Modern Poetry: Poems
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss returns with a stand-out collection about the art and craft and legacy of poetry itself. Told in a sharp and funny voice, Seuss creates a reading experience unlike any other with her turns of phrase and lines that are like a punch to the gut.
FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 2024 HEARTLAND BOOKSELLERS AWARD FOR POETRY
Diane Seuss’s signature voice—audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude—has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill...
























