Poetry

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This last book by poet, playwright, fiction writer, musician, David Budbill has all the deserved resonance of one’s "last words." One senses here the author’s deep awareness of aging and death, as

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“Shapero is a master of her craft and the poems within Hard Child are a worthy read.”

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“Morín’s new book is one that begs to be read. It is more than engaging, more than new and different.”

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“a thing of beauty, and reading it is an experience not to be missed.”

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a potent cocktail of political anger and radical formal experimentation.”

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If anyone would question why musician Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, the answer is easily found by cracking the covers of The Lyrics: 1961–2012.

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Few poets have been as honored as W. S. Merwin, author of 20 books of poetry and translation, twice U.S.

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“Andrew Motion’s imagination takes him and readers on a journey to many places and times, but always with a sense of the inner self.”

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Scriptorium is a rare and beautiful collection of poetry.”

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“If you buy only one book of poetry this year, let this be the one.“

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Whipsawing between passages of erotic ecstasy and suicidal despair, IRL by Tommy “Teebs” Pico reveals itself as a monument of self-lacerating beauty.

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Last books by any writer are always a mixed blessing.

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“This stunning final collection is one more reminder that Philip Levine is irreplaceable.”

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Here is a book almost as rare as its author, Emily Dickinson (1830–1886).

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“poems of longing, of grieving and wanting, poems of a recovered past and its once lost values. . . . an abundant volume to read.”

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Ezra Loomis Pound cemented his literary career as one of the chief architects of Modernism. He edited T. S.

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Dick Allen, former poet laureate of Connecticut and the author of eight books of poetry in a wide range of forms, gives us a quietly stunning collection of poems here in a tradition of American Zen

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For many years W. W. Norton employed one of the best poetry editors in the country. Carol Houck Smith who died in 2008 worked at Norton for sixty years.

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“his work is fresh but finished, intuitive as well as sophisticated, hallmarks of a mature poetic sensibility.”

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“Waldman has always been a writer of the ‘outriders,’ the visionary rebels who make art new and engaged.”

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Call it an appreciation, a gathering, a do-it-yourself biography, what this amounts to is an authentic tribute to an important American poet.

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“This is a volume rich with the wisdom of one of our finest poets, a book laced with darkness and saturated with light.”

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Megan Grumbling won the 2015 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry for her book about Bernard A. Booker, the unofficial mayor of Ell Pond in rural Maine.

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“The Whole Harmonium is a must-read for anyone interested in knowing more about the man who wrote some of the most imaginative and brilliant poems in the American

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“McGrath’s book is filled with quixotic twists and turns within the framework of the 20th century . . .”

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