Award-winning writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is lauded for his talent in weaving personal and political threads to create a pertinent and poignant narrative. He addresses universal issues with passion, grace, and vivid sensory detail. Singing at the Gates is a collection of Baca's work stretching across four decades-poems that revitalize the national dialogue: raging against war and imprisonment, celebrating family and the bonds of friendship, heightening...

"Diamond Sharp's ... love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where the speaker finds solace and community with her literary idols in hopes of answering the question: What does it look like when Black women are free?"--Cover.

A man and woman fight and count their way through a zombie horde in this twisted, illustrated parody of a children's counting book. When being chased by ten little zombies (no matter how cute they are), your only option is to systematically destroy them one by one, or else become zombie number eleven. In this love story wrapped in a tale of zombie mayhem, a resourceful couple flees from and picks off their undead pursuers with fast-paced ingenuity...

A bold, striking new collection of poems from one of America's most influential and inventive poets. With more than twenty poetry collections to his name, John Ashbery is one of our most agile, philosophically complex, and visionary poets. In Breezeway, Ashbery's powers of observation are at their most astute; his insight at its most penetrating. Demonstrating his extraordinary command of language and his ability to move fluidly and elegantly between...

"Ice is an index of findings from the places most buried by time-in permafrost or in memory-and their brutal excavations"--

Showcases twenty-four new poems as well as a generous selection from the author's six previous volumes, spanning a career of more than twenty-five years. His poems are rich with religious allusions, irreverent humor, and at times are inflected with a dark and violent eroticism.

The collected poems of one of America's foremost balladeers of urban struggle and immigrant dreams.   Over his three-decade career as a poet, novelist, and memoirist, Luis J. Rodríguez has earned acclaim for his remarkable ear for the voices of the city. My Nature Is Hunger represents the best of his lyrical work during his most prolific period as a poet, a time when he carefully documented the rarely heard voices of immigrants and the poor living...

"An unexpected story and a gem of a book." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The incomparable Campbell McGrath, whom Outside magazine calls, "A writer who could help save poetry from academia and get the rest of us reading it again," delivers an astounding work: Shannon, an epic poem that traces the remarkable journey of the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The Kansas City Star praises Shannon as, "A luminescent narrative…a myth...

"To read David Ferry's Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry's prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away. In poem after poem, his diction modulates beautifully between plainspoken high eloquence and colloquial vigor, making his distinctive speech one of the most interesting and ravishing achievements of...

Composed as a long text message, this poem asks what happens to a modern, queer indigenous person a few generations after his ancesters were alienated from their language, their religion, and their history.