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"... my relationship with most art living or lost / is the same as yours: we will pass it by," bemoans the last poem in Jacob McArthur Mooney's latest collection. Written as a sequence of "ghost ekphrastics" (poems inspired by works of art that neither the poet nor most living people have ever seen), Frank's Wing constructs a whole world of lost or destroyed artifacts that have been rearticulated and resurrected, brought back to life by a fictional property baron as a dying gift to Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario.

The celebrated poet hailed by Ursula K. Le Guin as a "storyteller, truth-teller, and visionary" gives us a mesmerizing new collection of poems that are funny, wise, moving, and surprising. How many gods can dance on the head of Lorna Crozier's pen? The poet Lorna Crozier has always been brilliant at fusing the ordinary with the other-worldly in strange and surprising ways.

National bestseller, named a best book of the year by NPR. "To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment." — Time. "A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet." — People. From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Keep Moving, and Good Bones, comes a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life. With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her "meditations on kindness and hope" (NPR).

Featuring "Good Bones"—called "Official Poem of 2016" by the BBC/Public Radio International.

"Les poètes meurent au combat même quand ils meurent dans un lit. Ils livrent bataille toute leur vie." Hanté depuis toujours par la mort, dès ses premiers écrits, Christian Bobin paria pour le salut par la poésie, plaçant sa vie "sous une pluie de lettres noires et blanches". Même le dernier instant du poète — qui meurt juste après avoir achevé son dernier livre — y était vu de façon prémonitoire : "la bouteille d'encre noire renversée dans le fond de l'âme".

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). Claudia Rankine’s book-length poem about rising racial tensions in America, Citizen: An American Lyric, won numerous prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her new collection of poems—intrepid, obsessive, and erotic—tells the story of a woman’s attempt to reconcile herself to her own despair.

To mark the publication of Leonard Cohen's final book, The Flame, McClelland & Stewart is proud to reissue six beautiful editions of Cohen's cherished early works of poetry. A freshly packaged series for devoted Leonard Cohen fans and those who wish to discover one of the world's most adored and celebrated writers. Originally published by McClelland & Stewart in 1972, The Energy of Slaves is Cohen's fifth collection, and one of his most controversial.

The definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey. Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century.

2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist. Filled with nostalgia, love, heartbreak, and the author's signature wry examinations of mental health, Neil Hilborn's second book helps explain what lives inside us, what we struggle to define. Written on the road over two years of touring, The Future is rugged, genuine, and relatable. Grabbing attention like gravity, Hilborn reminds readers that no matter how far away we get, we eventually all drift back together. These poems are fireworks for the numb.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well. Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in favor of one’s own experience.