Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

A poet's clear-eyed witnessing of familial history, this is the most personal collection yet from two-time Trillium...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking translation of the brilliant first book by one...  Read More >>

Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and...  Read More >>

This science fiction drama tells the story of six people who find themselves in a parallel universe where they learn...  Read More >>

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

Ordinary people collide with the bizarre, the terrifying, and the darkly funny in this genre-bending sci-fi and...  Read More >>

Wayne Lee's poetry runs from koans to haiku and other forms designed to delight and inspire contemplation. His work,...  Read More >>

Poet Scott Wiggerman does not write alone. He co-creates with Emily Dickinson, playing with two poetic forms (ghazals...  Read More >>

The Only Way Out is Through chronicles queer heartbreak and yearning.  Read More >>

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In unrest in the nebulae, Gitan Djeli writes in subversive, fragmented poetics to mine the tension that emerges...  Read More >>

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Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

Embedded in the subconscious of these poems is the centrality of climate change and its disorienting and deleterious...  Read More >>

Debut author Lauren Griffin begins to rework the lessons of her personal narrative, exemplifying how the storms...  Read More >>

A landmark book-the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen...  Read More >>

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A celebration of tardiness through funny, revealing, and deeply thoughtful essays on the nature of time and collective...  Read More >>

Understanding the source of our current political and social malaise through our emotional responses to it  Read More >>

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly...  Read More >>

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A collection of poems of revolution and dreams and visions of freedom and nationhood for Ireland - focusing on before,...  Read More >>

The book explores the concept of resistance in translation, examining how writing and translation can challenge...  Read More >>

Ce livre explore le concept de résistance en traduction, examinant comment l'écriture et la traduction peuvent remettre...  Read More >>

From Lightning's Strike is a collection of lyric poems rooted in ancestral Ch'ol Mayan culture and animated by vivid...  Read More >>