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Gerber has a gentle touch and an unaffected, articulate voice that can be smart, funny, wise-sometimes all at the same time."-Library Journal"[Gerber] is one of the most adept and accessible of the poets who explore the meaning of humans' relation with earth and existence itself."-ForeWordInto a frenzied world that hurtles ever faster somewhere, Dan Gerber's poetry offers a necessary and reflective presence. Drawing upon eight previous collect...

C.D. Wright is flat-out brilliant and we're damned lucky to have writers like her on Earth.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Laura Kasischke unapologetically explores the dark and humorous realities of our lives.

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli's third book imagines trans bodies as amorphous and ever-evolving landscapes, free to revel in their shapeshifting beauty. Violence and addiction, transition and uncertainty, survival and endurance are all seamed together with a boundless, enduring, revelatory love.

This book is so smart! Waterbaby is deeply political in that it deals with systems of power at every turn, unfailingly creative, funny, and devastating. Wallschlaeger writes from a specific place of seeing the humor and absurdism in the world at the same time that she's bone tired and fed up. (And her interviews are worth reading!)

Four decades of poetry¿and a generous selection of new work¿make up this extraordinary collection by Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser. Firmly rooted in the landscapes of the Midwest, Kooser's poetry succeeds in finding the emotional resonances within the ordinary. Kooser's language of quiet intensity trains itself on the intricacies of human relationships, as well as the animals and objects that make up our days. As Poetry magazine said of his...

After weathering a heart transplant, a divorce, and a friend's death, beloved poet Dean Young explores how personal crisis destabilizes perception, reminding readers that humor guides healing.

June Jordan could renew any skeptic's faith in poetry. These poems gleam with jewel-like polish at the same time that they seem so effortlessly conversational one feels as if Jordan is in the room, expounding her endlessly complex and enlivening arc from outright outrage to generous love for herself, her partners, and all of us. June Jordan's poetry speaks pointedly to the present moment and fervent calls for social justice. Jordan spent ha...

In Kelli Russell Agodon's fourth collection, each poem facilitates a humane and honest conversation with the forces that threaten to take us under. The anxieties and heartbreaks of life-including environmental collapse, cruel politics, and the persistent specter of suicide-are met with emotional vulnerability and darkly sparkling humor. Dialogues with Rising Tides does not answer, This or that? It passionately exclaims, And also! Even in the m...

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W.S. Merwin's final book, brimming with longing, loss, and unanswerable questions.

Live as if you were already dead" is the Zen admonition animating Bell's brilliant poetic invention, Dead Man Poems. This volume draws from Bell's previous collections where The Dead Man appeared, and adds an abundant cache of new poems that resonate with "the dark matter and sticky stuff" of life.

Live as if you were already dead" is the Zen admonition animating Marvin Bell's brilliant poetic invention, Dead Man Poems.

Father's Day questions how one embodies a good father, partner, and citizen in the fluctuating political atmosphere of this century.

Through the lens of history, The Hardy Tree examines power, oppression, and individual rights in ways that reverberate through today.

Young uses the surreal as the thread which weaves in and out of complications of existence. The result is a textured, honest work that grapples with what it means to love, lose, and hang in the afterward.

Prophetic and rich in rural folklore and literary allusions, this seventh collection from Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Manning, envisions the role of poetry in the life of Abraham Lincoln, transcending the darkness of Lincoln's time and imagining new lore entirely.