Leavings
Poems
WENDELL BERRY

Berry’s themes are reflections of his life: friends, family, the farm, the nature around us as well as within. He speaks strongly for himself and sometimes for the lost heart of the country. As he has borne witness to the world for eight decades, what he offers us now in this new collection of poems is of incomparable value.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-534-3 | Cloth | $23.00

The Mad Farmer Poems
WENDELL BERRY

Wendell Berry has become “mad” at contemporary society. Gleaned from various collections of this amazing American voice, the poems take the shape of manifestos, insults, and Whitmanic ravings that are often funny in spite of themselves. The whole is a wonderful testimony to the power of humor to bring even the most terrible consequences into an otherwise unobtainable focus.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-176-9 | Cloth | $25.00

Window Poems
WENDELL BERRY

Composed while Wendell Berry looked out the multipaned window of his writing studio, this early sequence of poems contemplates Berry’s personal life as much as it ponders the seasons he witnessed through the window. First designed and printed on a Washington handpress by Bob Barris at the Press on Scroll Road, this book includes elegant wood engravings by Wesley Bates that complement the reflective and meditative beauty of Berry’s poems.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-623-4 | Trade Paper | $16.95

Subduing Demons in America
Selected Poems 1962–2007
JOHN GIORNO | EDITED BY MARCUS BOON

This is the first career-spanning collection of poetry from one of the leading figures in the Beat, New York School, and Factory art and poetry scenes, and one of the pioneers of the open celebration of queer sexuality in poetry. From his Pop Art–influenced poems of the 1960s, to his pared-down punk/hip-hop performance pieces of the 1980s, and beyond, this definitive record charts the course of a true poetic radical.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-204-9 | Trade Paper | $19.95

Kissing Dead Girls
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB

Fusing together pornography and postfeminist theory, transcript and tell-all, these poems and flash prose pieces reach off the page in search of what is to be known—to the masses, to the Other, and to the self. Using poetic inappropriacies, Kissing Dead Girls delves into historical paragons and examines what makes them such powerful dreamscapes among the mundane of the everyday.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-0-97966-365-9 | Trade Paper Original | $15.95

Now & Then
The Poet’s Choice Columns, 1997–2000
ROBERT HASS

From 1997 to 2000, former Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Hass wrote the nationally syndicated column “Poet’s Choice” which featured poems relevant to current headlines written by well-known poets as Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Robert Frost. Now & Then is a collection of these columns that serve as a symbol of the continuing importance of poetry in our daily lives and a celebration of poets whose work transcends time.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-436-0 | Trade Paper | $16.95

In the Time of Assignments
DOUGLAS A. MARTIN

In the Time of Assignments is the first full-length poetry collection from critically acclaimed novelist Douglas A. Martin. The work is divided into three parts, each with a geographical marker indicating the narrator’s evolving identity, from the formative, Red State landscape that colors the first section through the widening horizons, growing sexual awareness, and crush of experience found in the final two.

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

The Practice of the Wild
A New Expanded Edition
GARY SNYDER

The ten captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild, including a new, previously unpublished essay, display the deep understanding and wise erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought.

counterpoint | 978-1-58243-638-8 | trade paper | $14.95 

Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
GARY SNYDER

One of the finest collections of poems published in the twentieth century, this fiftieth anniversary edition of Gary Snyder’s groundbreaking first book of poems, accompanied by a CD of the author’s readings, will please those already familiar with this work and excite a new generation of readers with its profound simplicity and spare elegance.

 “Long ago staked his claim as one of America’s finest poets.” —Boston Herald

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-541-1 | Cloth | $24.00

No Sleep Till Brooklyn
New and Selected Poems
KEVIN POWELL

The poems in Kevin Powell’s newest collection encompass everything from his early role as a renowned slam poet (and original cast member of MTV’s Real World) to his current incarnation as a poet operating away from the scene. 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.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-0-97966-369-7 | Trade Paper Original | $15.95

Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
Gary Snyder

By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, have been influential all over the world. Riprap, his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is the fiftieth anniversary of that groundbreaking book we celebrate with this edition. A small press reprint of that book included Snyder’s translations of Han Shan’s Cold Mountain Poems, perhaps the finest translations of that remarkable poet ever made into English. Reintroducing one of the twentieth century's foremost collections of poetry, this edition will please those already familiar with this work and excite a new generation of readers with its profound simplicity and spare elegance.

“Long ago staked his claim as one of America’s finest poets . . . [An] unswerving integrity [is] present throughout the development of Snyder’s poetic sensibility.”
—Boston Herald