Editor's Corner

  Paul Muldoon, Plan B, poems and photographs: In this extraordinary collaboration with Scottish photographer Norman McBeath, Muldoon’s poems reveal an uncanny relationship between word and image. (Enitharmon)

  Carl Phillips, Speak Low, poems: Desire and loss, mastery and subjugation, belief and doubt, sex, animal instinct, human reason—these are the lenses through which Phillips examines, in this tenth collection, what it means to be a human being in the world. (FSG)

  Robert Pinsky, Thousands of Broadways, nonfiction. Pinsky builds his portrait of the American small town through an accretion of recurring works, artists and themes, covered in passing and usually in unexpected ways. (Chicago)

Elizabeth Spires, The Wave-Maker, poems: In these poems, Spires explores the seamless continuum of birth, death and transformation, meditating on creatures as unlikely as a lowly snail, a prehistoric coelacanth, or a tiny Japanese netsuke of a badger disguised as a monk. (Norton)  

  Ladette Randolph, A Sandhills Ballad, a novel: Set in the Nebraska plains, this tale follows the life of a woman who, feeling that all she has believed in has failed her, abandons her emotional and cultural ties. (New Mexico)

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)  

  Charles Simic, The Renegade: Writings on Poetry and a Few Other Things, essays: In this collection, Simic examines the work and lives of notable poets, novelists, artists, and playwrights in a series of critical portraits. (Braziller)