A stunning collection of poems, these works explore moments of empathy in suffering, epiphany in ruin, and grace in surrender. In chronicling a journey from childhood grief through the dark rapture of love and longing, these translucent...
Poetry
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Author:Black, CatherineSummary: - Author:Tempest, KateSummary:
Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbors inhabit the same London street,...
- Author:Radu, KennethSummary:
The writer of the letter in Kenneth Radu's title poem is reaching across an enormous silence: from a microchipped contemporary Canadian setting to the rest home on the Black Sea where his father is dying; and then even further, back to...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
Tuning a fine ear to Lawrence’s letters from 1906 until his death in 1930, Barry Dempster’s poems uncover the man within the myth and give voice to Lawrence’s passionate mortality. Dempster’s act is one of imagination and homage, a kind...
- Author:Howard, Liz.Summary:
The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent . Griffin Poetry Prize, Finalist. I have to believe my account will outpace its ending. The danger and necessity of...
- Author:Simard, EmmanuelSummary:
On entre dans Lettres au ciel blanc comme on sort de la ville, à la recherche d'un rythme plus apaisé ou d'une «?autre heure du ciel?». Habité par la matérialité des choses et des discours qui nous assaillent, ce cinquième recueil...
- Author:Sanders, RobertSummary:
"Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español is an introduction to nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes. It presents Romanticism in the context of nineteenth-century literary and...
- Author:McGimpsey, DavidSummary:
Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for Poetry David McGimpsey's fifth collection of poems takes to new levels the melding of the deeply personal and the culturally popular that drove his acclaimed book Sitcom (nominated for...
- Author:Mirolla, MichaelSummary:
Michael Mirolla's poetic world is one where a mirror, or any simple reflective item is tilted ever so slightly, providing an opening to places we never imagined existed. (One of them is his own birth, from the inside, looking...
- Author:Scenters-Zapico, NatalieSummary:
In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things. Lima :: Limon illuminates both the sweet and the sour of the immigrant experience, of life as a woman in the U.S....
- Author:Robertson, LisaSummary:
Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995–2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin. Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine the past — its ideas, its personages, its syntax — to construct a...
- Author:Pineda, Jon, de la Paz, OliverSummary:
The third collection by the prize-winning Asian American poet Jon Pineda, Little Anodynes is a sequence of lyrical, personal narratives that continue Pineda's exploration of his biracial identity, the haunting loss of his sister, and...
- Author:Colman, RobertSummary:
Through the rapidly altered perspectives of romantic relationship and the demands of economic recession, Little Empires pursues what it means to own your changing landscape. In a deft and pithy, elegantly nuanced and urbane style,...
- Author:Sexton, AnneSummary:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A gripping poetry collection mapping the thorny journey from madness to hope With her emotionally raw and deeply resonant third collection, Live or Die, Anne Sexton confirmed her place among the most...
- Author:Sharif, SolmazSummary:
Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards...
- Author:Carson, EdwardSummary:
an orientation of thought in thinking how a / thought begins and then travels on to arrive / at another place connected and like-minded A work of art is never entirely present in itself but rather is always at large in the mind of the...
- Author:Ashworth, DonnaSummary:
Those cast adrift in the lonely sea of grief will find something on every page to cling to, when that water gets too rough. Loss is a collection of poems, for those looking to soothe their soul and find an anchor to guide their spirit....
- Author:Glenn, Lorri NeilsenSummary:
Poems of great loss and deep questioning, wringing beauty out of potential despair.
In the opening poem of Lost Gospels, Lorri Neilsen Glenn writes of Mahalia Jackson and Blind Willie Johnson:
… they sang, oh yes...
- Author:Leav, LangSummary:
The journey from love to heartbreak to finding love again is personal yet universal. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey. Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of...
- Author:AtticusSummary:
The first collection of poetry by Instagram sensation Atticus. Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from the poet Atticus, who has captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of avid followers on his...
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