These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North...

"In poems written for the daughter she will leave behind, the dying speaker of "Dear Specimen" examines grief, culpability, and love, asking: what value can we ascribe to our lives and do we as a...

"Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved" is an incantatory celebration of the "Book," an imaginary and self-gathering anthology of all the lyrics -- both poems and songs -- ever written...

The minds, the glittering personalities and eccentrics of Berkeley and San Francisco come to life in these two novels by poet Philip Whalen. Set in the late Fifties and early Sixties, You Didn’t Even...

Harp of Burma is Japan's classic novel of pathos and compassion in the midst of senseless warfare.Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize and the basis for the critically acclaimed...

"Ten stories cut like gems from American family life . . . [with] a gracious patina and a drawl of violence." --Los Angeles Times "A writer of the first rank. . . . [Knight] writes gently and with...

By the time he was killed in Normandy, aged only twenty-four, in June 1944, Keith Douglas had achieved a body of work that has earned him the reputation as the most brilliant and promising poet of...

The centerpiece of this collection, "Elegy for My Sister," is a sequence of poems on the suicide of the poet's sister. It opens with the haunting question, "Who was she whose death now made her / a...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A high-octane and “hugely entertaining” (Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author) thriller about a supercomputer and the secrets we keep from one another—perfect...

One of the foremost literary bestsellers of our time, now in a 50th-anniversary edition featuring a new foreword by psychoanalyst and New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Amy Bloom A...

A Belletrist Book Club Pick "Riveting . . . Lightbreakers is a marvel. . . propulsive and unforgettable."-Washington Post "You will love this genre-busting book. . . A beautiful meditation of grief,...

"A marvel."-People "Blisteringly good... Her questions will burn themselves into your heart." -The Guardian "I loved this book so much. Highly recommend." -Joumana Khatib, New York Times "A...

An epic and engrossing debut novel about identical twin brothers, the woman they both love, and the secrets at the heart of the beautiful, rugged Maine island they call home The McCauleys have...

Avery is a grad student in New York working on a collection of cultural reports and flailing financially and emotionally. She dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer...

In this sumptuous, expansive collection, selections from across the entire career of Mahmoud Darwish, renderer of worlds, are gathered beneath one roof. This volume also features first-time...

Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was a friend, colleague, and teacher to poets of several generations from Hart Crane and Allen Tate to J. V. Cunningham, Turner Cassity, and Edgar Bowers to Robert Hass,...