Into Arcadia is Jay Nuwald's first complete collection of poetry, featuring a selection of gothic poems that reflect on life, death, the state of the world, and more. Inside, you'll find 42 poems from the dark mind of Nuwald, including:Trekking Through EdenThe New MedievalColumbidae I + IISketches of an American MallReversal of Fates, and moreCompleted in three sections through the months of October and November 2021, Into Arcadia represents a re...

Winner 2015 Griffin Poetry PrizeIn Blue Sonoma, award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called "the gifts reserved for age." A beloved partner’s crossing into Alzheimer’s is at the heart of this book, and his "battered blue Sonoma" is an evocation of numerous other crossings: between empirical reportage and meditative apprehension, dreaming and wakefulness, Eastern and Western poetic traditions. Rich in both pathos and sh...

In Anthony Carelli's remarkable debut, Carnations, the poems attempt to reanimate dead metaphors as blossoms: wild and lovely but also fleeting, mortal, and averse to the touch. Here, the poems are carnations, not only flowers, but also body-making words. Nodding to influences as varied as George Herbert, Francis Ponge, Fernando Pessoa, and D. H. Lawrence, Carelli asserts that the poet’s materials—words, objects, phenomena—are sacred, wilting in the moment, yet perennially renewed...

In this spirited collection of essays, Brian Doyle employs his wit, wisdom, and gusto for life as he shares with readers his thoughts on Jesus, the Mass, Birds, Bees, and so much more. What would be a good alternative name for Jesus? What does a honeybee at Mass have to tell us about Christ? What is, after all, the real point of saying prayers when someone is suffering?Through the good and the bad, the serious and the hilarious, Doyle finds just the right story and just the right w...

So much of what we live goes on inside—The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied achesOf unacknowledged love are no less realFor having passed unsaid. What we concealIs always more than what we dare confide.Think of the letters that we write our dead.—from “Unsaid”Dana Gioia has long been celebrated as a poet of sharp intelligence and brooding emotion with an ingenious command of his craft. 99 Poems: New & Selected gathers fo...

Two Oddlygoodmorning worldAm IJingle RPerfect Perceptionimpaled bodythe orifice belonging toA Stream of People All the SameStroll Through a GardenSoldier, IU.K. Version 14A Change of ThingsThreesSky Empty of LeavesThe Dead Man in my MindTrade Minus OneHauling my dead carcassA Show ManballoonState of AffairsParachuteTell Me

Of Plan B, an interim volume that included several of the poems in Maggot, Robert McCrum recently said in the London Observer that "Paul Muldoon, who has done so much to reimagine the poet's task, has surpassed himself with his latest collection." In his eleventh full-length book, Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's ...

"Marianne Boruch's work has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention."-The Washington Post"[H]er patience, her willingness to wait for the film of familiarity to slip, allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw."-Poetry magazineEndearingly strange, unsentimental, and uniquely structured, in true Rilkean fashion The Book of Hours questions the meaning and significance of everything from the flaws of human inte...

Poems50 Days without the SunBarrowBlack Eyed Susanna 8-9Phantasmagoria 10Maidenhead 11naked 12-13Waiting for rain in the depot 14SF in the Smoky Haze 15The Ancient Chorus 16radio 17n y c 18The Virgins 19-21NordvikTwo 24flowers 25Rhapsody for Anne 26-27A Blazing Center 28The carnival 29River 30The Year 31On the Day of the Dea...

“Fred Marchant teaches and awakens the soul.” —Maxine Hong Kingstonsomeone in Benghazi with a hose in one handuses his free one to wipe down the corpsewater flows over the body and downa tilted steel tray toward the drainwhat washes off washes off—“Below the Fold”In this important and formally inventive new poetry collection, Fred Marchant brings us into realms of the intractable and the unacceptable, t...

Whether exploring the porous borders between sin and virtue or examining the lives of saints and mystics to find the human experiences in stories of the divine, the poems in No Confession, No Mass move toward restoration and reunion.Jennifer Perrine’s poems ask what healing might be possible in the face of sexual and gendered violence worldwide—in New Delhi, in Steubenville, in Juárez, and in neighborhoods and homes never named in the news. The book reflects on our own com...

Metal Ox Moon, the author's second poetry collection, refers to her Chinese zodiac signshe was born in the Year of the Ox, and her element is metal. The poems, though, are far from metallic in character. She dubs this book a reluctant collection because of the uncertainty in her desire to have it published. Excerpt of a review of Sorrows of the Chameleon: Interesting inclusions are several haiku, senryu, tanka and a haibun, which combines haiku with travelbound prose. . . . Wagemakers succ...