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)
Rosanna Warren, Fables of the Self, essays: Emerging from the tradition of British and American poet-critics, Warren traces the idea of imagined selfhood through time and space, creating an occult autobiography that shows the imagination as a transfiguring and potentially moral force. (Norton)
Gary Soto, Partly Cloudy, poems: A humorous and tender collection of poems giving testimony to the trials and folly of being in young, sweet, uncontrollable teenage love. (Harcourt)
Kevin Young, Dear Darkness, poems: After the loss of his father, Young pays homage to his family with poems that carry the reader across landscapes of personal and cultural loss. (Knopf)
DeWitt Henry, Safe Suicide, essays: These interconnected essays tell the story of an ordinary man—a father of two, a husband, a long-time teacher and editor—and his extraordinary struggles for happiness and truth, offering moments of powerful insights and piercing revelations. (Red Hen Press)
Lorrie Goldensohn, American War Poetry, anthology: Covering five centuries, these fascinating poems edited by Goldensohn put into sharp relief America’s complex, conflicted, and evolving attitudes toward war. (Columbia)
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