The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

A book of poems and painted images.

Infused with eco-logic, informed by feminism, and taking cues from Eve, Cain, Proserpine, Ulysses, Parsifal, and selves present and past, the fifty poems of The Devil’s Fools question and illustrate myths of nature and the nature of inherited myth.

A reconstruction and critical interpretation of Heidegger's remarkable relationship to the poet Georg Trakl.

A collection of poems written by father and daughter during the Pandemic Year 2020.

Probing reassessment of the relation between Celan's poetry and Heidegger's thought.

A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.

Strangers and spirits intersect between surreal city streets and tactile dreams in this fourth collection from the award-winning poet.

New poems by the author of Winter Crows.

Investigates how the Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.

Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible.

Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.

A volume of lyric poetry including ekphrastic works, animal poems, life studies, and found objects.

A dynamic dialogue of poetry and art that reimagines the ancient, biblical concept of sacrifice.

A creative travelogue of landscape and memory.

The poems in this book, by the way they speak to all parts of our minds, invite us to come alive and experience each movement, each emotion and action, and some statements therein, intuitively and aesthetically.

Poems that explore social and ecological struggles, personal and public nostalgia, family and solitude and seek to balance it all with hope.

A collection of poems weaving together astrology, motherhood, music, and literary history.

The first anthology of poetry, prose, and drama by second-generation Cuban American writers.

A collection of prose poems by Musan Cho Oh-hyun (1932–2018), celebrated poet-monk of the Nine Mountain school of Korean Zen.

Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.

An exploration of states of consciousness as well as journeys in the imaginal realm.

Winner of the Codhill Poetry Award for 2018, this collection unveils surrealistic imagery and apocalyptic moments to explore cityscapes external and internal.

Blends history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events.

Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation’s poetry and its culture.

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.

Poems depicting the planetary tilt that shuffles the seasons, the dynamic poise of a bird hovering, the tendency to veer as we aim for the polestar but wake up awry.

Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the entire breadth of his career.

A collection of poetry and prose by a Hudson Valley–based group of women writers.

Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer.

The first book-length collection in English of this major Israeli poet.

Both an anthology and an informal textbook that features poetry and essays by twenty-five New York State poets.

Poetry that takes nature by surprise, observing the world while making it anew.

This poetry book is a grain of seed in light of the poet’s longing for warm human nature, and of her effort to restore it; it also bears her love for paper.

Poets and critics address the potential of language to address the increasing level of discord and precarity in the twenty-first century.

Offers the complete body of work of one of the twentieth century's greatest Russian poets for the first time in English.

Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth.

Explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns as they share their lived experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict with the institutional Church.

Bilingual English-German edition of second collection published by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806).

Poems that contemplate the fraught interdependence of the human and more-than-human in an era of extreme environmental degradation.

The poems of Anna Margolin (1887–1952), appearing here both in the original Yiddish and in English translation.

Explores spoken word poetry as a tool for social justice, critical feminist pedagogy, and new ways of teaching.

Lyric and blank verse poetry sifting darkness in the author’s life and in the lives of others, both real and imagined.

Takes the reader on a journey through time and place, with stops along the way to visit Madame Curie, Charlie Parker, Scheherazade, Madame Bovary, Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin, and God, among others.

A profound meditation on Leopardi’s art and thought as well as a reframing and reassertion of Negri’s own philosophical and political project of liberation.

This book presents the poetry and letters of the American writer Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914). Her best poetry deserves to be enjoyed by a larger audience, and her letters and newly discovered biographical ...

Winner of the Codhill Poetry Award for 2015.

A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea.

A collection of poems by the South Korean poet Lee Jangwook.

A poetic examination of what’s waiting just beneath everyday experience.

First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.

Twenty-four contemporary writers reflect on life in New York City’s biggest underdog, the “forgotten borough” of Queens.

A multilayered study and poetic evocation of one of the world’s greatest architectural wonders, Strasbourg Cathedral.

Winner of the Codhill Poetry Award for 2014.

An eclectic collection of poems about New York City.

Poems on relationship, intimacy, and longing, the poetics of postcards, and places real and imagined.

Poems that explore our place in the cosmos.

The first collection in English of this renowned Korean poet's work.

Poems that express the wonder and challenge of being human in a conflicted world.

Uncovers a new chapter in the story of American modernist poetry.

A selection of poems by one of Islam’s greatest poetic voices.

Poems on nature and the human condition.

Winner of the Codhill Poetry Award for 2013.

A new reading of justice engaging the work of two philosophical poets who stand in conversation with the work of Martin Heidegger.

A unique literary anthology with contributions from former members of Kirkland College, the last established women’s college in the United States.

A literary anthology exploring contemporary Catholic women’s experiences.

A collection of contemporary prose and poetry by women writers from New York’s Hudson Valley.

Poems and stories that stream directly from dreams and shamanic adventures in the world-behind-the-world.

Winner of the Codhill Poetry Chapbook Award for 2012.

In these idiosyncratic, subtly rhymed and occasionally violent lyrics, Frost runs her tongue along the edge of the knife dividing wit from rage.

The story of two women and their quotidian existence in rural New York.

Rumi’s universal approach to life is compellingly revealed in easy-to-read prose with excerpts from Rumi’s poetry.

Winner of the Codhill Poetry Chapbook Award for 2011.

The banner of humankind blows over Pacem in Terris whenever it is open. The five stripes symbolize five subdivisions of the one human race; brown, black, red, white, yellow, unite at the top, each one ...

Uses new poetic forms to explore various themes such as the nature of the self and our relations with nature.

A radically innovative blend of poems, prosepoems, and memoir.

Poems that ponder the conundrums of existence and religious faith in wartime.

Winner of the Codhill Poetry Chapbook Award for 2010.

Poetry that helps to explore the details of life.

New and selected poems on love, faith, and the African American experience.

Wisdom, this book argues, is found in the poetry of things.

Compilation of Stern’s columns from Chronogram in which he explores the intriguing concept of regional culture in its full meaning.

Poetry that sifts the possibilities of an American ethos and probes for a usable truth.

To the poet's quest for immortal vision, A Hellsmouth for Orpheus offers the longing of human desire. Raw but discreet, deliberately sensual, evoking an elusive authority, this book-length poem turns ...

Poetry that reminds us to think about the experiences that made us who we are.

sucked two small drops
of blood
& I suddenly saw
the lust of his attack
& felt its
most serious
misunderstanding
of my life.

"Song Yong's strange complex stories exhibit masterful control of language and narrative drive. They explore themes of existentialism such as existential anxiety and despair and deal with the plight of ...

"When at seventeen I had become a medical student in Holland, my eye fell on a slim volume that carried in large yellow characters the title 'ZEN. ' This was in 1926, when Zen was still unknown in the ...

"Mr. Murphy is a very carful craftsman in his work, a patient and testing intelligence, one of those writers who knows precisely what he wants his style to achieve. His poetry is quite but packed, carefully ...

"Charming, enigmatic, often humorous, these half-poetic, half-philosophic vignettes condense a lifetime to its essential images. They sent me searching for my own. " –Steve Webb, Seattle writer and ...

An epic poem on the people and history of New Paltz, New York.

Kim Man-jung

Li Po

Su Tung-p'o

Tu Fu

Wang Wei

Wei Chuang

"The 42 poems in this book were culled from a 365-poem opus titled One Year. Each poem in One Year was composed according to the following method:

I would take a day--say, January 18--and, sifting through ...

Book 2 of an epic poem on the history and people of the town of New Paltz, New York.

I pick up thumb-tacks in the street
and put them in my pocket. Some I use
to stick up times on the corkboard, some I put
back in the desk. Once a tack stuck
straight through the ball of my foot as I ran ...

In A Passion for Seeing, Frederick Franck establishes himself as a prime minister witness to the twentieth century. Read in this anthology the best of Franck's observations: from the onset of the Second ...