Books published by Wave Books

A new collection of exciting and vivacious prose poems, essays, and more in-between from lauded poet Mary Ruefle.

Texts that elucidate the poetics of a major American poet at the center of the vibrant Beat and Surrealist movements.

Poems of loss, rage, love, and what endures.

"Her poems invite the more intellectual emotions: bemusement, the breathlessness of newborn understanding."—The Village Voice

A career-defining retrospective by a much-beloved contemporary master.

This important anthology full of fresh voices includes a CD of original love songs by well-known independent recording artists.

From poet, novelist, and teacher Laynie Brown comes Translating the Lilies Back into Lists, an homage text to the poet C. D. Wright.

From one of the greatest poetic minds of our century comes the latest collection from CAConrad.

Guard the Mysteries is a compendium of five talks that the poet Cedar Sigo presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo plumbs the particulars of modern critique, identity politics, early influences, and poetic form to produce a singular 'autobiography of voice.' Across these lectures, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, while paying homage to revolutionary artists, teachers, and thinkers whom have shaped his poetic aesthetic. Simultaneously timeless and extremely timely, these talks ponder the presences that California Buddhism, LGBTQ+ experiences, and Native Nations occupy in the poetic world and the world at large.