Apogee Press publishes the work of innovative and experimental poets.
Culturally and formally diverse, our poets share an original use of language.




Among the Names
Apprehend
bk of (h)rs
cloudlife
Discrete Categories
Forced into Coupling

dust and conscience
fine
Gorgeous Mourning
Human Forest
In the Absent
Everyday

Oh
passing world pictures
placing the accents
The Pleasures of C
Rules of the House
Speed of Life
Verso
within the margin


Maxine Chernoff
Valerie Coulton
Tsering Wangmo
Dhompa

Kathleen Fraser
Alice Jones
Stefanie Marlis
Edward Kleinschmidt
Mayes

Pattie McCarthy
Denise Newman
Elizabeth Robinson
Edward Smallfield
Cole Swensen
Truong Tran










In the Absent Everyday
by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

"A terrific poet, on any terms"
—Ron Silliman


Among the Names
by Maxine Chernoff

"This book is entirely beautiful."
—Donald Revell



Browse through our recent releases by clicking on the titles below, and view selected excerpts or author biographies.

Verso
by Pattie McCarthy

"One of our most intellectually ambitious poets."—Ron Silliman

within the margin
by Truong Tran

"Truong's masterwork crashes through."—Juan Filipe Herrera

cloudlife
by Stefanie Marlis

"Aphoristic, enigmatic, and startling."—C.D. Wright

Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling
by Kathleen Fraser

"I love Kathleen Fraser's extraordinary intelligence, her persistent care for where she is—and for all those she finds there too."—Robert Creeley

Gorgeous Mourning
by Alice Jones

"Dazzling poems, wholly taken in by where the words are
going."—Adam Phillips

Rules of the House
by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

"A lovely explication of 'dharma' — things as they are, and how precious they are."—Anne Waldman

dust and conscience
by Truong Tran

"Something extremely important is going on, something
wonderful."—Lyn Hejinian

Winner: Poetry Center Book Award for 2002


passing world pictures
by Valerie Coulton

"Swift and rich, an entire world passes here in vivid glimpses."—Cole Swensen

Apprehend
by Elizabeth Robinson

"I feel a securing confidence, as if she had given me her hand."—Robert Creeley

bk of (h)rs
by Pattie McCarthy

"This is simply a gorgeous book."—Cole Swensen

Oh
by Cole Swensen

"Oh is opera cool." —Marjorie Perloff

Winner: AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2000

fine
by Stefanie Marlis

"An etymology of our sexual and physical lives, our unknown lives, our daily lives." —Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes

Finalist: Bay Area Book Reviewers Award


Human Forest
by Denise Newman

"Like imbibing a divine elixir, making one realize how thirsty one has been all this time." —Gillian Conoley


placing the accents
by Truong Tran

"A voluptuary of the difficult real. To be entered, and entered. Gratefully." —Kathleen Fraser

Finalist: Western States Book Award


The Pleasures of C
by Edward Smallfield

"These are poems of thrilling uneasiness and probing reward." —Kathleen Fraser


Speed of Life
by Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes

"These poems are at the harsh center of things." —Eavan Boland