Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limon, <i>I Know Your Kind</i> is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia.<br><br> In West Virginia, fatal overdoses on opioids have spiked to three times the national average. In these poems, William Brewer demonstrates an immersive, devastating empathy for both the lost and the bereaved, the enabled ...
Stranger is a book of both great change and deep roots, of the most rich elements of the earth and the instability of a darkening sky. The third collection by Adam Clay dives into a dynamic world where the only map available is «not of the world / but of the path I took to arrive in this place, / a map with no real definable future purpose.» Tracing a period of great change in his life—a move, a new job, the birth of his first child& ...
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family’s roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion — both toward and away from us—and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limón reminds us, even rats fi ...
Seamlessly bridging the material and spiritual worlds, Seedlip and Sweet Apple takes the reader into the mind of a true visionary: Mother Ann Lee, the founder of the Shaker religion in colonial America. With astonishingly original poems inspired by extensive historical research, Arra Lynn Ross creates a collection linked thematically through the voice and story of the woman who was believed by her followers to be Christ incarnate. Broadly and in ...
Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied, communicating pain, violenc ...
Socially engaged poetry—like Claudia Rankine's Citizen and M. NourbeSe Phillip's Zong!— have proven to have real sales potentialSadly, tragedies like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Katrina are becoming more and more regular, driving interest in different interpretations of environmental catastropheRebecca Dunham is one of our most well-published poets across journals and magazines, she is poised for a break-out ...
From celebrated poet Christopher Howell, Love’s Last Number is a series of musings on time’s arrow: on both the relentless march that divides each moment into past, present, and future – before and after – and the ultimately porous and recursive nature of time itself.A soldier remembers limes and curious children in Portugal. Refugees cross a dangerous land, and find each other in love. Boy scouts play war in devastating ways, a child listens to ...
First translation of a premier Portuguese poet, winner of the Espiral Poetry Prize for the best collection of poetry in Brazil, Portugal, Angola, and GaliciaBilingual poetry editions have appreciated added valueTranslator is a big asset both in reputation and tours widely in support of publications with authors ...
The Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry is an annual regional prize, presented in partnership by Milkweed Editions and the Lindquist & Vennum Foundation. Established in 2011 with the aim of supporting outstanding poets and bringing their work to a national stage, the prize will award $10,000 as well as a contract for publication to the author of the winning manuscript. The winner will be selected from among five finalists by an independe ...