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Acclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick offers this newest addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid rendering of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and thinking, as a way of living meaningfully in the world. "We have lost our sense of thinking as the exper... Read More about The Thinking Root: The Poetry of Earliest Greek Philosophy (Seedbank)

A New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy" Poetry Collection A Book Riot "Best Fall 2020 Book in Translation" Stone-Garland, this new entry in the Seedbank Series, presents translations of six poets of the Greek lyric tradition. Anecdotes of Simonides, Anacreon, Archilochus, Theognis, Alcma... Read More about Stone-Garland (Seedbank #5)

What is it to write a poem? What work do words do when placed with care and vision into the intensely charged space of poetic effort? How to Draw a Circle does not seek to answer those questions, but to encounter them as fully and honestly as one can. The thread running through the essays is an ongo... Read More about How to Draw a Circle: On Reading and Writing (Poets On Poetry)

From one of the nation's most dynamic and celebrated young poets, an extended dialogue with the greatest masterpiece of American literature, Moby-Dick. Taking its inspiration--and, for that matter, its form--from Ishmael's abandoned "Cetological Dictionary" in Moby-Dick, this extraordinary, highly o... Read More about A Whaler's Dictionary

The artist Roni Horn's permanent installation in Iceland, Library of Water, consists of floor-to-ceiling cylinders filled with water-melted ice from all of Iceland's twenty-four glaciers. These poems are inspired by this simultaneous act of attention to crisis and preservation against it. The "libra... Read More about Library Of--

Midway through the journey of his life, Dan Beachy-Quick found himself without a path, unsure how to live well. Of Silence and Song follows him through the forest of his experience, on a classical search for meaning in the world and in his particular, quiet life. In essays, fragments, marginalia, im... Read More about Of Silence and Song