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Grotz, Jennifer. Still Falling: Poems. Graywolf. May 2023. 72p. ISBN 9781644452318. pap. $16. POETRY Director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Grotz (Window Left Open) offers free verse with scatterings [...]

* The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine. Univ. of Chicago. Oct. 2012. c.224p, ed. by Don Share & Christian Wiman. ISBN 9780226750705. $20. POETRY [...]

Armitage, Simon. Seeing Stars: Poems. Knopf. Aug. 2011. c.96p. ISBN 9780307594839. $25. POETRY British poet Armitage (Forward Prize winner) sets up an absurd situation then tells a story about it. [...]

* Young, Kevin. Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels. Knopf. Feb. 2011. c.256p. illus, maps. ISBN 9780307267641. $27.95. POETRY Suffering, salvation, hope, despair: these motifs come alive in National [...]

Warren, Rosanna. Ghost in a Red Hat. Norton. Mar. 2011. c.112p. ISBN 9780393080063. $24.95. POETRY As with her previous book (Departure), Warren uses writing to contemplate the past, whether her [...]

Lehman, David. Yeshiva Boys. Scribner. Nov. 2009. c.160p. ISBN 978-1-4391-3617-1. $30. POETRY What does it mean to be a member of God's chosen race if God is dead? This newest [...]

Pollitt, Katha. The Mind-Body Problem. Random. Jun. 2009. c.112p. ISBN 978-1-4000-6333-8. $22. POETRY The bottom line in Nation essayist Pollitt's second poetry collection after her National Book Critics Circle Award--winning [...]

Cassian, Nina. Continuum. Norton. Mar. 2009. c.96p. ISBN 978-0-393-06766-8. $23.95. POETRY Spanning 60 years, the poems in this work show Cassian (b. 1924) to be, if not a 'miraculous' poet, [...]

Chen, Ching-In. The Heart's Traffic: A Novel in Poems. Arktoi: Red Hen. Jan. 2009. c.119p. ISBN 978-0-9800407-2-2. pap. $21. POETRY Chen's debut book of poetry offers an impassioned record of [...]

* Young, Kevin. Dear Darkness. Knopf. Sept. 2008. c.208p. ISBN 978-0-307-28434-3. $26. POETRY National Book Award finalist Young (Jelly Roll) energizes the poems in his latest collection with subtle and [...]

Simic, Charles. Sixty Poems. Harvest: Harcourt. Jan. 2008. c.112p. ISBN 978-0-15-603564-4. pap. $12. POETRY Not only has Simic recently been appointed the 15th poet laureate of the United States, but [...]

* Atwood, Margaret. The Door. Houghton. 2007. c.128p. ISBN 978-0-618-94272-5. $25. POETRY If there's an overriding theme to Atwood's latest volume of poems, her first since Morning in the Burned […]

Kinzie, Mary. California Sorrow. Knopf. 2007. c.104p. ISBN 978-0-307-26680-4. $25. POETRY Part of the inspiration for Kinzie's seventh collection comes from poets like Howard Nemerov, Wallace Stevens, and Randall Jarrell, [...]

* Herbert, Zbigniew. The Collected Poems, 1956-1998. Ecco: HarperCollins. 2007. c.608p. ed. by Robert Hass. tr. from Polish by Alissa Valles. index. ISBN 0-06-078390-7 [ISBN 978-0-06-078390-7]. $34.95. POETRY From his […]

Cole, Henri. Blackbird and Wolf. Farrar. Apr. 2007. c.80p. ISBN 0-374-11379-3 [ISBN 978-0-374-11379-7]. $20. POETRY The best poems in this sixth collection by Pulitzer Prize finalist Cole are Zenlike. Quiet [...]

Notley, Alice. Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005. Wesleyan Univ. Sept. 2006. c.377p. ISBN 0-8195-6772-8. $29.95. POETRY Always innovative and occasionally maudlin, the poems in Notley's latest book [...]

Doris, Stacy. Knot. Univ. of Georgia. 2006. c.88p. ISBN 0-8203-2813-8. pap. $16.95. POETRY Language poet Doris (Paramour) presents difficult if not impossible-to-read prose poems in her latest book. Looking at [...]

Algonquin. Apr. 2004. c.176p. ISBN 1-56512-406-5. $14.95. POETRY Quotidian events, a storylike structure, and colloquial diction make Alvarez's latest book seem more like a memoir (albeit one written with attention [...]

Arvio, Sarah. Night Thoughts: 70 Dream Poems & Notes from an Analysis. Knopf. 2013. 176p. notes. index. ISBN 9780307959553. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780307959560. POETRY This book contains 70 contemporary sonnets [...]

Lux, Thomas. Child Made of Sand. Houghton Harcourt. Nov. 2012. c.96p. ISBN 9780547580982. $23. POETRY Most of these free-verse poems evolve from questions or implied questions. Take 'Where are the [...]

Hejinian, Lyn. The Book of a Thousand Eyes. Omnidawn, dist. by IPG. 2012. c.352p. ISBN 9781890650575. pap. $24.95. POETRY Although, according to the poet, this collection was inspired by Scheherazade, [...]

Perillo, Lucia. On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths. Copper Canyon. May 2012. c.120p. ISBN 9781556593970. $22. POETRY Perillo doesn't like to look backward, or so she said in a recent [...]

Newman, Amy. Dear Editor. Persea Bks, dist. by Norton. Jan. 2012. c.80p. ISBN 9780892553877. pap. $15. POETRY The poems in Newman's fourth collection (after Fall) describe the poet's growing-up years. [...]

Clarvoe, Jennifer. Counter-Amores. Univ. of Chicago. Oct. 2011. c.88p. ISBN 9780226109282. pap. $18. POETRY Referencing mainly Ovid's Amores (as well as his Metamorphoses) but also works by other poets, the [...]

The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry. Penguin. Oct. 2011. c.656p, ed. by Rita Dove. index. ISBN 9780143106432. $40. POETRY Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Dove presents a hefty anthology of [...]

Hirshfield, Jane. Come, Thief. Knopf. Aug. 2011. c.112p. ISBN 9780307595423. $25. POETRY Early in her career, National Book Critics Award finalist Hirshfield (Given Sugar, Given Salt) became interested in Japanese [...]

Zagajewski, Adam. Unseen Hand. Farrar. Jul. 2011.112p. tr. from Polish by Clare Cavanagh. ISBN 9780374280895. $23. POETRY Known for his 'plain-speaking' poetry, Zagajewski (Eternal Enemies) blends past and present, mundane [...]

Smith, Tracy K. Life on Mars: Poems. Graywolf. May 2011. c.88p. ISBN 9781555975845. pap. $15. POETRY Hypnotic and brimming with irony, the poems in Smith's latest volume aren't so much [...]

Notley, Alice. Culture of One. Penguin Poets. Apr. 2011. c.142p. ISBN 9780143118930. pap. $18. POETRY With stunning metaphors, intriguing wordplay, and an engaging though confusing story line, Notley's latest collection [...]

Kasischke, Laura. Space, in Chains. Copper Canyon. Mar. 2011. c.110p. ISBN 9781558593338. pap. $16. POETRY The narrators in poet/novelist Kasischke's eighth collection (after Lilies Without) examine a fractured past in [...]

Stein, Melissa. Rough Honey. American Poetry Review, dist. by Copper Canyon. 2010. c.96p. ISBN 9780977639557. $23; pap. ISBN 9780977639695. $14. POETRY Winner of the APR Honickman First Book Prize, this [...]

Rich, Adrienne. Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010. Norton. Jan. 2011. c.80p. ISBN 9780393079678. $24.95. POETRY Thankfully, the more strident feminist tone that can mar some of Rich's poetry [...]

Wilner, Eleanor. Tourist in Hell. Univ. of Chicago. Oct. 2010. c.96p. ISBN 9780226900322. pap. $18. POETRY Wilner's poems avoid personal concerns, preferring instead to muse on the general human condition. [...]

Schnackenberg, Gjertrud. Heavenly Questions. Farrar. Oct. 2010. c.80p. ISBN 978-0-374-28307-0. $23. POETRY If one could see the world in a grain of sand, how would it look? The question informs [...]

Klink, Joanna. Raptus. Penguin Poets. 2010. c.80p. ISBN 978-0-14-311772-8. pap. $18. POETRY One can hear numerous echoes of Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Sylvia Hath in Klink's third [...]

Beasley, Sandra. I Was the Jukebox. Norton. 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-07651-6. $24.95. POETRY Think Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath as read by Dorothy Parker, and you'll hear the fine--always passionate, sometimes [...]

Manning, Maurice. The Common Man. Houghton Harcourt. Apr. 2010. c.112p. ISBN 978-0-5472-4961-2. $22. POETRY Manning's latest book (after Bucolics) offers multilayered poems that muse on life and death in a [...]

Williams, C.K. Wait. Farrar. May 2010. c.128p. ISBN 978-0-374-28591-3. $25. POETRY The Pulitzer Prize-winning Williams (Repair) writes two kinds of poems: prose-like pieces that have a narrative drive and tight, [...]

Ashbery, John. Planisphere: New Poems. Ecco: HarperCollins. 2009. c.160p. ISBN 978-0-06-191521-5. $24.99. POETRY Award-winning poet and art critic Ashbery writes Jackson Pollock-like poems that contain bright threads of imagery. And [...]

Sonnevi, Goran. Mozart's Third Brain. Yale Univ. 2009. c.240p, tr. from Swedish by Rika Lessen ISBN 978-0-300-14580-9. $25. POETRY Sonnevi has been a major literary figure since the 1965 publication [...]

Armantrout, Rae. Versed. Wesleyan Univ. 2009. c.136p. ISBN 978-0-8195-6879-3. $22.95. POETRY What you see is what you get in Armantrout's ninth book of free-verse poetry. A professor at the University [...]

Bialosky, Jill. Intruder. Knopf. Oct. 2008. c.96p. ISBN 978-0-307-26847-1. $25. POETRY Poems originate from an inner voice. A muse, a godlike presence, or a demon speaks to poets, who transcribe [...]

Stewart, Susan. Red Rover. Univ. of Chicago. (Phoenix Poets). Sept. 2008. c.118p. ISBN 978-0-226-77454-1. $22. POETRY Despite its title, Stewart's latest is neither a children's book nor does it concern [...]

Gregg, Linda. All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems. Graywolf. Sept. 2008. c.224p. ISBN 978-1-55597-507-4. $24. POETRY Several poems in this latest book from PEN/ Voelcker award winner Gregg [...]

Hollander, John. A Draft of Light. Knopf. May 2008. c.128p. ISBN 978-0-307-26911-9. $26. POETRY The author of 18 collections of poetry and eight books of criticism, Connecticut poet laureate Hollander [...]