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"We act like children with our dead," Halyna Kruk writes as she struggles to come to terms with the horror unfolding around her: "confused, / as if none of us knew until now/ how easy it is to die."...

A life-long commitment to social evolution - and, occasionally, revolution - animates the poems in Jo-Ann Mort's debut collection, A Precise Chaos. Moving from Mostar to Oaxaca, Paris to Taoromina,...

Author: Martin EdmundsPublisher: Arrowsmith PressPublication Date: Dec 05, 2021Number of Pages: 114 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737615622ISBN-13: 9781737615620

In his triumphant new poetry collection, Away Away, Mark Pawlak casts his precise and contemplative eye over the countryside of the American Northeast. A prolific and widely anthologized poet, Pawlak...

One of the most important poets of the last hundred years, Derek Walcott was also a gifted painter, an accomplished and award-winning man-of-the-theatre (a playwright, a director, and founder of two...

Steven Cramer's newest book of poems, Departures from Rilke, derives from his favorites among Rainer Maria Rilke's two volumes of New Poems (1907/08). Cramer repurposes, updates, and sometimes upends...

Don't Close Your Eyes, a collection of Hanna Melnyczuk's drawings created during Russia's war on Ukraine, attempt to process what is happening to the country her parents left in 1945. Influenced by...

Charles O. Hartman's eighth book of poems, Downfall of the Straight Line, vibrates with dazzling rhythms, masterful syntax, linguistic wit, and descriptions that are precise and surprising at the...

Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840, poetry has played an outsized role in...

Renowned poet Melissa Green returns to the literary stage with her new and selected poems, Magpiety, a profound and evocative exploration of memory, nature, and the nuances of human emotion. Created...

Author: Robin DavidsonPublisher: Arrowsmith PressPublication Date: Dec 05, 2021Number of Pages: 68 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737615649ISBN-13: 9781737615644

One of England's most celebrated poets, described by James Wood as "the major poet of his generation," Glyn Maxwell is the author of ten volumes of poetry, along with numerous plays, essays,...

Prismatic and polysemous, On the Road to Lviv invites us on an odyssey across Ukraine in the hour of war. "This chronicle/ Took shape the day the war began, which was/ My 65th birthday," writes...

William Pierce's insightful critical essay was the first published in North America about Karl Ove Knausgaard's magnum opus, My Struggle. As famed literary critic James Wood wrote: "William Pierce's...

It's 1939 and young Maeve O'Sullivan and her family are among the last inhabitants of a windswept island off the south coast of Ireland. After her father's death, Maeve finds herself the last...

Author: Oksana ZabuzhkoPublisher: Arrowsmith PressPublication Date: Feb 21, 2022Number of Pages: 108 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1734641630ISBN-13: 9781734641639

Come read for yourself why James Laughlin Prize winner David Rivard's newest book solidifies him as one of our best and most enduring poets. With poems that are both deeply personal and enticingly...

From one of the most lauded poets of her generation comes a major new work. Winner of the International Griffin Prize, the Rome Prize, the LA Times Book Prize, Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, among...

Author: Douglas J PenickPublisher: Arrowsmith PressPublication Date: January 23, 2021Number of Pages: 186 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1734641649ISBN-13: 9781734641646

Sherod Santos' brilliant new collection, The Burning World, shows us exactly why the New York Times Book Review has said, "Santos possesses an intensity akin to Rilke."Author: Sherod SantosPublisher:...

Arrowsmith Press is honored to announce the publication of Nidia Hern?ndez's first collection of poems, The Farewell Light. This bilingual edition leaps effortlessly between the natural world and...

In The Forbidden Door, poets Carolyn Forche and Lars Gustaf Andersson masterfully translate the selected poems of Swedish poet Lasse S?derberg in one of his first substantial volumes in the English...

In Yuliya Musakovska's newest poetry collection, The God of Freedom, she reveals, facet by facet, the landscape of a turbulent, contemporary Ukraine. Equal parts intimate and expansive, the poems...

Few writers have embodied the heart and soul of a nation as fully as Venezuela's Rafael Cadenas. Poet, translator, and educator, the ninety-year-old Cadenas has been admired and acclaimed by...

One of America's most honored and respected essayists, Sven Birkerts, returns with a riveting new collection. In The Mir? Worm and the Mysteries of Writing, Birkerts reflects on fundamental questions...

Author: John OkrentPublisher: Arrowsmith PressPublication Date: May 14, 2022Number of Pages: 66 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737615657ISBN-13: 9781737615651

Tiny Extravaganzas, Diane Mehta's fiercely lyrical new collection, works the American sentence to its limits. Mehta's poems are miniaturist examinations of art, aging, literature, grief, parenting,...

Today is a Different War is Lyudmyla Khersonska's striking portrayal of life from inside war-torn Ukraine. Masterfully translated into English by Olga Livshin, Andrew Janco, Maya Chhabra, and Lev...

Unrevolutionary Times, Dr. Houman Harouni's exhilarating debut collection, takes us on a journey of archetypes like no other in English-language poetry. What happens to the revolutionary soul in...