Boa Editions Ltd : 135 books

Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her fourth...

The End of Pink won the prestigious 2015 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, the only second-book award for poetry in the United States. Nuernberger was also awarded the 2015 James Laughlin Award Residency in Miami Beach from the Academy of American Poets, which is a weeklong...

Since his Pulitzer Prize-winning debut in 1959, W.D. Snodgrass has amassed a large and loyal following. His poetry still appears regularly in journals thus maintaining his visibility among his loyal fans and a new generation of poets. Snodgrass's name should be easily recognized in bookstores that...

Naomi Shihab Nye focuses on ordinary people and ordinary situations, which, when rendered through the poems in Fuel, become remarkable. The poet imagines the border families of southern Texas, small ferns and forgotten books, Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East. Nye has written, "Lives unlike mine, you save me."

Jewelry Box is a collection of intimate histories, concentrated renderings of getting older, leaving, remembering. Here, “history” is twinned with “story,” where microcosms of daily life, drenched in the past, blossom from objects: a tube of mascara, a cat’s tail, mushroom paté. This collection explores nuances of sexuality, motherhood, and what it means to know life and tell a story.

As tropical as it is topical, this landmark anthology gives voice to three powerful women poets from the Dominican Republic. Together they present a wide array of linguistic and stylistic elements, and they address shared political and cultural issues that illuminate what it means to be a woman in...

Ko Un is widely regarded as Korea's unofficial poet laureate and most beloved poet. This collection features his newest short poems and is accompanied by 12 brush drawings created by the poet. Significantly, Ko Un also wrote the Introduction to this collection himself. The book will carry an afterward...

"These poems move mysteriously by means of a profound inner concentration, giving expression to the deepest laws of the mind. Their linguistic 'making' is informed by vivid evidence of a serious self-making, soul-making, and heart-making. We are lucky to have these English incarnations of Nikola...

Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work...

Nguyen Phan Que Mai is among the most exciting writers to emerge in post-war Vietnam. This is her first full-length publication in English for American readers. The book is a collaborative translation between the author and translator Bruce Weigl. The Secret of Hoa Sen is translated by major...

Contents I. Furious Versionis II. The Interrogation This Hour And What Is Dead Arise, Go Down My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud For A New Citizen Of These United States With Ruins III. This Room And Everything In It The City In Which I Love You IV. The Waiting A Story Goodnight You Must Sing Here I Am A Final Thing V. The Cleaving

For the past 40 years, Russell Edson has been producing a body of work unique in its perspective and singular in its approach. He is, arguably, America’s most distinguished writer of prose poems. Here are contorted Darwinian narratives of apes and monkeys exhibiting absurdly human behavior, along...

In five previous books and with a career's worth of accolades, Waldrep has established himself as one of the most daring, erudite, and accomplished poets of his generation. This book will be an event, not only for his many fans, but for poetry as a whole. Waldrep's previous collections have...

"It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature."-Edward Hirsch Upon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's memoir The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. In lyrical prose, Lee's...