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A powerful examination of the artistic impulse, cultural identity, and family bondsAnita is waiting for Adam to be released from prison. They met twenty years ago at a New Year's Eve party in Paris, a city where they both felt out of place-he as a recent arrival from the provinces, and she as an immigrant from the island of Mauritius. They quickly fell in love, married, and moved to a village in southwestern France, to live on the shores of th...

Tom Sleigh's brilliant new collection is "full of the wonder and eloquence driving profound poetry" (Los Angeles Times)You've got to put your pants on in the house of fact.And in the house of fact, when you take off your shirt, you can hear your shirt cry out, Facts are the floor, factsare how you make the right side talk to the left.I'm washing my naked belly clean, and doing it with dignity.I'm turning around, trying to see the filthinesstha...

Essays on the urgency of our global refugee crisis and our capacity as artists and citizens to confront itTom Sleigh describes himself donning a flak jacket and helmet, working as a journalist inside militarized war zones and refugee camps, as "a sort of Rambo Jr." With self-deprecation and empathetic humor, these essays recount his experiences during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, "the land b...

One of the finest poets of the last fifty years." -Saltto the Nth, like the truth of an endingunskeined across the crust of the white field.Though it happened only once, Iam sending the thoughtof the thoughtcontinuing. To return tothe field before the mowing.When a goldfinch swayedon a blue stem stalk, and the wind and the sunstirred the hay. -from "After the Mowing"Cinder: New and Selected Poems gathers for the first time poetry from across S...

A sensitive and nuanced exploration of a seldom-discussed subject by an acclaimed novelistThe fourteenth volume in the Art of series conjures an ethereal subject: the idea of mystery in fiction. Mystery is not often discussed-apart from the genre-because, as Maud Casey says, "It's not easy to talk about something that is a whispered invitation, a siren song, a flickering light in the distance." Casey, the author of several critically acclaimed...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYWinner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe HerreraFor years now, I've been using the wrong palette.Each year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date. Planes and buses, guesthouse to guesthouse. I've gotten to where I am by dint of my poor eyesight, my overreactive motion sickness. 9 p.m., Hanoi's Old Quarter: duck p...

Never before published in the United States, the debut novel by the wildly talented author of Booker Prize Finalist All That Man Is"That clattering noise you hear is the sound of critics and readers racing to find [David Szalay's] earlier books, an activity worth the effort, " wrote Dwight Garner in his New York Times review of Szalay's All That Man Is. And now American readers finally have their chance with his debut novel, London and the Sou...

In this harrowing and mesmerizing novel, celebrated novelist and poet, Khoury-Ghata, presents the disintegration of a family and a country--both ruled by a fury fueled by fear.

The eagerly anticipated second collection by poet and esteemed critic Stephen Burt "Flaunting your useless knowledge has failed you again, Though it was all they had taught you." --from "Like a Wreck" Consult any childhood development guide and you'll find the term "parallel play": when children under two are placed together, they'll play separately but won't interact. They are more fascinated with their immediate surroundings than with each...

Dobby Gibson's poetry . . . is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it's fantastic." (The Corresponder)* Shortlisted for the Believer Poetry Award *From the backs of the books I love and am terrified by, the great thinkers stare back at mewith little encouragement.I am prepared to follow them anywhere! -from "Ago"Meditative, lyrical, aphoristic, and always leavened with a wry wit, the poems in Dobby ...

Thurlow Dan is the founder of the Helix, a cult that promises to cure loneliness. With its communes and speed-dating, the Helix has become a national phenomenon--and attracted the attention of governments worldwide. It is a sprawling and original novel that shows that the nation's deepest problems cannot be fixed by simple formulas.

An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any American poet now writing" (John Koethe)"This book proposes some of the virtues to which the next poem might aspire: boldness, change, compression, dilation, doubt, excess, inevitability, intimacy, otherness, particularity, restraint, shyness, surprise, and worldliness. The word 'virtue' came to Englis...

Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry* An NPR, Slate, Oregonian, Kansas City Star, Willamette Week, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Amazon's Best Book of the Year in Poetry 2013 *In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new color. One poem is presented as a diagrammed sentence. Another is an abecedarium made of lines of dialogue spoken by girls overheard while assembling a p...

Now in paperback, the latest poetry by Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking Is the BombThe Captain Asks for a Show of Hands begins as a meditation on love and the body but soon breaks down into a collage of voices culled from media reports, childhood memories, testimonies from Abu Ghraib detainees, passages from documentary films, overheard conversations, and scraps of poems and song, only to reassemble wit...

Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major JacksonThe stub of your left leg danglesas I hold you up, my hands inserted under your armslike a child. You are complaining about the itch, the burn, scratch the ghost of your calf and heel. -from "Scratching the Ghost"Dexter L. Booth's ruminations on loss in this award-winning debut are rooted in a time past but one still palpable and persistent. Here are memories of love lost, family ...

Winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry FoundationO ludicrous swoon, O blind hind-sight, O torching of bridges and blood boiled white, O sparrow, and arrow, and hell below, O, she says, because she loves to say O. -from "O, She Says" Swoop is a sonically audacious first book, a ringing up and down the musical scales. Hailey Leithauser's resplendent array of forms-from traditional verse to more fragmented, onrushing exper...

Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic." -Susan Stewart, citation for the Academy of American Poets FellowshipUrban tumbleweed, some people call it, discarded plastic bag we see in every cityblown down the street with vagrant wind. -from Urban TumbleweedUrban Tumbleweed is the poet Harryette Mullen's exploration of spaces where the ...

An innovative and fascinating new version of Dante Alighieri's Inferno as it has never been renderedStopped mid-motion in the middle Of what we call a life, I looked up and saw no sky-Only a dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig. I was lost. --from Canto IAward-winning poet Mary Jo Bang has translated the Inferno into English at a moment when popular culture is so prevalent that it has even taken Dante, author of the fourteenth century epic poem,...

Winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize, Black Cat Bone is the first American publication of the poetry of John BurnsideBefore the songs I sang there were the songsthey came from, patent shredsof Babel, and the secretNineveh of back rooms in the dark. Hour after hourthe night trains blundered throughfrom towns so far away and innocentthat everything I knew seemed fictional: -from "Death Room Blues"John Burnside's Black Cat B...

Hamilton is able to sustain a complex narrative through stripped-down poems . . . leavened by a wry humor." -The New York Times Book ReviewI wanted to read an essay in your wrist.The afternoon seemed endless. Out the window, a lane to the right was bending away, taking with it the figure moving down it.Alone for a quarter of an hour, looking in, plotting the argument, all the marks of lucidityand brevity in that attempt, that benefit of rhetor...