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New Poems
by Tadeusz Różewicz
"The startling juxtaposition of sensual and brutal histories, of human and animal flesh, of the experience of war and of writing is RÃ³zewicz's great achievement throughout twenty volumes of poetry."- Guardian From the earliest days of his poetic career, Tadeusz RÃ³zewicz found a unique, pared-down style that consciously avoided metaphor and sought a new, painfully clear voice in which to... (more)
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The Door
by Margaret Atwood
The Door, Margaret Atwood’s first book of poetry since her award-winning Morning in the Burned House, is a magnificent achievement. These fifty lucid, urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political, viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense... (more)
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Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth
Poems, 2004-2006
by Adrienne Rich
A new volume from Adrienne Rich, recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2006 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth is one of Adrienne Rich's most unpredictable and evocative collections. In the folk/blues tradition behind "Rhyme," in the incantatory pattern of "Behind the Motel," in the voices from past and present in... (more)
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Ballistics: Poems
by Billy Collins
A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes USA Today , the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life–its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy.” His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem a second glance. Now, in this stunning new collection,... (more)
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Yellowrocket: Poems
by Todd Boss
"Todd Boss is going to be a poetry all-star....He can make any rhyme feel like a concealed weapon."—Sherman Alexie Increasingly, Todd Boss has been attracting attention, with poems in the Paris Review and The New Yorker and a series in Poetry . His first collection, set in the Midwest, alternately features a childhood Wisconsin farm, the record-breaking storm that destroyed it, and the turbulent ... (more)
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Still to Mow: Poems
by Maxine Kumin
"The power that Kumin draws from and brings to literature is potent and seemingly inexhaustible."— Booklist Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. She focuses our attention on the pleasures of horse-keeping with poems such as "The Zen of Mucking Out," then exhorts us to "Please Pay Attention," decrying Dick Cheney's "canned hunting /... (more)
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The Wrecking Light
by Robin Robertson
Robin Robertson's fourth collection is, if anything, an even more moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book than Swithering, winner of the Forward Prize. Alongside deft translations from Neruda and Montale, and dynamic - at times horrific - retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems in "The Wrecking Light" pitch the power and wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of the human, their utter... (more)
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One with Others
by C. D. Wright
"Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."— The New York Times Book Review "Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle."— The New Yorker Investigative journalism is the poet's realm when C.D. Wright returns to her native Arkansas and examines an explosive incident from the Civil Rights movement. Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns,... (more)
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Fall Higher
by Dean Young
"Dean Young is a high-energy poet. . . . His vigorous, vibrant, fast-paced poems make startling connections."—Judges' citation, Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist "Anyone with a heartbeat knows that Dean Young has become a crucial nucleotide in the DNA of American poetry."—Tony Hoagland "The language, the invention, the imagination, and the sheer fun of his poems are astounding."—Charles Simic Dean Young surmounts... (more)
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Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty
Poems
by Tony Hoagland
The new poetry collection by Tony Hoagland, the award-winning author of What Narcissim Means To Me and Donkey Gospel In Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty , Tony Hoagland is deep inside a republic that no longer offers reliable signage, in which comfort and suffering are intimately entwined, and whose citizens gasp for oxygen without knowing why. With Hoagland’s trademark humor and social... (more)
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Gulf Music: Poems
by Robert Pinsky
Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus. Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces. Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and his Shuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciation And invention, is this the image of the promised end? All music haunted by all the music of the dead forever. Becky haunted forever by Pearl the daughter she abandoned For love, O try my... (more)
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Mercurochrome
New Poems
by Wanda Coleman
"i am an outlaw, they assert./ there's a ten-digit number stamped on my frontal lobe." This sprawling eleventh collection of poems from the Los Angeles-based Coleman finds her zig-zagging between continuations of series begun in American Sonnets and the 1999 Lenore Marshall Prize-winning Bathwater Wine, and grief-stricken ruminations written out of her son's early death from cancer. Coleman, long a... (more)
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Ultima Thule
by Davis McCombs
Ultima Thule (pronounced "thool") is the mythical farthest point north, the coldest and remotest spot on earth. It is also the name of the most inaccessble changer in Mammoth Cave, which McCombs brings to life in his poetry. The cave's limestone formations and the underground river that carves its spaces make a sort of echo chamber for the heartbeats of the author and his friends and neighbors, of whose lives... (more)
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A Treatise of Civil Power
by Prof. Geoffrey Hill
Geoffrey Hill’s latest collection takes its title from a pamphlet by Milton of 1659 that attacks the concept of a state church as well as corruption in church governance. As Milton figures prominently here, so too must the Lord Protector, Cromwell, addressed in a memorable sonnet sequence. Also considered by Hill are other poets to whom he nods in gratitude, not just Milton and “my god” Ben Jonson, or Robert... (more)
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What Kind (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Martha Zweig
When the human family frightens us, we try to join the animals.
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Sky Lounge
by Mark Bibbins
Mark Bibbins finds damaged glamour at the fringes of respectability in this exceptional debut collection I was born with capable eyes, a moveable heart and time to spare. —from “Euphorium” In his restless and unpredictable debut, Mark Bibbins offers a virtuosic poetry. Lovers struggle to connect; groupies, hustlers, and corporate drones covet better—or at least different—lives; locations fluctuate,... (more)
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Rain: Poems
by Don Paterson
In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light , Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an assembly of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world and to offer some protection against them. Whether outwardly elemental in their address or more personal... (more)
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I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman
by Jude Nutter
In "Return of the Heroes," Walt Whitman refers to the casualties of the American Civil War: 'the dead to me mar not/they fit very well in the landscape under the trees and grass'. In her new poetry collection, Jude Nutter challenges Whitman's statement by exploring her own responses to war and conflict and, in a voice by turns rueful, dolorous, and imagistic, reveals why she cannot agree. Nutter, born in England... (more)
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Names: Poems
by Marilyn Hacker
“Hacker is, to use a trite term, a major poet. More than that she is exciting and true.”—George Szirtes In Names , Marilyn Hacker juxtaposes glimpses of contemporary lives with dialogues undertaken in signal poetic voices. Using her signature wit, passion, and mastery of received and invented forms, she convinces us to believe in a world made possible by language—prescient, playful, polyglot, and often... (more)
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Shoulder Season
by Ange Mlinko
“In Ange Mlinko’s Shoulder Season observation and metaphor are always on edge. . . . The poems are at once formally engaged, playful, and disturbing. It’s a wild ride and a great read.”—Rae Armantrout With a title that plays upon “shouldering” one’s burden, this equally fanciful and hard-hitting collection captures the uncertainties and economic turmoil of twenty-first-century life, where the mind might still... (more)

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