By contrasting different approaches to poetry, this work not only questions the intrinsic value of any given form but also provides a model for the author's heterogeneous books, including My Way and With Strings.

A collection which includes individual lyric poems as well as a chapbook Sea Lyrics and a collaborative piece Dumb Duke Death with illustrations by Jennifer Jarnot.

Linking elegies to extended journal-like meditations, this book asks 'what the day may mean.' This book explores relationships with the dead - from the poet's father, to John Cage, to Kenneth Burke, to George Oppen - while also, through family vacations, projecting forward to ask 'to what are we ancestral.'

A challenge to the way numbers prevail over words in art and experience, this collection provides a new poetry of the book and a manifesto against maths in art, philosophy and society. It offers a critique of mathematical reason and a comedy of speculative wit.

Includes poems that embody a personal kind of lyricism. Often focused on specifics of locality and displacement, alienation and marginality, this title remodels the actual and infuse poetic thought with a dual sense of time, where the past and the present live simultaneously.

In this selection of shorter lyric poems, celebrated Language poet Bruce Andrews offers his charismatic blend of satire, wit and jouissance, creating a dizzying picture of modern America. In these poems Andrews explores a more intimate and domestic register, further reminding us of the astonishing range of this contemporary master.

Periplum and other poems brings together Peter Gizzi's celebrated and influential first book, out of print for nearly a decade, with 60 pages of early and uncollected work, including the long poem Music for Films. This new edition functions as a collected poems of Gizzi's work from 1987 to 1992.

Braided River is a selection from forty years of published poems plus some of my most recent, uncollected work. It describes a lifetime's endeavours to write poems that reflect a thinking and feeling person's twentieth century existence in Europe and America - in love and sorrow, and even, still, some hope for the future of the world at large.

In this latest collection of poems, Hill invokes people and place, mythologizing and demythologizing city lives as they are led. From poignant vignettes and celebrations to urban-pastoral and elegy, these poems extend Hill's romance with London's psychic and surreal fabric. Selected as a Next Generation poet, Hill continues to delight us with sensuous observation and imaginative embrace.

This is cosmopolitan one-man theater at its best. Words do not swallow the reader: they flow to a varied musical rhythm and make sense. Nikolayev's collection models a persuasive modern hero-an uprooted intellectual at home in diverse cultures who stares at the world through a unique pair of eyes.