2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist "Compass Rose [is] a collection in which the poet uses capacious intelligence and lyrical power to offer a dazzling picture of our inter-connected world."—Pulitzer Prize finalist announcement [Sze] brings together disparate realms of experience—astronomy, botany, anthropology, Taoism—and observes their correspondences with an exuberant attentiveness."—The New Yorker A child playing a game, tea leaves resting in a bowl, an...
One of the «Big Indie Books of Fall 2014»— Publishers Weekly "Ted Kooser must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple."—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “Readers [of Splitting an Order ] will find ‘characters’ both strange and wonderful, animal or human. There is a sense that time is passing quickly and that everything worthy must be captured and savored, from an old couple lovingly...
The Dead Man, Marvin Bell’s brilliant poetic invention, is an overarching consciousness, alive and dead at once, defeating time. Mystical and anonymous, The Dead Man offers searing insight into the joys, as well as the catastrophes, of fluctuating cultural and political moments. Incarnate draws from all of Bell’s previous collections where The Dead Man appeared, and adds an abundant cache of new poems that resonate with “the dark matter and sticky stuff” of life. As David St. John writes in his...
Perillo's previous books of poems have earned: 100 Notable Books of 2012, The New York Times Book Review. It was one of only 2 poetry titles to make the list. 2013 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Associations Award for Poetry 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Full-page reviews in New York Times Book Review and The Nation Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2009 Winner of the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress Macarthur “Genius” Fellowship Perillo has been featured on the cover of...
"Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase."— Austin American-Statesman The Infinitesimals stares directly at illness and death, employing the same highly evocative and symbolic style that earned Laura Kasischke the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Drawing upon her own experiences with cancer, and the lives and deaths of loved ones, Kasischke's new work commands a lyrical and dark...
“[Bottoms] makes astounding leaps of both faith and doubt, and does so with insight, honesty, and flashes of anger—all characteristic elements of his work.” — The Southern Review “One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . . . evocative images, searching irony, and meditative poise.” — Library Journal “Bottoms’ poems do what the best poems have always done: They compel us to reread them. They linger in our minds. They alter our perception of the...
• finalist for the National Book Award for his second book • Publishers Weekly described Ben Lerner as “among the most promising young poets now writing.” • Lerner is barely 30, publishing his third book • BA and MFA from Brown University • former student of C.D. Wright • teaches poetry at University of Pittsburgh • at age 23, he was the youngest poet published by Copper Canyon Press • author of two...
In the bold tradition of the “Misty Poets,” Ha Jin confronts China’s fraught political history while paying tribute to its rich culture and landscape. The poems of A Distant Center speak in a voice that is steady and direct, balancing contemplative longing with sober warnings from a writer who has confronted the traumas of censorship and state violence. With unadorned language and epigrammatic wit, Jin conjures scenes that encompass the personal, historical, romantic, and environmental,...