James Carroll, House of War, nonfiction: Carroll draws on rich personal experience as well as exhaustive research to produce an intimate, searing, and emotional history of “the Building” known as the Pentagon. (Houghton Mifflin)
Mary Gordon, The Stories of Mary Gordon, stories: These forty-one pieces, half of which are new or have never been collected, masterfully capture the nuances of modern life. (Pantheon)
Joyce Peseroff recommends Here and Hereafter, poems by Elton Glaser: “Glaser’s sixth collection of poems remains rooted in this life as it considers the pull of the next. His gardener’s take on the natural world, spiced with wit and a gift for the extravagantly precise image, makes for satisfying poems time and again. Most poignant…
Madeline DeFrees, Spectral Waves, poems: Feisty and haunting, the poems in DeFrees’s tenth collection range from sonnets about Elvis to lyrics about cataracts, birds, and the plants in her well-tended garden. (Copper Canyon)
Marilyn Hacker, Essays on Departure, poems: This book gathers twenty-five years of elegant, delectable work from eight books, as well as translations and new poems. (Carcanet)
Maura Stanton recommends Autumn Road, poems by Brian Swann: "Imagine D. H. Lawrence writing with a sense of humor, and you’ll have a faint idea of what Brian Swann’s rich, detail-packed, mid-twentieth-century English memoir poems are like. Swann arrives on earth about the same time as the Nazi blitz—an air raid siren announces his birth—and…
Tess Gallagher, Dear Ghosts, poems: In Gallagher’s first new collection in fourteen years, the ghosts of the past are resplendently conjured as part of the poet’s present day with signature grace. (Graywolf)
Yusef Komunyakaa, Gilgamesh, verse play: With playwright Chad Garcia, Komunyakaa has refashioned a classic Sumerian legend into a vibrant and compelling verse play. (Wesleyan)
Gerald Stern recommends Gloryland, poems by Anne Marie Macari: "Gloryland is a beautiful second book by Anne Marie Macari which explores the issue of womanhood in its literal, figurative, mythical, and theological forms. The poems are absolutely original." (Alice James)
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