In her sixth collection, Kathleen Peirce extends her reach toward the realms of birth and afterlife and finds them liminal places. These are otherworldly poems immersed in earthly intricacies altered by the poet's intimate gaze. To show what it means to create while being created, these poems pull the curtain back, or down.
Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won't Touch is a life raft and a self-portrait, concerned with the vitality of trans people living in a dangerous and inhospitable landscape. Through the brambles of the Pennsylvania forest to a stretch of the Jersey Shore, in quiet moments and violent memories, Kayleb Rae Candrilli touches the broken earth and examines the whole in its parts.
Where are the faces of yesteryear? Is one face easier to wear than another? These crucial questions are left unanswered in Albert Mobilio's fifth book of poems. Instead, the vexed relationship between the physical world--it's tactility and thereness--and this phantasm we call persona is interrogated.
Double Trio is a magisterial box set of three new books, structured in part after the last three movements of John Coltrane’s Meditations: “Love,” “Consequence,” and “Serenity.” In these works, Mackey advances the tradition of the long poem, stretching the explorations and improvisations of free jazz into unprecedented poetic territory.
Expertly and sensitively selected by her daughter Bianca, The Essential Ruth Stone bears witness to the vivid fifty-year career of one of America's most influential and pioneering poets. Distilling twelve books into a single volume―from the wild formalism of her early work to the science-filled cosmic intellect of her final collection―The Essential Ruth Stone shows a visionary poet with a physical grasp on language.
Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic "Green Book" — the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed with images of Daye's family and upbringing, it also serves as an imperfect family album, tracing a black male protagonist’s attempts to navigate his many departures and returns home.
A new collection of poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dream of the Unified Field.
Guillotine traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants, the grief of loss, betrayal’s lingering scars, and the border itself. Through the voices of undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and scorned lovers, Eduardo C. Corral writes portraits of contradiction, survival, and a deeply human, relentless interiority, solidifying his place in the expanding ecosystem of American poetry.
In his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae remains “a shrewd composer of American stories.” Sometimes I Never Suffered is a search for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness, imagining eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time’s manifold potential to mend.
A collection of trans joy and resilience. Focused on love, partnership, and cultivating the landscape of one’s own body, All the Gay Saints seeks happiness in a world saturated with transphobia and marred by climate change. Though this world is finite, these poems want you to live forever.
