April 19, 2023
Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition is a stunning collection that showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition. Accurately and sensitively… READ MORE
April 12, 2023
Wassily Kandinsky’s Sounds (Klänge) of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples of a 20th-century artist’s book. Its “sound poems” are alternately narrative and expressive, witty and simple… READ MORE
April 6, 2023
Mass for Shut-Ins is the 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds. During… READ MORE
March 30, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with cultural historian and translator Sophus Helle about his new book, Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First… READ MORE
March 24, 2023
Sophus Helle— Enheduana is the first known author in the history of world literature. She was a royal princess and high priestess who lived in the 23rd century BCE in… READ MORE
March 15, 2023
Manan Kapoor— Sometime in the 1990s, Agha Shahid Ali wrote a poem about the Bosnian War and sent it to James Merrill, who responded: “There is nothing that you can… READ MORE
February 7, 2023
Richard Sieburth— The title of this never-to-be-finished book, My Heart Laid Bare, was also drawn from one of Poeʼs “Marginalia,” in which the author of the “Tell-Tale Heart” had thrown… READ MORE
January 23, 2023
Mindy Aloff— I first saw the “street dancer” known as Storyboard P in a solo called “Dream Chaser,” in 2013, at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, in a performance during the U.S…. READ MORE
Burning With Passion: Selected Poems from Catullus
