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Bread Crumbs

By Cynthia Tremblay

These are poems of the garden and house, of dreams lost and fulfilled, and of children and struggle and love. They are poems that occur at the exact point where the inner life and the...

From the Annals of Kraków

By Piotr Florczyk

Born of hours spent watching and listening to the testimonies of Polish Holocaust survivors and those who came to their aid, these poems by noted Polish poet Piotr Florczyk document the unspeakable evil unleashed by...

Explain This Corpse

By Kirsten Kaschock

Winner of the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry

“Sophisticated and cerebral gymnastics of language sway with gravity through the poems and poetic sequences of Explain This Corpse. Throughout, Kirsten Kaschock’s gestures are contemporary, jagged, and stop-start,...

The Long Embrace

21 Contemporary Poets on the Long Poems of Philip Levine

By Christopher Buckley

Philip Levine is one of the foremost poets of the last fifty years, but moreover he is a master and unparalleled practitioner of the long poem in our time. No recent poet has written as...

Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets

An Anthology

By Wilt L. Idema

This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poems, inspired by their daily life and reflections, provide fascinating insights into the experiences and...

The Grief of a Happy Life

By Christopher Howell

In Christopher Howell’s twelfth collection of poems, his gifts for elegy, humor, and lyricism are on full display. The Grief of a Happy Life explores the interplay between memory and imagination, celebrating the ways that...

Sleeping and Waking

By Albert Goldbarth

Republic Café

By David Biespiel

Inspired by Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour, and sharing the spirit of Tomas Transtromer’s Baltics and Yehuda Amichai’s Time, Republic Café is a meditation on love during a time of violence, and a tally of...

Every Waking Moment

By James Crews

In Every Waking Moment, James Crews plumbs his past and family life for insights, yet always returns to the moment at hand, approaching the world with mindfulness, openness, and clarity. He finds the miraculous in...

Though the Walls Are Lit

By Emily Holt

Though the Walls Are Lit considers the Irish tradition of hunger strikes and vocal lament. Weaving together hymns, canticles, and blues riffs, Holt configures the page as a threshold where poet and stranger may meet...

Neighborhood of Gray Houses

By Derek Annis

The poems in Derek Annis’s debut collection, Neighborhood of Gray Houses, wander through a landscape darkened by childhood abandonment and loss, before coming to rest in a home illuminated by new life and cautious optimism....

Don't Touch the Bones

By Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2019.

Rich in detail, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s Don’t Touch the Bones is a compelling collection that examines the pain of the world’s, a nation’s, and a family’s history.

A New Orthography

Poems

By Serhiy Zhadan. Translated by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin

A New Orthography by Serhiy Zhadan is the fifth volume in Lost Horse Press’s Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. In these poems, the poet focuses on daily life during the Russo-Ukrainian war, rendering intimate portraits of...

Blue Nude Migration

By Laura Stott. Illustrated by Kathryn Stott Buxton

By means of exceptionally concrete and direct language, Laura Stott’s poems lift dark matter up out of the shared unknown and give it shape. They have the simplicity of blue shadows and bells, the curiously...

Post Romantic

Poems

By Kathleen Flenniken

In her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us. Post Romantic fuses personal memory with national and ecological upheaval, interweaving narratives of family, nuclear history, love...

Mother Water

Poems

By Emily Banks

Mother Water centers on maternal inheritance in literal and figurative forms. Through its water motif, the book traces the speaker’s transformations as she absorbs, and often resists, lessons from the women who guide her. The...

Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today

By Melissa Kwasny

Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven series—one of linked prose poems called “Another Letter to the Soul” and one of individual lined poems that explore the connection between anima and...

Kings in Love: Lilit Phra Lo and Twelve Months

Two classic Thai poems

By Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit

Kings in Love: Lilit Phra Lo and Twelve Months (Thawathotsamat) are among the earliest works of Thai literature. These translations by an award-winning team aim to convey not only the meaning of the Thai originals...

The Story of King Lo

Lilit Phra Lo

By Robert J. Bickner

Highly regarded as an important part of the poetic heritage of Thailand, The Story of King Law received royal acclaim in 1914 and is included in official school curricula. All students of Thai literature memorize...

Thieve

By Joe Wilkins

Thieve is a pointed, political book, though the politics here are local, particular, physically felt. The central sequence of poems—subtitled “Poem against the Crumbling of the Republic”—was written in direct response to the poet’s own...