Tobias Wolff, Our Story Begins, new and selected stories: The ten spare, elegant new stories, collected with twenty-one stories from Wolff’s three previous collections, offer moments of realization, along with an expert use of irony and empathy to explore facets of contemporary life. (Knopf)
C. D. Wright, Rising, Fall, Hovering, poems: Wright’s language is sharpened with political ferocity as she overlays voices from the borderlands between nations, to reveal the human struggle for connection and justice during times of upheaval and grief. (Copper Canyon)
Jorie Graham, Sea Change, poems: Bringing readers to the threshold at which civilization becomes unsustainable, Graham questions how the human spirit might persist in a world where the future is no longer assured. (Ecco)
Rita Dove, American Smooth, poems: The poems in Dove’s gorgeous eighth collection move through history, music, war, and motherhood in an ever graceful choreography. (Norton)
Edward Hirsch, Special Orders, poems: With a mixture of grief and joy, Hirsch assesses “the major triumphs, the major failures” of his life so far, revealing a new fearlessness in confronting his own internal divisions. (Knopf)
George Garrett, Empty Bed Blues, stories: The fifteen stories in Garrett’s thrilling collection are deeply concerned with the old verities of love and death. (Missouri)
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)
Alice Hoffman, The Third Angel, a novel: Hoffman elegantly examines the lives of three women at different crossroads in their lives, tying their London-centered stories together in devastating retrospect. (Shaye Areheart)
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