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A generation of children forced to live without words. It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech, they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level, theories spread. Maybe it's related to a popular antidepressant, maybe it's environmental. Or maybe these children hav...

Poet Saskia Hamilton, author of As for Dream, explores "where the pull of reverie becomes palpable and eerily seductive" ("Poetry"). Only nightFirst light I will not quite fit in this hole nor you with your long fingers --from "Divide These" These spare, evocative poems register things at the edge of our attention that confound our systems of belief. In "Divide These, " Saskia Hamilton brings delicate observation together with riveting asser...

The new poetry collection by Stephen Burt, "one of the most gifted poets of his generation" (Frank Bidart)*An NPR Best Book of 2013 * A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Poetry Book of Spring 2013 *Our skills are finally in demand.If you mock us, Pan, In whom we also believe, do itAs gently as you can. -from "The People on the Bus"In Belmont, Stephen Burt maps out the joys and the limits of the life he has chosen, the life that chose him, examining and...

Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Fiction, an imaginative debut that ranges from Havana to Berlin* A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year * One of Publishers Weekly's "Best Summer Books"*Ancient cities and fallen empires come to life in this masterful collection. In the Byzantine court, a noble with a crippled hand is called upon to ensure that a holy man poses no threat to the throne. On an island in Lake Michigan, a religious community crum...

Extraordinary . . . Barry takes us on a roaring journey . . . Powerful, exuberant fiction." -The New York Times Book Review (front cover)Forty or so years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the North Rises, and the eerie bogs of the Big ...

The brilliant and provocative second book of poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis, now available in paperbackSkin, Inc. is Thomas Sayers Ellis's ambitious argument in sound and image for an America whose identity is in need of repair. In lyric sequences and with his own photographs, Ellis traverses the African American and American literary landscapes and performs tributes for the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, and t...

A brilliant new collection by Elizabeth Alexander, whose "poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh" (Rita Dove, "The Washington Post") "Too many people have seen too much"and lived to tell, or not tell, or tell"with their silent, patterned bodies, "their glass eyes, gone legs, flower-printed flesh . . ."-from "Notes From" In her fourth remarkable collection, Elizabeth Alexander voices the outcries, dreams, and historie...

The anticipated new book by Mark Wunderlich, whose poetry "reminds us how fully the spirit can illuminate the depths" (The New Yorker)A Publishers Weekly Book of the WeekWith your sorghum broom you sweetened my path, pulledthe woolen shawl around me while I slept.That the lightning struck the willowand did not fall-for this I am grateful. -from "Heaven-Letter"The Earth Avails evokes an all-but-lost history, when every setting, thought, and act...

Nick Lantz writes with elegant simplicity. Most poets take a lifetime to learn as much." -Linda GregersonI say I love and I love and I love. However, the windowwill not close. However, the hawk searchesfor its nest after a storm. However, the discardednail longs to hide its nakedness inside the tire. -from "Fork with Two Tines Pushed Together"How to Dance as the Roof Caves In examines America as it faces a recession of collective mood and coll...

In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford." -Naomi Shihab NyeSome time when the river is ice ask memistakes I have made. Ask me whetherwhat I have done is my life. -from "Ask Me"In celebration of the poet's centennial, Ask Me collects one hundred of William Stafford's essential poems. As a conscientious objector during World War II, while assigned to Civilian Public Service ...

An explosive story collection from a bold, blistering new voice With broken language, deep vernacular, unexpectedly fierce empathy, and a pace that'll break your granny's neck, Lindsay Hunter lures, cajoles, and wrenches readers into the wild world of "Don't Kiss Me." Here you'll meet Peggy Paula, who works the late shift at Perkin's and envies the popular girls who come in to eat french fries and brag about how far they let the boys get wi...

The first book of inventive prose by a poet whose writing "refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution" (Seamus Heaney)"I: What do the dead think about, anyway?G: For me, it's questions of realism, I mean what's more real than the body once you don't have one?" --from "Interview with a Ghost" In "Interview with a Ghost, " poet Tom Sleigh investigates poetry from his conviction that "while art and life are sepa...

Jim Moore writes of history, of love, of pain, of the intimate revelations of a consciousness alive to itself."--C. K. williams It is not beautiful, this dying, but it is what this god has for a tool. --from "Blood Harmony" Jim Moore's sixth collection--urgent and devotional--bears down on loss and how to render it in art with clarity enough to outlast our small, brief lives. These poems explore the places where the self meets the world, wh...

An unflinching memoir by a working nurse As a child, Mary Jane Nealon dreams of growing up to become a saint or, failing that, a nurse. She idolizes Clara Barton, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Molly Pitcher, whose biographies she reads and rereads. But by the time she follows her calling to nursing school, her beloved younger brother is diagnosed with cancer, which challenges her to bring hope and healing closer to home. His death leaves her shatter...

Winner of the 2010 Bakeless Prize for Poetry, the debut collection by Dilruba Ahmed Can't occupy the same space at the same time "unless, of course, you land in Dhaka "--from "Dhaka Dust" Ranging across Europe and America to the streets of Bangladesh, the sharp-edged poems in "Dhaka Dust "are culled from a rich melange of languages, people, and poetic attitudes. Through lyric and narrative poems, Dilruba Ahmed's keen observations on birth, mo...

The American West has long been a place where myth and legend have flourished. Where men stood tall and lived rough. But that West is no more. In its place Shann Ray finds washed up basketball players, businessmen hiding addictions, and women fighting the inexplicable violence that wells up in these men. A son struggles to accept his father's apologies after surviving a childhood of beatings. Two men seek empty basketball hoops on a snowy nigh...

We cannot do without Fanny Howe." --Ange Mlinko, "The Nation " Here a gun might go off, There perhaps a broom would brush away the sticks of spring. It was not your fault where you were dropped Or where you took your first steps. "--from "After Watching Klimov's "Agoniya" In Fanny Howe's latest collection of poems, she beckons us toward the origins of both our collective knowing and our misperception. These poems move from one country to...

A vibrant selection of stories from the author of "Sweet Hearts "and "First, Body " This selection of Melanie Rae Thon's stories showcases her breathtaking ability to become each one of her characters, to move inside the bodies and minds of the dispossessed. One woman speaks for them all: "I'm your worst fear. But not the worst thing that can happen." "In This Light "shimmers with grace as a drunk young woman hits a Native American man on a d...

Over by the cemetery next to the CP you could see them in wild catmint going crazy: I watched them roll and wriggle, paw it, lick it, chew it, leap about, pink tongues stuck out, drooling. "--from "Army Cats" Tom Sleigh's poetry swerves dramatically from the ordinary moment to the onrush of emergency or to the elusive past or to the unexpectedly comic. In "Army Cats, " Sleigh confronts the more feral aspects of war, journalism, art, and se...

A canyon earmarked for development as a golf resort. One last hunting trip in a vanishing wilderness. A grandfather, a son, and a grandson--plus one angry bear. Over the course of the weekend, each man will change in sharply contrasting ways.