“A remarkable creation, a baroque opera of grief, laced with lines of haunting beauty and profundity.” —The Washington Post 

Now in paperback, the bold, genre-defying book that asked: What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein's monster at all but had met him when she was a girl of eight, sitting by her mother's grave, and he came to her unbidden?
 
In a riveting mix of fact and poet... read more>>>

VERA PAVLOVA is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, and the librettos to five operas and four cantatas. Her poems have been translated into twenty-one languages, and she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Apollon Grigoriev Grand Prize (2001). Her poetry has appeared in several U.S. publications, including The New Yorker and Tin House. If There Is Something to Desire is Pavlova's first collection in English.... read more>>>

An urgent and timely collection by one of America’s most inventive and accessible poets

In Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us on an unsettling night tour of America’s public places—a gas station restroom, shoe store, convention hall, and race track among others—and in stark Edward Hopper–like imagery reveals the surreal and dreamlike features of these familiar but empty night spaces. Shapiro finds i... read more>>>

An acclaimed novelist, essayist, memoirist, and translator, Lynne Sharon Schwartz has written that she began writing ?before [she] knew about the strictures of literary genres: poem, story, essay.? What she wrote as a child was ?poetic speculation . . . partaking of all the genres and bounded by none.? It is not surprising, then, that her facility with, and love of, language and speculation are on display in her new collection of poetry, See You in the Da... read more>>>