Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry
By U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze
April 2026
97981556597329 | $17.00 | Paperback | 184 Pages | 5.0 in. x 7.0 in.
Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry is a personal guide to global poetry in translation by twenty-fifth U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. Focusing on an accessible selection of key works, Sze takes readers through nearly two millennia of poetry from every part of the world, constructing fifteen different “zones” of literary discussion with a critical focus on the artistic dimensions of translation itself. Using multiple translations of the same source poems—as well as original poems written by translators—he explores deep connections between the acts of writing and reading. Sze invites readers to consider their own acts of engaged reading as a creative pursuit, giving them tools to begin translating poems themselves as well as tools that will unlock foreign-language works as inspirational sources. At its core, this unique anthology, published in association with the Library of Congress, showcases a profound goal of global literary citizenship: to open works up to all readers and to encourage poetic creativity at the fundamental level of language itself.
A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World
By Robert Hass
May 2026
97981556597282 | $22.00 | Paperback | 376 Pages | 6.0 in. x 9.0 in.
In A Third Commonness, U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time and topography—from Zen Buddhism to California ecopoetics, from Barry Lopez to Walt Whitman, and even through an unlikely fellowship between Kentucky poet-priests. Told through essays and lectures, A Third Commonness is as much a love letter to landscape as it is a sprawling exploration of poetic heritage. Hass weaves histories with the boundless hand of a passionate reader inseparable from literary vitality. Hass revels at genius, saying, Here it is, this stretch of it. Sometimes with a requiem, other times with romance or political reckoning, Hass returns to the amazements of a poetry that encounters itself over and again, beckoned into being by some “propelling force.”
I Was Bonnie & Clyde
By Laura Kasischke
May 2026
9781556597312 | $17.00 | Paperback | 112 Pages | 6.0 in. x 9.0 in.
In Kasischke’s newest collection, every moment contains an infinity: the mundane in the monumental, and the monumental in the mundane. I Was Bonnie & Clyde illuminates small collisions between life and death, from “that last suitcase circling / its last loop / for all of eternity” to “the mole / hauled out of the ground / by the dog / to die in the sun.” Ghosts haunt and heighten these poems as they draw upon the independent weariness of women throughout history: Bonnie Parker, Lady Godiva, Amy Winehouse, a handbook’s unnamed perfect hostess. Lovingly self-effacing, Kasischke evokes vulnerability, disbelief, and tragedy with a quiet, conversational reverence. With wordplay and exclamation, lament and ironic humor, these poems invite as they reflect, reaching out to a forbidding world.
Creature Feature
By Dean Young
April 2026
9781556597220 | $17.00 | Paperback | 112 Pages | 6.0 in. x 9.0 in.
Creature Feature is Dean Young’s first posthumous collection since his death in 2022. More feisty, hilarious, surreal, and heartbreaking than ever, Young and his tireless inventiveness are on full display in fierce poems that refuse to compromise yet are guided by love and amazement at living. These poems resound with risk-taking, mischief, and aching beauty. Young remains committed to the generative possibilities of poetry even as he writes his own elegy again and again.
Young envisioned Creature Feature to serve as the third and final installment in a trilogy that includes Shock by Shock (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and Solar Perplexus (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). Together, these three books were imagined during the turbulent years following his successful heart-transplant surgery, and they demonstrate a vigorous recommitment to artistic recklessness and poetic inventiveness. Through all their painful genius, these poems reveal an abiding awareness that time is short and art in our time is more urgent than ever.
Breathe
By Bob Hicok
April 2026
9781556597305 | $17.00 | Paperback | 112 Pages | 6.0 in. x 9.0 in.
Hicok’s poetry has long been distinctive for its compassionate breadth of feeling, curiosity, and play. In Breathe, he meets the social and cultural moment, soothing distress with tenderness while meditating on the persistence of love. Hicok writes with candid intimacy and affection to his wife, to his cat, to his dying father, and always to the extraordinary within the quotidian. Playful and absurdist, these poems yet reveal an undeniable longing “to believe in something.” Honest in his witness of death and violence, Hicok celebrates the potential for change within each of us. Breathe is a call for stillness—a call “to understand what leaves / are saying to the wind. To be deserving / of the giddyup of your breath.”
Air
By Daniel Halpern
May 2026
9781556597251 | $17.00 | Paperback | 136 Pages | 6.0 in. x 9.0 in.
Cinematic, nostalgic, and unabashedly raw, Halpern’s tenth collection, Air, hungers for the entirety of human experience. A mythic quotidian is recounted through rich and often confessional exposition: the love of a father for his daughter, of dear people and places, of curious insects and birds. Musing unapologetically on themes intimate and wistful, Halpern writes to French actresses, old lovers, a pot of stew, insomnia, and to friends past and present, sharing lessons of the literary world. As he reminisces on once-realities and questions his own observations—the duplicity of memory—these poems transcend form, the world presenting itself anew. Halpern is a literary icon, and in Air he proves that poetry is quite literally all around us.
The Man in 119
By Kazim Ali
August 2026
9781556597299 | $17.00 | Paperback | 120 Pages | 6.0 in. x 9.0 in.
The Man in 119, the latest collection from accomplished poet Kazim Ali, explores loss and absence alongside the human body and the natural world. Here, the tongue becomes a collaboration between human and glacial current—the self, a “tectonic topography of god.” Grappling with questions of mortality in the wake of his mother’s death, Ali asks where we go when we leave this world: “earth or sky or memory only.” With musicality, these poems build a space for contemplation, offering vignettes of various individuals, memories, and geographies. We learn that in migration, the body moves, reproduces itself through the experience of losing and living still.
Accidental Devotions
By Kelli Russell Agodon
May 2026
9781556597268 | $17.00 | Paperback | 112 Pages | 6.0 in. x 9.0 in.
Kelli Russell Agodon’s latest collection, Accidental Devotions, seeks to find meaning in a world lit by screens and haunted by ghosts—both real and digital. Blending humor with vulnerability, these poems embrace the beautiful chaos of our relationships, of aging and being human. Here, explorations of desire, technology, and spirituality ring out like birdsong through a chapel. Sharp and playful, Accidental Devotions is for the quiet rebels and devoted readers—for those who carry ashes to the beach, ask Alexa for guidance, keep Emily Dickinson’s book on the nightstand, or fall in love mid-sentence. With queer tenderness, and an ongoing devotion to desire, these poems make room for grief and joy, pleasure and struggle. The result: a dazzling, defiant field guide to staying human.
Tread Upon
By Christopher Kondrich
April 2026
9781556597244 | $17.00 | Paperback | 120 Pages | 6.0 in. x 9.0 in.
Bold, incisive, and wholly original, Christopher Kondrich’s Tread Upon explores the social, political, religious, and economic drivers behind the chronic devaluation of the living world. In this book-length sequence, in which each section unravels a word or phrase of the prefatory poem, Tread Upon sprawls from suburbia to the Southern Ocean, from the Cape Fear River to the phones in our hands. Kondrich juxtaposes the intimate with the epic, integrating climate research and reporting to dismantle narratives of anthropocentrism and our individual responsibility amid corporate misinformation. What is the price of our (in)actions and who must pay the cost? In this world where “even one blade is a place,” the sequence reveals that the violence done to the living world is violence done to ourselves.
Cloudwatcher
By Michael Bazzett
April 2026
9798987585252 | $17.00 | Paperback | 76 Pages | 6.0 in. x 9.0 in.
Winner of the inaugural 2025 Stern Prize from The American Poetry Review, Michael Bazzett’s astonishing Cloudwatcher is laced with wit and buoyed by a welcome eccentricity. These poems reside in an otherwhere of missing rivers and bottled starlight, where the sea leaves cryptic letters for beachcombers on shore, where rain “wipe[s] the name clean off the mountain.” Bazzett is a master at building a world slightly parallel to this one, a place of weirdness and mystery where a “cage of [one’s] own desires” comes replete with cedar shavings, feed tray, and water bottle. With its evocative imagery and language crackling with energy, Cloudwatcher brings us to a place where the eternal rubs shoulders with the everyday, leaving us with a heightened sense of how absurd and wondrous it is to inhabit a temporary body in this world, and the life-affirming reminder that “until / you crack a bit, you can’t be over-joyed.”