Book Features

In 2018, among the 365 poems Poetry Daily presented, 160 came from books published by 80 different presses. Browse all those plus newly featured books here. You may also browse books presented via Editor’s Choice, which spotlights a new poetry collection publicly chosen by an editorial board member, featured books of Poetry in Translation, and by Publisher.

Letter

Andrés Cerpa

Friends, family, gallows saints & ghosts, rig a swing at the edge of the shore when I'm gone for the birds to perch & the bats to glide through, to disappear & appear in the small places the moon cannot touch.

from the book Bicycle in A Ransacked City: An Elegy / Alice James Books

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September 18, 2019

Tragedy for One Voice

Emily Berry

Somebody said: 'I am a master of elision.' I veiled my tended wound. I veiled my narrative. Somebody called it: 'some kind of gratuitous beauty.' I veiled my photograph of her in sixties playsuit

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Stranger, Baby

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Series

Editor's Choice

September 17, 2019

One-Way Gate

Jenny George

It could have been any gate, any moment when things go one way and not the other—an act of tenderness or a small, cruel thing done with a pocketknife. A child being born. Or the way we move from sleeping to dreams, as a river flows uneasy under ice.

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The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poetry at the Extremes of Feeling

Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company

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September 16, 2019

In Memoriam

Wong May

Listen if you listen carefully for long you will hear nothing

Book

Reports

Publisher

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Series

What Sparks Poetry

September 14, 2019

Last Resort

Nazelah Jamison

one person can make a difference this is my new personal revolution cause and effect, instant means to an end warn all your friends

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Evolutionary Heart

Publisher

Nomadic Press

Series

September 11, 2019

River I Dream About

Oliver Baez Bendorf

Everything rivers in motion. River of holy, river of freaks, river where my fur belong to me. Softer than it seem river. Honey and Vaseline river. Brown river, black river, off the map river. I will be there, printing textures of rock on the skin of me, belly down, face down. My god, it is good to be home.

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Advantages of Being Evergreen

Publisher

Cleveland State University Poetry Center

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Editor's Choice

September 9, 2019

[A man walks by with a stick of bread on his shoulder.]

César Vallejo (translated from the Spanish by Clayton Eshleman & José Rubia Barcia)

A bricklayer falls from a roof, dies and no longer eats lunch. To innovate, then, the trope, the metaphor?

Book

The Complete Posthumous Poetry

Publisher

University of California Press

Series

Translation, What Sparks Poetry

September 7, 2019

Consciousness

Mark Yakich

I command my car only in German. I talk with my wife only in English. I scold our children only in Mandarin.

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Spiritual Exercises

Publisher

Penguin Books

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September 5, 2019

Southern Cone

Carmen Giménez Smith

I wept with my grandmother when Reagan was shot because that's what she wanted. At night, she'd tell me about a city built by Evita for children in Buenos Aires, the city of her first exile.