"Tesoro is a story of family, survival, and the formative power of the women in Salgado's life. It is a telling of the balance between love and perseverance. Tesoro is an unearthing of the sacred connections that make a person whole; the treasure we forever keep with us when we learn from those we love, when we mourn those we've lost, and what grows in between."--

Smoking Lovely's explorations of poetry and the neoliberal city at the intersection of community and commodity. In this radically revised new edition, Perdomo shifts the poem into mostly second person, thereby further accentuating its self-reflexive and complex exploration of self-and/as-other, and of the simultaneous othering, commodification, and spectacularization of Afro-diasporic bodies and cultural forms.

The Now describes the unique, and sometimes baffling, moment in which we live, a time defined by an immediate future of online wonderments, fake news, multiple personalities, data economy, gene modification, and the rest of the exciting-and-yet-ominous "technology culture," even as it's a time when the urge to memorialize the past--to sing elegiacally--seems more important than ever.

"The poems in Cotton Candy were written during Ted Kooser's daily routine of getting up long before dawn and writing down whatever drifts into his mind"--

"Danni Quintos' Poulin Prize-winning debut poetry collection explores what it means to be a mixed-race, multiethnic Asian American girl in Kentucky"--

"NIGHTINGALE is a book about transformation. By radically rewriting myths central to Ovid s 'Metamorphoses', Paisley Rekdal contemporizes Ovid's tropes of violence, dismemberment, silence, and fragmentation. A series of connected poems traces the continuing effects of sexual abuse and rape on survivors, where nightmares mix with images of empathy, and hope emerges from the dark forest of memory. Rekdal's characters change and change again, not by...

"From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief, and love. In this collection, Martín Espada bears witness to confrontation with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents playing soccer in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He knows that times of hate also call for poems of love-even in the voice of a Galápagos...