Robert Boswell, Century’s Son, a novel: A Midwestern college professor and her activist-turned-garbage-collector husband are riven and bound by their son’s suicide ten years before, as well as by their daughter, who’s become a teenage mother. Into this exhilarating and penetrating portrait comes the professor’s Russian father, who claims to be a century old. (Knopf)
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)
Yusef Komunyakaa, Taboo, poems: In the first book of a trilogy, Komunyakaa shows that he is our great poet of connectivity—the secret blood that links slave and master, explorer and native, stranger and brother. (FSG)
Richard Tillinghast, The New Life, poems: In his latest collection, which takes its title from Dante’s celebration of courtly love, La Vita Nuova, Tillinghast journeys through romantic love, the deaths of old friends, the ironies of history, and the losses and epiphanies of a long life of exploration and discovery. (Copper Beech)
Alberto Ríos, The Dangerous Shirt, poems: Ríos sends readers down a magical wormhole through mundane reality, creating a book of poems that fuses both magical realism and cultural physics. (Copper Canyon)
Derek Walcott, Selected Poems, poems: Drawing from every stage of Walcott’s Nobel Prize-winning career, this collection brings together his famous early works, passages from Omeros , and selections from his latest major works. (FSG)
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