Poetry
working today, and this collection of her
best poems will bring her incomparable
work to the attention of a new generation
of poetry readers.
NIGHTBOAT
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hart island by Stacy Szymaszek (May
15, paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-1-937658-
34-2). In Szymaszek’s long poem, the poet
narrator walks and works in Manhattan’s
East Village, navigating the day-to-day
needs and desires of a community, an organization, a changing neighborhood, as well
as her own.
In the Murmurs of the Rotten Car-
cass Economy by Daniel Borzutzky (May
5, paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-1-937658-33-
5). This bracing new work from Borzutzky
confronts violent action, from state spon-
sored torture and the bombing of civilians
and other “non-essential personnel” to the
collapse of the global economy, the barba-
rism of corporate greed, data fascism, and
the deaths of immigrants attempting to
cross borders.
Land Sparing by Gabriella Klein (May
5, paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-1-937658-32-
8). Klein lays bare the prospects of an
individual in times of ecological disaster
and personal and political upheaval. These
quiet but savage poems are gyroscopic,
telescopic, and microscopic.
NORTON
Deep Lane: Poems by Mark Doty (Apr.,
hardcover, $25.95, ISBN 978-0-393-
07023-1). Doty offers a book of descents:
into the earth, beneath the garden, into the
dark substrata of a life. But these poems
seek repair through the possibilities that
sustain the speaker aboveground: art and
ardor, animals and gardens, the pleasure of
seeing, the world tuned by the word.
Oracle: Poems by Cate Marvin (Mar.,
hardcover, $25.95, ISBN 978-0-393-
07798-8). Marvin’s haunting, passionate
poems, set in New York’s Staten Island,
explore themes of loss, of the vulnerability
of womanhood in a world hostile to it, and
of the fraught, strangely compelling land-
scape of adolescence.
PENGUIN
How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes
(Mar. 31, paper, $20, ISBN 978-0-14-
312688-1). In his daring fifth collection,
National Book Award–winner Hayes
explores how we see and are seen. While
many of these poems bear the clearest
imprint yet of Hayes’s background as a
visual artist, they do not strive to describe
art so much as inhabit it.
Scattered at Sea by Amy Gerstler (May
26, paper, $20, ISBN 978-0-14-312689-
8). Groping for an inclusive, imaginative,
postmodern spirituality, Gerstler draws
from an array of sources, including the
philosophy of the ancient Stoics, diagnostic
tests for Alzheimer’s disease, 1950s recipes,
the Babylonian Talmud, and Walter Benjamin’s writing on his drug experiences.
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