Literature Books

The poet Kabir, one of the most intriguing and celebrated personalities in the history of Indian mysticism, lived in the fifteenth century. He was a great religious reformer and left behind an exquisite body of poetry of enlightenment that weaves...

In 1964, at age 21, Gerard Malanga was already a celebrity poet-photographer in Andy Warhol's Factory; he'd starred in Warhol movies and his poetry had appeared in such prestigious literary magazines as Poetry, Art & Literature, Partisan Review and...

Kahlil Gibran's aphorisms, stories, and poetry on a theme remain among some of those best known to Western readers. His views, however, extend beyond the most-quoted "greeting card" sayings to a wide realm of human emotions and relationships--passion,...

Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a priest, a mystic, and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church court's verdict). In the 20th century, the Roman Catholic Church rehabilitated him and the late Pope John Paul II spoke of his work with fondness.However,...

From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 13th century Sufi mystic.Rumi's Little Book of Life is a beautiful collection of 196 poems by...

Author is a nonspeaking autistic artist who has built a large following in the interdisciplinary communities Author has been widely published in Poem-a-Day, Poets.org, and the Poetry Society of America Strong blurb from Lauren Russell Book is second in a...

Somewhere between elegy and memoir, poetry and prose, Ed Pavli's Call It in the Air follows the death of a sister into song.Pavli's collection traces the life and death of his elder sister, Kate: a brilliant, talented, tormented woman who lived on her...

From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens.In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a "fatal diagnosis," how does a child grow up to be a poet? What...

From Michael Bazzett, poet and translator ofThe Popol Vuh, a collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining."Narcissus was never one to see himself // in moving water. // He liked his image / still."...

What shape does Dutch art take in the American imagination? Austere, perhaps. Insular. Fixated on nature, every writer's "traditional source of consolation." And all of these qualities may indeed be true of the Netherlands' early literature. But...

Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flightis a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire-and with the many tendons in between.When Return Flight asks "what name / do you...

A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival."Some girls are not made," torrin a. greathouse writes, "but spring from the dirt." Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a...

Winner of the 2022 Levis Reading Prize Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's 2021 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book "Top Ten Pick" for Fall 2021 Poetry Titles "Poetry Title to Watch" for 2021 "Must-Read Book of September 2021"Selected by...

Winner of the Max Ritvo PoetryPrize, Ryann Stevenson's Human Resourcesa sobering andperceptive portrait of technology's impact on connection and power.Human Resources Thespeaker of Stevenson's poems grapples with uneasiness and isolation, even asshe...

Kathryn Cowles's Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is a collection that lingers in memory and place, in the unsettled distance between reality and its transcriptions. "I take seven photographs turning / in a circle, a panorama, / but how will I...

A searing, urgent collection of poems that brings the lyric and documentary together in unparalleled ways-unmasking and examining the specter of manmade disaster.The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Hurricane Katrina. The Flint water crisis...

"Wesley McNair, an unassuming, avowedly regional pastoral poet from Western Maine, is writing the best poetry of his life-poetry uniquely capable of, and interested in, addressing our larger moment."-Los Angeles Review of BooksWesley McNair's story-like...

"One of the Year's Best," Times Literary SupplementWhen a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new friend is every bit as complex as the fiction he's famous...

"Old Poets is an indispensable jewel." -Washington Post"An astonishing array of encounters...Hall's observations are shrewd and generous." -Boston GlobeIntimate portraits of great poets in old age, giving new insight into their work and their lives, and...

Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement.In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage,...

The Wet Hex is Sun Yung's fourth book of poetry with CHP. She is beloved and respected for her own award-winning writing as well as for her work as the editor of several anthologies, including A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota (Minnesota...

Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in PoetryWinner of the 2022 Emory Elliott Book AwardFinalist for the 2023 Firecracker AwardFinalist for the 2023 ASLE Creative Book AwardInterweaving elegy, indictment, and hope into a love letter to California,...

This is Marjorie's sixth book with Coffee House. We're honored that a poet of her stature and influence is loyal to our press. She is truly an icon of experimental and modernist poetry. This collection engages deeply with the challenging legacy of Ezra...

Winner of the 2018 US National Book Award for PoetryIntricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood. Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and...

Praise for Greg Hewett:2010 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry2003 Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry WinnerIn poems that are full of wit, touching, and introspective, as well as formally inventive, we find the poet losing his...

For the past thirty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. In The Anti-Aesthetic, preeminent...

Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher: the hand that lifts from the page, becoming almost...

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Becky Nurse is an outspoken, sharp-witted tour guide at the Salem Museum of Witchcraft who's just trying to get by in post-Obama America. She's also the descendant of Rebecca Nurse, who was infamously executed for witchcraft in 1692--but things have...

An audacious new play that explores the ways in which historical trauma affects the present-day intersections of race, gender, and sexuality."The single most daring thing I've seen in a theater in a long time." -- Wesley Morris, New York...

When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student named Christopher, the two form an unexpectedly intense bond. As their lives and the stories they tell about themselves become...

A provocative new play from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Ruined and Sweat.Continuing in her tradition of crafting thought-provoking, socially-conscious dramas, Lynn Nottage's latest offering tells the story of Mlima, a majestic...

Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2018Other awards for Cost of Living: Edgerton New Play Prize (2016), Jean Kennedy Smith Prize-The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2016), Women's Invitational-Ashland New Plays Festival2016 NY Times...

Armed with medicines, feeding tubes, and various medical accoutrement, Mary Jane is a single mother and a one-woman army when it comes to the care of her chronically ill son. A moving new play about the stalwart endurance of a devoted mother, Mary Jane...

Originally premiered on March 16, 1997, Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre, and has received dozens of productions nationally and internationally since.The play earned Vogel the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1998 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, as...

In his five decades of work in theatre, Richard Foreman has become known as the figurehead of the "downtown" scene, the king of all things experimental and unconventional. This brand new anthology is a tribute to his mammoth acclaim, including such...

"Cho's playwriting style...lures us into caring about characters who never fail to surprise us with their simple humanity."-Los Angeles Times"...a strength of Cho's writing is her empathy for those who stumble toward and slip away from intimacies they...

"Revelatory...As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel's play thrums with music, desire, and fear, and it's shrewd about the ways in which America isn't free, and about how art does and doesn't transcend the perilous winds of history." -New...

"Gloria...is to the New York publishing business what David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow is to the Hollywood film industry." - New York Times"A rare example of a contemporary play that keeps us constantly guessing where it's headed, Gloria is a work not to be...

Winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play "THE BEST PLAY OF THE...

"Daphne's Dive is the kind of place 'where everybody knows your name.'...Ms. Hudes has a supple feel for characterization and a wide-ranging sympathy for life's waifs and strays. And like the characters on Cheers, the regulars at Daphne's make up an...

"A keen, passionate portrait of the author as a poetry-spouting romantic punk torn between literary dreams and his roots in the Bronx... Prodigal Son is pure, splendid Shanley: shaggily idealistic and always scratching a philosophical itch underneath...

Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for DramaNowa major motion picture starring Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith, and Tim Robbins."An elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama.Marjorie Primeoperates by stealth... at some point, you realize that...

"Vibrant and surprisingly serious...by far the most accomplished and affecting work from the gifted Mr. Guirgis, a prolific and erratic chronicler of marginal lives."-The New York Times "The most expressive cursing since Shakespeare."-The Guardian In The...

Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"The finest work yet from this gifted writer."-The New York TimesOffered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves...

"Offers the chance to banquet on rich and delectable passions and ideas, washed down with lashings of wit. . . . Its big argumentative poetry screams out that history matters."-The Nation"A brainy, brawny, thematically expansive work, stuffed with...

Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "Funny, heartbreaking, sly and unblinking...The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity and profound uniqueness of theater." -Jesse Green, New York "Hilarious and...

"One of the most spectacularly original plays in recent memory."-Entertainment Weekly"Fascinating and hilarious . . . With each of its three acts, Mr. Burns grows grander."-Village Voice"When was the last time you met a new play that was so smart it made...