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Collins, Billy. The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems. Random. Oct. 2005. c.85p. ISBN 0-375-50382-X. $22.95. POETRY 'The birds are in their trees,/the toast is in the toaster,/ and the [...]

Bradley, George. Some Assembly Required. Knopf. Aug. 2001. c.96p. ISBN 0-375-41195-X. $23. POETRY 'Many things happen in Chester, Connecticut,/ but the invasion of Tamerlain is not one of them.' Still, [...]

Jeffers, Robinson. The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Stanford Univ. 2001. c.747p. permanent paper. ed. by Tim Hunt. index. ISBN 0-8047-3890-4. $75; pap. ISBN 0-8047-4108-5. $24.95. POETRY 'If you should [...]

Komunyakaa, Yusef. Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems. Wesleyan Univ: Univ. Pr. of New England. 2001. c.464p. index. ISBN 0-8195-6425-7. $35. POETRY 'You try to beat loneliness/out of a drum, [...]

Lerman, Eleanor. The Mystery of Meteors. Sarabande, dist. by Consortium. Apr. 2001. c.72p. LC 00-041309. ISBN 1-889330-54-X. $20.95; pap. ISBN 1-889330-55-8. $12.95. POETRY 'These are the mysteries I could not [...]

Eady, Cornelius. Brutal Imagination. Putnam. Jan. 200l. c.96p. ISBN 0-399-14718-7. $24; pap. ISBN 0-399-147209. $13. POETRY Eady's new book consists of two song cycles. The title sequence involves the imaginary [...]

Oliver, Mary. The Leaf and the Cloud. Da Capo. 2000. c.64p. ISBN 0-306-80993-1. $22. POETRY 'Welcome to the silly, comforting poem.' So begins Oliver's new book-length poem in seven parts. [...]

Ludvigson, Susan. Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems. Louisiana State Univ. Nov. 2000. c.205p. permanent paper. ISBN 0-8071-2619-5. $34.95; pap. ISBN 0-8071-2620-9. $18.95. POETRY 'The body is a boat gliding/down [...]

Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City. Milkweed. Sept. 2000. c.272p. permanent paper. ed. by Laure-Anne Bosselaar. index. LC 99-049399. ISBN 157131-410-5. pap. $16.95. POETRY 'I do not do [...]

Smith, William Jay. The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems. Curbstone, dist. by Consortium. 2000. 102p. illus. ISBN 1-880684-66-7. pap. $13.95. POETRY Noted poet and anthologizer Smith (The World Below [...]

Williams, Crystal. Kin. Michigan State Univ. Jun. 2000. c.88p. ISBN 0-87013-548-1. pap. $15.95. POETRY A public poet of the oral tradition, Williams is a fixture at New York's Nuyorican Poets [...]

Gloria, Eugene. Drivers at the Short-Time Motel. Penguin. Jun. 2000. c.96p. ISBN 0-14-058925-2. pap. $15.95. POETRY 'After we make love, I teach you/words I'm slowly forgetting,/ names for hands, breast, [...]

Clifton, Lucille. Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000. BOA, dist. by Consortium. Apr. 2000. c.132p. ISBN 1-880238-87-X. $25; pap. ISBN 1-880238-88-8. $15. POETRY Clifton's poems owe a great [...]

Jordan, Judy. Carolina Ghost Woods. Louisiana State Univ. Apr. 2000. c.59p. ISBN 0-8071-2555-5. $22.50; pap. ISBN 0-8071-2556-3. $14.95. POETRY Jordan's poems demonstrate a skillfulness and maturity that is uncommon today [...]

Troupe, Quincy. Choruses. Coffee House, dist. by Consortium. 1999. 112p. ISBN 1-56689-092-6. $23.95; pap. ISBN 1-56689-090-X. $14.95. POETRY Troupe's poems are about music, about unanticipated rhythms and surprising sounds, from [...]

Logan, William. Night Battle. Penguin Poets. 1999. c.97p. ISBN 0-14-058798-5. pap. $15.95. POETRY Logan is a master of prosody, deftly working with tercets and sonnets, ballad stanzas and blues. He [...]

Martinez, Valerie. Absence, Luminescent. Four Way Bks. 1999. c.67p. ISBN 1-884800-23-8. pap. $12.95. POETRY 'Just a few years ago, when everything was permanent./ Or on the edge of. Or, yes, [...]

Bolton, Joe. The Last Nostalgia: Poems, 1982-1990. Univ. of Arkansas. 1999. c.224p. ed. by Donald Justice. ISBN 1-55728-558-6. $24. POETRY 'In Atlanta once, on Peachtree Street,/I met a woman and [...]

Poole, Scott. The Cheap Seats. Lost Horse. Jun. 1999. c.82p. LC 98-53878. ISBN 0-9668612-0-5. pap. $12.95. POETRY From the cheap seats, those in the back of the house or the [...]

Pollock, Iain Haley. Spit Back A Boy. Univ. of Georgia. 2011. c.72p. ISBN 9780820339085. pap. $16.95. POETRY 'And all our sadness will be old Arkansas,/ rural and misspoken, its roads [...]

Gander, Forrest (text) & Raymond Meeks & others (photogs.). Core Samples from the World. New Directions, dist. by Norton. May 2011. c.96p, photogs. ISBN 9780811218870. pap. $15.95. POETRY A foreigner [...]

* Komunyakaa, Yusef. The Chameleon Couch: Poems. Farrar. Apr. 2011. c.128p. ISBN 9780374120382. $24. POETRY 'I am a black man, a poet, a bohemian,/ & there isn't a road my [...]

Randall, Margaret. My Town: A Memoir of Albuquerque, New Mexico in Poetas, Prose and Photographs. Wings Pr. 2010. c.112p. photogs. ISBN 9780916727734. pap. $16. LIT The Cold War burned hotly [...]

Ai. No Surrender. Norton. Sept. 2010. c.144p. ISBN 978-0-393-07886-2. $24.95. POETRY Ai (1947-2010) established her reputation, with seven books in 35 years, by giving voice, through dramatic monologs, to the [...]

Dobyns, Stephen. Winter's Journey. Copper Canyon. Jun. 2010. c.80p. ISBN 978-1-55659-305-5. pap. $15. POETRY Dobyns is given to wry, philosophical observation in poems that capture place and the most ordinary [...]

Darwish, Mahmoud. If I Were Another. Farrar. Nov. 2009. c.240p. tr. from Arabic by Fady Joudah. ISBN 978-0-374-17429-3. $26. POETRY Steeped in the tradition and values of classical Arabian poetry [...]

Witte, George. Deniability. Orchises. 2009. c.95p. ISBN 978-1-932535-19-8. pap. $14.95. POETRY 'A leak implies without affirming fact;/ there's wiggle room should details contradict,/ events reverse themselves, a photograph/prove forged. Whose [...]

Williams, Miller. Time and the Tilting Earth. Louisiana State Univ. 2008. c.64p. ISBN 978-0-8071-3352-1. $45; pap. ISBN 978-0-8071-3353-8. $16.95. POETRY In this new collection, award winner and Clinton inaugural poet [...]

* Oliver, Mary. The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays. Beacon, dist. by Houghton. Oct. 2008. c.96p. ISBN 978-0-8070-6884-7. $23. POETRY 'All summer I made friends/with the creatures [...]

Herrera, Juan Felipe. 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Spoken Word 1971-2007. City Lights, dist. by Consortium. 2008. c.352p. ISBN 978-0-87286-462-7. pap. $16.95. LIT 'You build the fence we [...]

Stern, Gerald. Save the Last Dance: Poems. Norton. May 2008. c.80p. ISBN 978-0-393-06612-8. $23.95. POETRY 'She was a darling with her roses, though what I/like is lavender for I can [...]

Kumin, Maxine. Still To Mow: Poems. Norton. 2007. c.96p. ISBN 978-0-393-06549-7. $23.95. POETRY In her 16th book of poems, Pulitzer Prize winner Kumin (Up Country: Poems of New England) continues […]

Rich, Susan. Cures Include Travel. White Pine, dist. by Consortium. 2007. 106p. ISBN 978-1-893996-75-5. pap. $14. POETRY 'What is poetry in wartime?' News anchors around the world apologize for showing […]

Bellows, Nathaniel. Why Speak? Norton. Feb. 2007. c.128p. ISBN 0-393-06240-6 [ISBN 978-0-393-06240-3]. $23.95. POETRY It should come as no surprise after reading this debut collection that Bellows is an artist [...]

Taylor, Alexander. Dreaming at the Gates of Fury. Azul. 2006. c.108p. ISBN 1-885214-359 [ISBN 978-1885214-35-5]. pap. $13. POETRY Longtime publisher of Curbstone Press, Taylor is also a poet. He's capable [...]

McNair, Wesley. The Ghosts of You and Me. Godine. 2006. c.96p. ISBN 1-56792-293-7 [ISBN 978-1-56792-293-6]. pap. $17.95. POETRY McNair's sixth collection (after A Place on Water) continues his exploration of [...]

Dunn, Stephen. Everything Else in the World. Norton. Sept. 2006. c.112p. ISBN 0393-06239-2 [ISBN 978-0-393-06239-7]. $23.95. POETRY With his 14th collection, Pulitzer Prize winner Dunn (Different Hours) has made a [...]

Reed, Ishmael. New and Collected Poems, 1966-2006. Carroll & Graf. Jun. 2006. c.384p. ISBN 0-7867-1788-2 [ISBN 978-0-7867-1788-0]. $25.95. POETRY This massive volume holds 40 years of smart talk, risk taking, [...]