Books published by Wave Books

Brilliantly assembled poetic fragments elucidate the undone and chaotic experiences surrounding a body in the midst of illness.

An epic journey through multiple hells taking place just below the surface of a college professor's day-to-day life.

A much-needed portable edition of Philip Whalen's inimitable masterpiece.

A stunning new collection of poems from Mary Ruefle inviting the many readers of her prose to discover the central form of her literary imagination.

Humorous and wildly inventive poems from a master of absurdist poetic theater.

Rachel Zucker sweeps all the corners in this maximalist project of poems and prose, navigating love, loss, and personal and political despair.

Masterful poems that guide readers through the interconnections of natural and readerly life as it is powerfully expressed in the dynamic resonances of language.

A tense and personal account of a life as a woman, wife, and mother, in and out of New York.

Thinking collapses and remerges in this metafictional collection of essays following a writer and artist at work.

New poems that hurtle through time and space from an irrefutable force in American poetry.

"A vortex, a nexus, and a weather system all to himself."-Small Press Traffic

LA-based poet returns with humor, irreverence, and sincere longing to sever the distinction between dream and reality, person and animal.

Poetry as a complete reinvention of the known world, converting attention into rituals of unfolding spectacle.

A political anthology from the front lines of American poetics.

John Godfrey IS New York, and these poems gaze unflinchingly into the city's dark heart.