"Apprenticed to Justice" is a collection of vividly rendered lyrical and narrative poems that trace the complex inheritances of Indigenous America, this "strange map drawn of blood and history." It opens with intriguing glimpses of individuals - a mother "born of dawn / in a reckless moon of miscegenation," cousins "who rotated authority / on marbles sex and skunk etiquette," women "planting dreams with dank names like rutabaga and kohlrabi"--And...

"In When My Brother Was An Aztec, Natalie Diaz examines memory's role in human identity. Each section filters memory through specific individuals and settings. The first concentrates on a diabetic grandmother without legs and the landscape, tangible and intangible, of a Native American reservation. The second engages a brother's strife with drug-use and his unraveling of the family, the home. The third grapples with war as a character and its tattering...

A collection of the poems of Deborah Keenan written over three decades. Themes include loyalty, integrity, love, rage, vulnerability, and authority.

"Whether memorized by schoolchildren or used to eulogize a president, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," written in 1922 and published in 1923, has found a place as one of the best-loved and best-known American poems of the last hundred years. Now, six decades after the passing of its author, Robert Frost, celebrated artist P.J. Lynch brings this classic to new life with exquisitely detailed illustrations, evoking its iconic moments and wintry...

A collection of humorous poems and drawings.

Contains a collection of poems by the author, set in countries and places around the world, that expound on themes of place, travel, home, and migration.

"A poet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery, Kumin is 'unforgettable, indispensable' (New York Times Book Review). In And Short the Season she muses on mortality: her own and that of the earth. Always deeply personal, always political, these poems blend myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence and tenderness of humankind."--from publisher's description.

"Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John Ashbery, Sandra Cisneros, Amanda Gorman, Maggie Smith, Kaveh Akbar: these stellar names make up just a fraction of the wonderfulness that is present in this essential anthology. The book is organized into sections honoring...