Poetry
978-0-374-16852-0). Swerving elegantly
from humor to heartbreak, from Colorado
to Florida, from Dante’s Paradise to Homer’s Iliad, from knowledge to ignorance to
awe, Phillips turns his gaze upward and
outward, probing and upending notions of
the beyond.
Multitudinous Heart: Selected
Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Carlos
Drummond de Andrade, trans. by Richard
Zenith (June 23, hardcover, $35, ISBN
978-0-374-28070-3). The most generous
selection of Drummond’s poems available
in English gathers work from the various
phases of this restless, brilliant modernist.
Richard Zenith’s selection and translation
brings us a more vivid and surprising poet
than we knew.
Nothing to Declare: Poems by Henri
Cole (Mar. 31, hardcover, $23, ISBN 978-
0-374-22292-5). The poems in Cole’s
ninth book explore life, need, and delight.
Each poem starts up from its own unique
occasion and is conducted through surprising (sometimes unnerving) and self-steady-ing domains. The result is a daring, delicate, unguarded, and tender collection.
GRAYWOLF
The Last Two Seconds: Poems by
Mary Jo Bang (Mar. 3, paper, $16, ISBN
978-1-55597-704-7). Bang captures the
difficulties inherent in being human in the
21st century, when we set our watches by
nuclear disasters, species collapse, pollution, mounting inequalities, warring
nations, and our own mortality. This is
brilliant and profound work by an essential
poet of our time.
Selfish: Poems by Albert Goldbarth
(May 5, paper, $18, ISBN 978-1-55597-
708-5). The incomparable Goldbarth
explores all things “self-ish”: the origins of
identity, the search for ancestry, the neurology of self-awareness, and the line between
“self” and “other.” Whether one line long
or 10 pages, whether uproariously comic or
steeped in gravitas, these are poems that
address our human essence.
Turning into Dwelling: Poems by
Christopher Gilbert, intro. by Terrance
Hayes (July 7, paper, $16, ISBN 978-1-
55597-713-9). Part of Graywolf’s popular
Re/View series, this milestone publication
collects two books by Gilbert—Across the
Mutual Landscape (1984) and a posthu-
mously discovered unpublished manu-
script—under one cover.
GROVE
SOS: Poems, 1961–2013 by Amiri
Baraka, edited by Paul Vangelisti (Feb. 3,
hardcover, $30, ISBN 978-0-8021-2335-
0). Fusing the personal and the political in
high-voltage verse, Baraka was one of the
pre-eminent literary innovators of the past
century. This volume comprises the fullest
spectrum of his revolutionary poems, from
his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final
years.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
HARCOURT
Map: Collected and Last Poems by
Wislawa Szymborska, trans. by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak (Apr. 7,
hardcover, $32, ISBN 978-0-544-12602-
2). Edited by Cavanagh, her longtime
translator, the poems here trace Szymborska’s work until her death in 2012. Nearly
40 are newly translated and 13 represent
the entirety of the poet’s last Polish collection, Enough, never before published in
English.
KNOPF
The Beauty: Poems by Jane Hirshfield
(Mar., hardcover, $26, ISBN 978-0-385-
35107-2). An incandescent new collection
from one of American poetry’s most
distinctive and essential voices. With a pen
faithful to the actual yet dipped at times in
the ink of the surreal, Hirshfield considers
the inner and outer worlds we live in yet
are not confined by.
The Players: Poems by Jill Bialosky
(Mar., hardcover, $26, ISBN 978-0-385-
35262-8). The strongest collection yet
from this widely praised poet is about the
central players in our lives, our relationships over time—between mother and son,
mother and daughter—and how one
generation of relationships informs and
shapes the next.
MILKWEED
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Crow-Work: Poems by Eric Pankey
(Feb. 10, paper, $16, ISBN 978-1-57131-
454-3). “What is a song but a snare
to capture the moment?” This central
question drives Pankey’s ekphrastic exploration of the moment where emotion and
energy flood a work of art. Pankey seeks
not only to explain great art, but also to
embody it.
Pictograph: Poems by Melissa Kwasny
(Mar. 17, paper, $16, ISBN 978-1-57131-
462-8). These poems emerge from Kwasny’s visits to the ancient pictograph and
petroglyph sites around her rural Montana
home and capture the natural world she
encounters around the sacred art, filling it
with new, personal meaning.
River House: Poems by Sally Keith
(May 12, paper, $16, ISBN 978-1-57131-
465-9). Written after the loss of her
mother, these poems of absence follow
Keith as she makes her way through the
depths of grief, navigating a world newly
transfigured.
Vessel: Poems by Parneshia Jones (Apr.
14, paper, $16, ISBN 978-1-57131-467-
3). The imagination of a girl, the retelling
of family stories, and the unfolding of a rich
and often painful history: Jones’s debut
collection explores the intersections of
these elements of experience with refreshing candor and metaphorical purpose.
NEW DIRECTIONS
Blue Fasa by Nathaniel Mackey (May,
paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-8112-2445-
1). Mackey’s sixth collection takes its title
from two related black musical traditions,
a West African griot epic as told by the Fasa
and trumpeter Kenny Dorham’s hard bop
classic “Blue Bossa,” and follows a band of
refugees from history on their incessant
migrations through time, place, and polity
toward renewal.
NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS
Alive: New and Selected Poems by
Elizabeth Willis (Apr. 14, paper, $14,
ISBN 978-1-59017-864-5). Willis has
long been hailed as one of the most important, most singular contemporary poets
