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Rachel Zucker sweeps all the corners in this maximalist project of poems and prose, navigating love, loss, and personal and political despair.

The third book in Wave's Bagley Wright Lecture Series presenting the vibrant and generous poetics of Dorothea Lasky.

A thought-provoking, sustained meditation on sex, love, power, and poetry.

Masterful poems that guide readers through the interconnections of natural and readerly life as it is powerfully expressed in the dynamic resonances of language.

A rare glimpse inside the mind of a National Book Award-winning, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellow poet as he considers his influences and larger surrounding poetic history.

From Dada to translation, from conversations to collage, this book chronicles the artistic antics and profoundly original minds of Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop.

Lectures that meander, accumulate, and adjust in an echolocating search for the in-between places where poetry lives.

A tense and personal account of a life as a woman, wife, and mother, in and out of New York.

This poet's formal experiments once again bring into relief the beauties and absurdities from the dead past as they live on in our present age.

Simultaneously a scathing critique of consumer culture and a heartbreakingly manic narrative of obsession and reckoning.

An oral history of a poet who intersected with nearly every innovative poetic movement of the late twentieth century.

Eighteen new (Soma)tic exercises that strive for human connection and political action.

A new collection of exciting and vivacious prose poems, essays, and more in-between from lauded poet Mary Ruefle.

Knox's ninth collection of poetry, an ever surprising delight, masterful in its dedication to play and experiment.

Inspiring horror, laughter, and awe, a catalog of nearly 400 Arabic epithets for lions. A fascinating work of lexicographical scholarship.

A selection of interviews and rare photos from the legendary St. Mark's Poetry Project for its 50th anniversary season.

A gripping, eerie, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes, we follow a midlevel publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters ghost stories, science fiction adventures, Victorian hashish eating, and robot bigfoots. Rohrer mesmerizes with wildly imaginative tales and resonant verse in this compelling love letter to storytelling.this nightthey all seemed asleepfor a while the stark shadowsheld meonly my mind movedwildly behind my eyesuntil I heard a tinysong coming from the driversong of a bandits brokenheart, song of his betrayalI slept and dreamed I was awakeMatthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPRs All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.

A retrospective of 50 years worth of poems by late New York school poet John Godfrey.

Twenty-three new (Soma)tic exercises and rituals for creating an "extreme present" and their resulting poems.

Thinking collapses and remerges in this metafictional collection of essays following a writer and artist at work.