Books

A Poetic Autobiography—Intimate, Sorrowful, and Funny

Winner of the 2023 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Poems about the Freedom That Arises When We Finally Let Go

A Bilingual Collection of Poems for a Dispirited Society

Meditative Poems That Ask, What If “We Change and Change / But Don’t Change Back?”

Winner of the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

Intensely Emotional and Bitingly Witty Poems about Grief, Family, and Joy

An Exploration of the Collective Present Moment through the Combination of Scientific Fact and the Lyrical

Winner of the 2021 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

Poems That Mapthe Struggle between Victimhood and Agency

Effervescent Surrealist Poems That Imagine and Reimagine What Is Possible

A Collection of Meditative Poetry Complicated by the Stark Potential Reality of the Future

Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. What emerges is not merely autobiography, but a biography of the reader, a “representative life” of our time.

In Evidence is a collection of poems in the voices of allied troops who liberated Nazi concentration camps in Europe in the spring of 1945. Barbara Helfgott Hyett heard poems in the eyewitness testimony of United States soldiers. She has shaped the words of thirty speakers into a songle narrative, a single voice.

With The Imaginary Lover, Alicia Ostriker takes her place among the most striking and original poets whose work is informed by feminist consciousness. Her characterization of the best poetry by women, in the New York Times Book Review, aptly describes this book: “intimate rather than remote, passionate rather than distant, defying divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader.” To read her poems is to “discover not only more of what it means to be a woman but more of what it means to be human.”