Category - Poetry

Winner of the National Book Award. "A. R. Ammons's poem with the unforgettable title is a defense of meaning—'this,' the poet says, 'are awash in...

In pre-Colombian Mexico, song and dance were vital components of daily life. However, all that is left of this vast tradition of lyrical verse ar...

Poetic Healing is about a Vietnam Veteran's pain and the healing power of words. Basil B. Clark's sense of order was disrupted after an ambush in...

The Hundredfold is a tapestry of hymns, monologues, and short lyrics knit together as one book-length poem in praise of Christ in all his startli...

In her award-winning second book, Anna V. Q. Ross transforms motherhood into a lens, examining narratives of girlhood, migration, trauma, and inh...

PERHAPS THE FINEST POETRY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY T.S. Eliot's position in the literature of the world is unmistakable, largely due to the poem...

Unable to accept complacency in suburban life, Stephen S. Mills transports himself to dank prison cells, international executions, and the minds ...

With his fourth collection of verse, THE CREEK AT THE END OF THE LAWNS, Fisher delves into the minds and lives lived in both a village and a city...

A star-studded anthology infuses English poetry with the rigor and wit of a foreign form.In recent years, the ghazal (pronounced "ghuzzle"), a tr...

I don't want words to sever me from reality.I don't want to need them. I want nothing to reveal feeling but feeling—as in freedom,or the knowledg...

This anthology of contemporary Latino poetry celebrates the rich mosaic of a major arts movement within the United States featuring poets and spo...

Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of...

First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry's fifth volume of poetry. What he calls "an expansive metaphor" is "a farmer's ...

That Silent EveningI will go back to that silent evening when we lay together and talked in silent voices, while outside slow lumps of soft snow ...

A wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astoundsJohn Berryman was hardly unknown when ...

A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry. Over the course of two decades and six books, Peter Markus has been making fiction out of...

“One of America’s greatest living poets.”—The Washington Post Book World “Merwin keeps his language simple but his perceptions complex. Classical...

Memories Unwound is a collection of free verse poems and prose that tap into the thoughts, feelings and ideas of the author. Each piece aims to g...