A powerfully moving debut poetry collection about the violence of colonialist occupationOne more rock thrown onto the pile to tumble the mountain on my chest―Hasib HouraniHasib Hourani’s rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows...

Dominated by feminine presences, this collection includes new poems that celebrate the birth of the poet's daughter, and personal elegy for Mary Farl Powers. By the author of Mules and Meeting the British.

Osip Mandelshtam is one of the greatest Russian poets of the early 20th century. This extensively revised and augmented edition features James Greene's acclaimed translations of Mandelshtam's poetry.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the...

A new collection of poems by the author of A Guilded Lapse of Time revisits the story of Oedipus and Apollo to probe themes of fate and necessity.

Book by Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

“This is a fine, bilingual edition of the works of one of the great French Surrealists. . . . The translations, by several hands, serve Char well―full of insinuating rhythms and unusual verbal couplings, they come close to the piercing beauty of the...

From backyard to Sonoran desert, Every Sound is Not a Wolf explores the tender connection between people, place, and the natural world.Alberto Ríos’ Every Sound is Not a Wolf evokes and awakens the senses—the smell of herbs, “the geckos at their...

With imaginative power and emotional force, Into The Hush explores the exigencies of climate change, of endangered cultures, and of our nuclear age.Like wind on a lake, Arthur Sze’s twelfth book of poetry, Into the Hush, extends a language that ripples...

A fearless, revelatory collection from one of the most talked-about poets in America, whose poems have been embraced by critics and readers alike as candid, intimate, and magnetically charged (“like catching a glimpse of the full moon in the middle of...

In this brilliant new collection of poems, National Book Award winner Martín Espada offers narratives of the forgotten and the unforgettable.The poems in Jailbreak of Sparrows reveal the ways in which the ordinary becomes monumental: family portraits,...

The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning, and consolation through poetryA Penguin ClassicElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practiced by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of...

The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian“Helle’s translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic cladding. . . . The growing popularity of Enheduana gives all...

A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more.A groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet,...

A vulnerable, searching collection about facing the beautiful & difficult parts of our humanness with compassion & wonder“This is a book that will make you feel simultaneously alive and less alone.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Timesbestselling author of...

Haunting and darkly humorous poems by the internationally acclaimed Austrian novelist, playwright, and memoiristThomas Bernhard (1931–1989) has been compared to Kafka and Beckett, and critics have ranked his novels among the masterpieces of the twentieth...

A landmark new translation of Homer’s most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn.In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore's translation of Homer’s The Iliad. For more than sixty years, it has...