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The author of nineteen collections of poetry, W.D. Snodgrass’ first collection of poems, Hearts Needle received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. Often credited with being one of the founding members of the “confessional” school of poetry, he dismissed the term and never regarded his work as such. Snodgrass published five collections of poetry with BOA Editions: The Fuehrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress (1977), revised edition titled The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle: Poems (1995); Each in His Season (1993): Selected Translations (1998): After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches (1999); and Not For Specialists (2006). Snodgrass died in 2009.

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Aracelis Girmay

Aracelis Girmay is the author of four books of poems: GREEN OF ALL HEADS (BOA Editions, 2025); the black maria (BOA Editions, 2016); Teeth…

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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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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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Gratitude to Old Teachers

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Gratitude to Old Teachers

Available in limited quantity Gratitude to Old Teachers, poems by Robert Bly, with a frontispiece by Robert Marx, was issued in a limited edition of…

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This Elegance

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This Elegance

Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione (“sacred conversation”), a style of Renaissance…

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Permanent Exhibit

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Permanent Exhibit

Matthew Vollmer opens a browser window into his own mind with these collage-style essays. Exercising a rapacious intellectual curiosity, he seamlessly integrates flying snakes,…

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Big Back Yard

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Big Back Yard

Michael Teig's Big Back Yard was awarded the inaugural A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, chosen by award-winning poet and fiction writer Stephen Dobyns. Teig's poems…

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Postcards from the Interior

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Postcards from the Interior

Postcards from the Interior is a collection of postcard poems written from different geographical locations and varied states of heart and mind. The first section,…

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Selected Translations W. D. Snodgrass

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Selected Translations W. D. Snodgrass

This collection includes little-known Eastern European poets as well as celebrated poets, troubadours, and composers. In his Selected Translations, W.D. Snodgrass offers us the…

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