POETRY
ARSENAL PULP PRESS
Pulse (Apr., $12.95) by Rajinderpal S. Pal is a collection of love poems.
ARTE PÚBLICO PRESS
A Child in Exile (Mar., $11.95) by Carolina Hospital. A Cuban-American poet confronts history, family and nationality through her experience of exile.
BLOODAXE BOOKS (dist. by Dufour Editions)
The Moscow Notebooks and Voronezh Notebooks: Poems 1930—1937 (Mar., $22.95) by Osip Mandelstam, trans. by Richard and Elizabeth McKane, returns these two classic works to print and together for the first time.
BOA EDITIONS
O Blessed Dark (Apr., $14.95) by Brigit Pegeen Kelly. These poems fuse waking and dreaming consciousness.
Desire Lines: New and Selected Poems (June, $16.50) by Lola Haskins contains poems from her 1990 collection Forty-four Ambitions for the Piano as well as new ones.
CITY LIGHTS
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (Apr., $16.95), edited by Mark Eisner, provides a selection that represents Neruda's various styles and themes. Advertising. Author tour.
COACH HOUSE BOOKS
Iconnotations (May, $13.95) by Ian Samuels explores mythmaking and celebrity in pop culture.
COFFEE HOUSE PRESS
Dancing on Main Street (Apr., $15) by Lorenzo Thomas looks at the obsessions, pleasures, trials and tribulations of life on Main Street. Advertising. Author tour.
COPPER CANYON PRESS
Delights and Shadows (May, $15) by Ted Kooser connects disparate elements of daily life to reveal the remarkable in the ordinary.
So Quietly the Earth (June, $14) by David Lee. Utah's first poet laureate explores philosophical, theological and environmental issues.
JOHN DANIEL
Yellow Swing: Poems (Apr., $12) by Rosalind Brackenbury gathers poems about relationships.
WM. B. EERDMANS
The Poems of Rowan Williams (Mar., $12) collects the best pieces from the archbishop's two previous collections, After Silent Centuries (1994) and Remembering Jerusalem (2001), together with several new works.
FITHIAN PRESS
No no the saddest poems (Mar., $12) by Alan Bern. These poems describe the anguish of living with a loved one who is lost to the world.
Photo, Bomb, Red Chair: New Poems (Mar., $15) by Barbara Lefcowitz mixes surrealism with memory.
GEORGETOWN UNIV. PRESS
Love, Death, and Exile: Poems Translated from Arabic (Apr., $21.95) by Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati, trans. by Bassam K. Frangieh. This bilingual edition of Arabic poetry provides an introduction to Al-Bayati and Arabic language, literature and culture.
GIBBS SMITH
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion (Mar., $12.95), edited by Virginia Bennett, celebrates 20 years of poetry from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev.
GREYWOLF PRESS
New British Poetry (Apr., $18), edited by Charles Simic and Don Paterson, collects contemporary British poetry. Advertising.
A Table of Content (June, $14) by Dorothea Tanning is the first collection by the renowned painter and sculptor. Advertising.
HANGING LOOSE PRESS
Present Tense: Poets in the World (Mar.; $16, cloth $26), edited by Mark Pawlak et al. Adrienne Rich, Sherman Alexie, Jayne Cortez and others take the nation's political pulse.
Suddenly Speaking Babylonian (Apr.; $14, cloth $24) by Stephen Beal is a funny second collection by a Colorado writer and artist.
ALICE JAMES BOOKS
Goest (Apr., $13.95) by Cole Swensen. This ninth Swensen collection is haunted by vision and transfixed by light.
Night of a Thousand Blossoms (Apr., $13.95) by Frank X. Gaspar displays unique narrative idiom: lush, musical and insistent.
KNOPF
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Apr., $14) by W.S. Merwin is a new translation of this work of enchantment, myth and poetry. Advertising.
LA ALAMEDA PRESS
Beat Thing (May, $16) by David Meltzer is both a tribute to and a rant about the beat generation.
MANIC D PRESS
The Beautiful: Collected Poems (Mar., $13.95) by Michelle Tea presents narrative poems reflecting unrequited love and languor, hope and heartbreak. Advertising. Author tour.
MARSH HAWK PRESS (MarshHawkPress@cs.com)
One Thousand Years (Apr., $15) by Corinne Robins, art by Joyce Romano. These illustrated poems are the work of a mother-poet/daughter-artist team.
Natural Defenses (Apr., $15) by Susan Terris is a map for survival and self-understanding.
MILKWEED EDITIONS
In Playing the Black Piano (Mar., $14.95) by Bill Holm interweaves poems with humor, biting commentary and an undying love of music.
NEW DIRECTIONS
All the Poems of Muriel Spark (Apr., $14.95) by Muriel Spark contains her 71 poems.
Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (Apr., $12.95) by Jimmy Santiago Baca contains new poetry.
PERSEA BOOKS
Blue Venus (Aug., $14.95) by Lisa Russ Spaar explores the intimate relationship between the sensual and the sacred.
Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War in Iraq (July, $20), edited by Robert Hedin, gathers more than 200 poems about the American experience of war.
SARABANDE BOOKS
October (Apr., $8.95) by Louise Glück is the third volume in Sarabande's Quarternote Chapbook series.
SOFT SKULL PRESS
The Art of the Possible (Mar.; $14.95, cloth $23) by Kenneth Koch is a posthumous collection of poems, comics, doodles and rough sketches by the late New York School poet.
UNIV. OF ARIZONA PRESS
The Keepsake Storm (Mar., $15.95) by Gina Franco. In this meditative verse cycle, Franco visits many lives for the meaning of the human struggle.
UNIV. OF ARKANSAS PRESS
Candlefish (Mar., $16) by Elizabeth Chapman is a collection about nature, transformation and reflection.
UNIV. OF GEORGIA PRESS
Of Thee I Sing (Mar., $16.95) by Timothy Liu gathers sexually, religiously and politically driven poems.
UNIV. OF HAWAI 'I PRESS
Yashodhara: Six Seasons Without You (Mar., $10) by Subhash Jaireth presents a poetic form popular in ancient and medieval Indian literature.
UNIV. OF IOWA PRESS
Aggregate of Disturbances (Apr., $14) by Michele Glazer confronts life, love, death and the natural world.
UNIV. OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
Primer of the Obsolete (Apr., $14.95) by Duane Glancy is the winner of the 2003 Juniper Prize for Poetry.
UNIV. OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
Losing and Finding (Apr., $12.95) by Karen Fiser. Poems express the loss of love and intellectual powers and the groping for a new life after a catastrophic illness.
UNIV. OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
Insomnia Diary (Mar., $12.95) by Bob Hicok presents poems that are irreverent, witty and filled with unexpected turns.
UNIV. OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present (Mar., $19.50), edited by Joanne V. Gabbin, assembles the work of 43 poets, highlighting poems from the 1994 Furious Flower Conference of African-American writers.
UNIV. PRESS OF COLORADO
Goldbeater's Skin (Mar., $16.95) by G.C. Waldrep is a debut collection.
UNIV. PRESS OF KENTUCKY
Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York (Mar., $25) by Frank X Walker. Poems tell the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of Clark's slave, York.
WHITE PINE PRESS
This Smoke That Carried Us: Selected Poems of René Char (May, $16), trans. by Susanne Dubroff, excerpts the work of a noted French poet.
