Poetry

This is the truth of you.Because you are all I see.Because you are all I breathe.Because when I cannot find you, I am lost.Because when I’m with you, I am found.Because you have the fire of the universe in you, and sometimes you forget.So this book...

This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with.   In an...

'A tremendous ball of fire hurled into the dark recesses of our world' -- Ocean Vuong'Radical . . . invites the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery' -- Tracy K. Smith'Psychotropic, visionary songs of love and defiance' -- Ralf...

Self-Love for Small Town Girls is an exciting offering from beloved bestselling author Lang Leav. A collection of stunning poetry and prose that seeks to define the loaded question of what it means to be a woman in the modern world.As women, we...

This superb collection of 26 works features the poet's masterpiece, "The Waste Land"; the complete Prufrock and Other Observations ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Preludes," "Rhapsody on a Windy Night,"...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! The poems by T. S. Eliot that inspired the movie CatsCats! Some are sane and some are mad and some are good and some are bad.Meet magical Mr. Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy, and curious Rum Tum Tugger. But you'll be...

The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary greatness and of what permits or encourages its development. Its interest is deeply human and moral, in the most capacious sense of the words. In this authoritative biography--the...

From Najwa Zebian—celebrated Lebanese-Canadian poet, speaker, and educator—comes a highly personal and moving second collection.In The Nectar of Pain, Zebian sheds light on the feelings and experiences that emerge from a...

Following the success of Catarine's shades of lovers, sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you is a look into the process of recovering after a particularly bad love.sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you is a collection of...

“We all live memorable lives––sometimes we just need a little Spark to remember.” - Atticus Use this journal on the days when you’re feeling sad, nostalgic, and reflective to make yourself feel warm, powerful, grateful,...

A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE'Impressive . . ...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New York TimesIn her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history.With shocking,...

"People still sing goddamn it. Praise be to erica lewis." —Sampson Starkweather, author of PAIN: The Board Game   Being of black, Native American, and white descent, erica lewis’ poems recount her friends and...

A meditation on our times, cast through a reconsideration of the Justice Department's investigation of the Ferguson Police DepartmentIn August 2014, Michael Brown—a young, unarmed black man—was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson,...

The North American debut of Tue Sy-poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam-and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series. In addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a Zen master,...

A powerful collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class and its failures for those rendered invisible by it.As a former student of economics,...

Alexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted...

Heartbreaks and failed relationships are not new to anyone. Sometimes, we move on to greener pastures and leave the pain in the past, but other times the scars remind us every day of the things we just can't get over yet. This small collection of poetry...

Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged. Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great...

'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream,Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.'Virgil's lyrical, wistful and often witty pastoral poems.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black...