Poetry. In 1978, KILLING FLOOR was awarded the Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. The book was selected by Charles Wright, Maxine Kumin, and Philip Levine. On the Occasion of the 40th anniversary of publication, Tavern Books has...
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Poetry. Drama. Latinx Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Keith Ekiss, Sonia P. Ticas, and Mauricio Espinoza. After the chaos of the first two volumes of THE FIRE'S JOURNEY, where the world was formless and void yet teeming with the shape of lif...
Poetry. UNEARTHINGS, the fourth selection in Tavern Books' Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series, unfolds by way of an elegant, steadfast voice that is unafraid to confront the complexities of cultural, ancestral, and familial inheritance. Exploring h...
Poetry. Whip-smart, funny, and intimate, WHAT HAVE I TO SAY TO YOU is Megan Levad's much-anticipated second full-length poetry collection. Taking as its impetus the William Carlos Williams phrase 'the stain of love is upon the world,' the book wande...
Poetry. Translated from the Greek by Paul Merchant. "The poems in this volume were written in the village of Karlovasi on Samos at the rate of about ten a day in the summer of 1979, a first draft written August 1st through 26th, the second completed...
Poetry. Translated from the German by Caroline Wilcox Reul. In this bilingual edition, Borchers, unafraid and comfortable in her skin, confronts the serious quandaries of existence. The book's six sections highlight her penchant for stylistic experi...
Poetry. FULL BODY PLEASURE SUIT conjures a world too funny to be dystopian, and too disquieting not to be real. These poems describe a new reality—one we're already living in—where cruising through "rooms of memory" plays out like a video game, and ...
Poetry. Translated from the French by John F. Deane. The sequential poem is the connective tissue of AT THE DEVIL'S BANQUETS, a collection that holds at its heart the raw materials of familial relations and emotional inheritance. Koltz is tuned to a...
Poetry. The poems in this collection are concerned with the moods and forces that shape and destroy life. At the book's core, themes of silence, restlessness, loss, and growth form a patterned sequence, while images of birds, water, and darkness ele...
Poetry. WHERE THE ARROW FALLS, first published in Canada in 1973, still stands as a triumph of personal mythmaking. We read the songs, elegies, and haunting modern pastorals of an individual negotiating realms of infinite renewal and possibility. Co...
Poetry. Translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk. "'War made me another person,' said Anna Świrszczyńska. BUILDING THE BARRICADE is the outcome of that change in that it took thirty years for these experiences to find their way into language. B...
Poetry. "Go ahead, try all you want pulling on Ruth Madievsky's emergency brake—but just remember it won't do you any good. This will be the most exciting and inventive first book you have read in years, and this poet's take-no-prisoners attitude ma...