Books published by Coffee House Press

In elegiac and fervent poetry, Lara Mimosa Montes writes across the thresholds of fracture, trauma, violence, and identity.

The Wet Hex is Sun Yung’s fourth book of poetry with CHP. She is beloved and respected for her own award-winning writing as well as for her work as the editor of several anthologies, including A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press).Sun Yung co-leads Poetry Asylum with Su Hwang; there will be lots of opportunities for events and partnerships in the Twin Cities.Physical galleys will be available!

Being queer and Asian American; families we are born into and ones we chose; nostalgia, trauma and history—all dissected fearlessly.

With rootless cosmopolitanism, formal rigor, and the fluidity of slam, Jones explores questions of sexuality, race, and shifting identity.

The hard times faced by steelworkers and miners in America's rust belt inform these poetic oral histories.

Are we living in a shitty heaven or a tender hell? Chris Martin's poems wrestle with reconciling the shocking horrors and common graces of everyday life in America.

From gold rushes to black gold, this mythic and sought-after substance gilds Ted Mathys's elegiac poems, placing a glimmering mirror between resource extraction and utopian dreaming, exploitation and emotional longing.

Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen's characters in these lively stories, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics.

In this continuation of Anna Karenina's legacy, Russa simmers on the brink of change and the stories long kept secret finally come to light.

Moving west-from Singapore to America, from New York to California-a woman examines the myth of "finding home" even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.

Contemplative, wry, profound observations from one of the greatest masters of contemporary poetry.

In this delightfully dense, fast-paced comedy with notes of Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Saul Bellow, Jacov and his scribe cross continents in search of the legendary prophet of melancholic philosophy.

From Russian fairytales to Craigslist ads, stories of identity, family, and sexuality are unraveled and woven anew in the poems of a woman caught between two worlds.

A father revealed as a spy, a child unmoored from normalcy-in Safe Houses I Have Known, poems ripple with the secrets that we keep from ourselves and each other.

Lyric essays on writing, moving among digression, reflection, imagination, and experience as a lover might, bringing art into the world.

Padgett's witty poems ache to save the world surpassing moral superiority and infusing light, energy, and humor into everyday life.