Poetry

Considered the central literary figure of the post-Misty poetry movement of the 1980s, Bai Hua was born in Chongqing in 1956. After graduating from...

Tony Connor's tenth collection is framed by military encounters. In the first poem a young man grapples with a malfunctioning machine-gun, while th...

Writing from the laundry-laden trenches, Sarah Dunning Park shares nineteen spot-on poems about mothering small children. Her poetry captures the j...

The master of pulsing, post-modern poetic rhythms, Menno Wigman''s reputation is assured as one of the Netherlands'' leading poets. And as perhaps ...

These delightful poems - by turns whimsical, beautiful, and vulgar - seem to have primarily survived because they were attributed to Virgil. But in...

Explosive and incantatory, The Low Passions traces the fringes of the American experiment through the eyes of a young drifter. Pathologically fruga...

There are two menus in a Beijing restaurant, Rachel DeWoskin writes in the title poem, the first of excess, / second, scarcity. DeWoskin invites us...

The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. This long poem, composed in what is toda...

Its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the world's finest mi...

Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the vo...

Hailed by Robert Creeley as both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recomme...

Calvin Bedient''s fourth collection, The Multiple, meets an unspeakably excessive reality with an unremitting intensity of its own. The multiple ...

Whether addressing the deaths of friends and other poets or celebrating the closing of the day and the autumn of the seasons, Against Sunset reveal...

A modern translation of verses by Bullhe Shah, the iconic eighteenth-century Sufi poet, treasured by readers worldwide to this day.The poetry of Bu...