Books

The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s new collection explore how different forms of desire are thwarted by proximity to violence and catastrophe, and how they are intensified and enhanced by liminality and mortality. Can love reclaim the territory consumed by war? What does it mean to share in the suffering ...

A New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2024 Drawing from all six of his collections, The Selected Shepherd offers a new retrospective on the work of an important and sometimes controversial Black, gay poet. Although well known for his erotic poems about white men, Shepherd also wrote consistently about the ...