Books in the New Poets of America series

"Awakening to histories personal and social, Conversation Among Stones is a meditation on memory and identity"--

"Take the body and split it wide open. Fill it with light. See the multiple interiors, the layered death, the familial mythology, the throb and splendor of being, the shedding of the body altogether: this is fox woman get out!"--

"Margaret Ray is pulling back the curtains on our societal performance of culture, guiding an exposing light to the daily performance that is life in a woman's body. Selected by Stephanie Burt as the winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Margaret Ray's Good Grief, the Ground interrogates the everyday violences nonchalantly inflicted unto women through personal, political, and national lenses. Moving between adolescence and adulthood, Ray alternates between dark humor and heart-wrenching honesty to explore grief, anxiety, queer longing, girlhood, escape from an abusive relationship, and the dangers of lending language to a thing. With stunning wit and precision and attention, we see Ray show us what it is to be human: the mess of tenderness and darkness and animosity. Out of the heavy Florida dusk, out of peach juice and late-night swimming pool break-ins and grocery store aisles comes these completely captivating poems. In the words of Stephanie Burt: "Come and see. Take care. Dive in.""--

A coming-of-age poetry collection about a young Chicana growing up amidst the drug violence of Southern California during the '90s.

Danni Quintos is the winner of the 20th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, which was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil will write the Foreword for the collection, and her name will appear on the cover. Strong regional appeal in Kentucky/Appalachia, the South, the Pacific Northwest, the West Coast, and cities with large multiethnic/Filipina/Filipinx communities.This title is part of BOA’s New Poets of America Series, which have seen strong sales in recent seasons by such authors as Chen Chen and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Previous Poulin winners in this series have seen outstanding attention from The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Rumpus, Forward Reviews, etc.Danni Quintos tackles the hot-button topics of race, gender, immigration, and identity from a Filipina/x-American perspective. The poems in this collection explore what it means to be a racially ambiguous, multiethnic Asian American woman growing up in Kentucky through the memories of girlhood, motherhood, family history, and Phillipine folklore. In the author’s words: “It is an antidote to the definition of ‘American’ as ‘white.’ It means to carve out a space and let readers know that we exist, we belong, we are from here and will continue to be.”Strong subject appeal for feminist studies, AAPI studies, multiethnic studies, and folklore studies, as well as courses on immigration, identity, race, gender, and intersectional identities.

"The poetry of Mary Crow is as we would expect of an artist deeply troubled by her experiences. The writing is taut, lean with the struggle to persevere and become its own true cause; and by the grace and the power of her art, the poems in Borders are kept from vanishing into the pain itself, thereby making a voice and presence for herself that is the fulfillment of her search for self. In short, she is the quintessential artist who is made whole by the very processes of art. Let us welcome Mary Crow to the company of poets."--David Ignatow

Lyrical poetry that sings of farmers, families and nunneries in Belgium and Flanders.

Selected by Elizabeth Spires as the winner of the 2006 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.

A lyrical debut exploring the emotional fallout of immigration, childbirth, queer desire within a heteronormative marriage, and, ultimately, belonging.