Your TBR Needs More Poetry

Treat yourself to more poetry – you deserve it! Here are just a couple of the remarkable books of poetry you will be experiencing when you do:

Tabako on the Windowsill
by Hari Alluri

To build an entire book around portals and thresholds is to try to create living myth. Tabako on the Windowsill builds from comic books, television, paintings, folklore, music, and a unique imagination. These poems follow an immigrant point of view while maintaining home in a language that engages with blood and chosen family, with multiple lived and ancestral spaces in India, the Philippines, Nigeria, Canada, and the U.S.

Ring of Dust
by Louise Marois, translated by D.M. Bradford

A poem sequence that embraces the ruptures a lyrical turn makes possible. In Ring of Dust, veteran Quebec poet Louise Marois delights in poetic feints, temporal leaps, asides, tangents, sleights of hand, call-backs and echoes. This ambitious collection of sequences populates plural dialogues between then and now, family and entourage, lover and nature, mother and death, work-person and artist, fables and confidences, limits and new reaches, home and escape, city and field, queer life and a blood red world.

Did you know that this year marks our 50th year as an independent poetry press? We are grateful, and so lucky, to be a part of this literary community that has never stopped growing with and championing poetry as something essential. We are excited to celebrate this anniversary, and the many more to come, alongside our lovely readers and poetry lovers.

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