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Discover the power and joy of poetry in this simple, modern introduction to Langston Hughes, featuring an ode to spring and long-awaited new beginn...

Black ecopoet observes the changing world from a high-rise windowAward-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fa...

Poems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and powerWinner of the Colorado Book Award in Poetry (2018)In this fourth book in a series of ...

“[Momaday] must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers.”—American Scholar "Momaday’s poems are rich with description, lush with...

"Madness pays homage to all poets whose work goes underappreciated."--The New York TimesSet in a speculative present, Madness alternates between po...

"Coe is a poet's poet, a jazzy, postmodern Ben Johnson . . . understated, but shimmering with wit, compassion, integrity of purpose." -- The Phoeni...

The Libyan landscape is one of the most diverse and breathtaking, replete with barren deserts, vast ocean coasts, and a stunning display of earth...

In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East Europe...

Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as o...

Named a "Best Book of 2019" by the New York Public LibraryFinalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian PoetrySociety of Midland Authors H...

A debut poetry collection about Earth and to Earth that contemplates imposed systems--gender, capitalism, time, wage and exploitation--and how they...

Set in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hopeIcelight, Ranjit Hoskote's eighth...

A complex and entangled text that explores inherited trauma, the presence of ghosts, interspecies communication, the dream world, grief, and human/...

Notes From Your BooksellerWait. THAT Valerie June? The singer/songwriter? Her voice is heavenly. Her songs are beautiful. And, now, she presents ...

"For seasons I was faceless // trying to swallow constellations, / to roll a star-map on my tongue," recounts Rajiv Mohabir's speaker in "Boy with ...