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A Poet's MindCollected Interviews with Robert Duncan, 1960-1985Edited by Christopher Wagstaff, Contribution by Robert Duncan, Foreword by Gerrit LansingPrice: $24.95HardcoverRobert Duncan (1919-1988), one of the major postwar American poets, was an adulated figure among his contemporaries, including Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov. Lawrence Ferlinghetti remarked that Duncan "had the best ear this side of Dante." His stature is increasingly recognized as comparable to that of Ezra Pound, William...
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Collected Poems of Lenore KandelWritten by Lenore Kandel, Preface by Diane di PrimaPrice: $35.00HardcoverJack Kerouac immortalized her in his novel Big Sur. A student of Zen, she hung out with Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg and was a speaker at San Francisco’s Human Be-In. But Lenore Kandel was no muse or hanger-on; she was a brilliant lyric poet, often unabashedly erotic, and that’s where...
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The Seasons of the SoulThe Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Herman HesseWritten by Hermann Hesse, Translated by Ludwig Max Fischer, Ph.D., Foreword by Andrew HarveyPrice: $17.95Trade PaperbackVowing at an early age “to be a poet or nothing at all,” Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles that remain widely...
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Wild Horses, Wild DreamsNew and Selected Poems 1971-2010Written by Lindy HoughPrice: $22.95Trade PaperbackWild Horses, Wild Dreams follows a trajectory from the early seventies to the present, giving a generous overview of Lindy Hough’s intellectual world and emotionally evocative language. The book samples poems from previously published books along with new poems. Selections from Changing Woman, Psyche, The Sun in Cancer, and Outlands &...
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Earth, My LikenessNature Poetry of Walt WhitmanWritten by Walt Whitman, Edited by Howard Nelson, Introduction by Howard NelsonPrice: $18.95Trade PaperbackWhile Walt Whitman is best known as America’s first great urban poet, he was also a gifted nature poet, as the selections in this book show. Here his celebration of the “body electric” from Leaves of Grass expands into a celebration of an equally electrifying nature as he memorializes the seashore...
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The Intent OnCollected Poems, 1962-2006Written by Kenneth Irby, Edited by Kyle Waugh and Cyrus ConsolePrice: $40.00Hardcover***Winner of Poetry Society of America's 2010 Shelley Memorial Award
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Heavenly Tree, Northern EarthWritten by Gerrit LansingPrice: $35.00HardcoverThis is the inaugural volume of a new series of literary hardcovers from North Atlantic Books. This series will collect the important work of writers who have served as major influences upon and contributors to the cultural and psychic milieu from which North Atlantic evolved.
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The OdysseyWritten by Homer, Translated by Charles SteinPrice: $22.95Trade PaperbackMost translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles Stein employs the latter approach in this dramatic, and in some ways truer...
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Dreams of the PresidentsFrom George Washington to Barack ObamaWritten by Charles Barasch, Foreword by John R. TurnerPrice: $12.95Trade PaperbackThe stuff of dreams—hopes, fears, and longings—represents universal subjects to which everyone can relate. Dreams take on a new cultural currency in this collection of dream-poems, one for each American president. Exploring power, as well as its limits and possibilities, linguistics instructor Charles Barasch plays no favorites, making light of the...
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Poems for New OrleansWritten by Edward SandersPrice: $14.95Trade PaperbackThe indomitable spirit of the people of New Orleans is the focus of this powerful suite of poems by counterculture icon Ed Sanders. The book begins with a series of vivid evocations of key events and personalities in the city’s history, then brings this colorful legacy into the present with the...
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BelongingNew Poetry by Iranians Around the WorldEdited by Niloufar TalebiPrice: $18.95Trade PaperbackRecent political developments, including the shadow of a new war, have obscured the fact that Iran has a long and splendid artistic tradition ranging from the visual arts to literature. Western readers may have some awareness of the Iranian novel thanks to a few breakout successes like Reading Lolita in Tehran...
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Westport PoemsWritten by Jonathan TowersPrice: $25.00Trade PaperbackA beloved, familiar figure known as “Jon the Walker” for his daily appearances traversing the marshes and waterways of various Connecticut towns, Jonathan Towers composed brief, emotionally evocative poems until his suicide in 2005 after years of struggle with mental illness. His work was fueled by reading and a rich inner...
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17 Love Poems with No DespairWritten by BJ WardPrice: $9.95Trade Paperback17 Love Poems with No Despair resounds with the voice of a clear, powerful speaker. Ward does not naively deny despair but rather refuses it, making a case to the beloved and to the reader that proffers love as an antidote. This book is an offering of passion wrought with charm...
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Love's GloryRe-creations of RumiWritten by Andrew HarveyPrice: $10.95Trade PaperbackIn Love’s Glory, mystical scholar Andrew Harvey presents 108 stunning short poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic and poet Rumi. Working from translations in various languages and drawing on two decades of studying Rumi’s work, Harvey’s “re-creations” are arranged in a dance around crucial mystical themes: nondual bliss, ordeal, ecstatic recognition...
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