where exhausted workers try to find a decent... Read more >

Poemcrazy
Freeing Your Life with Words
Written by Susan G. Wooldridge

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $13.95

Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems... Read more >

Leaving Yuba City
Poems
Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $13.95

Like Divakaruni's much-loved and bestselling short story collection Arranged Marriage, this collection of poetry deals with India and the Indian experience in America, from the adventures of going to a convent school in India run by Irish nuns (Growing up in Darjeeling) to the history of the earliest Indian immigrants in... Read more >

A Phone Call to the Future
New and Selected Poems
Written by Mary Jo Salter

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $19.00

This “wholly attractive volume” that brings together twenty-five years of “elegantly shaped and voiced creations” (William Pritchard, The Boston Globe) offers a generous sampling of Mary Jo Salter’s five previous award-winning volumes and a collection of superb new poems. A mid-career retrospective of one of the major poets of her generation... Read more >

Wheeling Motel

Written by Franz Wright

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $26.95

In his tenth collection of poetry, Franz Wright gives us an exquisite book of reconciliation with the past and acceptance of what may come in the future.

From his earliest years, he writes in “Will,” he had “the gift of impermanence / so I would be ready, / accompanied / by... Read more >

Selected Poems

Written by Frank O'Hara
Edited by Mark Ford

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $17.95

The first new selection of O’Hara’s work to come along in several decades. In this “marvellous compilation” (The New Yorker), editor Mark Ford reacquaints us with one of the most joyous and innovative poets of the postwar period. Read more >

Selected Poetry of Lord Byron

Written by Lord George G. Byron
Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $16.00

Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature. From “Manfred,” with its evocation of the figure that came to... Read more >

Selected Poems

Written by Wallace Stevens
Edited by John N. Serio

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $30.00

A beautiful new edition—the first in nearly twenty years—of the work of Wallace Stevens, a founding father of contemporary American poetry, with a dazzling range of work that is at once emotional and intellectual. As John N. Serio reminds us in his elegant introduction, Stevens has written more persuasively than any... Read more >

The Language of Life

Written by Bill Moyers

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $24.95

"Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen."



In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, The Language... Read more >

Paradise

Written by Dante
Translated by Anthony Esolen

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $12.95

“If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen’s] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come.”–Robert Royal, Crisis

In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved... Read more >

The Sonnets and Other Poems

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $6.95

Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language’s most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions–desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in the same... Read more >

The Waste Land and Other Writings

Written by T.S. Eliot
Introduction by Mary Karr

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $7.95

First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence... Read more >