Poetry

(Available after March 30th, 2023)Love is at the heart of everything we do, and yet it is often mishandled, misrepresented, or narrowly defined. In the words of Jose Olivarez: 'How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to...

From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 13th century Sufi mystic.   Rumi's Little Book of Life is a beautiful collection of 196 poems...

Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger' (1942) and his celebratory later verse, 'To...

The TikTok poet collects a series of touchingly confessional verse aimed at leaving nothing unsaid in this open-hearted and thoughtful volume. 'These letters thus far have remained unsent, i want you to change that for me.' Embrace honesty and heal...

Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called "the Koran in Persian." The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better...

Vivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods...

(Available after 3-20 days)My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light!   “First Fig” from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) The 1956 Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay...

This gorgeous collection of poetry and art will empower you to embrace courage and curiosity in your own life journey. It will be perfect on your bedside table, bookshelf, or even to wrap-up for someone who needs an inspirational gift! Sometimes it's...

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, is an aching tribute to the power and precarity of queer love.    In small-town Mississippi, before the aughts, a child “assigned ‘woman’”...

(Available after 3-20 days)dear self, is a free-flowing collection of gentle reminders and loving affirmations centered around self-love, self-acceptance, growth and healing. This collection takes you on a journey of deep reflection and introspection...

(Available after 3-20 days)Diagnosed with Asperger's, I write down notes and doodles to better understand what and how it is I am feeling, albeit a bit cringy. They are dishevelled, perhaps meaningless, and may not be to everyone's liking. But then...

Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic.   In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel,...

Traditionally ascribed to the early third-century BCE tragedian Lykophron, the Alexandra is a powerful Greek poem by an unknown author, probably written c. 190, when Rome had defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians and was poised to humble the Seleukid...

(Available after 3-20 days)From the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan’s great martial epicThe fourteenth-century Tale of the Heike is Japan’s Iliad—a moving depiction of the late twelfth-century wars between...

The second volume in Dante's Divine Comedy Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into...

Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature   In Vita Nova, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Glück manages the apparently impossible: a terrifying act of perspective that brings into resolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces that shape and...

“An astounding debut.”—Adrienne Raphel, The New York Times Book ReviewA dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undoneA woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAverno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREWinner of the 2014 National Book Award for PoetryA luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poetLouise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work...