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Poetry

1. The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

   Adrienne Rich

   “Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I’d chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion” —Cheryl Strayed, WildMore

2. Collected Poems

   Robert Hayden, Frederick Glaysher, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Et Al.

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

3. The Cineaste: Poems

   A. Van Jordan

   A remarkable montage of poems that explore film, poetry, and the elusiveness of reverie.More

4. Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology

   Paul Hoover

   Second Edition

   A new edition of this groundbreaking anthology revisits postmodernism as a twenty-first-century movement.More

5. Once: Poems

   Meghan O'Rourke

   “The poems in Once illuminate and echo themes of loss and grief.”—Vanity FairMore

6. Here and Now: Poems

   Stephen Dunn

   “A wonderful example of the poet’s ability to satisfy readers and anticipate their thoughts.”—Elizabeth Lund, Washington PostMore

7. The Collected Poems of Ai

   Ai, Yusef Komunyakaa

   “Ai is a truthteller picking her way through the burning rocks of racial and sexual lies.”—Joy HarjoMore

8. Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry

   Charles Henry Rowell

   More than seventy poets are represented in this innovative new anthology of African American poetry since the 1960s.More

9. The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard: Poems

   Dana Goodyear

   Poems about sex, marriage, and the desire for a child from a “scary-cool and edgy-smart” poet (J. D. McClatchy).More

10. The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation

    Simon Armitage

    “A new standard in the enterprise of bringing the past back into poetry.”—Tom Shippey, Wall Street JournalMore

11. Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972

    Eugenio Montale, William Arrowsmith, Rosanna Warren

    Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972 is one of the Nobel Prize–winning poet Eugenio Montale’s final works, and it reveals the last act of the twentieth-century master to be one of splendid negation.More

12. Poetic Notebook 1974–1977

    Eugenio Montale, William Arrowsmith, Rosanna Warren

    Poetic Notebook 1974–1977, one of the final volumes assembled by Eugenio Montale before his death, shows the last act of the twentieth-century master to be one of splendid negation.More

13. Talking Into the Ear of a Donkey: Poems

    Robert Bly

    “The kind of volume anyone should read for the exquisite pleasure of encountering poetry completely under its creator’s tremendous control.”—The RumpusMore

14. Later Poems Selected and New: 1971-2012

    Adrienne Rich

    The final volume of poems assembled by America’s most powerful and distinctive poetic voice.More

15. Illuminations

    Arthur Rimbaud, John Ashbery

    “This may be the most beautiful book in the world, lighted from within and somehow embodying all forms of literature.”—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles TimesMore