AUSABLE PRESS
Declension in the Village of Chung Luong (Mar., $14) by Bruce Weigl. The poet of the Vietnam War looks back on years of spiritual work.
GEORGE BRAZILLER
Sweet Fire: Tulia d'Aragona's Poetry of Dialogue and Selected Prose (Apr.; $15.95, cloth $27.50), trans. and edited by Elizabeth Pallitto, features 55 pieces by the Italian Renaissance poet and philosopher.
CALYX (Dist. by Consortium)
Storytelling in Cambodia (June, $13.95) by Willa Schneberg employs linked poems to journey from ancient times to modern Cambodia. 7-city author tour.
CINCO PUNTOS PRESS
White Panties, Dead Friends and Other Bits and Pieces of Love (Apr., $13.95) by Bobby Byrd reflects on love, aging, death and other topics through imagined conversations.
COPPER CANYON PRESS
The Butterfly's Burden (Aug., $20) by Mahmoud Darwish is the Palestinian poet's first appearance in English.
FREE PRESS
Burnt Sugar Cana Quemada: Contemporary Cuban Poetry; Translations and the Originals (Aug., $14), edited by Lorie Marie Carlson and Oscar Hijuelos, showcases the best work of the past century. Ad/promo.
DAVID R. GODINE/BLACK SPARROW BOOKS
Another Woman Who Looks Like Me (Apr., $18.95) by Lyn Lifshin. The populist woman poet writes of childhood, love, sex, death and memory.
GRAYWOLF PRESS
In the Middle Distance (Mar., $14) by Linda Gregg is the sixth collection from the winner of several Pushcart Prizes.
KNOPF
Collected Poems (May, $16.95) by Donald Justice. This poet's final volume calls forth the settings of our collective passages.
MARSH HAWK PRESS
Under the Wanderer's Star (Mar., $12.95) by Sigman Byrd. The winner of the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize imagines a fanciful universe.
MILKWEED EDITIONS
Wu Wei (Apr., $14.95) by Tom Crawford infuses narrative poems with Buddhist sentiment and Eastern thought.
NEW DIRECTIONS
World Beat: International Poetry Now from New Directions (Apr., $14.95), edited by Eliot Weinberger, celebrates poetry from around the world.
SHAMBHALA
The Shambhala Anthology of Poetry (Aug., $15.95), edited by J.P. Seaton, is a collection of fresh translations of Chinese poetry through the ages.
STONE BRIDGE PRESS
The Haiku Apprentice: How I Learned to Write Poetry in Japan (May, $14.95) by Abigail Friedman follows the author, an American diplomat, as she joins a haiku group.
SUNSTONE
Hub of the Miracle, Poems by Sallie Bingham (Apr., $16.95) merges daily events with crises of maturity, death and loss.
TIA CHUCHA PRESS (dist. By Northwestern Univ. Press)
Femme du Monde (Apr., $13.95) by Patricia Spears Jones addresses female trouble and female triumph.
UNIV. OF ALABAMA PRESS
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans (Mar., $27.95), edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey.
UNIV. OF ARKANSAS PRESS
The First Inhabitants of Arcadia (Mar., $16) by Christopher Bursk uses the alphabet as a metaphor for the human experience.
UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
The Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems (Apr., $16.95) by Ko Un, trans. by Clare You and Richard Silberg, collects works by the best-known Korean poet of the last century.
UNIV. OF IOWA PRESS
Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience (May, $22.95), edited by Craig Crist-Evans et al. Works by 93 poets examine self-doubt, fatherhood and more.
UNIV. OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (Mar., $19.95), edited by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, assembles an eclectic gathering of forms from the writer's center participants and faculty.
UNIV. OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
Re-Entry (Apr., $12.95) by Michael White. The winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry imagines human predicaments.
UNIV. OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982—2005 (Mar., $14) by David Wojahn captures such diverse topics as angels, rock music, soothsayers and popular history.
UNIV. PRESS OF COLORADO
Frayed Escort: Poems by Karen Garthe (Mar., $14.95) is a collection by the winner of the 2005 Colorado Prize for Poetry.
VINTAGE
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea (Apr., $13.95) by Mark Haddon is the first poetry collection from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
WARNER BOOKS
Revolution on Canvas, Volume 1: Poetry from the Indie Music Scene (Apr., $12.95), edited by Rich Balling, is a hip collection of poetry from popular rock bands. Ad/promo.
WAVE BOOKS
Shake (Apr., $12) by Joshua Beckman offers poems from one of his generation's significant new voices. Author tour.
WHITE PINE PRESS
Eduardo & I (Apr., $14) by Peter Johnson gathers prose poems from the winner of the James Laughlin Award.
