Poetry and Poetics
Some of these titles are published within our three series for new poetry: The Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, and The Four Lakes Prize in Poetry. This page includes books of original poetry, poetry in translation, biographies and memoirs of poets, and historical and critical works about poetry and poets.
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How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters
Saúl Hernández
“The mouth, tongue, and hand feature prominently in Hernández’s collection. Indeed, these compelling poems kiss and bite, tell startling secrets and whisper with affection. They sometimes caress and sometimes strike. What he so eloquently calls ‘the language of grief’ pulses at the body’s intersection of language and desire, ethnicity and sexuality, vulnerable youth and empowered adulthood. What a stunning debut.
—Rigoberto González
Paper $16.95
ISBN 9780299347840
The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That
Nick Lantz
“From the brilliant mind of Nick Lantz, this expansive collection thrives in dissonance, pinging from politics, climate, the pandemic, and cancer to pop culture and the small banalities of daily life in America. Both scathing and tender, always surprising, these poems ripped my heart out.
—Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of Exploding Head
Paper $16.95
ISBN 9780299347949
Host
Lisa Fay Coutley
“Coutley’s riveting new collection spirals around the complexities of host as multitude or throng, host as spiritual sustenance, host as living organism upon which a parasite lives. These poems, dazzling in their heartbreak, slice themselves open along the razor’s edge of risk and tenderness. Here, patriarchal violence and the desire to subjugate women are paralleled by the deliberate ecocide of the Anthropocene. Here, the desires and impossibilities of nurturing are pitted against the desires and impossibilities of the synthetic object. These are unforgettable, achingly gorgeous, sunflower-studded poems that ‘scream for a brightness none of us can hold.’
—Lee Ann Roripaugh, author of Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50
Paper $16.95
ISBN 9780299347147
The Story of Your Obstinate Survival
Daniel Khalastchi
“Like a new angel of history, The Story of Your Obstinate Survival arrives with its wings heavy with live fish and doorknobs, shovels and bone cake, faith and desire. Khalastchi has turned the poem into a long, beautiful wail, soft and brilliant enough for even Babel and Kafka and Singer to hear. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out Khalastchi feeds each poem by hand, and brushes nightly their wings. With as much abandon as with hope, these poems sway on the edge of a miracle.
—Sabrina Orah Mark
Paper $16.95
ISBN 9780299348045
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Psalms
Julia Fiedorczuk Translated by Bill Johnston
Fall 2023
The Poetry of Capital
Voices from Twenty-First-Century America
Edited by Benjamin S. Grossberg and Clare Rossini
Fall 2020
Fruit
Bruce Snider
Spring 2020
Gloss
Rebecca Hazelton
Spring 2019
Repeat Performances
Ovidian Repetition and the Metamorphoses
Edited By Laurel Fulkerson and Tim Stover
Spring 2016
Hive
Christina Stoddard
Spring 2015
Selected Epigrams
Martial, Translated with notes by Susan McLean, Introduction by Marc Kleijwegt
Fall 2014
The Offense of Love
Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Tristia 2
Ovid, A verse translation by Julia D. Hejduk, with introduction and notes
Fall 2014
Odes
Horace, Translated with commentary by David R. Slavitt
Spring 2014
I Hear Voices
A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio
Jean Feraca
Fall 2011
Proletpen
America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets
Edited by Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub, Translated by Amelia Glaser
Fall 2011
The Army of Truth
Selected Poems by Henrik Wergeland
Henrik Wergeland, Edited by Ragnhild Galtung; Translated by Anne Born, G.M. Gathorne-Hardy, and I. Grøndahl
Fall 2011
Wait
Alison Stine
Spring 2011
Beyond the Flesh
Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, and the Symbolist Sublimation of Sex
Jenifer Presto
Fall 2008
Derzhavin
A Biography
Vladislav Khodasevich
Fall 2007
Funny
Jennifer Michael Hecht
Fall 2005
Jorie Graham
Essays on the Poetry
Edited by Thomas Gardner
Fall 2004
A Pan-American Life
Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee
Muna Lee, Edited and with biography by Jonathan Cohen
Fall 2004
Black Eye
Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life
Judith Strasser
Spring 2004
Hibiscus on the Lake
Twentieth-Century Telugu Poetry from India
Edited and translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao
Spring 2003
Schubert’s Winterreise
A Winter Journey in Poetry, Image, and Song
Franz Schubert and Wilhelm Müller
Spring 2003
Ripe
Roy Jacobstein
Fall 2002
Bard of Iceland
Jónas Hallgrímsson, Poet and Scientist
Dick Ringler
Spring 2002
Ejo
Poems, Rwanda, 1991–1994
Derick Burleson
Fall 2000
Career Moves
Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde
Libbie Rifkin
Fall 2000
The American Byron
Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck
John W. M. Hallock
Spring 2000
Liver
Charles Harper Webb
Fall 1999
Bardo
Suzanne Paola
Fall 1998
The Zea Mexican Diary
7 September 1926–7 September 1986
Kamau Brathwaite, Foreword by Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Spring 1993
Archaic Greek Poetry
An Anthology
Edited by Barbara Hughes Fowler, Works selected and translated by Barbara Hughes Fowler
Fall 1992
Salt
Renée Ashley
Fall 1991
Vital Signs
Contemporary American Poetry from the University Presses
Edited by Ronald Wallace
Fall 1989
De Rerum Natura
The Latin Text of Lucretius
Edited by William Ellery Leonard and Stanley Barney Smith
Fall 1942
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