Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Picks for National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. Looking for something to read? Check out our wide selection of poetry titles!

New poetry books for Spring '12



EXIT, CIVILIAN by Idra Novey

"[S]uperb acts of attention, by a writer whose reliable moral sense matches her first-rate ear."--Publishers Weekly







New in paperback



WALDEN BY HAIKU by Ian Marshall
"An instant classic. Marshall illuminates the deeper logic and tone of Walden . . . entirely true to the spirit of Japanese haiku."--John Elder, author of FOLLOWING THE BRUSH








New in paperback



WINTER SKY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 1968-2008 by Coleman Barks

"This book is not the planned and ordered universe of Dante--it's mostly free verse and the organic story, in reverse, of a man trying hard to make sense of the universe and his place in it."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution





Select backlist

SERIOUSLY FUNNY: POEMS ABOUT LOVE, DEATH, RELIGION, ART, POLITICS, SEX, AND EVERYTHING ELSE edited by Barbara Hamby and David Kirby

HERE BE MONSTERS poems by Colin Cheney and selected by David Wojahn

STUTTER poems by William Billiter and selected by Hilda Raz

THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU by Andy Robbins

WEATHER by Dave Lucas

BLACK NATURE: FOUR CENTURIES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN NATURE POETRY by Camille T. Dungy

FOR THE MOUNTAIN LAUREL by John Casteen

IN THE WORLD HE CREATED ACCORDING TO HIS WILL by David Caplan

LOGORRHEA DEMENTIA: A SELF-DIAGNOSIS by Kyle Dargan

SPIT BACK A BOY by Iain Haley Pollock