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* Smith, Clint. Above Ground. Little, Brown. Mar. 2023.128p. ISBN 9780316543033. $27. POETRY Smith, whose How the Word Is Passed won the 2021 nonfiction National Book Critics Circle Award, returns [...]

* Rios, Alberto. Not Go Away Is My Name. Copper Canyon. May 2020.98p. ISBN 9781556595875. pap. $17. poetry 'We plant seeds in the ground/ and dreams in the sky' writes [...]

Richardson, James. For Now. Copper Canyon. Jun. 2020. 86p. ISBN 9781556595790. pap. $16. POETRY In his ninth collection, National Book Award finalist Richardson (By the Numbers) focuses our attention on [...]

* Abdolmalekian, Garous. Lean Against This Late Hour. Penguin Poets. Apr. 2020.160p. tr. from Persian by Ahmad Nadalizadeh & Idra Novey. ISBN 9780143134930. pap. $20. POETRY Accompanied by the Persian [...]

* Hirsch, Edward. Gabriel. Knopf. Sept. 2014. 96p. ISBN 9780385353571. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780385353588. POETRY This book-length elegy recounts the brief yet turbulent life of the poet's adopted son, Gabriel, […]

Margaret Patterson's Literary Research Guide described the volumes in Twayne's United States Authors Series (TUSAS) as '...especially suitable for the busy undergraduate who knows almost nothing about an author, for […]

Peacock, Molly. The Second Blush. Norton. 2008. 80p. ISBN 978-0-393-06651-7. $23.95. POETRY Written in the afterglow of a second marriage at midlife and a love regained, the poems in Peacock's [...]

Until the summer of 1989, the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) was an online resource most scholars and students glimpsed fleetingly over the shoulders of helpful reference librarians and archivists, [...]

Plumly, Stanley. Against Sunset. Norton. Nov. 2016. 96p. ISBN 9780393253948. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9780393253955. POETRY Striving to communicate the ephemerality of human experience and perception 'in an octave between moment [...]

* Levine, Philip. The Last Shift. Knopf. Nov. 2016.76p. ISBN 9780451493262. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780451493286. POETRY Throughout his long, celebrated writing career, Pulitzer Prize winner Levine (1928-2015) rarely strayed from [...]

* Jollimore, Troy. Syllabus of Errors. Princeton Univ. (Contemporary Poets). 2015. 112p. ISBN 9780691167589. $35; pap. ISBN 9780691167688. $16.95. POETRY One of the most effective passages in National Book Critics [...]

Jones, Rodney. Village Prodigies. Mariner: Houghton Harcourt. Mar. 2017.192p. ISBN 9780544960107. pap. $16.99; ebk. ISBN 9780544960138. poetry Jones's latest (after Imaginary Logic) is not so much a novel-in-verse as an [...]

* Muldoon, Paul. One Thousand Things Worth Knowing. Farrar. Jan. 2015. 128p. ISBN 9780374227128. $24. POETRY The informational content of Muldoon's 12th collection (after The Word on the Street: Rock [...]

* Wiman, Christian. Once in the West. Farrar. Sept. 2014. 112p. ISBN 9780374227012. $24; ebk. ISBN 9780374713546. POETRY Though the spare, intensely focused lyrics of Wiman's fourth collection (after Stolen [...]

* Di Piero, W.S. Tombo. McSweeney's. 2014. 63p. ISBN 9781938073762. $20. POETRY Di Piero (Nitro Nights) ventures into eco-poetical territory with his 11th collection, teasing out the essential character of [...]

Murray, Les. Conscious and Verbal. Farrar. Oct. 2001. c.128p. ISBN 0-374-12882-0. $23. POETRY In 1996, Australian poet Murray awoke after three weeks in a coma. In the next four years, [...]

*Carruth, Hayden. Doctor Jazz. Copper Canyon. Sept. 2001. c.130p. ISBN 1-55659-163-2. $18. POETRY 'A memorious old man' approaching his ninth decade, Carruth continues to question authority, fate, circumstance, and our [...]

Simic, Charles. Night Picnic. Harcourt. Sept. 2001. c.96p. ISBN 0-15-100630-X. $23. POETRY This follow-up to the recent Jackstraws (LJ 3/1/99) finds Simic in a relatively benign and domestic frame of [...]

D'Aguiar, Fred. Bloodlines. Overlook. Jul. 2001. 160p. ISBN 1-58567-156-8. $24.95. POETRY Best known in the United States for his fiction (Feeding the Ghosts, LJ 1/99), British-born D'Aguiar here attempts a [...]

Goldbarth, Albert. Saving Lives. Ohio State Univ. 2001. c.128p. LC 00-047867. ISBN 0-8142-0871-1. $45; pap. ISBN 0-8142-5063-4. $19. POETRY Ever the imagination's paleontologist, Goldbarth (Beyond: Poems) continues to unearth the [...]

*Heaney, Seamus. Electric Light. Farrar. Apr. 2001. c.144p. ISBN 0-374-14683-7. pap. $22. POETRY Among living, English-speaking poets, few make words perform as nimbly as Irish Nobelist Heaney. Each new book [...]

Seidel, Frederick. Life on Earth. Farrar. Apr. 2001. c.80p. ISBN 0-374-8685-5. $22. POETRY In this sequence of 33 lyric poems, each composed of eight quatrains, Seidel surveys the vast gulf [...]

Carson, Anne. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos. Knopf. Feb. 2001. c.176p. ISBN 0-375-40804-5. $22. POETRY A professor of classics at McGill University and the [...]