Elizabeth Spires, Now the Green Blade Rises, poems: Spires movingly meditates on the life-and-death matters of midlife-the separation of parent from child, the loss of family and friends, the evolving nature of our closest relationships. (Norton)
Gerald Stern, American Sonnets, poems: In a collection of fifty-nine “sonnets” of twenty or so lines each, most consisting of a single sentence about a single moment, Stern intimately gives tribute to everything from clocks to gangster cousins. (Norton)
Philip Levine, So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews: With his trademark humor and down-to-earth intelligence, Levine mixes memoir and criticism, reflecting on his working-class Detroit roots, his apprenticeship with John Berryman, his years teaching, and other stages in his formation as a poet. (Michigan)
Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel, poems: In his ninth collection, Muldoon works a rich vein that bridges the County Armagh of his youth with suburban New Jersey, where he now lives and teaches. Both whimsical and elegiac, these poems play with form and language with winning mastery. (FSG)
Tim O’Brien, July, July, a novel: O’Brien’s new book deftly centers on a July 2000 weekend when the Darton Hall College class of 1969 gathers for a reunion. The sharply drawn ensemble includes a Vietnam vet, a Republican trophy wife recovering from a mastectomy, and a mop manufacturer. (Houghton Mifflin)
Carolyn Forché, Blue Hour, poems: Forché’s lyrical fourth collection, her first since the tour de force The Angel of History, ranges from personal memories of childhood and childrearing to stark images of atrocity, with the centerpiece, the forty-seven-page “On Earth,” brilliantly modeled after “gnostic abecedarians.” (HarperCollins)
George Garrett, Southern Excursions, essays: This volume collects more than fifty of Garrett’s essays, reviews, and introductions-all concerning Southern letters in our time, delivered with his characteristic wit and charm. (LSU)
Sue Miller, The Story of My Father, a memoir: In her first nonfiction book, Miller recounts the last few years of her father’s life as he succumbed to Alzheimer’s. Riveting, compassionate, and loving, the book not only brings her father to life, but also illuminates Miller’s own roles as daughter and writer. (Knopf)
Charles Simic, The Voice at 3:00 A.M., poems: A selection of work from the past twenty years, along with some twenty new poems, this book gives us a remarkable survey of Simic’s singular poetic journey, which has been marked by his sardonic humor and moral lucidity. (Harcourt)
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