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Selected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. This debut collection of poems explores the aftermath of history's most powerful forces: devotion, disaster, and us.

Instant national bestseller – Included on The Guardian's Best Recent Poetry – Longlisted for the 2024 UK Poet Laureate's Laurel Prize – One of the Globe and Mail's most anticipated b

The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016 - New York Times, Critics Pick - Boston Globe, Best Books listing - Miami Herald, Best LGBTQ Books - San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Y

How to Pull Apart the Earth is an homage to the intrinsic thread that weaves the culture of Mexico together with the United States - and the echo of colonization that works to erase it.

Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won't Touch is a life raft and a self-portrait—concerned with the vitality of trans people living in a dangerous and inhospitable landsc

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to

The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak.

The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the

A long poem in six sections, Dream House takes its cue from Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space in its investigation of female embodiment, calling up such feral, liminal spaces as the pregnant

Les pères parlent peu de leur expérience. En littérature, la figure du père est souvent dépeinte par l'enfant – devenu adulte – sous les traits de l'absence ou de la violence.

Les couteaux dans ma gorge ne sont pas des fruits de mer convoque l'énergie des marées pour débusquer les traces du passage du temps sur le corps et la douleur.

On entre dans Lettres au ciel blanc comme on sort de la ville, à la recherche d'un rythme plus apaisé ou d'une «?autre heure du ciel?».

One of The Guardian's Best Poetry Books of 2024 "[The Wickedest is] alive in the way poetry must be." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Atmospheric and intoxicating, lyrical a

Expanded from the award-winning Chicano poet's 1977 original, this poetry collection explores the hardships and joys of migrant workers in California.

From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems—all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty