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)
Mark Doty, Source, poems: Doty’s sixth book of poetry magnificently explores desire and the paradox of selfhood in matters of public life and private struggle, with boldly colored, lyrical scenes from New York, Provincetown, Vermont, and Latin America. (HarperCollins)
Richard Ford, A Multitude of Sins, stories: Nine incisive stories and a bravura novella that explicate the sins of adultery and lust. These dramas unfold in Maine, Connecticut, New Orleans, Michigan, and elsewhere with flawless execution. (Knopf)
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)
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