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1 | Publisher | Title | Author | Pub Date | Format | Price | ISBN | Description | ||
2 | Archipelago Books (dist. by Consortium) | Diary of Exile | Yannis Ritsos, trans. from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and Karen Emmerich | Nov. 1 | trade paper | $16 | 978-1935744580 | A major long poem from one of one of the major world poets of the 20th century. | ||
3 | Bloomsbury USA | The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink | ed. by Kevin Young | Oct. 16 | hardcover | $24 | 978-1608195510 | A delectable compendium of food poetry by some of our most celebrated poets, selected by a National Book Award-nominated poet. | ||
4 | BOA Editions Ltd. (dist. by Consortium) | The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 | Lucille Clifton, ed. by Kevin Young and Michael S Glaser, foreword by Toni Morrison | Sept. 11 | hardcover | $35 | 978-1934414903 | A landmark volume combining all of Clifton's published work with 68 previously unpublished poems, and an insightful foreword by Nobel Prize-winning author Morrison. | ||
5 | BOA Editions Ltd. (dist. by Consortium) | To Keep Love Blurry | Craig Morgan Teicher | Sept. 11 | trade paper | $16 | 978-1934414934 | Inspired by Robert Lowell's Life Studies, Teicher explores the charged and troubled spaces between intimately connected people, as a son becomes a husband and a father. | ||
6 | City Lights Books (dist. by Consortium) | Nervous Device: City Lights Spotlight Series No. 8 | Catherine Wagner | Oct. 1 | trade paper | $13.95 | 978-0872865655 | Wagner explores the boundary the poem marks between poet and audience, questioning the potential for human connection. | ||
7 | City Lights Books (dist. by Consortium) | Time of Angels | Homero Aridjis, trans. from the Spanish by George, illustrated by Francisco Toledo | Nov. 1 | hardcover | $29.95 | 978-0872865648 | A poetic fable, illustrated by one of Mexico's most prominent artists, describes a dreamy contemplation of the reign of angels. | ||
8 | Coffee House Press (dist. by Consortium) | Green Is for World | Juliana Leslie | Nov. 1 | trade paper | $16 | 978-1566893169 | A National Poetry Series selection chosen by Ange Mlinko, these are virtuosic lyrics for the visionaries among us. Peering through a macro lens at the shapes of our universe, this collection captures the inexpressible elements of our world's ruins and history. | ||
9 | Coffee House Press (dist. by Consortium) | So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems | Andrei Codrescu | Dec. 1 | hardcover | $35 | 978-1566893046 | A long-awaited new and selected from one of the most inimitable contemporary poets. Author, translator, and anthologist of more than 35 books, Codrescu is featured regularly on All Things Considered. Over 25% of the collection is new, but also includes classics from earlier works. (Also available in trade paper, $22, 978-1566893008) | ||
10 | Coffee House Press (dist. by Consortium) | Special Powers and Abilities | Raymond McDaniel | Jan. 1 | trade paper | $16 | 978-1566893152 | Influenced by the utopian, futuristic vision of The Legion of Super-Heroes, McDaniel riffs on the pop artifacts, their mythos, and deep storytelling power in this unique collection. These poems attempt to restore superheroes to their glorious strangeness. | ||
11 | Columbia Univ. Press | Poetry of the Taliban | ed. by Alex Strick van Linschoten, Felix Kuehn, and Faisal Devji | Sept. 25 | hardcover | $24.50 | 978-0231704045 | Most Taliban fighters are Pashtuns who cherish their vibrant poetic traditions, which mirror those of song. While much has been written about the Taliban's military tactics and harsh treatment of women, scholars often overlook this cultural touchstone. | ||
12 | Copper Canyon Press (dist. by Consortium) | Bender: New and Selected Poems | Dean Young | Sept. 1 | hardcover | $26 | 978-1-55659-403-8 | The first retrospective collection to select poems from this acclaimed poet's 12 volumes. | ||
13 | Copper Canyon Press (dist. by Consortium) | Our Andromeda | Brenda Shaughnessy | Sept. 15 | trade paper | $16 | 978-1-55659-410-6 | Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects--trauma, childbirth, loss of faith--and stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new rules, she imagines a parallel existence in the galaxy of Andromeda. | ||
14 | Copper Canyon Press (dist. by Consortium) | Selected Translations | W.S. Merwin | Oct. 1 | hardcover | $40 | 978-1-55659-409-0 | A career-spanning retrospective of translated poems from a former U.S. Poet Laureate and one of the leading figures on contemporary poetry. | ||
15 | ECW Press (dist. by IPG) | Animal Husbandry Today | Jamie Sharpe | Oct. 1 | trade paper | $18.95 | 978-1770411067 | An accessible and illuminating debut collection that explores the arranged marriage of the bestial and humane. | ||
16 | ECW Press (dist. by IPG) | Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed | Grant Loveys | Oct. 1 | trade paper | $18.95 | 978-1770411074 | A first collection of poems from the winner of the Cuffer Prize for short fiction. | ||
17 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | All the Odes: A Bilingual Edition | Pablo Neruda, ed. by Ilan Stavans | Nov. 13 | hardcover | $40 | 978-0374115289 | A career-spanning volume charting the Nobel laureate's work in the ode form. | ||
18 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Nice Weather | Frederick Seidel | Sept. 4 | hardcover | $24 | 978-0374221942 | A stunning new collection from the "beguiling and magisterial" poet (New York Times Book Review) | ||
19 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Poems 1962-2012 | Louise Gluck | Nov. 13 | hardcover | $40 | 978-0374126087 | The collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. | ||
20 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Writers Writing Dying | C. K. Williams | Nov. 6 | hardcover | $24 | 978-0374293321 | A candid and moving collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet. | ||
21 | Graywolf Press (dist. by Macmillan) | Inferno: A New Translation | Dante Alighieri, trans. from the Italian by Mary Jo Bang, illustrated by Henrik Drescher | Aug. 7 | hardcover | $35 | 978-1555976194 | NBCC Award-winning poet Bang's contemporary and culturally fresh new translation of Dante's Inferno puts Shakespeare alongside South Park. | ||
22 | Graywolf Press (dist. by Macmillan) | Nostalgia, My Enemy | Saadi Youssef, trans. from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon and Peter Money | Nov. 13 | trade paper | $15 | 978-1555976293 | Iraq's Saadi Youssef is a major poet from the Arab world. This book collects the best of his work from the last decade, since the ongoing war in his home country. | ||
23 | Harper Perennial | Maybe the Saddest Thing: Poems | Marcus Wicker | Oct. 23 | trade paper | $13.99 | 978-0062191014 | The 2011 National Poetry Series selection, chosen by D.A. Powell, in which action painting meets the pop of hip-hop. 5,000-copy announced first printing. | ||
24 | Harvard Univ. Press | C. P. Cavafy: The Poems of the Canon | Constantine Cavafy, trans. from the Greek by John Chioles | Aug. 13 | trade paper | $24.95 | 978-0983532231 | Cavafy is one of the most important and influential Greek poets since antiquity. Based on a 30-year interaction with Cavafy's poetry and its Greek and Western European intertexts, Chioles has produced a most authoritative version of his major works. | ||
25 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Child Made of Sand | Thomas Lux | Nov. 27 | hardcover | $23 | 978-0547580982 | Lux demonstrates a restless energy to explore new territory while confirming his place in the pantheon of contemporary American poetry. 5,000-copy announced first printing. | ||
26 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | The Selvage | Linda Gregerson | Oct. 23 | hardcover | $23 | 978-0547750095 | Gregerson's first collection since her award-winning Magnetic North alludes to Milton, to the great myths of Ariadne, Theseus, and Dido, and includes a series detailing Masaccio's frescoes about the life of Saint Peter. 5,000-copy announced first printing. | ||
27 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Thrall | Natasha Trethewey | Sept. 18 | hardcover | $23 | 978-0547571607 | The Pulitzer Prize–winning Native Guard explored newly minted U.S. poet-laureate Trethewey's relationship with her black mother. Now, her new collection takes on the uneasy relationship between her and her white father. 15,000-copy announced first printing. | ||
28 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems | Ursula K. Le Guin | Sept. 18 | hardcover | $22 | 978-0547858203 | From a celebrated writer, a new and selected volume of poetry that spans 50 years of work. It includes some of the best of her earlier verse along with a rich series of new poems that she has been writing for the last four years. 15,000-copy announced first printing. | ||
29 | Knopf | Night Thoughts: 70 Dream Poems & Notes from an Analysis | Sarah Arvio | Jan. 8 | hardcover | $26 | 978-0307959553 | The award-winning poet offers us a remarkable memoir and poems about her coming to terms with a life in crisis through the study of dreams. As a young woman, threatened by disturbing visions, Arvio went into psychoanalysis to save herself. | ||
30 | Knopf | Stag's Leap | Sharon Olds | Sept. 4 | hardcover | $26.95 | 978-0307959904 | A stunningly poignant sequence of poems tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and intimate telling, which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending, Olds opens her heart to the reader. | ||
31 | Knopf | The Sea at Truro | Nancy Willard | Oct. 2 | hardcover | $26 | 978-0307959775 | From the widely admired poet, novelist, and essayist, a collection of direct, accessible poems, some of which take on the grand themes of nature and art, while others celebrate the everyday: a monastery kitchen, ferns, the tangerine, shoes. | ||
32 | Library of America (dist. by Penguin) | Jack Kerouac: Collected Poems | Jack Kerouac | Aug. 30 | hardcover | $40 | 978-1598531947 | A major literary event: for the first time, the collected poems of the legendary voice of the Beat Generation, including all his published works and a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. | ||
33 | McSweeney's Publishing (dist. by PGW) | City of Rivers | Zubair Ahmed | Sept. 11 | hardcover | $18 | 978-1938073021 | The first full-length collection from 23-year-old wunderkind Zubair Ahmed. Clear and cool as a glass of water. | ||
34 | Milkweed Editions (dist. by PGW) | Blood of the Sun | Salgado Maranhao, trans. from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin | Sept. 4 | trade paper | $18 | 978-1571314536 | In textured and layered poems, Maranhao integrates sociopolitical thought with abstractly metaphysical subjects. Concrete collides with conceptual: butcher shops, sex, and machine guns in conversation with language, absence, and time. | ||
35 | Milkweed Editions (dist. by PGW) | The Fact of the Matter | Sally Keith | Nov. 20 | trade paper | $16 | 978-1571314482 | Moving from the mundane to the profound, first through observation of fact and matter, then shifting perspective, engaging a deeper sense of self, these poems re-imagine things great and small, making us care deeply about the world around us. | ||
36 | New Directions (dist. by Norton) | Pneumatic Antiphonal | Sylvia Legris | Jan. 17 | trade paper | $10.95 | 978-0811220408 | Part of our revived Poetry Pamphlets series, this is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by young Canadian poet Sylvia Legris--her first publication in the U.S. | ||
37 | New Directions (dist. by Norton) | Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Chris Marker | Susan Howe | Jan. 17 | trade paper | $10.95 | 978-0811220392 | Also part of the revived Poetry Pamphlet Series, Sorting Facts is Howe's masterful meditation on the French filmmaker Chris Marker. | ||
38 | New Directions (dist. by Norton) | The Helens of Troy, New York | Bernadette Mayer | Jan. 17 | trade paper | $10.95 | 978-0811220422 | The intrepid and inventive Mayer profiles all of the Helens living in the city of Troy (N.Y) through poems and images. In the Poetry Pamphlet series. | ||
39 | New Directions (dist. by Norton) | Two American Scenes | Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger | Jan. 17 | trade paper | $10.95 | 978-0811220415 | Two masters of the essay discussing "found material." Poetry Pamphlet series. | ||
40 | New Directions (dist. by Norton) | The Poems of Octavio Paz | Octavio Paz, trans. from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger | Oct. 23 | hardcover | $39.95 | 978-0811220439 | Here at last is the first retrospective collection of Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career, from the first published poem, at age 17, to his magnificent last poem, the whole edited and translated by acclaimed essayist Weinberger, who has been translating Paz for decades. | ||
41 | New Directions (dist. by Norton) | Time of Useful Consciousness | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Sept. 18 | hardcover | $22.95 | 978-0811220316 | Legendary Ferlinghetti's first book since Poetry as Insurgent Art, a new call to action and a vivid picture of civilization moving towards the brink. | ||
42 | North Atlantic Books (dist. by Random House) | A Poet's Mind: Collected Interviews with Robert Duncan, 1960-1985 | ed. by Christopher Wagstaff, foreword by Gerrit Lansing | Aug. 7 | hardcover | $24.95 | 978-1583944547 | The collected interviews are an indispensable companion to the poetry of Duncan, and the upcoming biography by Lisa Jarnot. Includes never before published photos. | ||
43 | W.W. Norton | In Beauty Bright | Gerald Stern | Sept. 3 | hardcover | $25.95 | 978-0393086447 | A new collection from the poet the Georgia Review calls "the most expansively celebratory poet in years." | ||
44 | W.W. Norton | Later Poems Selected and New: 1971-2012 | Adrienne Rich | Nov. 5 | hardcover | $39.95 | 978-0393089561 | The final volume of poems assembled by America's most powerful and distinctive voice. | ||
45 | W.W. Norton | Mayakovsky's Revolver | Matthew Dickman | Oct. 1 | hardcover | $25.95 | 978-0393081190 | From a dazzling, award-winning young poet, a collection that paints life as a celebration in the dark. | ||
46 | W.W. Norton | Memorial: A Version of the Iliad | Alice Oswald | Sept. 10 | hardcover | $24.95 | 978-0393088670 | A new take on the classic poem by one of the U.K.'s leading poets. | ||
47 | W.W. Norton | The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard | Dana Goodyear | Jan. 7 | hardcover | $25.95 | 978-0393082463 | Poems about sex, marriage, and the desire for a child from a poet J.D. McClatchy calls "scary-cool and edgy-smart." | ||
48 | Penguin | A Thousand Mornings | Mary Oliver | Oct. 11 | hardcover | $24.95 | 978-1594204777 | Poetic mornings with the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet. | ||
49 | Penguin | By Herself | Debora Greger | Sept. 25 | trade paper | $18 | 978-0143122395 | An artful, compelling new collection from "a special poet in every sense" (Poetry). | ||
50 | Penguin | Madame X | William Logan | Sept. 25 | trade paper | $18 | 978-0143122388 | A new collection by a master of free verse as well as formal poetry. | ||
51 | Princeton Univ. Press | The Two Yvonnes | Jessica Greenbaum | Aug. 1 | trade paper | $12.95 | 978-0691156637 | This is the second collection from a Brooklyn poet whose work many readers will know from the New Yorker. Greenbaum's narrative poems, in which objects and metaphor share highest honors, attempt revelation through close observation of the everyday. | ||
52 | Scribner | The Best American Poetry 201 | ed. by David Lehman and Mark Doty | Sept. 18 | trade paper | $16 | 978-1439181522 | The foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns. | ||
53 | Univ. of Arizona Press | Corpse Whale | dg nanouk okpik | Oct. 11 | trade paper | $15.95 | 978-0816526741 | The poems are steeped in an Inuit world view and juxtaposed with the urgency of the melting of the Arctic. | ||
54 | Univ. of Arizona Press | Full Foreground | Roberto Tejada | Sept. 20 | trade paper | $15.95 | 978-0816521333 | A new collection of innovative lyrical poems explores social issues from the U.S.–Mexico border. | ||
55 | Univ. of Virginia Press | Best New Poets 2012: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers | ed. by Matthew Dickman and Jazzy Danziger | Dec. 1 | trade paper | $11.95 | 978-0976629672 | Entering its seventh year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers.. | ||
56 | Wave Books (dist. by Consortium) | As Long as Trees Last | Hoa Nguyen | Sept. 1 | trade paper | $16 | 978-1933517612 | Clear-eyed and grounded, Hoa Nguyen performs a hook and snare on what it means to be a 21st-century human in the nearly ego-less space of these chiseled yet spacious poems. | ||
57 | Wave Books (dist. by Consortium) | In Time's Rift (Im Zeitspalt) | Ernst Meister, trans. from the German by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick | Sept. 1 | paper | $16 | 978-1933517629 | The first English version of the second-to-last volume by a celebrated German poet. | ||
58 | Wave Books (dist. by Consortium) | Thunderbird | Dorothea Lasky | Oct. 1 | trade paper | $16 | 978-1933517636 | The third collection from a poet who takes cues from Plath, Religious texts and pop culture in equal measure. | ||
59 | Wesleyan Univ. Press | Collected Poems | Joseph Ceravolo, edited by Rosemary Ceravolo and Parker Smathers | Dec. 5 | hardcover | $35 | 978-0819573414 | From a poetics associated with Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery to an ever more contemplative poetics similar in sensibility to Zen and Dante, William Blake, and St. John of the Cross, Ceravolo's poetry takes on a direct, quiet lyricism: intensely dedicated to the natural and spiritual life of the individual. | ||
60 | Wesleyan Univ. Press | Public Figures | Jena Osman | Sept. 26 | hardcover | $22.95 | 978-0819573117 | An essay-poem with photographs that begins with a playful thought experiment: statues of people in public spaces have eyes, but what are they looking at? Osman illustrates how monuments and other public records of events transform, and sometimes erase, history. | ||
61 | Yale Univ. Press | Tales of a Severed Head | Rachida Madani, trans. from the Moroccan by Marilyn Hacker, | Oct. 9 | trade paper | $15 | 978-0300176285 | A brilliant retelling of the classic Arab tale of Scheherazade, set in the present day | ||
62 | Yale Univ. Press | The Brazen Plagiarist: Selected Poems | Kiki Dimoula, trans. from the Greek by Inglessis Margellos and Rika Lesser | Nov. 13 | hardcover | $30 | 978-0300141399 | A moving collection of poems by an internationally acclaimed Greek poet. |