Browning: Poems

Written by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Edited by Peter Washington

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $9.99

Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage. Still popular more than a century after their deaths, their poetry vividly reflects the unique nature of their relationship.

This collection presents the Brownings’ work in the context of their... Read more >

Emerson: Poems

Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $9.99

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well.

Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson... Read more >

Frost: Poems

Written by Robert Frost
Edited by John Hollander

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $9.99

rom one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, "... Read more >

Herbert: Poems

Written by George Herbert

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $9.99

George Herbert (1593-1633) has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets. Though he is a profoundly religious poet, even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exuberant inventiveness, which are amply showcased in this selection.

Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns... Read more >

Paradiso

Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

Format: eBook, 1024 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $14.99

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 Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edited by Nancy Milford

Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $9.99

"These are the poems that made Edna St. Vincent Millay’s reputation when she was young. Saucy, insolent, flip, and defiant, her little verses sting the page," writes Nancy Milford in the Introduction to The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. As one of America’s most beloved poets–and the winner of... Read more >

Breathing Room
Poems
Written by Peter Davison

Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2012
Price: $9.99

"Peter Davison, for years, has pondered with clear insight the perspectives of affection, attachment, loss, and memory, his language spare and his tone classical and deceptively quiet. The poems of this new collection look at the same world with surprise and speak of it with a startled and startling freedom, feeling... Read more >

Art and Artists
Poems
Edited by Emily Fragos

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $13.50

Art and Artists: Poems is a sumptuous collection of visions in verse—the work of centuries of poets who have used their own art form to illuminate art created by others.

A wide variety of visual art forms have inspired great poetry, from painting, sculpture, and photography to tapestry, folk art, and calligraphy...

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A Night in Brooklyn
Poems
Written by D. Nurkse

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $26.00

D. Nurkse’s deeply satisfying new collection is a haunted love letter to the far corners of his hometown, Brooklyn, New York, and a meditation on the selves that were left behind in those indelible places.

Here Nurkse brings alive the particular details that shape a life, in this case unique to... Read more >

A Night in Brooklyn
Poems
Written by D. Nurkse

Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $15.99

D. Nurkse’s deeply satisfying new collection is a haunted love letter to the far corners of his hometown, Brooklyn, New York, and a meditation on the selves that were left behind in those indelible places.

Here Nurkse brings alive the particular details that shape a life, in this case unique to... Read more >

Black Series
Poems
Written by Laurie Sheck

Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $12.99

In her remarkable Black Series, Laurie Sheck turns the ordinary world inside out and shows us its glittering seams. Her long, elegantly quizzical lines convey a haunted vision of human striving which is in part an elaboration on our daily reality, and in part a fantastic departure from it. “I can... Read more >

Captivity

Written by Laurie Sheck

Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $12.99

The “exquisite and haunting” (Booklist) collection of poems built around the language and mystique of American captivity narratives in which Sheck enters the vivid life we live inside our own minds and selves, and takes us into the mysterious underside of consciousness and selfhood.


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The Willow Grove

Written by Laurie Sheck

Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $12.99

Laurie Sheck interweaves the contemporary with the mythic, creating a realm in which such things as radios, skyscrapers, expressways, and mannequins are at once familiar and strange; immediate, yet tinged with the light of distance and myth. It is a realm where faces on a television newscast disappear "into the undertow... Read more >

Shake Loose My Skin
New and Selected Poems
Written by Sonia Sanchez

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $15.00

An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, Shake Loose My Skin is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual, and political powers of the award-winning Sonia Sanchez. Read more >

Bright Moon, White Clouds
Selected Poems of Li Po
Written by Li Po
Translated by J. P. Seaton

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $14.95

His work is one of the glories of Chinese poetry’s golden age, and it has not ceased to delight readers in the twelve centuries since. Li Po (701–762) wrote of the pleasures of nature, of wine, and of the life of a wandering poet  in a way that speaks to us... Read more >

The Shout
Selected Poems
Written by Simon Armitage

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.95

Now in paperback, the powerful selected work of Simon Armitage, the most distinctive poetic voice of contemporary Britain.

Simon Armitage is arguably the leading British poet of the past twenty years. His knowledge of the English just as they are ("a gentleman farmer / living on reduced means, a cricketer's widow, /... Read more >

The Shout

Written by Simon Armitage

Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $12.99

Now in paperback, the powerful selected work of Simon Armitage, the most distinctive poetic voice of contemporary Britain.

Simon Armitage is arguably the leading British poet of the past twenty years. His knowledge of the English just as they are ("a gentleman farmer / living on reduced means, a cricketer's widow, /... Read more >

Selected Poems

Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Introduction by Thomas Karshan

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $30.00

Though we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English.

   These poems span the whole of Nabokov’s career, from the newly discovered “Music,” written in 1914, to the... Read more >

Selected Poems

Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Introduction by Thomas Karshan

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $14.99

Though we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English.

   These poems span the whole of Nabokov’s career, from the newly discovered “Music,” written in 1914, to the... Read more >

Complete Poems

Written by C.P. Cavafy
Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn

Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $35.00

An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English, by the renowned critic, scholar, and international best-selling author of... Read more >

Complete Poems

Written by C.P. Cavafy
Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn

Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $16.99

An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English, by the renowned critic, scholar, and international best-selling author of... Read more >

Poems of Edward Thomas

Written by Edward Thomas
Introduction by Peter Sacks

Format: eBook, 148 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $14.99

Since the publication of Walter de la Mare's first edition of his poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be seen as one of the great English poets of the 20th century. Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg, and Sassoon as a "war poet," he was rather a poet... Read more >

A Draft of Light
Poems
Written by John Hollander

Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2012
Price: $13.99

A glorious new collection from one of our most distinguished poets.

Here are poems that explore the ways in which ordinary objects open doors to the more hidden, subconscious truths of our inner selves: a bird of “countless colors” calls to mind “the echo . . . / of an inner... Read more >

Picture Window
Poems
Written by John Hollander

Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2012
Price: $11.99

In this deeply philosophical and highly inventive new collection, John Hollander, the distinguished author of numerous books of poetry, offers profound yet playful meditations on the reflective mind and on the words with which we come to know the world. In forms as varied as sonnets, songs, and ancient odes, he... Read more >

Selected Poetry

Written by John Hollander

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2012
Price: $14.99

“Perfection is a rare accomplishment, particularly in American poetry, and the perfection of much of Hollander’s work makes it essential reading for anyone who genuinely cares for the craft of poetry.  But in our fallen world we seem fated to value power of perfection, and John Hollander’s poetry has shown a... Read more >