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The Essential Ruth Stone collects a beloved American poet¿s career-defining poems into a single, incandescent volume.

';A refreshing new translation. . . . Highly recommended.'Library Journal';With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of the Taoteching works as both a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation.'Publishers Weekly';Read it in confidence that it comes as close as possible to expressing the Chinese text in English.'Victor Mair, professor of Chinese studies, University of PennsylvaniaLao-tzu's Taoteching is an essential volume of world literature, and Red Pine's nuanced and authoritative English translationreissued and published with the Chinese text en faceis one of the best-selling versions. What sets this volume apart from other translations are its commentaries by scores of Taoist scholars, poets, monks, recluses, adepts, and emperors spanning more than two thousand years. ';I envisioned this book,' Red Pine notes in his introduction, ';as a discussion between Lao-tzu and a group of people who have thought deeply about his text.'Sages have no mind of their owntheir mind is the mind of the peopleto the good they are goodto the bad they are gooduntil they become goodto the true they are trueto the false they are trueuntil they become true . . .Lao-tzu (ca. 600 BCE) was a Chinese sage who Confucius called ';a dragon among men.' He served as Keeper of the Royal Archives and authored the Taoteching.Red Pine is one of the world's foremost translators of Chinese literary and religious texts.

Is the world finite? Through place and time and the great expanse of Australia, Marianne Boruch ponders this, aided not just by wallabies and platypus, kangaroos and wombats, but by a cheeky Archangel who wanders in and out of her poems. The pertinent wisdom of an Indigenous Elder is here too, along with the continuing presence of Pliny the Elder, the Roman naturalist and historian who in 77 CE posed the question Boruch considers. Written following Boruch's Fulbright in Australia, and on the heels of the devastating fires that began after her departure, Bestiary Darkis filled with strange and sweet details, beauty, and impending doom-the drought, fires, and floods that have grown unspeakable in scale. These poems face the ancient, unsettling relationship of humans and the natural world-the looming effect we've wrought on wildlife-and what solace and repair our learning even a little might mean.

Bilingual Edition: "Valverde¿s sharp meditation on the state of mind of a nation reeling from its historical contradictions and moral failings is startling...Forché¿s consummate translation and instructive introduction provide amap to help readers navigate this powerful book."¿BooklistIn Fernando Valverde¿s América, ¿sorrow is ancient.¿ Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of American roots, dysfunctions, and ideals¿as if from above, and yet also from within¿this is a book that deconstructs the legacy of empire. From the Mississippi River to Fulton Avenue, from slavery to ¿lone wolf¿ shooters, Valverde grieves but does not wince away from all that is lost to greed and a culture of violence, painting an urgent portrait of ¿the thirst of America / a smile satisfied to death.¿ Valverde is widely regarded as one of the most important younger Spanish-language poets. Here his vibrant voice and convictions are translated and introduced by Carolyn Forché, herself a world-renowned poet of witness. Bilingual, with Spanish originals and English translations.

After decades out of print, Passion-one of June Jordan's most important collections-has returned to readers. Originally entitled, passion: new poems, 1977-1980, this volume holds key works including "Poem About My Rights," "Poem About Police Violence," "Free Flight," and an essay by the poet, "For the Sake of the People's Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us." June Jordan was a fierce advocate for the safety and humanity of women and Black people, and for the freedom of all people-and Barack Obama made a line from this book famous: "We are the ones we have been waiting for." With love and humor, via lyrics and rants, she calls for nothing less than radical compassion. This new edition includes a foreword by Nicole Sealey.

Kasischke writes poetry, novels, and YA novels Her novel The Life Before Her Eyeswas made into a movie starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood She has a deep interest in fairy tales, and is especially inspired by Yeats¿s renditions of Irish folk tales.Where Now: New and Selected(Copper Canyon Press) was Longlisted for National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space, in ChainsPrevious Kasischke books by Copper Canyon were well-reviewed by The New York Times, The Boston Review, and received numerous ¿Best Book of the Year¿ accolades.Has lived and worked in Michigan her entire life, and many of her poems draw from the suburban landscape of the Midwest.

';Directed by Desire . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry.'BooklistNow in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan's -poetry. Collecting the finest work from Jordan's ten volumes, as well as dozens of ';last poems' that were never published in Jordan's lifetime, these more than six hundred pages overflow with intimate lyricism, elegance, fury, meditative solos, and dazzling vernacular riffs.As Adrienne Rich writes in her introduction, June Jordan ';wanted her readers, listeners, students, to feel their own latent powerof the word, the deed, of their own beauty and intrinsic value.' From ';These Poems': These poems they are things that I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are and are you ready?The cloth edition of Directed by Desire was selected as a Library Journal Poetry Book of the Year and received the Lambda Book Award for Lesbian Poetry. June Jordan taught at UC Berkeley for many years and founded Poetry for the People. Her twenty-eight books include poetry, essays, fiction, and children's books. She was a regular columnist for The Progressive and a prolific writer whose articles appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and The Nation. After her death in 2002, a school in the San Francisco School District was renamed in her honor.