A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil.

A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. "If America has a folksinger today he is Carl Sandburg, a singer who comes out of the prairie soil... who can hand back to the people a creation that has scraps of their own insight, humor, and imagination" (Padraic Colum).

What is the deep web? A locked door. A tool for oppression and for revolution. "An emptying drain, driven by gravity." And in Patrick Johnson's Gatekeeper-selected by Khaled Mattawa as the winner of the 2019 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry-it is the place where connection is darkly transfigured by distance and power. So we learn as Johnson's speaker descends into his inferno, his Virgil a hacker for whom "nothing to stop him is reason enough to...

Reading itself is travel in Derek Gromadzki's first book, Pilgrimage Suites, an outing across an insular medieval landscape as rich in its registers of language as in its flora or fauna. This book is neither history nor story, though it retains characteristics of each. Like history, it perpetuates retrograde speculation, while maintaining the narrated sequencing of incident that is the common stock and trade of story. In the heyday of medieval pilgrimages,...

The Song of Hiawatha (1855) is an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A master of poetic tradition and form, Longfellow wrote The Song of Hiawatha in trochaic tetrameter, the meter of such classical epics as the Finnish Kalevala. Inspired by stories from Ojibwe oral tradition, for which he consulted Ojibwe chief Kahge-ga-gah-bowh and other indigenous sources, Longfellow composed his American epic, a story of romance and perseverance steeped in...

A poetry collection of the dark and light journey into the mind of a socially conscious youth. Over 165 original works covering love, lust, spirituality, the problems of a machine age, the distant past, vampires, bitter realities, dreams, inspirations, music, emotion, political issues, death and much more.

Emotions seal closed doors, but it's the heart that pries them open. Once we step inside, not only do we find ourselves, we discover our purpose.

Martín Fierro: An Epic of the Argentine (1923) is an epic poem and accompanying scholarship by José Hernández and Henry A. Holmes. Originally published in two parts, the poem has been praised as a defining work of Argentine literature for its depiction of national identity in relation to the gaucho culture, which was used to consolidate the historical and political image of the country against European influence. Unlike many of his contemporaries,...

This poetry book will make you analyze and question the world around you, and also give you hope, bring you on adventures you would never even imagine, and give some sobering truths about reality as we know it. If it makes you profoundly think or feel something then even P.T. Barnum would agree that it was worth the price of admission.