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This debut collection by South Korean poet Yoo Heekyung chronicles contemporary life in a minor key where loneliness and existential ghosts thread the pieces. A student of Kim Hyesoon, Yoo writes poems that invite readers to reflect upon daily sorrows, while also illuminating single moments full of strange and arresting images — a hardened piece of bread, a train about to arrive, a crumpled piece of paper — that suggest the passage of time. Yo...

Three celebrated poets illuminate the complexity of life in Haiti and its diaspora in the 21st century, particularly for women, in this exceptional and unprecedented trilingual collection. In Évelyne Trouillot’s sensual poems about love and yearning, she asks repeatedly “in what language should I speak to you”? Marie-Célie Agnant addresses poverty, pain, death, but also the pleasures of passion. Maggy De Coster’s concise and personal poems exp...

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Beat poet Philip Whalen's portraits of Berkeley and San Francisco.

Beat poet Philip Whalen's portraits of Berkeley and San Francisco.

Storytelling infused with Jewish mysticism and Yiddish folklore.

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A poet's "razor-sharp glance" looks to bygone times even as he confronts contemporary themes of internet culture, science, nature and gay love.

The poet's journey to bury her grandparents' ashes in China becomes a dramatic narrative about ancestral landscapes, family, and ritual, with a tragic climax.

When is the right time to take on a leadership role? Will you ever feel ready? When Franca Gucciardi accepted her first CEO position at the Loran Scholars Foundation, she quickly realized the immense task ahead of her and contacted her mentor, Alan Broadbent. What followed was a series of conversations, and a process of learning to ask (and then answer!) the right questions. You're It! is a mentorship in book form, the collected wisdom of two ...

An extraordinary yet almost-unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched expos. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend's yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed a cancerous tumor. When enterprising reporter E.J. Edwards exposed the secret operation, Cleveland denied it and Edwards was consequently dismissed as a disgrace to journalism.

Seventy contemporary Russian women poets in translation.

One of Russia's most accomplished younger poets, writing with a complex synaesthesia of sound and memory

Poem commissioned by Xu Bing's studio to accompany his most recent large-scale installation--Phoenix, currently hanging at MASS MoCA.

Revised edition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer

Mangled diction from the cusp of childhood.

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Puerto Rican, Russian-Jewish, and Italian cultures collide in homage both to the art and form of the novel, as well as to the passions and histories that fuel our American lives. Pulaski's prose boxes through the surreal and banal. The novel weaves the maelstrom of immigrant life in post WWII New York, and the terrifying solitude of Alzheimer's cloaked beneath Vermont winters, into a fable where the sacred and the profane are inextricably wed....