End of Empire

From a prizewinning poet whose work “points to an unfathomably bright future for the canon” (Danez Smith), a stunningly lush collection about desire, mythology, and our fraught and ecstatic relationship with the natural world A collection as remarkable for the force of its feeling as for the range of its vision,

About the author

Marissa Davis is a poet and translator from Paducah, Kentucky. Her writing has appeared in Poetry magazine, Narrative, Gulf Coast, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals. Her chapbook, My Name & Other Languages I Am Learning How to Speak (Jai-Alai Books, 2020) was selected for Cave Canem’s 2019 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize. Davis holds an MFA from New York University and was a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow. Following years in Nashville, Tennessee, and Brooklyn, New York, she now lives in Paris, France, where she is pursuing a master’s in Editorial, Economic, and Technical Translation at the Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Product details

• Authors: Marissa Davis
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2025
• EAN: 9780143138471
• ISBN: 978-0-14-313847-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 233 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Penguin Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Poetry, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / American / African American & Black, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature