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A ravishing collection by Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld.

In her legendary career, artist and activist Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, and a voice for social justice who can inform and inspire in times o

Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley (New Directions, 1

"Throughout [BLUD], McKibbens breathes brilliant life into language, forging lush, rhythmic poems that are both fiercely urgent and tightly controlled, dark and flickering with fairy-tale-like

In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life's work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature.

Popular since its original publication more than 35 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is just as relevant and compelling as ever.

James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection.

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author "He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Burning in Water, Drown

The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller. The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman.

A captivating and poignant new collection of poetry from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Roo Borson that probes some of our most important questions.

In Clarity Between Clouds, Susan Ioannou's disarmingly intimate voice strikes piercingly close to the harsh realities of existence, revealing startling insights and sly bits of aphoristic wisd

"Mort is a fireball. . . . Personal, political, and passionate, Mort's poetry will surely sustain many reading audiences. Highly recommended." — Library Journal.

The collected works of Adrienne Rich, whose poetry is "distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity" (New York Times).

An exquisite body of work celebrating the centennial of one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century.

“Teems with sharp observation, profound moral insight, high satiric wit, and all manner of aesthetic delight.” –The New York Times Book Review A Penguin Classic This definitive edition brings toget