Inspired by the endless hours spent looking through his studio window, Berry’s Window Poems elegantly considers all that passes through his familiar frame. His trademark fascination with the fecund land surfaces through these delicately rendered landscapes, seasons, and wildlife. Beautifully understated yet expansive in its scope, this volume captures both Berry’s brilliant eye and boundless heart.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-156-1 | Cloth | $23.00

Kissing Dead Girls
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB

Kissing Dead Girls uses poetic inappropriacies to touch historical paragons and examine what touches us in them, casting the narrator as the lover of Josephine Baker, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, Frida Kahlo, Jonbenet Ramsey, Sharon Tate, and Karen Carpenter. Fusing together pornography and post-feminist theory, these poems and stories reach off the page in search of what it is to be known.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-0-9796636-5-9 | Trade Paper | $15.95

During his tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Hass’s “Poet’s Choice” column revived the popular nineteenth-century tradition of including poetry in our newspapers. Spanning from 1997 to the start of the millennium, Hass’s musings offer a remembrance and reminder of a period in our history, as well as a celebration of the poets—well-known and obscure—whose work transcends time.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-146-2 | Cloth | $26.00

In a decade’s worth of intensely felt moments, Douglas A. Martin creates a beautiful, fragmentary narrative through poetry. The sometimes-suffocating confines of childhood in a working class neighborhood, young-adulthood, a developing sexual identity, and the structural complexities of adult life are all experienced, belying notions of a single, seamless identity.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-0-97966-360-4 | Trade Paper | $17.95

No Sleep Till Brooklyn
New and Selected Poems
KEVIN POWELL

Within this rich tapestry of musings, confession, and introspection, Powell weaves issues like racism, black self-hatred, and gender violence with his own anguished revelations about sex, love, and misogyny.
 “Kevin Powell has the talent to see and the courage to say. He truly keeps it real.”
—Maya Angelou

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-0-9796636-9-7 | Trade Paper | $15.95

Mountains and Rivers Without End
Poem
GARY SNYDER

“A magnificent achievement . . . This is a major work by a venerable master of post-WWII American poetry.” —Publishers Weekly
“People who think that ‘poetry makes nothing happen’ will have to reckon again in reading this poem.” —Wendell Berry

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-407-0 | Trade Paper | $13.95

The Old Tea Seller
Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto
Baisaô | TRANSLATED BY NORMAL WADDELL

After the influential and remarkably unconventional Baisaô settled into tea-selling life in his fifties, he lived out his remaining days composing poetry, brewing tea, and teaching Zen, becoming one of the most well-loved figures in the capital. This translation, which contains almost all of his poems, memoirs, and letters, is certain to place him alongside other exceptional, Zen-inspired poets.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-413-1 | Cloth | $24.00