Poetry Books

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her country's strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the Ceauescu regime, Blandiana became known for her daring,...

Arab women poets have been around since the earliest of times, yet their diwans (collected poems) were not given the same consideration as their male counterparts'.Spanning 5,000 years, from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusian periods, Classical Poems by...

'A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by occupation and oppression into a nightmare. Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming...

Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems...

The poet is the prince of words, the calligrapher the choreographer. Inspired by timeless poems from around the world, master calligrapher Hassan Massoudy builds a bridge from ancient classical poets and calligraphers to today. Through his signature...

*Winner of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement*With imaginative power and emotional force, Into The Hush explores the exigencies of climate change, of endangered cultures, and of our nuclear age.Like wind on a lake,...

First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis's highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse through subsequent chronic ill health and towards a hard-won resurrection.These...

It is 1918 in Moscow. The communist revolution is in full swing. Food is scarce, living conditions harsh. Two women meet on the stage of an empty theater. One is the now famous twenty-six-year-old poet Maria Tsvetaeva, the other the twenty-four-year-old...

From award-winning author, editor, and translator Ilan Stavans comes a one-of-a-kind retelling of a legendary Aztec ruler's timeless verses.A king, a warrior, and a poet, Nezahualcyotl was a revolutionary ahead of his time. Born in 1402, the ruler-whose...

A debut poetry collection about reconciling with oneself and learning to love, through a youthful, queer diasporic Korean lens.Lotus flowers, youthful hunger, and other temporary beauties intertwine to tell this coming-of-age story, a set of pulsating...

Ferocious and vulnerable poems about redefining acts of creation, destruction, deconstruction, and recreation, from a singular Indigiqueer point of view.a body more tolerable is a collection of powerful and haunting poems combining faerie tales,...

Amber Dawn's latest poetry collection flaunts the chronically pained body as a source of lewd feminine power.As a novelist, memoirist, and poet, Amber Dawn regularly lays her heart bare in work that is fiery, raw, and intensely personal. In Buzzkill...

We live in memoried bodies, whether we are alert to those memories, whether they are carried featherlight on our skins, whether they inhabit, hauntingly, the depths of ourselves and being, whether they are memories refused, denied, almost unable to be...

Highland Poets offer a world bursting with loves and losses, sailboats and baseball, natural wonders, and shining remnants of truth and beauty. This anthology contains the works of nine mature poets from Birmingham, Alabama, who have learned much from...