ABCDEFGHIJ
1
PublisherTitleAuthorPub DateFormatPriceISBNDescription
2
Archipelago Books (dist. by Consortium)Diary of ExileYannis Ritsos, trans. from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and Karen EmmerichNov. 1 trade paper$16 978-1935744580A major long poem from one of one of the major world poets of the 20th century.
3
Bloomsbury USAThe Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drinked. by Kevin YoungOct. 16 hardcover$24 978-1608195510A 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 1965-2010Lucille Clifton, ed. by Kevin Young and Michael S Glaser, foreword by Toni MorrisonSept. 11 hardcover$35 978-1934414903A landmark volume combining all of Clifton's published work with 68 previously unpublished poems, and an insightful foreword by Nobel Prize-winning author Morrison.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 BlurryCraig Morgan TeicherSept. 11 trade paper$16 978-1934414934Inspired 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. 8Catherine WagnerOct. 1 trade paper$13.95 978-0872865655Wagner 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 AngelsHomero Aridjis, trans. from the Spanish by George, illustrated by Francisco ToledoNov. 1 hardcover$29.95 978-0872865648A 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 WorldJuliana LeslieNov. 1 trade paper$16 978-1566893169A 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 PoemsAndrei CodrescuDec. 1 hardcover$35 978-1566893046A 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 AbilitiesRaymond McDanielJan. 1 trade paper$16 978-1566893152Influenced 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. PressPoetry of the Talibaned. by Alex Strick van Linschoten, Felix Kuehn, and Faisal DevjiSept. 25 hardcover$24.50 978-0231704045Most 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 PoemsDean YoungSept. 1 hardcover$26 978-1-55659-403-8The first retrospective collection to select poems from this acclaimed poet's 12 volumes.
13
Copper Canyon Press (dist. by Consortium)Our AndromedaBrenda ShaughnessySept. 15 trade paper$16 978-1-55659-410-6Shaughnessy'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 TranslationsW.S. MerwinOct. 1 hardcover$40 978-1-55659-409-0A 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 TodayJamie SharpeOct. 1 trade paper$18.95 978-1770411067An accessible and illuminating debut collection that explores the arranged marriage of the bestial and humane.
16
ECW Press (dist. by IPG)Our Gleaming Bones UnrobedGrant LoveysOct. 1 trade paper$18.95 978-1770411074A first collection of poems from the winner of the Cuffer Prize for short fiction.
17
Farrar, Straus and GirouxAll the Odes: A Bilingual EditionPablo Neruda, ed. by Ilan StavansNov. 13 hardcover$40 978-0374115289A career-spanning volume charting the Nobel laureate's work in the ode form.
18
Farrar, Straus and GirouxNice WeatherFrederick SeidelSept. 4 hardcover$24 978-0374221942A stunning new collection from the "beguiling and magisterial" poet (New York Times Book Review)
19
Farrar, Straus and GirouxPoems 1962-2012Louise GluckNov. 13 hardcover$40 978-0374126087The collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
20
Farrar, Straus and GirouxWriters Writing DyingC. K. WilliamsNov. 6 hardcover$24 978-0374293321A candid and moving collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet.
21
Graywolf Press (dist. by Macmillan)Inferno: A New TranslationDante Alighieri, trans. from the Italian by Mary Jo Bang, illustrated by Henrik DrescherAug. 7 hardcover$35 978-1555976194NBCC 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 EnemySaadi Youssef, trans. from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon and Peter MoneyNov. 13 trade paper$15 978-1555976293Iraq'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 PerennialMaybe the Saddest Thing: PoemsMarcus WickerOct. 23 trade paper$13.99 978-0062191014The 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. PressC. P. Cavafy: The Poems of the CanonConstantine Cavafy, trans. from the Greek by John ChiolesAug. 13 trade paper$24.95 978-0983532231Cavafy 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 HarcourtChild Made of SandThomas LuxNov. 27 hardcover$23 978-0547580982Lux 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 HarcourtThe SelvageLinda GregersonOct. 23 hardcover$23 978-0547750095Gregerson'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 HarcourtThrallNatasha TretheweySept. 18 hardcover$23 978-0547571607The 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 HarcourtFinding My Elegy: New and Selected PoemsUrsula K. Le GuinSept. 18 hardcover$22 978-0547858203From 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
KnopfNight Thoughts: 70 Dream Poems & Notes from an AnalysisSarah ArvioJan. 8 hardcover$26 978-0307959553The 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
KnopfStag's LeapSharon OldsSept. 4 hardcover$26.95 978-0307959904A 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
KnopfThe Sea at TruroNancy WillardOct. 2 hardcover$26 978-0307959775From 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 PoemsJack KerouacAug. 30 hardcover$40 978-1598531947A 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 RiversZubair AhmedSept. 11 hardcover$18 978-1938073021The 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 SunSalgado Maranhao, trans. from the Portuguese by Alexis LevitinSept. 4 trade paper$18 978-1571314536In 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 MatterSally KeithNov. 20 trade paper$16 978-1571314482Moving 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 AntiphonalSylvia LegrisJan. 17 trade paper$10.95 978-0811220408Part 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 MarkerSusan HoweJan. 17 trade paper$10.95 978-0811220392Also 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 YorkBernadette MayerJan. 17 trade paper$10.95 978-0811220422The 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 ScenesLydia Davis and Eliot WeinbergerJan. 17 trade paper$10.95 978-0811220415Two masters of the essay discussing "found material." Poetry Pamphlet series.
40
New Directions (dist. by Norton)The Poems of Octavio PazOctavio Paz, trans. from the Spanish by Eliot WeinbergerOct. 23 hardcover$39.95 978-0811220439Here 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 ConsciousnessLawrence FerlinghettiSept. 18 hardcover$22.95 978-0811220316Legendary 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, 1960-1985ed. by Christopher Wagstaff, foreword by Gerrit LansingAug. 7 hardcover$24.95 978-1583944547The 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. NortonIn Beauty BrightGerald SternSept. 3 hardcover$25.95 978-0393086447A new collection from the poet the Georgia Review calls "the most expansively celebratory poet in years."
44
W.W. NortonLater Poems Selected and New: 1971-2012Adrienne RichNov. 5 hardcover$39.95 978-0393089561The final volume of poems assembled by America's most powerful and distinctive voice.
45
W.W. NortonMayakovsky's RevolverMatthew DickmanOct. 1 hardcover$25.95 978-0393081190From a dazzling, award-winning young poet, a collection that paints life as a celebration in the dark.
46
W.W. NortonMemorial: A Version of the IliadAlice OswaldSept. 10 hardcover$24.95 978-0393088670A new take on the classic poem by one of the U.K.'s leading poets.
47
W.W. NortonThe Oracle of Hollywood BoulevardDana GoodyearJan. 7 hardcover$25.95 978-0393082463Poems about sex, marriage, and the desire for a child from a poet J.D. McClatchy calls "scary-cool and edgy-smart."
48
PenguinA Thousand MorningsMary OliverOct. 11 hardcover$24.95 978-1594204777Poetic mornings with the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet.
49
PenguinBy HerselfDebora GregerSept. 25 trade paper$18 978-0143122395An artful, compelling new collection from "a special poet in every sense" (Poetry).
50
PenguinMadame XWilliam LoganSept. 25 trade paper$18 978-0143122388A new collection by a master of free verse as well as formal poetry.
51
Princeton Univ. PressThe Two YvonnesJessica GreenbaumAug. 1 trade paper$12.95 978-0691156637This 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
ScribnerThe Best American Poetry 201 ed. by David Lehman and Mark DotySept. 18 trade paper$16 978-1439181522The foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns.
53
Univ. of Arizona PressCorpse Whaledg nanouk okpikOct. 11 trade paper$15.95 978-0816526741The poems are steeped in an Inuit world view and juxtaposed with the urgency of the melting of the Arctic.
54
Univ. of Arizona PressFull ForegroundRoberto TejadaSept. 20 trade paper$15.95 978-0816521333A new collection of innovative lyrical poems explores social issues from the U.S.–Mexico border.
55
Univ. of Virginia PressBest New Poets 2012: 50 Poems from Emerging Writersed. by Matthew Dickman and Jazzy DanzigerDec. 1 trade paper$11.95 978-0976629672Entering 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 LastHoa NguyenSept. 1 trade paper$16 978-1933517612Clear-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 FrederickSept. 1 paper$16 978-1933517629The first English version of the second-to-last volume by a celebrated German poet.
58
Wave Books (dist. by Consortium)ThunderbirdDorothea LaskyOct. 1 trade paper$16 978-1933517636The third collection from a poet who takes cues from Plath, Religious texts and pop culture in equal measure.
59
Wesleyan Univ. PressCollected PoemsJoseph Ceravolo, edited by Rosemary Ceravolo and Parker SmathersDec. 5 hardcover$35 978-0819573414From 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. PressPublic FiguresJena OsmanSept. 26 hardcover$22.95 978-0819573117An 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. PressTales of a Severed HeadRachida Madani, trans. from the Moroccan by Marilyn Hacker,Oct. 9 trade paper$15 978-0300176285A brilliant retelling of the classic Arab tale of Scheherazade, set in the present day
62
Yale Univ. PressThe Brazen Plagiarist: Selected PoemsKiki Dimoula, trans. from the Greek by Inglessis Margellos and Rika LesserNov. 13 hardcover$30 978-0300141399A moving collection of poems by an internationally acclaimed Greek poet.