An extraordinary collection of lyrics showcasing rap’s poetic depth and diversity.

The 2011 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, Eduardo C. Corral, is the first Latino poet ever to receive the award. His poems, strange and haunting, are also lyrically beautiful and filled with yearning.

In this thought-provoking book, John Felstiner explores the rich legacy of poems that take nature as their subject, and he demonstrates their force and beauty. In our own time of environmental crises, he contends, poetry has a unique capacity to restore our attention to our environment in its imperiled state. And this, in turn, may just make us better stewards of the earth.

The publication of an astonishing debut more than fifty years ago brought poet Geoffrey Hill immediate attention and acclaim. Selected Poems represents a major publishing event, the publication of the first representative selection of Hill’s poetry, gathering work from early volumes to such recent books as The Orchards of Syon and Without Title.

A study of the life and poetry of Delmira Agustini, the first major female Latin American poet of the twentieth century.

A wonderfully accessible guide to the poetry of Robert Frost, this book presents a superb selection of poems from across the poet's career and places each poem in social, biographical, historical, and literary context.

Hédi Kaddour’s poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic—of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, or human cruelty. With Treason, the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents an English-speaking audience with the first selected volume of his work.

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