Category: Poetry

Etel Adnan | Night | Etel Adnan’s evocative new book places night at its center to unearth memories held in the body, the spirit and the landscape. This striking new book

Ellen Marie Bissert | The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Dyke | A book of poems ‘with a nice photograph on the back’

Martin Dawn Lundy | Good Stock Strange Blood | From Good Stock Strange Blood: And, yet, each morning a fireheart grief in the body coming out of sleep. The listening to the smoke as if fills and w

Eileen Myles | Evolution | These new poems upend genre in a vernacular that enacts, like nothing else, the way we speak (inside and out) today. From walking around Marfa and New

Adrienne Rich | Not I, But Death | First edition of the poet’s extremely rare first book, privately printed by her parents when she was just ten years old. Adrienne Rich’s father was th

Dawn Lundy Martin | Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life | Imagine if someone spilled a puzzle in your lap. You can see at once that the pieces are beautifully made and deftly cut. They have fine edges, sharp

Charles Baudelaire | The Flowers of Evil | The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century F

James J. Wilhelm | Gay and Lesbian Poetry | From Library Journal

Rutgers medievalist Wilhelm’s ambitious survey collects European homoerotic poetry from 7th century B.C.E. Greece throug

Audre Lorde | Between Our Selves | These two small volumes (Between Our Selves and If You Want To Know Me by P. Halsey, G. Morían and M. Smith ) melt together like Yin and Yang to form

George Sterling | Strange Waters | A narrative poem that H. L. Mencken rejected as ‘unfit’ for his magazine subscribers because of its ‘lesbian’ leanings. There was apparently some disc