Looking back, the myriad events of a life seem woven of a single cloth, and likewise, each poem in this astonishing new collection is linked in some way to the others-revealing a meaningful overall pattern.

When I Was a King takes readers through the worst that life can give a person and show that, on the other side, a bright light is shining.

Treefall with Bird Song explores the natural world around the poet’s home in Mississippi and delves into memories of the rural landscapes of Iowa where he was raised, Flanders, and other places he has traveled.

Here is an unflinching masterwork of unpicking the familial ties, the “white lies,” we live with and how we forge ourselves separate from them.

Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani’s translated poems are selected for their breadth of representation, their influence in the Arab world, and their poetic prowess.

The poems in this collection deconstruct and reconstitute the story of Isaac and Abraham, textually and metaphorically, as a means of stitching together meaning after violence and loss.

Part elegy, part pastoral, part ode to beloved and beleaguered set-asides, Hills Full of Holes journeys in widening understandings of injuries to body and land, and their possible recoveries.

There is no strong split between the natural world and the human world. Perhaps we endanger ourselves when we insist on such a split.

These poems pull from the mundane and the supernal and the mystical in order to celebrate the world as a constant in our ever-changing lives.

This book of verse makes conscious the sentiment that contradictions reside in silence.