Penguin Poets

  • American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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    Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry

    One of the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018

    A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from o

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Hayes, Terrance
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 19 2018
    • ISBN10: 0143133187
    • Language: English
  • Earthly Virtues

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    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Dennis explores the expansiveness and complexity of universal virtues within the realm of the everyday in this thought-provoking new collection

    Though most of the virt

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Dennis, Carl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: June 02 2026
    • ISBN10: 0143138499
    • Language: English
  • A Woman of Property

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    A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

    A new book from a poet whose work is “wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive” (Jorie Graham)

    Located in a menacing, gothic landscape, the

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Schiff, Robyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 08 2016
    • ISBN10: 0143128272
    • Language: English
  • Loba

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    Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for th… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Di Prima, Diane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: August 01 1998
    • ISBN10: 0140587527
    • Language: English
  • We (the People of the United States)

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    From an award-winning poet praised for his “rhapsodic, rigorous” work (The New Yorker) comes an immersive meditation on kindship, collectivity, and environmental thought

    We (The People of The United S

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Bennett, Joshua
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 17 2026
    • ISBN10: 0143138642
    • Language: English
  • Mysteries of Small Houses: Poems

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    A Pulitzer Prize Finalist
    Winner of the Los Angeles Time Book Prize

    An autobiographical collection of poetry by Alice Notley, “One of America’s greatest poets” (Poetry Foundation)

    Alice Notley vividly

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Notley, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: June 01 1998
    • ISBN10: 0140588965
    • Language: English
  • Selected Poems

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    Selections from the first three decades of the poetry of John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

    The late John Ashbery was a

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Ashbery, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: December 02 1986
    • ISBN10: 0140585532
    • Language: English
  • Shade Is a Place

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    From National Poetry Series winner MaKshya Tolbert, a “startlingly original debut” (Maggie Millner) that meanders toward possibilities of arboreal relief among entanglements of place, property, and ur[more below]

    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Tolbert, Makshya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 0143138456
    • Language: English
  • For the Ride

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    A major new book-length visionary poem from a writer “whose poems are among the major astonishments of contemporary poetry” (Robert Polito, the Poetry Foundation)

    Alice Notley has become one of the mo

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Notley, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: March 03 2020
    • ISBN10: 0143134574
    • Language: English
  • Mesopotopia

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    “To understand the radiance of the poetry world you have to look at Anne.” –Eileen Myles, author of A Working Life

    From “one of the most important and irreducible living American poets” (Poetry Found

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Waldman, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: August 12 2025
    • ISBN10: 0143137026
    • Language: English
  • Owed

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    “Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett’s first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School, as an “arresting debut” that was “abounding in tenderness and rich with character,” with a “virtuosic kind of… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Bennett, Joshua
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 0143133853
    • Language: English
  • Certain Magical Acts

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    An important new work of poetry from Alice Notley, winner of the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

    Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the vision

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Notley, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: June 07 2016
    • ISBN10: 0143108166
    • Language: English
  • End of Empire

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    From a prizewinning poet whose work “points to an unfathomably bright future for the canon” (Danez Smith), a stunningly lush collection about desire, resilience, and our fraught and ecstatic relations[more below]

    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Davis, Marissa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: July 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 0143138472
    • Language: English
  • Is This My Final Form?

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    A poet renowned for her “wit and complexity” (Poetry Foundation) explores the endless evolution and malleability of life on earth in her most curious, inventive collection to date

    Aren’t we all shape-

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Gerstler, Amy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 0143138480
    • Language: English
  • All the Flowers Kneeling

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    Finalist for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Pick
    Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker

    “Paul Tran’s debut collection
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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Tran, Paul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: February 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 0143136844
    • Language: English
  • The Descent of Alette

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    The Decent Of Alette is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of The Inferno. Alice Notley presents a feminist epic: a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds hers… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Notley, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: April 01 1996
    • ISBN10: 0140587640
    • Language: English
  • Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner)

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    Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry

    Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018

    In his fourth co

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Hayes, Terrance
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 30 2010
    • ISBN10: 0143116967
    • Language: English
  • The Space Between Men

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    A poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, chosen as a National Poetry Series winner by Morgan Parker

    “Willis’ poetic voice is brimming with

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Willis, Mia S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: January 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 143138103
    • Language: English
  • Door

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    Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub

    A new collection of vivid, personal and provocative work from the author of Or to Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in poetry

    In

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Lauterbach, Ann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 0143137379
    • Language: English
  • The Study of Human Life

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    Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award

    An acclaimed poet further extends his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addr

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Bennett, Joshua
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: September 20 2022
    • ISBN10: 0143136828
    • Language: English
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