The Book Company: New Products - American

Checkerboard Shoe (Two Poets in Collaboration)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:03:42 +0000

Checkerboard Shoe is collaboration in language as primitive as coyotes yip-yap-yodeling together under a Rocky Mountain moon. Or maybe the polymer biting its own tail to enable reproduction back in unicellular times is just a circle of language. In-among-with-from-of humans, it’s as..
Price: $18.00

Inflection Point (Poems)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:24:12 +0000

A coming-of-age collection for anyone still becoming who they already are.

Inflection Point redefines the coming-of-age story through poems that refuse the idea that growth requires leaving your old self behind. These poems understand transformation differently: not ..
Price: $18.99

Thunderbirds and Sunflowers (An Epic Poem)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:32:30 +0000

Former Albuquerque poet laureate (2024–2026) Damien Flores paints an intimate portrait of family, home, and the hard work of living.

Written in the Nuevomexicano dialect, Thunderbirds and Sunflowers is broken into two “songs” that comprise a book-length epic poem exp..
Price: $18.95

a feverish dome / decir bóveda (poems / poemas)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:32:08 +0000

This collection of transcreation serves as a powerful introduction to Lara-Bonilla, bringing her work to readers of both English and Spanish.

“The passport of poetry is worn on the skin,” Inmaculada Lara-Bonilla writes in this meditative, deeply personal bilingual collectio..
Price: $19.95

The Turquoise Trail (The Classic Anthology of New Mexico Poetry)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:29:43 +0000

A new annotated edition of Alice Corbin Henderson’s classic 1928 The Turquoise Trail: An Anthology of New Mexico Poetry that will offer this seminal Southwest work to a new generation of readers.

A cornerstone work of Southwestern literary culture originally published in 19..
Price: $19.95

Instructions Before Visiting Earth (Poems for Souls Having a Human Experience)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:11:11 +0000

In his debut poetry collection, viral Instagram poet James McCrae delivers a love letter to the complex, beautiful, and heartbreaking condition of being human.

Part prayer, part autobiography, part existential scream into the void, the poems in Instructions Before Visiti..
Price: $21.99

Selected Poems

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:40:25 +0000

Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet’s most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature—“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” “The Waste Land,” “The Hollow Men,” and “Ash Wednesd..
Price: $18.99

Cameo Appearance (Poems)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:07:21 +0000

From award winner Mary Jo Salter, new poems touching on the wonders of ordinary life and the brevity and preciousness of our time on earth

With her signature dark humor—one eye on our possible redemption, the other on the human comedy—Salter here offers sparkling poems that consider ..
Price: $28.00

New Hampshire Deluxe Edition

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:53:10 +0000

A gorgeously illustrated gift edition of Robert Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, featuring some of his most famous works such as “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And ..
Price: $26.00

Worldly Hopes (Poems)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:42:17 +0000

In the poetry of A. R. Ammons, Helen Vendler has written, "the scientific world is beautifully in balance with the perceptual one." Originally published in 1982, this collection reminds us why Ammons must be read by all those who would understand our age and one of its most brilliant voices.
Price: $15.99