Donald Hall, White Apples and the Taste of Stone, poems: This sumptuous volume collects 226 poems across sixty years of Hall’s celebrated career, including twenty new poems; a CD of recordings is included. (Houghton Mifflin)
Maxine Kumin, Mites to Mastodons, children’s poems: A fascinating cornucopia of poems that exudes whimsical affection for all the creatures in our kingdom. Illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski. (Houghton Mifflin)
Chase Twichell recommends Ladder of Hours, poems by Keith Althaus: “This book contains forty years of poems from a poet whose work has been seriously overlooked. Althaus’s lyrics are spare, without ornamentation, passionate, and intimate. He’s interested in the numinous underlying the ordinary, and gives us frequent surprising and memorable glimpses of it.”(Ausable)
Carl Phillips, Riding Westward, poems: In this startling and distinctive eighth collection, Phillips meditates on that space where the forces of will and imagination collide with sexual and moral conduct. (FSG)
Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes, poems: This magnificent new collection presents us with fields of battle and fields of debate in which we often seem to be at a standstill. (FSG)
Gail Mazur, Zeppo’s First Wife, poems: This splendid collection of new and selected works draws on Mazur’s four previous books, showcasing her poetic achievements and wry meditations on the everyday. (Chicago)
Robert Pinsky, First Things to Hand, poems: This chapbook serves as a kind of literate anthropology, but is also vintage Pinsky: casually erudite, charged with steady passion, a pleasure to read. (Sarabande)
Mark Strand, Man and Camel, poems: Strand’s remarkable eleventh collection is a toast to life’s transience, abiding beauty, and the meaning in the sound of language. (Knopf)
Robert Pinsky, The Life of David, nonfiction: Pinsky teases apart the many strands of David’s story in this vibrant retelling, which includes a wealth of legend as well as scripture. (Schocken)
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