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A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry

An Anthology

By Michelle Yeh, Zhangbin Li, Frank Stewart

The most comprehensive collection of modern Chinese poetry in English translation available today

This volume—a completely overhauled and updated version of Michelle Yeh’s 1992 classic Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry—brings together modern poetry from the Chinese-speaking...

The First Five

A New Collection of Southeast Asian Writing

By Chan Wai Han

Southeast Asia's literature is a rich mine of creativity, and stories and poems are readily accessible to readers who wish to take a quick dip into the literature of their neighbors. This anthology is a...

Awake in the River and Shedding Silence

By Janice Mirikitani. Foreword by Juliana Chang

Groundbreaking poems in Asian American feminist literature

Fierce, raw, and unapologetic, Janice Mirikitani’s poetry and prose are as vibrant and resonant today as when these two collections were first published in 1978 and 1987. Now back...

Post Romantic

Poems

By Kathleen Flenniken

Expansive poems connect personal, national, and global histories

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,...

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 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...

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 Time Machine

By Laura Kasischke

The Time Machine is Laura Kasischke’s eleventh book of poetry. The Time Machine offers us surreal and transformative explorations of maternity, mortality, and memory. In the opening poem, Laura tells us: “This is what it...

Hair of the Dog

An Anthology

By Christopher Howell

Hair of the Dog, edited by poet Christopher Howell, is the second installment of The Acme Poem Company’s Zodiac Poetry Anthology Series. Hair of the Dog contains work collected from regional and national poets alike,...

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...

Heart of the Rat

An Anthology

By Christopher Howell

The anthology contains work from former Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken, two-time Pushcart Prize winner Ellen Bass, as well as Spokane poets Maya Zeller, Tim Greenup, and others. This book is the first in...

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...

Vagrants & Accidentals

By Kevin Craft

Vagrants & Accidentals, the second full-length collection from poet Kevin Craft, is part vade mecum, part songbook, whose taut lines and adaptable stanzas traffic in the personal effects of emigration and estrangement, exile and return....

Yuan Phai, the Defeat of Lanna

A Fifteenth-Century Thai Epic Poem

By Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit

Written after a battle fought in approximately 1475, this poem may be the oldest work of literature from Siam. It features the earliest and most detailed description of a Siamese army, the most elaborate eulogy...

The Holding Hours

By Christianne Balk

Emotion, raw and unadorned, is woven through the poems of Christianne Balk's The Holding Hours. Part I explores the subtle and surprising transformations that come from caring for her young, neurologically injured daughter. Insights unfold...

Disquiet

By John Witte

Disquiet is a collection of poems that utilizes natural phenomena—a bright beach, a fallen tree limb, the weight of gravity—to evoke and reflect upon memory and human experience. The poems are structurally innovative, each shaped...

Charming Gardeners

By David Biespiel

The formally nuanced and wise epistolary poems in David Biespiel’s new collection are grounded in friendship, camaraderie, and the vulnerability and boldness that defines America.

Roving from the old Confederacy of Biespiel's native South to Portland,...

Plume

Poems

By Kathleen Flenniken

The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door...

Underdog

Poems

By Katrina Roberts

In Underdog, poet Katrina Roberts draws on wide-ranging historical and cultural sources to consider questions of identity, to ask us to meditate on how each of us is “other” - native, immigrant, sojourner, alien -...

Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories

By Timothy R. Tangherlini, Timothy R. Tangherlini

Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories is a collection of translated and annotated Nordic folklore that presents full repertoires of five storytellers along with extensive archival material. The printed book presents some of the most...