BOA EDITIONS
The Rooster's Wife (Apr.; $22, paper $14.95) by Russell Edson presents contorted Darwinian narratives of apes and monkeys exhibiting absurdly human behavior, along with elephants, horses, chickens, mermaids and mice. Advertising.
COPPER CANYON PRESS
Migration: New and Selected Poems (Apr., $40) by W.S. Merwin is the definitive volume by the American poet.
CYPRESS HOUSE
Interlink and Other Nature/Humankind Poems (Mar., $14.95) by Victoria C.G. Greenleaf, M.D., presents poems that reflect the beauty and harshness of nature. Advertising.
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
The Letters of Robert Lowell (June, $40), edited by Saskia Hamilton, documents the evolution of Lowell's work and illuminates his deep friendships with other writers. Advertising.
Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box : Uncollected and Unfinished Poems (Aug., $25) by Elizabeth Bishop, edited and with an intro. by Alice Quinn, is a trove of partial and unpublished drafts left by poet Bishop.
HARCOURT
My Noiseless Entourage (Apr., $23) by Charles Simic demonstrates Simic's wit, moral acuity and use of imagery.
HARPERCOLLINS
Where Shall I Wander (Mar., $22.95) by John Ashbery is a new collection from the man Harold Bloom called "America's greatest living poet."
LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Poets of the Civil War (Apr., $20), edited by J.D. McClatchy. This anthology traces the Civil War as seen by poets like Whitman, Melville, Whittier, Dickinson and combatants on both sides. $20,000 ad/promo.
LOUISIANA STATE UNIV. PRESS
Sixty-Cent Coffee and a Quarter to Dance: A Poem (Apr.; $27.95, paper $17.95) by Judy Jordan recalls when Jordan was homeless, bearing witness to the misery of poverty in the richest country in the world. Advertising.
Private Perry and Mister Poe: The West Point Poems, 1831, Facsimile Edition (May, $19.95), edited by William F. Hecker, provides new insight into Edgar Allan Poe's time at West Point. Advertising.
W.W. NORTON
100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century (June, $24.95), edited by Mark Strand, collects enduring poems by W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Pablo Neruda and others.
PENN STATE UNIV. PRESS
T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet (Aug., $39.95) by James E. Miller Jr. challenges assumptions about Eliot's poetry and the personal experiences found in them. Advertising.
PUTNAM/MARIAN WOOD
First Hand (Apr., $25) by Linda Bierds. MacArthur Fellow Bierds examines the power of science for good and ill in this seventh volume.
ST. MARTIN'S
The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott (Apr., $18.95) by Jill Scott. The Grammy nominee presents her first poetry collection. Advertising. Author tour.
SARABANDE BOOKS
Ghost Pain (Apr.; $20.95, paper $13.95) by Sydney Lea. The founding editor of the New England Review and celebrated poet returns.
SHAW BOOKS
The Ordering of Love (Mar., $17.99) by Madeleine L'Engle gathers nearly 200 poems that give voice to the complex realities of life.
SHOEMAKER & HOARD
New Poems (June, $22) by Wendell Berry is the poet's first new collection in 10 years.
UNIV. OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The Poetry Home Repair Manual (Mar., $19.95) by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, provides tools and insights for poets to hone their art.
UNIV. OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Lives of the Sleepers (Mar.; $25, paper $15) by Ned Balbo seeks a voice for historical and postmodern figures as they face the ecstasy and grief of love.
UNIV. OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser (May, $37.50), edited by Janet E. Kaufman and Anne F. Herzog with Jan Heller Levi. Rukeyser's poetry broke the silence about sex, motherhood, lesbian erotica, depression and other experiences deemed unsuitable for poetry until her emergence in 1935.
UNIV. OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS
Late Poems, 1968—1993: Attitudinizing Verse-wise, While Fending for One's Selph, and in a Style Somewhat Artificially Colloquial (Aug., $39.95) by Kenneth Burke. This third volume completes the canon of verse.
WESLEYAN UNIV. PRESS
The Red Gaze (Mar., $19.95) by Barbara Guest. A single long poem is divided into smaller poems on imagination and time.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
Crush (Apr.; $26, paper $14.95) by Richard Siken. This year's winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize is a collection driven by obsession.
