Poetry

Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this collection, the only available in the English l...

The First World War produced a unique outpouring of prose and poetry depicting the stark realism of a brutal and futile war; no war before or since...

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (16511695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries c...

In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of rolling deep to capture the spirit of aestheti...

At the center of Tough Luck is a poem about the ill-fated I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis and its disastrous collapse, which killed 13 people and injur...

A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekOne of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth...

Memory, including the tricks it plays, is this book's overriding theme. The poems seek to revive happy, confusing, sad and celebratory times over m...

The spare and subtle poems of Nina Bogin's third collection map personal territory - places of memory and love as much as of language and geography...