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A Stunning 45th Anniversary Release of Sharon Olds's Satan Says in a Deluxe Hardcover Edition for Fans of Olds's Poetry, All Poetry Enthusiasts, and Collectors Alike This 45th anniversary hardcover deluxe edition of the bestselling debut collection of poetry by Sharon Olds now includes an introduction by Diane Seuss. Satan Says was originally published in the Pitt Poetry Series in 1980 and received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award....

Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes's first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, at a time when much of what is merely fashionable in American poetry is recondite and exclusive, Cervantes has the ability to speak to and for a large audience.

This work is a compilation of poems from the 13th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. HIs books have been awarded the Society of Midland Authors Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Kunitz Prize, the James Boatwright Prize, and two Prairie Schooner Awards. He was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

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David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a sequence of thirty-five poems, mainly sonnets, in which rock and roll music is a strange, kaleidoscopic mirror of recent American history. Combining rhapsodic homage, grim humor, human folly, and tragedy, these poems are like nothing else in contemporary poetry.

Billy Collins -- winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, veteran of a one-hour Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross, and a guest on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion -- arrives at Random House with the poetic equivalent of a Greatest Hits album, seasoned with some wonderful new numbers. Ranging from a lament over "Forgetfulness"--"Whatever it is you are struggling to remember/it is not poised on the tip of your tongue, /not even lurking in some...

“My Father's Geography” is a powerful poetry collection that explores themes of identity, family, and personal history. Weaver reflects on his relationship with his father and his experiences as an African American man navigating cultural and emotional landscapes. The poems blend intimate storytelling with broader reflections on heritage and self-discovery. Through vivid language and poignant imagery, the collection traces a journey of reconciliation,...

Ted Kooser's book is a selection of poems published in literary journals over a ten year period by a writer whose work has been praised for its clarity and accessibility, its mastery of figurative language, and its warmth and charm.

For the young Kenji Takezo, the innocent surfer who inhabits this collection of poems, balance becomes more than just trying to stand on a wave. It is a way of surviving in a world as precarious as the ocean, a world constantly turning on itself.

A few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Philip Levine that he had "an all-but-completed manuscript" of poems. Levine had years earlier recognized Levis as "the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my classes"; after Levis's death, Levine edited the poems Levis had left behind. What emerged is this haunting collection, Elegy. The poems were written...