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New work by the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement.

"[Hillman's] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful." --Harvard ReviewFinalist for the Four Quartets Prize, given by Poetry Society of America, 2023An iconoclastic ecopoet who has led the way for many young and emerging artists, Brenda Hillman continues to re-cast innovative poetic forms as instruments for tracking human and non-human experiences. At times the poet deploys short dialogues, meditations or trance techniques as means of rendering inner states; other times she uses narrative, documentary or scientific materials to record daily events during a time of pandemic, planetary crisis, political and racial turmoil. Hillman proposes that poetry offers courage even in times of existential peril; her work represents what is most necessary and fresh in American poetry. During an enchantment in the life Do you love a living person absolutely? Tell them now.In a half-unwieldy life you made, underthe hyaline sky, while the dead drank from zigzag pools nearby, if they saved you in your wild incapacities, in timing of the world's harmin a little pettiness in your own heart while others took your madrigals in shreds to a tribunal, when others said you should feel grateful to be minimally adequate for the world'striple exposure or some tired committee... The ones who love us, how do theybreak through our defenses? We're tired today. Come back later.Their baffled voices melting our wax wallswith a candle, the ones who understandwhat being is--the glowing, the broken, the wheels, the brave ones-- they have their courage, you have yours; when you meet the one you love, it is so rare. When you meetthe one who loves you, it is extremely rare.

Root-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres.

A celebrated poet asks anguished questions about separation and loss.

Striking and moving poems that are rooted deep in the earth

Gathers the very best lyrics from the career of one of America's best known poets.

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

An essential collection of a highly original American poet

Vivid exploration of what the world of objects reveals about our lives.

Molten and musical poetry from an acclaimed Southern writer

First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet.

Eloquent intercultural coming-of-age story

A collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.

Classic poems from a famous American poet

A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition.

Elegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigration.

A modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century

The poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has written, "Gizzi's poetry is an example of how a poet's total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning.

Not one word comes back to talk me out of pain," the book delivers a vision of love that is boldly political and laced with a tumultuous hope that promises: "Revolution is bigger than both of us, revolution is a science that infers the future presence of us."

7/15/95 Paris Xicancuicatl collects the poetry of leading avant-garde Chicanx poet Alfred Arteaga (1950-2008), whom French philosopher Gilles Deleuze regarded as "among those rare poets who are able to raise or shape a new language within their language."

CARE Dress like you care!Care like you care! fascination meets fear as the poet considers the emergence of new life (twin granddaughters) into an increasingly toxic world: the Amazon smolders, children are caged or die crossing rivers and oceans, and weddings make convenient targets for drone strikes.

The lifework of a preeminent New York School poet

Poetry of grief and sustenance from an award-winning poet

How we answer to love beneath the lash of history

Poems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and power

Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets

The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist black man, Geter charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and the heartbreak of trying to feel at home in a country that does not recognize you.

Beauty and peril abound in new poems from this spirited poet

Poems that play in the sonic texture of discourses

Generous, visionary new work by this major American poet