All the work of this major poet who has set a new standard for American poetry. * Collected Poems brings together in one volume C.K. Williams's work of nearly forty years,... See all

In 1940, when John Wheelwright was killed by a speeding car, Boston lost one of its most colorful personalities and American poetry one of its most original and provocative... See all

This is the first complete collection of poems by the legendary American playwright who identified himself as having the soul of a poet. The work here is culled from throughout... See all

Beginning with the impassioned, never-before-published title poem, here is the life's work of a beloved Kashmiri-American poet. Agha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad... See all

A tribute to the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's career features the writer's theme of classic American melancholy and includes such pieces as "Bus Stop," "Men at Forty," "Crossing... See all

Long before her award-winning novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez was writing poetry that gave a distinctive voice to... See all

Irving Feldman is a master chronicler of our collective experience and an overlooked treasure of American poetry. Feldman's rich body of work exhibits his mastery of language from... See all

Edwin Rolfe's Collected Poems brings together the body of his work that we believe will be of greatest use to those readers with a general interest in American political poetry... See all

'And when the second and final colume of Williams' 'Collected Poems' is published, it should become even more apparent that he is this century's major American poet.' -Larry Kart,... See all

'And when the second and final colume of Williams' 'Collected Poems' is published, it should become even more apparent that he is this century's major American poet.' -Larry Kart,... See all

For Jeffers, as for no other important modern American poet, there has never been a collected poems, not even a truly representative selected poems the current Selected Poetry,... See all

Margaret Walker became the first African American to win a national literary award when her collection For My People was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1942. Over... See all

The definitive edition of all of the playwright/poet's poetry. Tennessee Williams, acknowledged lyric master of American drama, first came to the attention of New Directions... See all

Praise for John Haines A writer of rare vision and poetic eloquence. -Robert Michael Pyle, New York Times Book Review Haines has always written with a beautiful ear. His early... See all

The Collected Poems brings together Reynolds Price's previously published volumes of poetry (Vital Provisions, The Laws of Ice, The Use of Fire, and selections from his ongoing... See all