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National Book Award-winning hybrid of poetry, prose, photos, and drawings that confronts the ongoing American war in Korea through translation and witness.
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Citizen: An American Lyric
A genre-bending work using poetry, essay, and image to document the accumulation of racial microaggressions and violence in everyday American life.
Float
Twenty-two loose chapbooks in a clear slipcase, essays, lectures, librettos and poems, that can be read in any order and float against each other.
How to Wash a Heart
A book-length monologue from an immigrant guest addressing the white citizen host who is generous, watchful, and does not intend to let her leave.
Just Us: An American Conversation
A hybrid of poems, essays, and images documenting Rankine's attempts to hold everyday conversations about whiteness with friends, strangers, and herself.
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Seventy sonnets written in the first months of the Trump presidency, each an address to an imagined assassin, Black life, and the ghosts of the form.
New and Collected Poems
Seventy years of Miłosz's poems, from the Warsaw of the war years to old age in California and Kraków.
Lost Children Archive
A family drives from New York to the Arizona borderlands, the mother to document children caught at the border, the father to record the echoes of the Apache, as their marriage comes apart.
Deaf Republic
A two-act poem-play in which a small town goes silent after soldiers shoot a deaf boy, and sign language becomes the weapon of civic resistance.
Autobiography of Red
A novel-in-verse reimagining of the Greek myth of Geryon as a queer red-winged boy falling in love with Herakles in the modern world.
Apeirogon
A Palestinian father and an Israeli father, both of whom have lost daughters to the conflict, drive the territory of their shared loss across a thousand numbered fragments.
The Rings of Saturn
A walking tour of the Suffolk coast becomes a meditation on destruction, history, and memory.
Collected Poems
Seferis's poems, from Mythistorema to the poems of exile in the war years, in which the islands, the sea and the ruins of ancient Greece stand in for a modern country's grief.