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Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions. "The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles." — Joyce Carol Oates "He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels." — Leonard Cohen, songwriter

One of America's most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart. For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has dazzled and inspired readers. As sharp and outspoken as ever, she returns with this profound book of poetry in which she continues to call attention to injustice and racism, celebrate Black culture and Black lives, and give readers an unfiltered look into her own experiences.

The book combines both an entertainment and educational medium. The poems capture the imagination by the vivid detail of the collapsing frontier. The heterogeneous 'Indian' tribes held on their ideals — and the literary angle draws from the idioms common to Native Americans in the 19th century and their laconic style of delivery forever stays in memory.

Pulitzer Prize Winner – An intimate collection of poems that “picks up where Stag’s Leap left off, which is to say that it contains some of the best and most ingenious poems of her career.” — The New York Times. Opening with the powerful and tender “Ode to the Hymen,” Sharon Olds addresses and embodies, in this age-old poetic form, many aspects of love and gender and sexual politics in a collection that is centered on the body and its structures and pleasures.

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and her friends across the country offer poems in praise of the magic of reading. In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK's most loved and lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books and bookshops – the worlds they hold, the freedoms they promise, and the memories they evoke.

Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. "Clear, compelling and insightful."—Washington Post. Earthy and lyrical, Only as the Day Is Long draws from Dorianne Laux's five expansive, award-winning volumes and includes twenty new odes that pay homage to the poet's mother. Exploring experiences of survival and healing, of sexual love and celebration, Only as the Day Is Long represents a bold and brilliant body of work from a "poet of immense insight and masterful craft" (Kwame Dawes).

ABA Indie Poetry Bestseller. From the author of Magical Negro, winner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award. Named a Best Book of the Month by Oprah Daily, BuzzFeed, Ms. Magazine, Nylon, ALTA and a Best Book of the Summer by Glamour and Publishers Weekly. "Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music." —Tracy K. Smith, author of Wade in the Water. Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night—the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets—is back in print.

Winged ventriloquy—a powerful new poetry collection channeling the language of birds by South Korea's most innovative contemporary writer. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Shortlisted for the 2024 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the farthest reaches of the lyric universe.

A Telegraph and Irish Times Book of the Year. Longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. 'Impressive . . . tender, unflinching' — Guardian. 'This is poetry in the grand tradition of annihilation by desire. It's what the young are always learning, and the old, if they are wise, never forget' — Anne Boyer, author of The Undying. 'Brilliant . . .

A collection of never-before-translated poems by the widely beloved medieval Persian poet Rumi. Rumi (1207–1273) was trained in Sufism—a mystic tradition within Islam—and founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Rumi's poetry has long been popular with contemporary Western audiences because of the way it combines the sacred and the sensual, describing divine love in rapturously human terms.