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A. Poulin, Jr.

A. Poulin, Jr.

Poet, translator, and editor A. Poulin, Jr. (1938–1996) was the founding publisher and president of BOA Editions, Ltd. His distinguished poetry translations include Rainier…

Aaron Zaritzky

Aaron Zaritzky

Aaron Zaritzky was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He graduated from the Creative Writing Workshop at Oberlin College and completed an MFA in Poetry…

Adam Giannelli

Adam Giannelli

Adam Giannelli is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Virginia, where he was a Hoyns Fellow in the MFA program. His…

Adam Hughes

Adam Hughes

Adam Hughes is a poet, writer, teacher, and performer living in Bedford, Virginia. Originally from central Ohio, he received an MFA in Creative Writing…

Adam McOmber

Adam McOmber

Adam McOmber is the author of My House Gathers Desires (BOA Editions, Fall 2017), The White Forest (Touchstone, 2012), and This New & Poisonous…

Adam Sorkin

Adam Sorkin

Adam J. Sorkin is a Professor of English at Penn State Delaware County. He has published eight previous translations of Romanian poetry including An…

Adnan Haydar

Adnan Haydar

Adnan Haydar is head of the Arabic section in the Department of Foreign Languages and professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the University…

Adonis

Adonis

The pen-name Adonis, which Ali Ahmad Said began to use in the early 60s, refers to the mythological figures of the Mediterranean which interested…

Adrie Kusserow

Adrie Kusserow

Adrie Kusserow is a cultural anthropologist who works with Sudanese refugees in trying to build schools in war-worn South Sudan. Currently an associate professor…

Aida Cartagena Portalatín

Aida Cartagena Portalatín

Born in Moca, Santo Domingo in 1918, Aida Cartagena Portalatín is most widely known for her poetry, focusing on man's limitations in the struggle…

Aimee Parkison

Aimee Parkison

Aimee Parkison has received a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and a Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize. Parkison writes and publishes fiction…

Alan Michael Parker

Alan Michael Parker

Alan Michael Parker is the author of eight collections of poetry, including three from BOA Editions: The Vandals (1999), Love Song with Motor Vehicles…

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Adam Hughes
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Adam Hughes

Adam Hughes is a poet, writer, teacher, and performer living in Bedford, Virginia. Originally from central Ohio, he received an MFA in Creative Writing…

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Spring Book Bundle
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Spring Book Bundle

Welcome Spring Book Bundlers! With this one-time purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's spring season. This Spring Book Bundle…

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Boa Book Lovers Subscription
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Boa Book Lovers Subscription

Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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The Tao of Humiliation
Fiction · Featured

The Tao of Humiliation

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014 Excerpt from The Tao of Humiliation“The Last Satyr” The satyr apologized to whatever powers cast him into the human…

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Pagan Sky: New and Selected Poems 2000–2025
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Pagan Sky: New and Selected Poems 2000–2025

In these richly textured poems—crafted with taut clarity and consummate skill—Waters confronts the immutable presence of death by reveling in sensual pleasure and spiritual…

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The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone
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The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone

The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone is a Midwestern mythology that celebrates facts, fiction,…

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Bright Hunger
Poetry · Featured

Bright Hunger

Mark Irwin's poetics are a direct descendant of Rilke and Hart Crane. His poetry is propelled by charged rhythms and a lush music. "An…

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Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard
Rare and Signed · Featured

Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard

Hardcover, paperback, and signed copies available in limited quantities This is a first edition, first printing. Book Condition: Fine. This copy has been archived at…

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Exaltation of Light
Translations · Featured

Exaltation of Light

Available in limited quantity This is a first printing of the first paperback edition. Copies have been archived at BOA Editions, Ltd. since publication and…

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