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)
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)
Rita Dove, Sonata Mulattica, poems: In this book-length lyric narrative inspired by history, Dove recreates the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist, the son of a white woman and an "African prince," whose conflict with Ludwig van Beethoven over a woman evolves a grandiose yet melancholy poetic tale. (Norton)
B. H. Fairchild, Usher, poems: This new collection of poems employs dramatic monologues and embraces a range of subject matters and modes, from the elegiac to the comic. (Norton)
Alice Hoffman, The Story Sisters, a novel: Hoffman’s latest book tells of sisters who create their own magical world to escape a tragic encounter that has forever changed their lives. (Areheart)
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