Wave Books

27/01/2025

“The central theme of horror for me is the dream of life. Horror asks us to wake up to realize that we still are dreaming.”

— Dorothea Lasky on THE SHINING in an excellent conversation with Tiffany Troy in Tupelo Quarterly

Dorothea Lasky is the author, most recently, of The Shining (Wave Books) and editor of Essays (Essays Press). Lasky is also co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney’s, 2013) and a 2013 Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry. A new book of prose, MEMORY (Semiotext(e)...

08/01/2025

Stunning review of Don Mee Choi's KOR-US TRILOGY (Hardly War, DMZ Colony, Mirror Nation) in Public Books from Vika Mujumdar.

“For Choi, disruption is necessary to understand the ways we navigate to the past and future from a moment in time. Photography and text are, for Choi, the two mirror forms of language through which to mediate the self in the world.”

Read the whole thoughtful review here:

“The victims of History are permanently exiled from home, within and without. The practitioners or memory are also: we live as foreigners, as translators.”

06/01/2025

Thank you The Poetry Society & FOREST GANDER for recommending MIRROR NATION by Don Mee Choi as one of the BOOKS OF THE YEAR for 2024!

20/12/2024

19/12/2024

Delighted to share that A COMPANION by RICHARD MEIER is now available as an AUDIOBOOK. Until the end of the day tomorrow (12/20) this audiobook is FREE when you purchase the softcover. Use "winter_wave_2024" at checkout for discount.

18/12/2024

Thank you Poetry Northwest for giving this space for thoughtful commentary on poetry books, new and old. Here are Cindy Juyoung Ok and Nanya Jhingran's thoughts on the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry book THE UNSIGNIFICANT by SRIKANTH REDDY:

16/12/2024

Just a reminder that titles from MAGGIE NELSON, DOUGLAS KEARNEY, CEDAR SIGO, LISA FISHMAN & RICHARD MEIER are now available for PREORDER on the wave website!

16/12/2024

Just a reminder that this is the LAST WEEK to receive 30% off Wave hardcovers with free shipping in the US. Check out our winter sale here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/collections/winter-hardcover-sale

04/12/2024

Today we are excited to release LOVERS OF TODAY by GARRETT CAPLES as an AUDIOBOOK. And if you buy the print version, you get its audiobook for free!

That goes for any book that has an audiobook. Peruse all of our audiobooks here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/collections/audiobooks

03/12/2024

Lovely to see that ALL ABOUT YOU by & MIRROR NATION by Don Mee Choi are both on Literary Hub's thoughtfulroundup of some of their FAVORITE POETRY BOOKS OF 2024:

If a moral catastrophe and a sense of impending disorder have befallen our country, this moment differs from the modernist era, when some important writers found common ground with the fascism of t…

03/12/2024

Excited to announce that the following titles from MAGGIE NELSON, DOUGLAS KEARNEY, CEDAR SIGO, LISA FISHMAN, & RICHARD MEIER are forthcoming in spring 2025 and are now available for ***PREORDER***. Details here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/collections/forthcoming Douglas Kearney Blue Flower Arts

13/11/2024

Congratulations to GAIL SCOTT, who just won the Mavis Gallant Award from the Quebec Writers' Federation in nonfiction for FURNITURE MUSIC! To celebrate, we are providing 20% off FURNITURE MUSIC through Friday 11/15 . Please use discount code CONGRATS at checkout.

The judges said:

"This is a challenging and starkly original book. It invites the reader into engagement with a passionate and articulate mind while at the same time granting them a great deal of space and agency. The unnaturalness of the prose—carved not at its syntactic joints, but in a way that creates amputated stumps of sentences—elicits a slightly disoriented, watchful attentiveness in the reader.

Furniture Music isn’t interested in grand pronouncements; it’s Scott’s experience of the way the headlines eat into the everyday, which is a statement all its own.

Moody, intellectually stimulating, and often contradictory, Furniture Music is a call to active thought."

04/11/2024

"One reads these essays, not necessarily for the satisfaction one takes in watching Reddy pin down his subject, like a lapidarist netting a butterfly, but for the joy and vivacity Reddy clearly takes in getting there: the confident, associative leaps he makes from Achilles’ shield, that 'impossible object' in the Iliad, to Milton’s Paradise Lost, to the brilliant, evocative absences of Ronald Johnson’s erasure poems made from Milton’s epic."

Thank you Thomas Mar Wee for such a thoughtful review of SRIKANTH REDDY's new Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry book THE UNSIGNIFICANT, now up at Antiphony! https://www.antiphonypress.com/items/mar-wee-on-reddy

01/11/2024

DON MEE CHOI (Hardly War, DMZ Colony, Mirror Nation) at Kelly Writers House on NOV. 7, 6M ET. Details & Registration: https://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/1124.php

29/10/2024

Excited to share that ORLANDO by Sandra Simonds is now an AUDIOBOOK read by Sandra in front of a small audience at the Jack Straw Cultural Center in 2023. Please enjoy this book alongside or in addition to its printed counterpart. Full audiobook here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/collections/audiobooks