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Jack Kerouac: Collected Poems by Jack Kerouac Synopsis Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac’s sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac’s major poetic works—Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues... (read more) Available August 30, 2012 Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover 
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Last Poems by Hayden Carruth Publisher Comments Praise for Hayden Carruth: "Something Hayden Carruth does as well as any writer is to treat the reader as a friend, and to provide, through his poetry, hours of good company."—The New York Times Book Review "One of the lasting literary signatures... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Trouble Ball: Poems by Martin Espada Publisher Comments In this new collection of poems, MartÃn Espada crosses the borderlands of epiphany and blasphemy: from a pilgrimage to the tomb of Frederick Douglass to an encounter with the swimming pool at a center of torture and execution in Chile, from the... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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On the Planet Without Visa: Selected Poetry and Other Writings by Sotere Torregian Publisher Comments "One of our most radically original poets." —Anne Waldman Sotère Torregian, an American poet of Ethiopian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, and Moorish ancestry, approaches the world with an open-armed embrace of distant and diverse phenomena... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Sea at Truro: Poems by Nancy Willard Publisher Comments From the widely admired poet, novelist, and essayist, a wonderful collection of direct, appealing poems, some of which take on the grand themes of nature and art, while others celebrate the everyday: a monastery kitchen, ferns, the tangerine, shoes.... (read more) Available October 2, 2012 Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Road Scatter: Poems by Sandra Meek Publisher Comments Road Scatter (as in tire-sprayed gravel) is an examination of breakage and survival, compelled by the decline and death of the poet's mother but engaged, too, by global encounters with the Iraq war, a rabid dog in Africa, and an at-large South American... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Game of Boxes: Poems by Catherine Barnett Publisher Comments The second collection by Catherine Barnett, whose “poems are scrupulously restrained and beautifully made” (Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post) Everyone asks us what we're afraid of but children aren't supposed to say. We could put... (read more) Available August 7, 2012 Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Many Ways to Say It by Eva Saulitis Synopsis Many Ways to Say It, a collection of lyric poems, is a series of prayers, cries, dispatches, observational records, secret messages, weather reports, daily logs, love poems, trespasses, confessions, letters, and songs. A trained marine biologist... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010 by Marge Piercy Publisher Comments Now in paperback: the superb selection from Marge Piercy's nine most recent books, the heart of her mature poems. This gathering of Piercy's poems is the first selected since Circles on the Water in 1982. These poems chart the milestone events and fierce... (read more) Available November 20, 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Chris Marker by Susan Howe Synopsis Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", Sorting Facts is Susan Howe's masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris... (read more) Available January 2013 Your price: $10.95 New - Trade Paper
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Thunderbird by Dorothea Lasky Publisher Comments "In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever be."—Julia Bloch, Bitch "The... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink by Robert Young Publisher Comments Food and poetry: in so many ways a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street vendor songs. Poetry is said to feed the soul, each poem a delicious morsel. When read aloud, the best poems provide a particular joy for the mouth. Poems about food... (read more) Available October 16, 2012 Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America by Mike Chasar Publisher Comments Everyday Reading is the first full-length critical study of the culture surrounding American popular and commercial poetry in the twentieth century. Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $103.25 New - Hardcover
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Guy Vernon: A Novelette in Verse by John Townsend Trowbridge Publisher Comments Many writers are deservedly forgotten, yet not every act of erasure is just. John Townsend Trowbridge (1827−1916) was a prolific American writer whose novels, plays, and poems, though critically acclaimed in his day, have with good reason not been... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Writers Writing Dying: Poems by C. K. Williams, Jr. Publisher Comments Since his first poetry collection, Lies, C. K. Williams has nurtured an incomparable reputation—as a deeply political poet, a writer of profound emotion, and a teller of great stories. In Writers Writing Dying, he retains the essential... (read more) Available October 30, 2012 Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Nice Weather: Poems by Frederick Seidel Publisher Comments A stunning new collection from the “beguiling and magisterial” poet (The New York Times Book Review) “Something is going on. Something is wrong.” Frederick Seidel—the “ghoul” (Chicago Review), the... (read more) Available September 4, 2012 Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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The 20th Century in Poetry by Michael Hulse Synopsis The history of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of the greatest poets of our time.... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Once: Poems by Meghan O'rourke Publisher Comments The incandescent poems in Once, the second collection by an astonishing and formidable poet, explore loss, violence, and recovery. Facing a mother's impending death, O'Rourke invokes a vanished childhood of "American houses, wet / kids moving through... (read more) Available March 2013 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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To These Dark Steps by Gabriel Levin Publisher Comments Gabriel Levin's fourth collection was written in Jerusalem in the shadow of Israel's bombardment and incursion into Gaza in 2008. The title sequence and its prose commentary ("The Fathers are Watching") navigate between war and the mind's need to escape... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Pearl by Jean Kinsella Publisher Comments With this touching novel in the twilight zone between dream and reality, the author creates an unforgettable story about Mara - a woman who manages to turn her loss into beauty, developing her talents despite her setbacks and managing to renew her... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $18.50 New - Trade Paper
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