Waders

Waders

This book is made up of fifteen poems that Andrew Motion has written since moving from England to the United States in 2015. It is full of the shock and […]


Late Romance: Anthony Hecht―A Poet’s Life

Late Romance: Anthony Hecht―A Poet’s Life

Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was one of America’s greatest poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and widely recognized as a master of formal verse that drew on wide-ranging cultural and literary […]


The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation

The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation

Elegy is among the world’s oldest forms of literature: a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly […]


Music and Human Flourishing (The Humanities and Human Flourishing)

Music and Human Flourishing (The Humanities and Human Flourishing)

It has long been accepted that participating in music, either as a performer, listener, or composer, can contribute to human happiness and well-being. This volume, part of The Humanities and Human […]


A Person of Interest

A Person of Interest

Professor Lee, an Asian-born mathematician near retirement age would seem the last person to attract the attention of FBI agents. Yet after a colleague becomes the latest victim of a […]


Descent

Descent

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women’s Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. In 2013, poet Lauren Russell acquired a copy of the diary of her great-great-grandfather, Robert Wallace Hubert, a Captain in […]


What’s Hanging on the Hush

What’s Hanging on the Hush

Poetry. Women’s Studies. WHAT’S HANGING ON THE HUSH wrestles with concerns that range from race, gender and sexuality to loneliness, madness and grief, and nothing escapes questioning, least of all […]


Trust Exercise: A Novel 

Trust Exercise: A Novel 

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing-arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarefied bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and particularly, […]


The Year We Studied Women

The Year We Studied Women

In this intimate first collection Bruce Snider explores the intricacies of memory, loss, and identity in poems about everything from algebra to sperm to lipstick. A farmer finds the body […]


Paradise, Indiana: Poems

Paradise, Indiana: Poems

A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish for bluegill; a young drag queen returns home to die. At […]