COPPER CANYON PRESS
One Big Self (Apr., $15) by C.D. Wright bears witness to the psychic toll of protracted time passed in constricted spaces.
DUFOUR EDITIONS
Misappropriations (Mar., $15.95) by Jasmine Donahaye sets sexually frank and politically charged issues against locales in Israel, Wales, England and California.
DUKE UNIV. PRESS
The Enemy (Apr., $17.95) by Rafael Campo explores such themes as the invasion of Iraq, gay marriage and the battle against AIDS.
HOLY COW! PRESS
One-Breasted Woman (Apr., $15.95) by Susan Deborah King describes the author's diagnosis, treatment and recovery from breast cancer.
HOST PUBLICATIONS
Burning Cartography (Apr., $23) by Noni Benegas, trans. by Noël Valis, is the first bilingual (Spanish/English) edition of the poet's work.
ALICE JAMES BOOKS
A Thief of Strings (Apr., $14.95) by Donald Revell explores the effects of a nation ignoring history, a man ignoring his own life and beyond. Ad/promo.Author tour.
LEVEL 4 PRESS
The Best of Border Voices (Apr., $24.95), edited by Jack Webb, culls the best poems from 16 years of San Diego's Border Voices festivals.
LOUISIANA STATE UNIV. PRESS
The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems (Mar.; $18.95, cloth $50) by David Kirby presents humorous poems that transform life's simple pleasures into imaginative experiences.
NORTHWESTERN UNIV. PRESS
Avenue of Vanishing (Apr.; $14.95, cloth $39.95) by William Olsen explores such issues as the suburban middle class and urban drug culture.
NYU PRESS
Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (Apr.; $19.95, cloth $65), edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell. These 135 works, from colonial times to the present, highlight the borough's character and traditions.
SARABANDE BOOKS
Fragment of the Head of a Queen (Aug., $13.95) by Cate Marvin. A mythical queen is the tutelary spirit informing these poems of resurrection.
TALONBOOKS (dist. by Northwestern Univ. Press)
Ths is erth thees ar peopul (Mar., $17.95) by bill bissett addresses the desire for a human condition outside the perpetual terror of the 21st century.
TUPELO PRESS
Embryos and Idiots (Apr., $16.95) by Larissa Szporluk offers visionary ruminations on political and social events, and mother-son relationships.
UNIV. OF GEORGIA PRESS
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Mar., $18.95), edited by Nikky Finney, is a new anthology from Cave Canem, the national organization for African-American poets.
UNIV. OF IOWA PRESS
On Retirement: 75 Poems (Apr., $19.95), edited by Robin Chapman and Judith Strasser, presents poems from Ishmael Reed, Lucille Clifton, Robert Pinsky and others.
UNIV. OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Power and Possibility (Apr., $19.95) by Elizabeth Alexander focuses on African-American artistic poetry and its cultural context.
UNIV. OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
The Next Settlement (Apr., $12.95) by Michael Robins. Voices in these meditative poems map the world with precision as a way to mend its holes.
UNIV. OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Falling Through the Music (Mar., $18) by Mark Halperin offers consolation and guidance about high middle age.
UNIV. OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
This Clumsy Living (Mar., $14) by Bob Hicok is the former automotive die maker's fifth collection.
UNIV. OF WISCONSIN PRESS
New Jersey (Mar., $14.95) by Betsy Andrews. This book-length poem travels the turnpike beneath shadows of engines, oil and war.
WAVE BOOKS
Sorry, Tree (Apr., $14) by Eileen Myles. The author's trademark punk-lesbian sensibility distinguishes her eighth collection. Author tour.
WHITE PINE PRESS
Magdalena (Apr., $14) by Maureen Gibbon invokes the nature of an independent woman embracing her sexuality and presence in the world.
