Imperial Nostalgias is the second collection by poet and translator Joshua Edwards. Written in Mexico, China, Germany, Nicaragua, and during a train trip around the U.S. and Canada, the book reckons with itinerancy, innocence, and American privilege, while pointing toward a strange horizon.

"Edwards's latest−from its cover art to the poems, photographs, and fables inside−is one of the most commanding explorations of travel to arrive in American poetry in a long time, and one whose closest forebear, in light of its lyric chiseling and its philosophical depth, is Elizabeth Bishop's Questions of Travel." −Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Rolling past cities, strolling through museums, wandering unfamiliar streets, Edwards's speaker is both lost and found in what he sees, and his lines make it easy to surrender your own bearings and follow him." −Michael Andor Brodeur, The Boston Globe

"Imperial Nostalgias identifies and discusses concrete, in-the-news-today type issues that so many other contemporary American poets seem unwilling to." −Jeff Alessandrelli, Prairie Schooner

"Equal parts travelogue and philosophical primer, Imperial Nostalgias celebrates the curiosity and triumph of the human spirit above all else." −Carleen Tibbetts, The Rumpus