poetry

    • Leah Flax Barber
    • The Mirror of Simple Souls

    • In her first book of poems, Leah Flax Barber revives an actress figure of the commedia dell’arte to consider her own destiny as a soon-to-be historical subject. 

    • Sarah Riggs
    • Lines

    • Sarah Riggs’s eighth book of poems pulls from the momentum of Lyn Hejinian’s My Life and Bernadette Mayer’s Memory to create a survival manual for a Trump presidency and a family crisis.

    • Cristina Pérez Díaz
    • From the Founding of the Country

    • Haunted by the violent legacies of colonialism on both landscape and bodies, Cristina Pérez Díaz’s first book of poems deliriously dreams with the foundation of a country from the bed of two lovers.

    • Alan Gilbert
    • The Everyday Life of Design

    • Bleak, absurd, elegiac, and politically incisive, Alan Gilbert’s sprawling epic poem is a document of these broken times, with a glint of hope for a better tomorrow.

    • Heimrad Bäcker
    • Documentary Poetry
    • Translated by Patrick Greaney

    • The essays of Austrian documentary poet and photographer Heimrad Bäcker (1925–2003), collected here along with a selection of his photographs and two of his documentary poems, explore the poetic, philosophical, and political stakes of representing the Holocaust, and constitute a crucial source for considering the critical potential of contemporary literature.

    • Robert Fitterman
    • Creve Coeur

    • Robert Fitterman’s sixteenth and most ambitious book transposes William Carlos Williams’s postwar long poem Paterson onto the segregated suburbs of late twentieth-century St. Louis to track the collapse of the American urban landscape.

    • WE Authors
    • 2023 Box Set

    • Our first year of books — by Emily Simon, Garth Graeper, Robert Desnos (tr. Lewis Warsh), Richard Hell, Marina Tëmkina & Michel Gérard, Hélio Oiticica (tr. Rebecca Kosick), Monica McClure, Claire DeVoogd, and Ahmad Almallah — all boxed up together!

    • Hélio Oiticica
    • Secret Poetics
    • Translated by Rebecca Kosick

    • The first English-language translation of the “secret” poetry of Hélio Oiticica uncovers a crucial chapter in the development of one of Brazil’s most significant twentieth-century artists.