Books

With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar's second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely atte...

Translated by Mary Jo Bang Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang’s new translation of Purgatorio is the extraordinary continuation of her journey with Da...

Let Me Think is a meticulous selection of short stories by one of the preeminent chroniclers of the American absurd. Through J. Robert Lennon's mor...

Translated by Mary Jo BangIllustrated by Henrik Drescher Stopped mid-motion in the middle Of what we call a life, I looked up and saw no sky- Only ...

In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement but as a migration through time and a reckoning with tech...

From "Abalone" to "Zooxanthellae," Jeffrey Yang's debut poetry collection An Aquarium is full of the exhilarating colors and ominous forms of aquat...

In surprising turns through different American cities, mindsets, and eras, and through the strange rhythms of dreaming, the celebrated poet Elizabe...

house that floats on a muddy river in spring-time flood, house like a human head on the surface, house with a boy's face, turned up. – from "House ...

If you respect the dead and recall where they died by this time tomorrow there will be nowhere to walk. – from "Earth" With gravity and resplendenc...

For years now, I’ve been using the wrong palette. Each year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date. Planes and ...

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes...

Afterland is a powerful, essential collection of poetry that recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of thousands ...

In this brilliant collection of new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter ...