Boa Editions Ltd : 135 books

First printing: 3000 copies (trade paper). Cyborg Detective is Jillian Weise’s third poetry collection. Her first book, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, was re-released in a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by the author in 2017. Her previous collection, The Book of Goodbyes (BOA,...

Through Michael Blumenthal’s eyes we gain a renewed, childlike wonder at everything from plants, trees, and relationships to the most fundamental word in our vocabulary: AND. Blumenthal uses the conjunction to unify this collection and create a chanting, sonorous rhythm to his work. The result is...

Her traveling poetrics are striking in the way that she defies the borders of "narrative" and "lyric"; she combines the two seamlessly, an enviable gift. --Sacramento News & Review These poems move through love and death, sadness and euphoria, and across European...

Dorianne Laux’s long-awaited third book of poetry follows her collection, What We Carry, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. In Smoke, Laux revisits familiar themes of family, working class lives and the pleasures of the body in poetry that is vital and artfully...

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Louis Simpson has been a leading figure in American letters for more than half a century. Born in the West Indies, Simpson immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen. He studied at Columbia University, then served the US Army in active duty in Europe during...

First printing: 3000–5000 copies. The Tiny Journalist is the fifth BOA title by renowned poet Naomi Shihab Nye. This is Nye’s first full-length adult poetry collection since Transfer (BOA, 2011). All of her previous titles continue to be among BOA’s bestsellers. HOT TOPIC: This...

Known for his superrealism and magical images born of the imagery of the Chicano/South Western culture, Ray Gonzalez gives new imagery and intensity to the mystery and common miracles of that culture, the passionate reclamation of identity. Ray Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and editor born...

In the foreword to Li-Young Lee’s first book, Rose (BOA Editions, 1986), Gerald Stern wrote, “What characterizes Li-Young Lee’s poetry is a certain kind of humility, a kind of cunning, a love of plain speech, a search for wisdom and understanding. . . . I think we are in the presence of a true...

In 2016, Barter was named Acadia National Park's first-ever Poet Laureate, in honor of the park's Centennial year. Barter has been honored with many prestigious awards and accolades, including the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions; the 2014 Maine Literary Award for the year’s best...

Richly allusive, the poems in Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s The Orchard evoke elements of myth in distinctive aural and rhythmic patterns. Her poetic strength lies in her ability to cast poems as modern myths and allegories. Propelled by patterned repetitions and lush cadences, the poems move the reader...

Rare inside look at the Iraq war through eyes of a gifted, young poet. Joins Brian Turner's Here, Bullet as poetic document of Iraq war. Selected by Cornelius Eady as winner of BOA's 11th Annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Introduction by Cornelius Eady. Hugh Martin will be a 2012-2013 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Adam McOmber's lush, hallucinatory stories are both familiar and wholly original. Drawn from the historical record, Biblical lore, fairy tales, science fiction, and nightmares, these offbeat and fantastical works explore gender and sexuality in their darkest and most beautiful manifestations. In the...

This debut collection was selected by Thomas Lux as winner of BOA's 8th Annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Lux has also written a Foreword. His endorsement will draw interest to this dynamic new poet. Additionally, Kuipers' distinguished position as Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University should...

Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most beloved and widely read poets in America. Her speaking engagements are booked by the Steven Barclay Agency and she appears at schools, festivals, and conferences in excess of 100 times per year. In January 2010 Naomi Shihab Nye was elected to the Board of...