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Roethke's prose teems with fierce intelligence and outrageous quoteable quotes.

An audio and text guide to the poetry of one of our most dynamic performers.

A major collection of works by the founder and co-editor of American Poetry Review, author of Grief and In It. "Sharp, thoughtful, and wonderfully wild."--Library Journal¶"Stephen Berg is a well-kept secret....Berg plies the reader's attention with simplicity and candor."--American Bookseller

Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award by a doctor-poet who draws inspiration from his inner-city medical practice.

This anthology of classical Korean poetry in translation collects some of the finest poetry in the Asian tradition.

New England mountain recluse's poems reminiscent of those of the great Chinese and Taoist poet-sages.

Irresistably accessible "Pig Poet" - and subject of PBS documentary - is half preacher, half farmer, half genius.

Winner of the first annual Hayden Carruth Emerging Poets Award.

A richly dynamic, one-of-a-kind collection of over 240 poems from eighty leading Japanese poets.

Selected by Jorie Graham as winner of the 2002 American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize.

Probing the local genius as expressed in history and customs, Swenson absorbs the anguish of colonization and dictatorship to reveal ordinary people and events with a sardonic humor, pathos and hope. Her travels arrive at moral ambiguities where cultures clash and where the human population devastates the natural environment. With remarkable technical dexterity, she searches beneath the surface of politics and philosophy to find essential huma...

A personal journey through faith and history, wherein anger is redeemed through passion and art.

A National Poetry Series winner, selected by Denise Levertov, which deftly explores the natural world.

While he was Poet Laureate of the United States (1990-91), Mark Strand selected this book for publication with special funds administered by the National Endowment for the Arts, saying, "No first book in recent memory has so much wisdom, so much lyric conviction as Michael White's The Island. I find his poems astonishingly mature, profound, evocative". White's poems rise from the dark interstices of memory and imagination, his brief love poems...

A collection--Bell's eighth--that displays the poet at the height of his powers.

An urgent, magnetic collection of poems which attempt to understand and heal human darkness.

Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.

Kevin Ducey's "Rhinoceros" was selected from over 1, 000 manuscripts by Yusef Komunyakaa for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. With lyrical turns and metaphorical sways, "Rhinoceros" embodies mythologies that are brought down to earth and riffs on history, desire, death, sex and food. We have lunch with Hawking and Disney before stopping in to see how Robert Browning's recording session with Thomas Edison is getting on. (They hate each other...

A volume bringing back into print three volumes by the most celebrated American poet currently writing.

Wise and sardonic follow-up to Ruth Stone's National Book Award in Poetry.