Boa Editions Ltd : 135 books

This new collection from best-selling poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard, ephemeral truth of mortality, and includes the section "Sixteen Sonnets for Isabel" about the recent death of his wife. In true Dobyns fashion, these poems grip and guide readers into a state of empathy, raising the question of how one lives and endures in the world.

Author's work with "Lost Boys of Sudan" will interest readers who have followed their story. Rare first-person insights into life in South Sudan, Uganda, Botswana, and other political/human rights hotspots.

At only 35 years old, Turkish poet and journalist Ece Temelkuran is already considered a pioneering voice of her generation. Book of the Edge is the first US publication of her poetry. Ece Temelkuran is known as a young intellectual who doesn't shy away from controversial subjects. She is a daily...

This first US publication of Jawdat Fakhreddine-one of the major Lebanese names in modern Arabic poetry-establishes a revolutionary dialogue between foreign, Modernist values and Classical Arabic tradition. Fakhreddine’s unique poetic voice is a remarkable accomplishment-a breakthrough for the poetic...

Light and Heavy Things provides readers in this country an opportunity to discover the work of the late Pakistani poet, Zeeshan Sahil. Although readers of Urdu poetry mourned his passing in 2008, Sahil is a relatively unknown poet in the United States. Sahil's work conveys his post-modern sensibility with plain language, presenting political realities of Pakistan in personal terms.

Most comprehensive collection of T'ang Dynasty women poets in print. There is minimal overlap with other anthologies of Chinese literature or poetry. Useful for study because the collection is concentrated on one era, and doesn’t march through the dynasties. These translations were done by a poet,...

Through lyrical narrative, the poems in Mandatory Evacuation find radiance in everyday people and subjects by the simple act of noticing-of seeking that which matters most. Like returning home with new eyes after a devastating storm, these poems startle us to awareness, focusing on the passage of time, the beauty of small, fleeting moments, and the importance of paying attention.

Sharon Bryan’s fourth poetry collection blends such disparate subjects as biology, astronomy, sports, philosophy, and music to probe humankind’s desire for spiritual, even physical, transcendence. From Charles Mingus to Charles Barkley, from Buddy Holly to Bishop Berkeley, no reference is squandered...

Brown was poet-laureate of Delaware and professor emerita at the University of Delaware. No Need of Sympathy was a 2011 National Poetry Series finalist. Included in the book are sonnets from a grandmother to her ten grandchildren, poems about the Big Bang, about child labor, a father and Hemingway’s fishing trip, the moon over Paris, and tent caterpillars.

Dougherty was awarded a Fulbright Lectureship to the Balkans from the U.S. State Department Awarded two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts fellowships in poetry Well-known in the early days of the performance-poetry scene, performing in slams across the country and at the Lollapalooza Festival True poet of the working class, the urban poor, and the city streets

•U.S. debut of an award-winning younger Polish poet. • Gutorow's 1997 volume, Wiersze pod nieobecnosc (Poems in Absentia), was recognized as the most important debut book of the year, receiving the celebrated Kazimiera Ilakowiczówna Award. His most recent collection, Inne tempo (A Different Tempo,...

First full-length English translation of major Polish poet Dariusz Sosnicki Bilingual edition, with both the original Polish text and the English translation side-by-side Dariusz Sosnicki's poetry is largely influenced by the photo albums of Wlodzimierz Puchalski (1908-1979), a well-known...

WINNER OF THE 2018 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY TRANSLATION In this first US publication of celebrated Italian poet Bianca Tarozzi, narrative poems (presented bilingually in both English and the original Italian) carry us through the poet's childhood memories of World War II under...

Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) is one of the major Iranian poets of the 20th century. His verses are often-recited in public gatherings and lines from them were used as slogans by protesters in 2009. A painter, wood-worker, and poet, Sepehri wrote these poems after journeys through Japan, China, and India, where he was exposed to various cultural arts and spiritual disciplines.