In his seventieth year, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a deeply moving and beautiful sequence about what sustains him.Beginning with "My Friends Don't Get Buried," the lament of a delinquent mourner as his friends have begun to die, and ending with the plaintive note...
Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry...
Author: Nicholas A. Basbanes
Publisher: Knopf
A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty years, and a much-needed reassessment for the twenty-first century of a writer whose stature and celebrity were unparalleled in his time, whose work helped to explain America's new world not only to Americans...
The Park
Author: John Freeman
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
In The Park, his second book of poetry, John Freeman uses a park as a petri dish, turning a deep gaze on all that pass through it. In language both precise and restrained, Freeman explores the inherent contradictions that arise from a place whose purpose is derived purely from what we bring to it--a park is both natural...
The King's Beast: A Mystery...
Author: Eliot Pattison
Publisher: Counterpoint
When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to retrieve an astonishing cache of fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, his excitement as a naturalist blinds him to his treacherous path. But as murderers stalk him Duncan discovers that the fossils of this American incognitum are not nearly as mysterious as the political...
Minor Feelings: An Asian American...
Author: Cathy Park Hong
Publisher: One World
A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged exploration of the psychological condition of being Asian American, by an award-winning poet and essayist
How do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition--if such a thing exists?
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this...
Les petits de Décembre
Author: Kaouther Adimi
Publisher: SEUIL
C'est un terrain vague, au milieu d'un lotissement de maisons pour l'essentiel réservées à des militaires. Au fil des ans, les enfants du quartier en ont fait leur fief. Ils y jouent au football, la tête pleine de leurs rêves de gloire. Nous sommes en 2016, à Dely Brahim, une petite commune de l'ouest...
Ainsi parlait ma mère
Author: Rachid Benzine
Publisher: SEUIL
" Vous vous demandez sans doute ce que je fais dans la chambre de ma mère. Moi, le professeur de lettres de l'Université catholique de Louvain. Qui n'a jamais trouvé à se marier. Attendant, un livre à la main, le réveil possible de sa génitrice. Une maman fatiguée, lassée, ravinée par la vie et ses aléas....
NOUS, L'EUROPE: BANQUET DES PEUPLES
Author: GAUDE LAURENT
Publisher: ACTES SUD
L'Europe, l'ancienne, celle d'un Vieux Monde bouleversé par la révolution industrielle, et l'Union européenne, belle utopie née sur les cendres de deux grandes guerres, sont l'alpha et l'oméga de cette épopée sociopolitique et humaniste en vers libres relatant un siècle et demi de constructions,...
One Lark, One Horse: Poems
Author: Michael Hofmann
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A new collection of poems by Michael Hofmann -- his first in twenty yearsMichael Hofmann, renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators, is also regarded as among our most respected poets. Hofmann's status -- he is the author of "one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century"...
If They Come for Us: Poems
Author: FATIMAH ASGHAR
Publisher: One World
"A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice." - BOOKLIST "Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones." - Elle "[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces...
One Fatal Flaw: A Daniel Pitt Novel
Author: Anne Perry
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Two fiery deaths have young lawyer Daniel Pitt and his scientist friend Miriam fford Croft racing to solve a forensic crisis in this explosive new novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.
When a desperate woman comes to Daniel Pitt seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced...
Eye Level: Poems
Author: Jenny Xie
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe HerreraFor years now, I've been using the wrong palette.Each year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date. Planes and buses, guesthouse to guesthouse. I've gotten to where I am by dint of my poor...
Obit
Author: Victoria Chang
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, Chang writes of "the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking." These poems reinvent...
44 Poems for You
Author: Ruhl, Sarah
Publisher: COPPER CANYON PR
Playwright Sarah Ruhl's first book of poetry, 44 Poems for You, offers poems that form a subtle, personal meditation on family, motherhood, and loss. With a finely tuned ear for language, Ruhl's poetry sings with a humbling honesty about what it means to share our lives with others and with those who form our hollows: a miscarriage,...
Indecency
Author: Justin Phillip Reed
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social order. Political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful -- the author unpacks...
Silences
Author: Martha Ronk
Publisher: Omnidawn
Within the visual arts of painting and photography, Martha Ronk finds an undeniable presence lurking: silence. This character slips into pauses, hides between images, and expertly evades the grasp of language. Ronk shows us that what is hidden just off screen in these images might just be the force that gives them power....
Before Familiar Woods: A Novel
Author: Ian Pisarcik
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
For fans of David Joy and Christopher J. Yates, comes Ian Pisarcik's haunting debut novel exploring the fraught nature of families and the inescapable secrets that are out to cripple them.On the outskirts of a town too tired for its own happenings, the boys were found dead inside a tent. Three years later, their fathers...
Love and I: Poems
Author: Fanny Howe
Publisher: Graywolf Press
The newest collection from "one of America's most dazzling poets" (O, The Oprah Magazine) Set in transit even as they investigate the transitory, the cinematic poems in Love and I move like a handheld camera through the eternal, the minds of passengers, and the landscapes of Ireland and America. From this...
