Winner of the 2011 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by D.A. Powell, Marcus Wicker's Maybe the Saddest Thing is a sterling collection of contemporary American poems by an exciting new and emerging voice.

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses.In haunted poems glinting with laughter, Saeed Jones explores the public and private betrayals of life as we know it. With verve, wit, and elegant craft, Jones strips away American artifice in order to reveal the intimate grief of a mourning son and the collective...

D. A. Powell's first three groundbreaking booksPublished together for the first time, D. A. Powell's landmark trilogy of Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails make up a three-course Divine Comedy for our day. With a new introduction by novelist David Leavitt, Repast presents a major achievement in contemporary poetry.

*Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry*I have this rearrangement to make:symbolic death, my backward glance.The way the past is a kind of futureleaning against the sporty hood.—from "Bugcatching at Twilight"In Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys - D. A. Powell's fifth book of poetry - the rollicking line he has made his signature becomes the taut, more discursive means to describing ...

First printing: 3000 copies.Documents was selected by D.A. Powell as the winner of the 17th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Prize. The poem “Maid Poem #7: HR” won a Lannan Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 2015.This title is part of BOA’s New Poets of America Series, which have seen strong sales in recent seasons. Previous Poulin winners in this series have seen outstanding attention from The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Rumpus...