Poetry
EMERALD WOUNDS: SELECTED POEMS
Written by Mansour, Joyce
Rediscover Joyce Mansour, the most significant Surrealist poet to emerge from 1950s Paris. "You know very well, Joyce, that you are for me--and very objectively too--the greatest poet of our time. Surrealist poetry, that's you."--André Breton
FOUR IN HAND
Written by Mountain, Alicia
Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain's Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails.
SHINER
Written by Nelson, Maggie
In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles-syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking poems-to express love, bewilderment, grief, and beauty.
MIRROR OF OBEDIENCE: THE POEMS AND SELECTED PROSE OF SIMONE WEIL
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today. Mirror of Obedience collects together Weil's poetry and autobiographical writings translated into English for the first time.
HATED FOR THE GODS
Written by Mulroy, Sean Patrick
Sean Patrick Mulroy's Hated for the Gods invites the reader to embrace their queer heritage with disarming tenderness, and urges them to celebrate the joy of gay sex without shame.
JANE: A MURDER
Written by Nelson, Maggie
Part elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her last hours. Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 whil
POCKET EMILY DICKINSON
Written by Dickinson, Emily
Considered by many to be the spiritual mother of American poetry, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was one of the most prolific and innovative poets of her era. Well-known for her reclusive personal life in Amherst, Massachusetts, her distinctively short lines, and eccentric approach to punctuation and capitalization, she completed over seventeen hundred poems in her short life.
RUMI COLLECTION: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRANSLATIONS OF MEVLANA JALALUDDIN RUMI
Written by Rumi, Mevlana Jalaluddin
A rich introduction to the work of Rumi by the foremost scholar on the great mystical poet, featuring leading literary translations of his verse by Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Andrew Harvey, Kabir Helminski, Camille Helminski, Daniel Liebert, and Peter Lamborn Wilson. Rumi's poems are beloved for their touching perceptions of humanity and the Divine.
BRIEF HOMAGE TO PLUTO AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Pusterla, Fabio
Award-winning new translations of a major contemporary Italian poet Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems collects forty-five poems by Fabio Pusterla, one of the most distinguished Italian-language poets writing today. Born in Switzerland and resident in Italy, Pusterla engages the pressing moral concerns of his age and excavates the hidden realities of our concrete world.
ENHEDUANA: THE COMPLETE POEMS OF THE WORLD'S FIRST AUTHOR
Written by Helle, Sophus
The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE. Not only does Enheduana have the distinction of being the first author whose name we know, but the poems attributed to her are hymns of great power.
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