By: Tracy K. Smith
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the f…
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By: David Lehman , Natasha Trethewey
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best America… read more
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By: David Lehman , Rita Dove
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A mid an "explosion in the interest of poetry nationwide" (The New York Times), The Best American P… read more
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By: David Lehman , Robert Hass
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Best American Poetry" series returns with a volume that is sure to dazzle seasoned fans and ne… read more
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By: Charles Simic
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be … read more
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By: Diane Seuss
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
By: Victoria Chang
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
By: Ada Limon
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: David Lehman
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry , “a ‘best’ antho… read more
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By: Billy Collins
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more
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By: Paisley Rekdal
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award… read more
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By: Louise Glück
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more
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"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all of our lives, even after we find it."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
By: Ada Limon
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
By: Diane Seuss
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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By: Victoria Chang
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more
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By: Alex Dimitrov
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Takin… read more
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By: Joy Harjo
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more
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"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
By: Jesmyn Ward
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner … read more
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By: Tracy K. Smith
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the f… read more
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By: David Lehman
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry ,… read more
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By: Dana Gioia
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry —“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title… read more
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By: Major Jackson
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry —“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world… read more
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