EVERYMANS LIBRARY

Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems (Mar., $12.50), edited by Kurt Brown and Harold Schechter, collects poetic responses to other poems.

FORDHAM UNIV. PRESS

Crocus (Apr.; $39.95, paper $17.95) by Karin Gottshall turns the ordinary interior worlds created by myth, art and memory into the extraordinary.

HANGING LOOSE PRESS

Thrash (June; $27, paper $17) by Sherman Alexie offers new poems and stories from the Native American author.

MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESS

Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry (Apr., $28.95), edited by Robert Hedin, surveys the work of 76 premier Minnesota poets.

TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIV. PRESS

Alan Birkelbach: New and Selected Works (May, $15.95) portrays the Texas landscape and its people.