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A “harrowing and hallucinogenic” collection of poems from the author of the New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award-finalist Citizen: An American Lyric (Library Journal).

"Les poètes meurent au combat même quand ils meurent dans un lit.

A remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed.

A stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I.

Tomasz Różycki’s To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair.

It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single worm, to hear soil breathe - in Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, you do.

Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. A New Yorker Essential Read. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric Literature.

An exciting new collection of poems by "one of the Spanish-speaking world's greatest living writers" (LA Review of Books).

Bebakhshid revolves around intimate identity intersections of being Iranian, an immigrant, and a woman.

Shannon Webb-Campbell's Still No Word seeks the appearance of the self in others and the recognition of others within the self.

The Four-Doored House evokes two key women in Pierre Nepveu's life.

Anita Lahey writes the kind of rigorously observed, emotionally charged poetry few can match.

In his commanding poetry debut, Wolf Sonnets, R. P. LaRose undoes the sonnet's classical constraints, retooling the form for current political circumstances.

A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor.

Deviant traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood, examining love, fear, grief, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships.