Pieces of Air in the Epic

Brenda Hillman

• Hardcover | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• Innovative lyric poetry breathes new life into 21st century nature and culture. Winner of the The Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams ... Lees meer

The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas

Lorenzo Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• The first full collection of the works of a foremost African American poet Song You asked me to sing Then you seemed not To hear; to have gone out Fro... Lees meer

The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore

Sylvie Kandé

• Hardcover | Engels, Frans | Wesleyan Poetry
• In Kandé's epic poem, African history collides with the contemporary reality of migration Sylvie Kandé's neo-epic in three cantos is a double narrativ... Lees meer

Against the Meanwhile

Mark Irwin

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• Three elegies exploring the nature of remembered time and space. Mark Irwin's boyhood near the nuclear laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, haunts his ... Lees meer

The Glory Gets

Honorée Fne Jeffers

• Hardcover | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• A deft, lyrical meditation on blues, womanhood, and beyond Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018) In her three previous, award-winning collections of b... Lees meer

Sam's Book

David Ray

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• When Sam Ray was killed at nineteen in an accident, his father began writing poetry dedicated to his memory. Sam's Book is a collection of these elegi... Lees meer

Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton

Calvin C Hernton

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• The definitive guide to a major African American poet This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton's unparalleled poetic caree... Lees meer

Be Brave to Things

Jack Spicer

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• Indispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an American master Be Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spi... Lees meer

Fortress

Brenda Hillman

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• In the title poem "Fortress", the medieval walled castle is the stronghold in which the family dwells. There are stories here of people in the "fortre... Lees meer

Sukun

Kazim Ali

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• New and selected poems from celebrated poet Kazim Ali Kazim Ali is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration, a... Lees meer

Mose

Loren Graham

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• A striking interplay of content and style makes this book-length narrative poem a wrenching, compelling tale. Mose is incarcerated in a Texas prison f... Lees meer

A Visit to Civilization

Sandra McPherson

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• A meditation on brokenness and wholeness, history and forgetting. This extraordinary poetic voyage uses explorations of the material culture of our pa... Lees meer

Tickets for a Prayer Wheel

Annie Dillard

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• Celebrate re-publication of this Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book. Best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her Pulitzer Prize-winning narrat... Lees meer

Public Figures

Jena Osman

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• An investigation of the gap between sight and site Public Figures is an essay-poem with photographs and text that begins with a playful thought experi... Lees meer

I Have a Name

David Ignatow

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• I have a Name is a vital engagement with life and an unflinching stare at death, concluding that love transcendent is a reality, Winner of the William... Lees meer

Her Birth and Later Years

Irena Klepfisz

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• Collected poems of pivotal Jewish lesbian activist Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (2023) Finalist for a Nati... Lees meer

Suddenly We

Evie Shockley

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream--and work--toward a more capacious "we" In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art,... Lees meer

Icelight

Ranjit Hoskote

• Hardcover | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• Set in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hope Icelight , Ranjit Hoskote's eighth ... Lees meer

The Trailhead

Kerri Webster

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• Visionary poems lay claim to the power of the female poet Song of the Husbands for Henry All winter the kind husbands hover like mortgaged angels. One... Lees meer

Mr. West

Sarah Blake

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• Identities are formed and broken in this unauthorized lyric biography Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West's life while also follow... Lees meer

Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You

Juliana Spahr

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• This book of "documentary poetics" is by an important up and coming female experimentalist. Juliana Spahr uses details to explore Hawai'i's politics o... Lees meer

Threshold Songs

Peter Gizzi

• Hardcover | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• A series of private and ecstatic meditations on living and dying About Threshold Songs, the voices in these poems perform at the interior thresholds e... Lees meer

Toward the Open Field

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• The historical writings that helped shape our current understandings of poetry. Toward the Open Field brings together many of the great prose pieces--... Lees meer

Sonnets to Orpheus

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainier Maria Rilke

• Paperback | Engels | Wesleyan Poetry
• Sonnets to Orpheus is Rainer Maria Rilke's first and only sonnet sequence. It is an undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets, transl... Lees meer