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Black Irish

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

Threnodies

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.

Flower of the Desert

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.

Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey

Edited by Susan S. Smith
Subjects: General Interest

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 ...

Meridian

Winner of the Codhill Poetry Award for 2015.

Dead Reckoning

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

Request Line at Noon

By Lee Jangwook
Translated by Sun Kim & Tsering Wangmo
Subjects: General Interest

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

Nearer to Never

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

Reality Crumbs

By Raquel Chalfi
Translated by Tsipi Keller
Afterword by Dan Miron
Subjects: General Interest
Series: Excelsior Editions

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

Forgotten Borough

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

The Stones of Strasbourg and Other Poems

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

Boy with a Halo at the Farmer's Market

Winner of the Codhill Poetry Award for 2014.

The City That Never Sleeps

An eclectic collection of poems about New York City.

Together / Apart and other poems

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

Mandalas

Poems that explore our place in the cosmos.

A Warm Family

By Kim Hu-Ran
Translated by Cho Young-Shil
Subjects: General Interest

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

Every Root a Branch

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

Mary Barnard, American Imagist

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

Poems of Wine and Tavern Romance

By Hafiz & Martin Bidney
Translated by Martin Bidney
Subjects: General Interest

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

Rain, Sky, Wind, Port

Poems on nature and the human condition.

Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice

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

Lost Orchard

Edited by Jo Pitkin
Subjects: General Interest
Series: Excelsior Editions

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

Unruly Catholic Women Writers

A literary anthology exploring contemporary Catholic women’s experiences.

A Slant of Light

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

Here, Everything Is Dreaming

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