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"Kooser... must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post - "Nothing escapes him; everything is illuminated." -Library Journal - "Will one day rank alongside of Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Frost, and William Carlos Williams." -Minneapolis Tribune - "Kooser's ability to discover the smallest detail and render it remarkable is a rare gift." -The Bloomsbury Review.

Author of the instant national bestseller, James. Author of Erasure, now adapted for the screen as the Oscar-winning film, American Fiction. Percival Everett is diving back into poetry with his spellbinding new collection, Sonnets for a Missing Key. "One of the most profoundly talented writers of all time." — Robin Coste Lewis, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. "Verdict: For enthusiasts of Percival's writing." — Library Journal. "Your favorite writer's writer." — Entertainment Weekly.

'Ginsberg could terrify the authorities ... a literary pioneer' - The New York Times. Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. The apocalyptic 'Howl' became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956 — its vindication was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, 'Howl' shows why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.

Winter Poems is a collection of 42 poems, written in late '04 and early '05. It is the author's fourth published book.

Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry - Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire - and with the many tendons in between. When Return Flight asks "what name / do you crown yourself," Huang answers with many.

A fresh look at the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet laureate of the American Midwest. With the publication of Chicago Poems in 1916, Carl Sandburg became one of the most famous poets in America – the voice of a Midwestern literary revolt, fusing free-verse poetics with hard-edged journalistic observation and energetic, sometimes raucous protest.

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure. In Men in the Off Hours, Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts.

From one of the most influential English poets of all time comes a selection of his most widely regarded work, including portions of “Paradise Lost”—his masterpiece and one of the greatest epic poems in world literature. The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Milton contains selections from Milton's work, including sonnets, occasional poems, portions of Comus, Samson Agonistes, as well as Books I–XII of Paradise Lost.

Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master. Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant mountains/ I watch both," he writes. His work captures both the profound loneliness of one observing mind and the broad-ranging joy he finds in our connections to the larger community.

These beautifully crafted poems—by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender and intimate—come together as Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering of poems to date, "setting foot on the middle ground/between body and word." Some draw on history, and on myth, both classical and popular. Other, more personal poems concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death—especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent—as they inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past.