Donald Hall, The Painted Bed, poems: Hall’s masterful thirteenth collection of poems expand on the themes of love, death, and mourning. The works here are by turns furious and resigned, spirited and despairing-“mania is melancholy reversed,” he writes. (Houghton Mifflin)
Philip Levine, The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography, personal essays: With artful, witty, illuminating prose, Levine recounts his youth in Detroit and his adulthood in California and Spain, and celebrates his mentors John Berryman and Yvor Winters. (Michigan)
Howard Norman, The Haunting of L., a novel: The final book in Norman’s Canadian trilogy, this beautifully crafted novel-set in Manitoba and Halifax-becomes a chilling fable about moral blindness, spirit photography, adultery, artistic ambition, and greed. (FSG)
Maura Stanton, Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling, stories: Ten darkly funny short stories that prove to be unpredictable, smart, and lively, with tales ranging from a glimpse of Gertrude Stein playing Ping-Pong with a G.I. in Paris during World War II to a woman discovering that her dead sister had written a bad…
Henry Bromell, Little America, a novel: A rousing, clever, and thoughtful tale that’s part John Cheever and part John Le Carré, this novel follows historian Terry Hooper from Boston to Rome as he tries to clarify his CIA father’s involvement in the assassination of a Middle Eastern king. (Knopf)
Madeline DeFrees, Blue Dusk: New & Selected Poems: Displaying quiet clarity and humor, this collection covers fifty years of writing, with twenty-three new poems joining selections from six earlier books and two chapbooks. (Copper Canyon)
George Garrett, Going to See the Elephant: A miscellany of works that exhibit Garrett’s sly and humane sensibilities, including essays, a memoir, a poem, a story, and an interview, edited by Jeb Livingood. (Texas Review Press)
Maxine Kumin, The Long Marriage, poems: Kumin’s luminous twelfth volume of poetry dips into themes of loyalty, longevity, and recovery, along with tributes to Wordsworth, Gorki, and Rukeyser. (Norton)
Sue Miller, The World Below, a novel: In her sixth novel, Miller hauntingly exposes the nerves, hopes, and regrets that lie hidden in the marriages and families of two women-a San Francisco schoolteacher and her Vermont grandmother. (Knopf)
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