The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.

In this fresh, authoritative version — the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman — this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way.

From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of milk and honey comes a long-awaited second collection of poetry, a transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one's roots and expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself, augmented by the author's own illustrations. Original.

"These poems explore the haunted legacy of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, an medical institution at the heart of the eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century in America. The author, who has cerebral palsy, grew up in the shadow of the former Colony in southwestern Virginia, aware that, had she been born fifty years earlier, she would quite possibly been admitted there, and exposed to a variety of inhumane treatments, including forced sterilization. Her poems give voice to the Colony's chorus of residents, reclaiming for them elements of their humanity" —

Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality and the invisibility of the Asian-American urban poor through poetry.

Selections from three earlier volumes reflect the distinguished poet's response to the realities of modern life.

"The collected poems of the award winning American poet Frank Bidart"—

In a provocative collection of poems, the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene is imagined as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in the modern world where she searches for meaning and yearns for the guidance of her spiritual teacher, a Christ figure, whose death she continues to grieve.

The poems in A Sunday in Purgatory combine memoir, reflections on aging, sexuality, and wrestling with the tension that exists between being part of a famous American family and wanting to be an individual, separate from family history.

A collection of twenty-two chapbooks on a variety of topics, that can be read in any order, explores what makes people, memories, and stories.

Solmaz Sharif's debut book of poems examines the ongoing costs of war, lifting sterile words and phrases from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms.

The epic poem depicts the creation, fall, and redemption of humankind and the moral and spiritual dilemmas of God's judgment.

25 poems that offer a condensed survey of Argentinian poet Julio Cortázar's life — free-verse and fixed, from the intimately lyrical to broadly socio-historical.

H. L. Hix applies psychological and philosophical anger theories to aspects of contemporary American life.