Boa Editions Ltd : 135 books

Ellen Bass’s best-selling work of non-fiction, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (HarperCollins 1988, 1994), has sold over one million copies and has been translated into nine different languages. She has also published several volumes of poetry, and her poems...

Christine Kitano's second poetry collection elicits a sense of hunger-an intense longing for home and an ache for human connection. Channeling both real and imagined immigration experiences of her own family-her grandmothers, who fled Korea and Japan; and her father, a Japanese American who was incarcerated...

I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance is a collection of poems that assign new meanings to the people and things of the past. The book moves in three sections through a fantastic landscape that maps human fragility. The poems in the first section speak to matters of the heart—intimacy and loss—punctuated...

The characters in these nine short stories abandon families, plot assassinations, nurse vendettas, tease, taunt, and terrorize. They retaliate for bad marriages, dream of weddings, and wait decades for lovers. How far will we go to escape to a better dream? What consequences must we face for hope...

Rising star in world-poetry First U.S. edition of Alexs Steger's most acclaimed poetry collection. Translated by acclaimed translator and poet Brian Henry

Long Lens: New & Selected Poems represents nearly forty years of Peter Makuck’s work. France, Spain, Ecuador, and the American southwest; parents, children, and friends; seascapes and landscapes; birds, fish, and animals: Peter Makuck interweaves the ordinary and the visionary through familiar...

"Devin Becker's Shame | Shame is a brilliant debut collection. Here, the prose poem has been re-imagined as a cinematic vignette, yet rooted as deeply in the American Northwest as anything in Richard Hugo and David Lynch. Raw, intimate, and elliptical in its metaphysics, Devin Becker's poetry captures...

Known for the transcendent, abstractionist poems of Nomina, Volkman's newest collection returns to tangible experiences of the body—its range of expressivity and physical movement in space. Where is the body in travel? What space does it occupy in dreams and memory? With rich perplexity, Whereso...

"Nowhere else in American poetry do I come across a passion, a cunning, and a joy greater than his. And a deadly accuracy. I see him as one of the supreme poets of his generation."–Gerald Stern The poems in True Faith are earthy, lyrical, honest, and empathic in a style that is both...

• These 20 exclusive new interviews collected were conducted specifically for the publication of Passwords Primeval. • Included poets are Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Mark Doty, Dorianne Laux, Martin Espada, Carol Frost, Robert Gluck, Dara Weir, Michael Waters, Gary Young, Gary Soto, Patricia...

Set in present-day Southern California, Antidote for Night is a heartbreak lyric, a corrido, a love song to California's city lights and far-flung outskirts—the San Diego backcountry, the Central Valley, the Inland Empire, and the Mojave Desert. Marsha de la O's voice is a kind of free jazz, musically...

Widely regarded as an American master of the prose poem, Garcia's sixth collection is rich with humor, surrealism, and insights into the life of a Latino poet with an unbound and fascinating imagination. According to Peter Johnson, Garcia is compared to "Cortazar, Borges, or Kafka."...

Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award The Book of Goodbyes speaks to a certain deranged love that throws into question sex, legality, gender-politics, disability, and the end of an affair. The book shifts between lyric and narrative, hyper-realism and magical realism, fact and fiction, and is organized like a play with Act I, Intermission, Act II, and Curtain Call.

With both ardor and sensuality, Darling Vulgarity challenges us to embrace humanity’s imperfections while urging us toward new spiritual realities. And then, sometimes, the poems are just plain sexy. Or, as Nat Hardy wrote, “Waters’ meditative and confessional forays into the sexual sublime...