Stunning debut volume from one of America's promising young poets, an imagistic voice influenced by English poetry and Navajo orality.

Edgy blue-collar poetry seeks to define Detroit: cars, race tension, school, work.

Young, active, curious poet crafts conversational poetry full of symbol, allusion, music.

A slim volume of some of the most carefully crafted poetry being written in the vernacular today.

Poet, teacher, editor, performer: Hedge Coke is one of the lights on the horizon of contemporary poetry.

The late professor Jordan revolutionized how a generation of students relate to the written word.

Pulitzer Prize-winning volume from a former U.S. Poet Laureate.

The first formal volume by one of the stars of performance poetry in America today.

Dream-influenced lines and surrealistic images mark an intriguing debut.

New York-born poet also teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Though this writer decided she'd rather be a novelist, this book of voices from the margin is chilling and insightful.

As fewer people read books of poetry, more poets have returned to the art form's oral roots.