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  • The Father

    by Sharon Olds ...
    A searing sequence of poems about a daughter’s vision of a father’s illness and death—by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down" (San Francisco Chronicle).The Father chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Beowulf: A New Translation

    Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The GuardianLonglisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for Loyalty Books’ Holiday List.A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife**... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Language of the Birds

    Poems

    by Amy Nemecek ...
    According to legend, the language of the birds was a mystical language God used to talk with Adam and Eve when he walked with them in the garden of Eden. Amy Nemecek listens for this divine dialect as she communes with God on her walks along country roads and creek banks, through forests and hayfields. She observes the world around her with expectation, knowing that God still speaks to us as he is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Feeler

    Series series Quarternote Chapbook Series
    Since Heather McHugh first began publishing her poems in 1968, poetry readers have marveled at the immensity and range of her gift. There seems to be nothing that McHugh can’t do with words and do with high wit and sonic brilliance. In her chapbook Feeler, McHugh takes on the fraught subject of empathy—how much we feel, and do, for the afflicted. It also addresses the relation between thought and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • In a Time of Violence: Poems

    by Eavan Boland ...
    The publication of Eavan Boland's previous book, Outside History: Selected Poems 1980-1990, established Boland as a significant presence in the contemporary American poetry world.This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Harmony

    From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the cadences of love, loss, grief, and healingi am finally finding a balance,a great harmonybetween the lossand the love,between who i wasand who i have becomeIn this exquisite poetry collection, Whitney Hanson, chronicles the loss of a loved one, tracing the progression of grief and healing through the lens of music ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Owls and Other Fantasies

    Poems and Essays

    by Mary Oliver ...
    A perfect introduction to Mary Oliver’s poetry, this stunning collection features 26 nature poems and prose writings about the birds that played such an important role in the Pulitzer Prize winner’s life.Within these pages you will find hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others-including ten poems that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • B Jenkins

    Series series Refiguring American Music
    The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet’s mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical aesthetic and political tradition. In Moten’s verse, the arts, scholarship, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • For the Scribe

    by David Wojahn ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    For the Scribe, the ninth collection by award-winning poet David Wojahn, continues his explorations of the interstices between the public and the private, the historical and the personal. Poems of recollection and elegy commingle and conjoin with poems which address larger matters of historical and ecological import. The subjects of extinction and apocalypse figure prominently and obsessively in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • We Are Mermaids

    Poems

    Effusive new poems by Stephanie Burt, “perhaps our greatest poet of having yet more to say” (Boston Review)Stephanie Burt’s poems in We Are Mermaids are never just one thing. Instead, they revel in their multiplicity, their interconnectedness, their secret powers to become much more than they at first seem. In these poems, punctuation marks make arguments for their utility and their rights to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • This Is the Honey

    An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

    A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander.In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • For All of Us, One Today

    An Inaugural Poet's Journey

    For All of Us, One Today is a fluid, poetic story anchored by Richard Blanco’s experiences as the inaugural poet in 2013, and beyond. In this brief and evocative narrative, he shares for the first time his journey as a Latino immigrant and openly gay man discovering a new, emotional understanding of what it means to be an American. He tells the story of the call from the White House committee and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Court of No Record

    Poems

    by Jenny Molberg ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in PoetryJenny Molberg’s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record, serves as both evidence and testimony against a legal system that often fails victims of physical trauma and domestic abuse. Drawing inspiration from true crime investigations and artifacts, including Frances Glessner Lee’s crime scene dioramas and the tragic aftermaths of two ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • When Angels Speak of Love

    Poem

    by bell hooks ...
    The late feminist icon and author of over twenty books, including her classic New York Times bestseller All About Love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad moments we spend in love through her inspiring poetry.Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of 50 love poems by the icon of the feminist movement and most famous among public intellectuals. In beautiful, profoundly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poem Bitten By a Man

    by Brian Teare ...
    *Written in 2021-2022 out of a single poem commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in honor of Jasper John’s Mind/Mirror retrospective. Author wanted to write a formally analogous poem to the Jasper Johns painting entitled Fool’s House, since something about the painting gave him a way to finally write about his own breakup.*This capacious work is a tribute to elder artists, friends, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lights

    Poems

    by Ben Lerner ...
    A New Yorker Essential Read of 2023Named a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric LiteratureA formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School.The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails ... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Three Stories and Ten Poems

    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections
    "His prose is of first distinction," declared critic Edmund Wilson of Hemingway upon the 1923 publication of Three Stories and Ten Poems, the author's first foray into the literary world. These short stories ("Up in Michigan," "Out of Season," and "My Old Man") and their accompanying poems captured the attention of other influential critics as well, anticipating the future Nobel Laureate's ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lake Michigan

    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    **Finalist for the 2019 Griffin Poetry PrizeFrom the author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award for poetry**Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism, and militarized ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • My Private Property

    by Mary Ruefle ...
    Author of Madness, Rack, and Honey ("One of the wisest books I've read in years," according to the New York Times) and Trances of the Blast, Mary Ruefle continues to be one of the most dazzling poets in America. My Private Property, comprised of short prose pieces, is a brilliant and charming display of her humor, deep imagination, mindfulness, and play in a finely crafted edition.PersonaliaWhen I ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • CRUEL/CRUEL

    A response to the unimaginable cruelties that became our new quotidian in 2020, that moves musically and discursively through innovative permutations of lyric form.CRUEL/CRUEL is the manifestation of a Black, queer voice grappling with the intricacies of (un)belonging and identity. These poems use genres of queerness and race to reckon with the pervasive power of oppressive institutions, shaped by ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blackacre

    Poems

    by Monica Youn ...
    *Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award**National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist**Included in The New York Times Best Poetry of 2016**Named one of The Washington Post's Best Poetry Collections of 2016** Longlisted for the National Book Award*“Blackacre” is a centuries-old legal fiction—a placeholder name for a hypothetical estate. Treacherously lush or alluringly bleak, these poems ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mama Phife Represents

    A Memoir

    Mama Phife Represents is an arresting document of the body’s lowest depth of hurt, from a poet and mother who suddenly loses her son to Type 1 diabetes at the height of his musical career. It is a love letter from a grieving mother to her child. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Eat This Poem

    A Literary Feast of Recipes Inspired by Poetry

    A literary cookbook thatcelebrates food and poetry, two of life's essential ingredients.In the same way that salt seasons ingredients to bring out their flavors, poetry seasons our lives; when celebrated together, our everyday moments and meals are richer and more meaningful. The twenty-five inspiring poems in this book—from such poets as Marge Piercy, Louise Glück, Mark Strand, Mary Oliver, Billy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert

    by Mary Lambert ...
    Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down—and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert's Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of times. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD