Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss

New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2022"NPR "Best Books of 2022""Levin's luminous latest reckons with the disorientation of contemporary America. . . . Through the fog of doubt, Levin summons ferocious intellect and musters hard-won clairvoyance...

A lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life's hardest questions: how to let go.In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang...

Written during the trial for a close friend's murder, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod exposes that the whimsical, horrible, and absurd all sit together. In this ambitious fourth collection, Traci Brimhall corresponds with the urges of life and...

The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020NPR's Best Books of 2020National Book Award in Poetry, LonglistFrank Sanchez Book AwardChang writes of "the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking." These...

"Bitsui's poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images. A great reading experience for those who like serious and innovative poetry." -Library JournalDrawing upon Navajo history and enduring...

A posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier.In this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies-the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a...

The long-awaited second collection by award-winning poet Gillian Jerome, about rediscovery and reconnection in the centre of urban Vancouver.Nevertheless is a book of walking poems and odes. Poet Gillian Jerome roams into ordinary places inside and...

"Sovereignty, vulnerability, honesty." -Ms. Magazineit was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing urban Indigenous...

This book is a page turner. The story's emotional charge brings the reader to a specific historical moment, keeps the pace of a mystery, and tells a larger narrative. A Quilt for David will appeal to a wide-range of readers as Reigns' prose-poetry...

This is our lead title of the season. In early 2021, Tongo was named the 8th Poet Laureate of San Francisco, which garnered major media coverage and involves high profile public events through 2023. This book will be prominently featured in all settings...

Winner ofthe American Book Award,the Palestine Book Award and Arrowsmith Press's 2023Derek Walcott Poetry PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Finalist"Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha's accomplished debut contrasts scenes of...

First major publication by beloved NYC-based poetA good comparable (older) title is American Dream by SapphireA very accessible and compelling "poetic memoir," in which Pamela Sneed traces her life from a small suburb in Massachusetts to Boston and then...

Shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry PrizeWinner of the 2018 California Book Award - Poetry2018 NCIBA Book of the Year - PoetryThe much-awaited second book by a truly revolutionary poet, in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, Allen Ginsberg,...

Her travelling poetrics are striking in the way that shedefies the borders of "narrative" and "lyric"; she combinesthe two seamlessly, an enviable gift.--Sacramento News & Review. Thesepoems move through love and death, sadness and euphoria, and...