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In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk...

"Drawing from six previously published books--including widely acclaimed collections The Hurting Kind, The Carrying, and Bright Dead Things--as well as vibrant new work, Startlement exalts the mysterious. With a tender curiosity, Ada Li̤mn wades into potent unknowns--the strangeness of our brief human lives, the ever-changing nature of the universe--and emerges each time with new revelations about our place in the world... From the chaos of youthful...

"An inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream: belief"-- --publisher.

Penned by GRAMMY award-winning artist and New York Times bestselling author Lecrae, Set Me Free is a powerful visual collection of poetry and essays that explores what it means to be spiritually free in a world that is anything but. In Set Me Free, Lecrae presents a collection of poetry and reflective essays examining how racial history, church culture, and social expectations shaped his understanding of faith and self-worth. Through lyrical writing...

Provides information on the lives and works of classic poets. Entries include biographical information, critical analysis, and bibliographies of key primary and secondary works.

"In these poems, Alvarez traces her life gently, a fingertip following lines on a page, through memories of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, a dictatorship dramatically survived, family and sofrito, tías and the sisters who forged her, her move to America and overcoming English, the search for mental health and beauty, redemption and success. We meet her grandchild and her mother, her lovers and the homes where she grew up and into the formidable...

Collected Poems is a comprehensive volume showcasing the full range of Stanley Plumly's lyrical mastery. Spanning nearly 300 poems--including nine previously unpublished works--it traces his poetic journey in reverse chronology, as he intended. Deeply personal yet culturally resonant, the collection honors Plumly's legacy as a major American poet whose work engaged nature, art, memory, and emotion with precision and depth.

María Auxiliadora Álvarez's winning entry of the Paz Prize for Poetry is in many ways a loving memoriam to her father, Oswaldo Álvarez Rojas, and a celebration of the long embrace that still warms María, her seven siblings, and their mother. Her poems explore sunlight as a metaphor for her father, holding her up from behind, illuminating her path forward, and also shining a light on memory, igniting nostalgia, and overcoming the grief of loss....

A collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winner whose poems have been praised "as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring" ( The New York Times ). In this stunning collection of forty poems--nineteen previously unpublished--she writes of nature and love, of the way they transform over time. And the way they remain constant. And what did you think love would be like? A summer day? The brambles in their places, and the long...

With work from the seventy-five poets who are the game-changing, bar-setting voices of our time first published in this volume, Conjunctions: 35, American Poetry is the definitive collection for the contemporary poetic landscape. Includes astonishing uncollected work from masters of the form, as well as breathtaking new ventures from risk takers such as Juliana Spahr and Kevin Young. Contributors include John Ashbery, Susan Wheeler, and James Tate....