In his seventh collection, The Invention of the Darling, poet Li-Young Lee balances the grandest revelations of the universe with the gentle touch of personal memory.
In his seventh collection, The Invention of the Darling, poet Li-Young Lee balances the grandest revelations of the universe with the gentle touch of personal memory.
Cheena Marie Lo explores the aftermaths of disaster and the strength of community in a tender and tough poetry collection.
The poems of Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Root Fractures center on the speaker’s interrogation of her memory, which is inherently tied to a pattern of displacement and disappearance in her family history.
Set in museums and piazzas across several continents, Michael Ondaatje’s poetry collection A Year of Last Things brilliantly explores its themes, reminding us that he is a master of the genre.
In her groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, Emily Wilson uses straightforward language and syntax to present a story full of suspense and pathos.
In Modern Poetry, Diane Seuss reminisces on faking it through poetry classes in college and on the complicated legacy of John Keats.
Hala Alyan’s The Moon That Turns You Back is a bountiful collection of poetry, especially for those interested in diaspora and the complexity of multinationalism.
From the first poem in With My Back to the World, the magnetism of Victoria Chang’s language will draw you in: “I learned that . . . emptiness still swarms without the / world.”
The posthumously published final volume of poems by Saskia Hamilton conveys a richness of stories in beautifully captured vignettes.
There’s a line of Robert Frost’s—that a poem “begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” Hirshfield’s The Asking moves through both together, compelling the reader to wisdom and delight at interlocking, interconnected turns.
Personal Best is an engaging, thoughtful gift for any fan of poetry: an anthology of favorite poems selected by poets from their own bodies of work and accompanied by their explications of the choices that make the poems sing.
Major Jackson’s poems are vibrant and engaging, examining life in America, racial injustice, and the ways that humans and nature intertwine and connect.
Poems of faith and doubt, wounds and wonder: The moments collected in Kazim Ali’s Sukun are surprising and approachable.
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