In the spirit of his New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people.

With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children such hits, John Kenney is back with a brand new collection of poems, this time taking on one of the most common feelings in our day-and-age: anxiety. Kenney covers it all, from awkward social interactions and insomnia to nervous ticks and writing and rewriting that email.

Whale Day brings together more than fifty poems and showcases the deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made Billy Collins one of our country’s most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that leap with whimsy and imagination, yet stay grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the original way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and even invites us to his own funeral. Sensitive to the wonders of being alive as well as the thrill of mortality, Whale Day builds on and amplifies Collins’s reputation as one of America’s most interesting and durable poets.

Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems--the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, the selection draws from a lifetime's work--from Borges' first published volume of verse, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), to his final work, Los Conjurados, published just a year before his death in 1986. Throughout this unique collection the brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched by luminous English versions by a remarkable cast of translators, including Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Kessler, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, and John Updike.

A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual.

From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing.

In this beautiful collection of poems, remarkable for their plainspoken radiance, the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature embraces her first passion-verse.

With lines both comic and sad, Sandra Cisneros deftly-and dazzlingly-explores the human experience. For those familiar with Cisneros only from her acclaimed fiction, My Wicked Wicked Ways presents her in an entirely new light. And for readers everywhere, here is a showcase of one of our most powerful writers at her lyrical best.

Pablo Neruda
El valor de las doce odas que componen este Bestiario no radica en lo fabuloso de los animales que comprende, sino en el recorrido transversal de la obra en que se despliega el carácter más profundo del poeta. Su amor es hacia América toda, esa "patria temblorosa" donde laten las criaturas que, por un lado, dan testimonio de su vital fascinación y, por otro, componen un retrato biográfico de Neruda desde su vertiente más íntima.

Una lectura apasionada de dos grandes poetas del siglo XX y los inusitados vasos comunicantes entre ellos. La poesía moderna adoptó una posición crítica ante los valores y los discursos imperantes en el siglo XX. A través de las figuras culturales más representativas e influyentes en sus respectivas sociedades, T.S. Eliot y Octavio Paz, Pedro Serrano propone una novedosa aproximación a los paradigmas de este periodo. No fueron coetáneos, provinieron de orígenes culturales diferentes y escribieron en distintas lenguas. Sin embargo, entendieron la poesía de forma paralela, compartieron logros y contradicciones y se identificaron a sí mismos como poetas en sus correspondientes contextos culturales.

Ingrid Valencia
Travesía al interior, donde la palabra explora, para luego llevar sus hallazgos al exterior; música de ida y vuelta, fin cifrado en un principio. Todo esto, multiplicado entre espacios y poemas, conforma la esfera armilar propuesta por Ingrid Valencia, quien ha construido algo semejante a este antiguo instrumento astronómico, una especie de modelo del cosmos desde la perspectiva terrestre en miniatura. Pura López Colomé

Una de las obsesiones de la autora es el contrapunto, desde la escritura de columnas literarias hasta la puesta en escena de una noción del contrapunto musical en la poesía. Esta primera entrega da a sus lectores una pauta para edificar o demoler sobre ella los ritmos de la posibilidad, de lo no lineal y, de formas espacialmente enrarecidas, lo simultáneo.

Draupadi De Mora
En cada rincón de estos poemas se erige o se esconde un obelisco, promontorios de alegría, carne y dolor. Obeliscos es un conjunto de poemas breves o una sola roca disgregada en granitos, no importa; sea como sea, impactará en quienes aún mantienen los ojos abiertos en la hoguera.