Michael Adubato, being a man of many talents and experiences, perceives the world through a compassionate and undeceived lens. Writing in vers libre, the common language of his work justifies more than a single reading. Abubato's free verse poems are mostly lighter and observatory in tone, but can range from harsh objectivity to darker humour. Having travelled extensively, a notebook his companion, he brings these experiences to his literary endeavours. Born and raised in New Jersey, this ...

Noor Unnahar is a young female voice with power and depth. The Pakistani poet's moving, personal work collects and makes sense of the phases of collapsing and rebuilding one's self on the treacherous modern path from teenager to adult. Tinged with the heartbreak of a broken home and the complexity of a rich cultural background, yesterday i was the moon stands out from the Insta-poetry crowd as a collection worth keeping.yesterday i was the moon ce...

"Myles speaks with one of the essential voices in American poetry." — New York TimesA collection of new and selected past work from one of America's most celebrated poetsEileen Myles's poetry and prose are known for their blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral, in which readers can peer into existent places, like the East Village of Myles's iconic Chelsea Girls. But they are also lifted into dreams, th...

***Winner Japan International Manga Award**Honorable Mention for 2018 Freeman Book Awards for Children's and Young Adult's Literature on East and Southeast Asia**Short-listed for the 2019 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids' Comics*Part fantasy, part travelogue—this graphic novel transports readers to the intersection of the natural and supernatural worlds.**Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter follows the adventures of two young foreigners as they trave...

This book is about shit. Not the shit you have in your closet or those lying around the house or the shit in your car, but it is about shit. The stuff that comes out of your body when you have to go to the bathroom. Not the stuff that comes out the front side but the stuff that comes out of your butt. It doesnt matter how poor you are, how rich you are, how ugly you are, or how beautiful you are. It doesnt matter if you are skinny or overweight. And no matter what you may think, your shit ...

The dazzling new collection from the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.Louise Glück's work consistently draws on her own experience, looking for the common threads in it that render it universal. Her poems are not confessional, they are mythic. In Winter Recipes from the Collective, she starts with the dying and death of a near relation to create an indelible group of characters who act in poems that touch on the family romance, loss, art, and i...

If its down & dirty in the life of small rooms you want,search no further.Cold Reading reports from the trenches.In a book as thin as a worn sheet, the poet cops a pleafor all residents on the rim.This is the book to take tobed when its the best you can doalong with a messof army blankets & a cheap radio.Some winters areso cold that a man must decide whether to read or burnthe furniture.Made up of late-night binges of sour

Even if you've never heard his name, you've probably met someone with his words tattooed on their skin or heard them sung at a music concert. Atticus, the young, anonymous poetry superstar, has taken the world by storm with his beautiful poems and powerful, simple themes of love and strength of the human spirit – all while wearing a mask and keeping his identity a secret.His fourth poetry collection, LVOE., is a study into himself. Using his instantly recognizable lyrical ...

Two Americans walk Japans Kiso Road, the mountainous section of one of the ancient highways that once connected Kyoto and Tokyo. Going from traditional inn to traditional inn, they follow the road through rain and cold, attend a fiery religious ceremony, eat a lot of rice and fish, and discover at a pilgrims pace the beauty and graciousness of rural Japan.

This multicultural children's book contains both English and Japanese script along with beautiful, colorful illustrations.Circus Day in Japan is the warmly-illustrated story of an exciting day spent by two Japanese children, Joji-chan and Koko-chan, at a circus. Joji-chan and Koko-chan delight at the new sights of their first circus, and young readers are gently introduced to Japanese customs and sites.Perfect for those interested in retro books, t...

Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in BerlinThe always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as the narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food stores, so popular with wealthy young people, a ghost boy begs her to buy him the old-fashioned sweets he craves. She worries that sugar's still sugar—but why...

Machi Tawara's first book of poems, The Anniversary of the Salad combines the classical 'tanka' form with the subject of a modern love affair. It became a sensation, selling over 2 million copies - and the 'salad phenomenon' in Japanese culture was comparable to the 'bananamania' that followed publication of the first novel by Tawara's contemporary Banana Yoshimoto. Contains 15 poems:'August Morning''Baseball Game''Morning Necktie''I Am the Wind'...