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Nimipuutímpt, the language of the Nez Perce, is a critically endangered language, with fewer than 50 fluent speakers left in the world. Swallowed Light is written in both English and Nimipuutímpt. When asked to come up with a reason why he writes, Wasson said ¿I write because all my storytellers are dead.¿ This poetry is opulent and dreamlike, rich and visceral. The world Wasson creates is a world one cannot help but be drawn into. With this first full-length collection, Wasson is an exciting emerging voice in contemporary poetry. Wasson wrote Swallowed Light from the Japanese village in which he currently lives. He has a complex relationship with the idea of home, telling LitHub ¿I long to earn my way towards some sense of home.¿ Wasson grew up on the Nez Perce reservation, raised mostly by his grandfather. He names Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Eduardo C. Corral, and Sherwin Bitsui as major influences on his poetry.

Soto's book is extremely current and speaks to issues of public discussion, debate, and protest like police brutality, mass incarceration, immigration/border control, transgender rights, gender violence, and U.S. imperialism A perfect fit for the times of "Abolish ICE" and "Defund the police" Soto has deep activist roots in his work on Writers for Migrant Justice/Undocupoets During the UndocuPoets campaign, Soto, Javier Zamora, and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo helped make poetry first-book contests accessible to undocumented poets. Soto is an important Latinx, nonbinary voice Accessible, political poetry As part of the queer Latinx punk/grind/hardcore scene in 2000s Los Angeles, Soto was the vocalist and lyricist of a band called The Ambulance Ride. When they lived in Brooklyn in their early twenties, Soto -in the span of one night- met Björk, witnessed a famous drag queen "saying racist shit," and skated home at sunrise in their little black dress. This wonderful Soto quote from Letras Latinas: "I want Angela Davis to blurb my first book when it's ready because I'm writing about the prison industrial complex and she was one of the first prison abolitionists that I read" and '[June Jordan's] "Poem about Police Violence" should be on every poetry syllabus right now and should be sung at every march right now.' They are incredibly ambitious and creative when it comes to promoting their projects while also working for social justice, such as their "Tour to End Queer Youth Homelessness" for their 2016 chapbook, Sad Girl Poems.

Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power. Publishers WeeklyEvery poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clean lines and imagery that dazzles.The Washington PostFor Kasischke poetry is a kind of revenge on the existential limits that it describesLos Angeles Review of BooksLaura Kasischkes long-awaited selected poems presents the breadth of her probing vision that subverts the so-called normal. A lover of fairy tales, Kasischke showcases her command of the symbolic, with a keen attention to sound in her exploration of the everydaywhether reflections on loss or the complicated realities of childhood and family. As literary critic Stephen Burt wrote in Boston Review, The future will not see us by one poet alone.If there is any justice in that future, Kasischke is one of the poets it will choose.This incandescent volume makes the case that Laura Kasischke is one of Americas great poets, and her presence is secure.From "e;Dear Water"e;:I am your lost daughter and, as always, youare listening & fish. ThoughI sift you for sunlight, itruns from me in glistening pins, vanishesin the wavering mapof your ungraspable heart. When Ireach in, youswallow my cold hands again, swallowthe joy they'd hold. . .Laura Kasischke is a poet and novelist whose fiction has been made into several feature-length films. Her book of poems, Space, in Chains, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Chelsea, Michigan.

Acclaimed novelist and poet Saenz creates an emotionally charged poem-cycle that moves beyond vengeance into understanding

First American publication of Syrian poet Maram al-Massri, presented in a bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Rebellious and fiercely lyrical, the poems of C.D. Wright incorporate elements of disjunction and odd juxtaposition in their exploration of unfolding context. "e;In my book,"e; she writes, "e;poetry is a necessity of life. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so."e;C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island."e;Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical ';goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like ';the snakeman' and ';the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti (';God is Louise'). cherish Wright's latest ';once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"e;Publishers Weekly"e;For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and riversstill holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everythinghuman and angry and beautiful."e;Michael Ondaatje"e;C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."e;The Gettysburg Review

Winner of Pulitzer Prize in PoetryOne of the best-selling poets of 202040,000 copies sold of original paperbackPhiladelphia using The Tradition for city-wide ¿One Book¿ reading program, the first time in their history they used a poetry titleJericho extremely active, with abundant interviews and eventsSupplementary materials include discussion questions developed in collaboration with the Free Library in Philadelphia and an extended interview

The Essential Ruth Stone collects a beloved American poet¿s career-defining poems into a single, incandescent volume.

';A refreshing new translation. . . . Highly recommended.'Library Journal';With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of the Taoteching works as both a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation.'Publishers Weekly';Read it in confidence that it comes as close as possible to expressing the Chinese text in English.'Victor Mair, professor of Chinese studies, University of PennsylvaniaLao-tzu's Taoteching is an essential volume of world literature, and Red Pine's nuanced and authoritative English translationreissued and published with the Chinese text en faceis one of the best-selling versions. What sets this volume apart from other translations are its commentaries by scores of Taoist scholars, poets, monks, recluses, adepts, and emperors spanning more than two thousand years. ';I envisioned this book,' Red Pine notes in his introduction, ';as a discussion between Lao-tzu and a group of people who have thought deeply about his text.'Sages have no mind of their owntheir mind is the mind of the peopleto the good they are goodto the bad they are gooduntil they become goodto the true they are trueto the false they are trueuntil they become true . . .Lao-tzu (ca. 600 BCE) was a Chinese sage who Confucius called ';a dragon among men.' He served as Keeper of the Royal Archives and authored the Taoteching.Red Pine is one of the world's foremost translators of Chinese literary and religious texts.

Is the world finite? Through place and time and the great expanse of Australia, Marianne Boruch ponders this, aided not just by wallabies and platypus, kangaroos and wombats, but by a cheeky Archangel who wanders in and out of her poems. The pertinent wisdom of an Indigenous Elder is here too, along with the continuing presence of Pliny the Elder, the Roman naturalist and historian who in 77 CE posed the question Boruch considers. Written following Boruch's Fulbright in Australia, and on the heels of the devastating fires that began after her departure, Bestiary Darkis filled with strange and sweet details, beauty, and impending doom-the drought, fires, and floods that have grown unspeakable in scale. These poems face the ancient, unsettling relationship of humans and the natural world-the looming effect we've wrought on wildlife-and what solace and repair our learning even a little might mean.

Bilingual Edition: "Valverde¿s sharp meditation on the state of mind of a nation reeling from its historical contradictions and moral failings is startling...Forché¿s consummate translation and instructive introduction provide amap to help readers navigate this powerful book."¿BooklistIn Fernando Valverde¿s América, ¿sorrow is ancient.¿ Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of American roots, dysfunctions, and ideals¿as if from above, and yet also from within¿this is a book that deconstructs the legacy of empire. From the Mississippi River to Fulton Avenue, from slavery to ¿lone wolf¿ shooters, Valverde grieves but does not wince away from all that is lost to greed and a culture of violence, painting an urgent portrait of ¿the thirst of America / a smile satisfied to death.¿ Valverde is widely regarded as one of the most important younger Spanish-language poets. Here his vibrant voice and convictions are translated and introduced by Carolyn Forché, herself a world-renowned poet of witness. Bilingual, with Spanish originals and English translations.

After decades out of print, Passion-one of June Jordan's most important collections-has returned to readers. Originally entitled, passion: new poems, 1977-1980, this volume holds key works including "Poem About My Rights," "Poem About Police Violence," "Free Flight," and an essay by the poet, "For the Sake of the People's Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us." June Jordan was a fierce advocate for the safety and humanity of women and Black people, and for the freedom of all people-and Barack Obama made a line from this book famous: "We are the ones we have been waiting for." With love and humor, via lyrics and rants, she calls for nothing less than radical compassion. This new edition includes a foreword by Nicole Sealey.

Kasischke writes poetry, novels, and YA novels Her novel The Life Before Her Eyeswas made into a movie starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood She has a deep interest in fairy tales, and is especially inspired by Yeats¿s renditions of Irish folk tales.Where Now: New and Selected(Copper Canyon Press) was Longlisted for National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space, in ChainsPrevious Kasischke books by Copper Canyon were well-reviewed by The New York Times, The Boston Review, and received numerous ¿Best Book of the Year¿ accolades.Has lived and worked in Michigan her entire life, and many of her poems draw from the suburban landscape of the Midwest.

In her astounding third collection, Nikki Wallschlaeger turns to water-the natural element of grief-to trace history's interconnected movements through family, memory, and day-to-day survival. Waterbaby is a book about Blackness, language, and motherhood in America; about the ancestral joys and sharp pains that travel together through the nervous system's crowded riverways; about the holy sanctuary of the bathtub for a spirit that's pushed beyond exhaustion. Waterbaby sings the blues in every key, as Wallschlaeger uses her vibrant lexicon and varied rhythms to condense and expand emotion, hurry and slow meaning, communicating the profound simultaneity of righteous dissatisfaction with an unjust world, and radical love for what's possible.

In Shangyang Fang's debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Absence is translated into fire ants and snow, a boy's desire is transfigured into the indifference of mountains and rivers, and loneliness finds its place in the wounded openness of language. From the surface of a Song Dynasty ink-wash painting to a makeshift bedroom in Chengdu, these poems thread intimacy, eros, and grief. Evoking the music of ancient Chinese poetry, Fang alloys political erasure, exile, remembrance, and death into a single brushstroke on the silk scroll, where names are forgotten as paper boats on water.

Sze's poetry generates poignant correspondences and startling intimacies, offering readers a deep and daily grounding in the world.Sze's most recent collection Sight Lines won the 2019 National Book Award. Sze is highly critically acclaimed-Compass Rose was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and his other works have received national honors such as the Jackson Poetry Prize and the American Book Award Copper Canyon has published Sze since the 1990s, with a collection of new and selected poems, numerous collections of original poetry, and a collection of translations from the Chinese. Sze's writing draws and breaks from Chinese poetry and philosophical tradition. His negotiation of cultural influence and difference has made his work foundational to many Asian American writers. Sze's work marks a significant contribution to the ecopoetics genre, his writing drawing from indigenous and non-Western lifeworlds and advocating an ethics of deep and transformative notice.Sze's writing articulates a response to global and environmental injustices, enacting a deep sense of connectivity and collective obligation.Sze's work is particularly resonant to the Southwest. His previous collection The Ginkgo Light (2009) received the PEN Southwest Book Award and his poetry is imbued with New Mexico's long-line mesas and the many cultures native to the region.

';Directed by Desire . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry.'BooklistNow in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan's -poetry. Collecting the finest work from Jordan's ten volumes, as well as dozens of ';last poems' that were never published in Jordan's lifetime, these more than six hundred pages overflow with intimate lyricism, elegance, fury, meditative solos, and dazzling vernacular riffs.As Adrienne Rich writes in her introduction, June Jordan ';wanted her readers, listeners, students, to feel their own latent powerof the word, the deed, of their own beauty and intrinsic value.' From ';These Poems': These poems they are things that I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are and are you ready?The cloth edition of Directed by Desire was selected as a Library Journal Poetry Book of the Year and received the Lambda Book Award for Lesbian Poetry. June Jordan taught at UC Berkeley for many years and founded Poetry for the People. Her twenty-eight books include poetry, essays, fiction, and children's books. She was a regular columnist for The Progressive and a prolific writer whose articles appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and The Nation. After her death in 2002, a school in the San Francisco School District was renamed in her honor.