Mites to Mastodons by Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin, Mites to Mastodons, children’s poems: A fascinating cornucopia of poems that exudes whimsical affection for all the creatures in our kingdom. Illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski. (Houghton Mifflin)
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Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes, poems: This magnificent new collection presents us with fields of battle and fields of debate in which we often seem to be at a standstill. (FSG)
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Zeppo’s First Wife by Gail Mazur
Gail Mazur, Zeppo’s First Wife, poems: This splendid collection of new and selected works draws on Mazur’s four previous books, showcasing her poetic achievements and wry meditations on the everyday. (Chicago)
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Man and Camel by Mark Strand
Mark Strand, Man and Camel, poems: Strand’s remarkable eleventh collection is a toast to life’s transience, abiding beauty, and the meaning in the sound of language. (Knopf)
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The Life of David by Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky, The Life of David, nonfiction: Pinsky teases apart the many strands of David’s story in this vibrant retelling, which includes a wealth of legend as well as scripture. (Schocken)
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Toussaint Louverture by Madison Smartt Bell
Madison Smartt Bell, Toussaint Louverture, a biography: A masterful portrait of the man who led the first—and only—successful slave revolution in history. (Pantheon)
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The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts by DeWitt Henry
DeWitt Henry, The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts, a novel: This incisive novel heartbreakingly portrays Anna Maye Potts, whose life is upended by her widowed father’s death and by her younger sister’s subsequent attempt to take possession of the family house. The first winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel. (Tennessee)
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Pleasure Dome by Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa, Pleasure Dome, poems: A compelling twelfth collection that gathers work from the past twenty years, as well as some new and previously uncollected work. Publishers Weekly astutely predicts that readers will want this volume for its “heady mix of gothic foreboding, racial history and realpolitik, biblical and Attic allusion, and sexual longing.” (Wesleyan)