Jazz Poems

Edited by Kevin Young

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $13.50

Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them.

From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to... Read more >

A Mind of Winter
Poems for a Snowy Season
Selected by Robert Atwan
Introduction by Donald Hall

Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2005
Price: $9.95

There is no better time to curl up in a comfortable chair and read than in wintertime. And winter has been a powerful muse for many of America's best loved poets. The elegant patterns of frost on a windowpane, a child on a sled, a lone fox foraging for food on... Read more >

Solitude

Edited by Carmela Ciuraru

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $13.50

A literary sanctuary for what Shakespeare called “sessions of sweet silent thought,” this exquisite gathering of poems speaks to the consolations of solitude. Here is Wordsworth wandering “lonely as a cloud”; Poe confiding “all I loved, I loved alone”; Yeats’s communion with “the deep heart’s core”; and Han Shan’s heart of... Read more >

Poems Bewitched and Haunted

Edited by John Hollander

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $13.50

A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages–a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow’s Eve.

From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand... Read more >

The Great Cat
Poems About Cats
Edited by Emily Fragos

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $13.50

This delightful anthology gives us a teeming litter of literary tributes to the ever-fascinating, ever-mystifying cat.

The feline has inspired poetic adoration since the days of the pharaohs, and the poems collected here cover an astonishing range of periods, cultures, and styles. Poets across the continents and centuries have described the feline... Read more >

Motherhood
Poems About Mothers
Edited by Carmela Ciuraru

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Price: $13.50

Celebrating mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, grandmothers and grandchildren, Motherhood is a glorious, wonderfully intimate tribute to the first love in every reader’s life.

From tenth-century Japan’s Izumi Shikibu, colonial America’s Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England’s Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel’s Yehuda Amichai, Ireland’s Paul Muldoon, and Russia’s Anna Akhmatova, poets... Read more >

Gather Round Me
The Best of Irish Popular Poetry
Edited by Christopher Cahill

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2005
Price: $12.00

Gather round me, all ye ladies fair,
And ye gentlemen of renown;
Listen, listen, and to me repair,
Whilst I sing of beauteous Dublin town.

The Irish have long been associated with great writing generally and with poetry specifically. The love of language pervades this strong culture, and the Irish people have long shared poetry... Read more >

The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry
From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition
Edited by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $17.00

Unmatched in scope and literary quality, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translations–many new and exclusive to the book–by an array of distinguished translators.

Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from... Read more >

Indian Love Poems

Edited by Meena Alexander

Format: Hardcover
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $13.50

According to the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion “there is no textbook at all, and no order.” Indian Love Poems is a unique gathering of poems from across more than two and a half millennia that attempts to... Read more >

Poem a Day, Vol. 3

Edited by Retta Bowen, Nick Temple, Nicolas Albery and Stephanie Wienrich

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2004
Price: $21.99

The companion volumes to this new collection — Poem a Day: Volume 1 and Poem a Day: Volume 2 — have together sold nearly a hundred thousand copies. They are a word-of-mouth sensation among those who want poetry to be a greater presence in their lives, and perennial gift-giving favorites. Like... Read more >

A Dream of Summer
Poems for the Sensuous Season
Written by Mary Oliver
Selected by Robert Atwan

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2004
Price: $15.00

In summer, as Mary Oliver writes: "There are satisfactions beyond number; fishermen get their catch, the food is delicious and real, the sail has just enough wind; the children, in the country at least, play riotously and can hardly be persuaded to remember the necessity of sleep, even when the fireflies... Read more >

Poems of Sleep and Dreams

Edited by Peter Washington

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2004
Price: $13.50

Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers.

This treasury of poets–Sidney, Donne, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Rilke, Plath, Graves, Roethke, Bishop, Moore, Updike, and... Read more >

Elected Friends

Written by Matthew Spencer
Afterword by Christopher Ricks
Foreword by Michael Hoffman

Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2004
Price: $24.00

Robert Frost and Edward Thomas met in a bookshop in London in 1913. During the next four years, the two writers—Frost, an unknown poet who had sold his farm in New Hampshire in order to take his family to England for one last gamble on poetry and Thomas, a sad literary... Read more >

Doggerel
Poems About Dogs
Edited by Carmela Ciuraru

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $13.50

From Chaucer to Billy Collins and from basset hounds to brindle bull terriers, Doggerel presents a robust brood of the most charming verse tributes ever offered to our beloved canine companions.

The rich and assorted cadences of some of the most distinguished poets across the centuries ring out from these pages–from Spenser... Read more >

Haiku

Edited by Peter Washington

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $13.50

Simple yet capable of great complexity, the haiku is a tightly structured verse form that has a remarkable power to distill the essence of a moment keenly perceived. For centuries confined to a small literary elite in Japan, the writing of haiku is now practiced all over the world by those... Read more >

Poem a Day: Vol. 2
A Wide Range of Classic and Modern Poems
Edited by Laurie Sheck

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2003
Price: $21.99

The Original Poem a Day has sold more than fifty thousand copies and is still going strong. It is a perennial gift-giving favorite and a word-of-mouth sensation among those who want poetry to be a greater presence in their lives. Like its predecessor, Poem a Day, Volume 2 offers a verse... Read more >

Blues Poems

Edited by Kevin Young

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2003
Price: $13.50

Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to “Sweet Home Chicago,” forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology–the first devoted exclusively to blues poems–a wide array of poets pay tribute to the... Read more >