'Miss Emecheta's prose has a shimmer of originality, of English being reinvented. . . . Issues of...

In 1971, orphan Marlise Schade-fourteen, anorectic, and evicted from the psychiatric hospital her...

In her newest feat of poetic innovation, Amy Newman wanders the lives of mid-century poetry immor...

In Ridiculous Light, Valencia Robin captures the everyday and the ecstatic in a voice all her own...

In 1971, orphan Marlise Schade-fourteen, anorectic, and evicted from the psychiatric hospital her...

In Other Times, Midnight, her debut collection, Andrea Ballou explores the aftermath of loss-deat...

Since its founding in 1975, Persea Books has been a vital force in contemporary poetry. In its ea...

In SOFAR, poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, one of our most important writers on the natural (...

A gorgeous second book by Valencia Robin, author of Ridiculous Light.

Named by Black Issues as the best poetry book of 2004, this is the astonishing story of a slave g...

With this third collection, Rachel Wetzsteon continues to imprint American verse with her particu...

The fables and fantasies in Snowman Snowman, 'written in a torrential poetic prose' (The New York...