A collection of poetry addressed to Hughes' late wife, poet Sylvia Plath, reexamines the psychological breakdown that led to both some of her greatest poems and to her untimely death.

Reconnaissance is a new collection from poet and National Book Award finalist Carl Phillips.

A collection of narrative poems by an award-winning writer is written in the voice of Daniel Boone and follows themes that evince the beauty and struggle of nascent America, tracing the frontiersman's witness to the nation's birth, observations of the natural world, loss of family, and friendship with a slave.

A compilation of poetry addresses the complex history of the American South, offering a lyrical tribute to the Native Guard, one of the first black regiments in service during the Civil War and paying tribute to the author's mother and her illegal interracial marriage.

Using themes of dialogue and communication—and often miscommunication, a 17th collection of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet capture his inimitable voice—provocative, amusing, understated and riotous all at once.

Carlos lives in a rural Guatemalan village in 1981, when the country is mired in civil war. After a group of soldiers attacks his village, young Carlos must make his way up a mountain on foot to warn his grandmother about the encroaching violence.

Includes 29 poems revolving around the title, selections written for oral readings with jazz accompaniment, and 13 previously published poems

The Little Edges is an extension of poet Fred Moten's experiments with what he calls "shaped prose," a way of arranging his words on the page so that the visual complements the sound of the poem.

A collection of original poems by Jane Hirshfield exploring the profundities and quirks of existence.

Sometimes paranoid, occasionally manic, often very funny, these poems consult archaeologists, biologists, psychiatrists, encyclopedias and even aliens, trying to understand how so many disparate things can be interrelated.

Difficult, necessary and at times incendiary, Amiri Baraka began his career with the Beats and became a fierce advocate of political art, a voice against oppression and capitalism and a poet unafraid of courting controversy and fury. This is one of the most comprehensive volumes of his work, from his first collection to the unpublished pieces he wrote towards the end of his life.

Poet Cate Marvin (also the co-founder of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts) takes an unsparing look at life and love in Oracle. With lush, aggressive verses, she strips the romance away from subjects like motherhood and romance itself.

In this career-spanning retrospective, Myles' off-the-cuff delivery recalls the work of Frank O'Hara — if he'd been writing in the past few decades, and if he'd loved pop culture as much as high culture.

"Who the hell's heaven is this?" Rowan Ricardo Phillips offers many answers, and none at all, in Heaven, the piercing and revelatory encore to his award-winning debut, The Ground.

In this much-anticipated second book, Richard Siken seeks definite answers to indefinite questions: What it means to be called to make — whether it is a self, love, war, or art — and what it means to answer that call.

The poems in National Book Award winner Mark Doty's new collection dig out the extraordinary in the everyday, mixing philosophical inquiry and awe at people and nature in a voice that's warm but tinged with useful doubt.

Terrance Hayes won the National Book Award for his 2010 collection Lighthead (he was also one of People's Sexiest Men Alive in 2014). His new book mixes pop rhythms and sensibilities with old-fashioned poetry in work that both pays tribute to and argues with his artistic forebears.

Award-winning poet Kathleen Ossip's new collection is obssessed with death, in a manner both lighthearted and deadly serious all at once.

Hard-living Arkansas poet Frank Stanford committed suicide in 1978, at the age of 29; this massive edition of his work is the product of decades of dedicated archive-diving and patient editing.