Books like Black Zodiac by Charles Wright

Rupi Kaur’s second poetry collection, *The Sun and Her Flowers*, explores themes of growth, healing, and self‑discovery through raw, personal verses about love, loss, and renewal.

Tony Hoagland’s collection of witty, intimate poems examines modern American life, advocating clarity and reinvented affection while staying ‘unincorporated.’

Billy Collins’s new collection, Ballistics, offers a fresh look at everyday life—love, death, solitude, youth, and aging—through his signature simple, witty language.

Amy Gerstler’s new collection, *Ghost Girl*, mixes witty, vivid imagery with thoughtful reflections on love, mourning, science and the afterlife, delivering thirty‑seven poems that balance accessibility with depth.

Jeffrey Yang’s debut collection, *An Aquarium*, blends vivid imagery of marine life with profound reflections on war, environmental harm, language, and history, as a father’s wisdom guides his newborn son.

This classic study in the evolution of the human mind is a pioneering work as valuable today as when it was first published in 1901. At that time, it was enthusiastically acclaimed by both William James and P. D. Ouspensky. It has long been accepted as a landmark in the field of mysticism. In reviewing the mental and spiritual activity of the human race, Dr. Bucke discovers that at intervals certain individuals have appeared who are gifted with the power of transcendent realization—or Illumination. Their experiences constitute a definite advance in man’s relation with the Infinite. Moreover, the author shows from available records that this transfiguring endowment of Illumination is on the increase, and he gives full details of practically all the cases on record up to the time when the book was written.

A collected volume of Amiri Baraka’s bold, politically charged poetry that traces his evolution from early works to unpublished pieces written in his final years.

Alice Notley's latest collection explores the complex intersection of the visible and unconscious through a seedy detective dialogue.