Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

The early works of esteemed American poet Robert Frost are collected here in one volume.  Read More >>

Around 1700, England saw a heated public debate about the soul's immortality. Two unlikely figures--a lawyer and...  Read More >>

The 1810s are often overlooked as a transitional time between Romantic and Victorian literature and culture. The...  Read More >>

Poems that express my thoughts on life's contradictions. Love, joy, sorrow, doubt, faith, irony and even self-mockery....  Read More >>

A pocket edition of the global bestseller - fully revised and updated, containing over 50 momentous and thought-provoking...  Read More >>

Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the solitary states...  Read More >>

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather...  Read More >>

This rare self-portrait from pioneering publisher, writer and cultural activist Margaret Busby underscores her powerful...  Read More >>

Weaving memoir with on-the-ground reporting, The Descent illustrates the changing realities of Putin’s long and...  Read More >>

Published in 1911, and then expanded and republished in 1922, Mosquito consists of 36 poems ranging in lengths from...  Read More >>

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A fierce and witty portrait of an unraveling nation. Salt and Pepper is a collection of literary columns that...  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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

This grand collection of poetic narratives by a versatile New England poet/novelist/naturalist demonstrates that...  Read More >>

In her heartrending sixth collection of poetry, Anne Marie Macari communes with a brother decades gone and calls...  Read More >>

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