From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak their truth. Some speak of hardships and sordidness; others, of their simple honest, happy lives. Whether elderly or youthful, mortality has claimed them all. As we here these dramatic monologues, we understand a little more about what it is to be human.

"Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown;s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we've become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive....

"From "Art History":Someone comes along gives that tedious old thing a new twist or breaks its neck the old questions don't change:what do you want me to say? what do you want me to do? Anselm Hollo (1934-2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish, and English by age ten. Hollo eventually settled in the United States in 1966, where he taught at Naropa...

In addition to poetry, this book contains the complete text of Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party. Annotation. This omnibus collection includes all of the author's early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party.

This is the End of Days. This is what we've been waiting for always. I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars. Each poem of mine is a suicide belt. I say that to my girlfriend Life. “Peaches Goes It Alone”, Frederick Seidel's newest collection of poems, begins with global warming and ends with Aphrodite. In between is everything. “Peaches Goes It Alone” presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel-and...

The first poetry collection in twenty-five years by the National Book Award-winning author observes the human heart and mind while exploring subjects ranging from politics and racism to poverty and loss.

In these hybrid poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother's fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of war through the lens of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale. Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women's bodies. Interspersed throughout this hybrid work are a series of collaged photographs, featuring Stark's mother's...

A selection of Bill Knott's life work--testimony of his enduring "thorny genius" (Robert Pinsky).

"When I was twelve I wrote my first poem, and by fourteen I decided that's what I'd do my whole life. I don't regret it." - from the afterword by Donald Hall. Donald Hall was an American master, one of the nation's most beloved and accomplished poets. Here, in his eighties, having taken stock of the body of his work-rigorous, gorgeous verse that is the result of seventy years of "ambition and pleasure"-he strips it down. The Selected Poems of Donald...