BLUE MOUNTAIN ARTS
I Want You to Read This Today and Remember It Forever (Jan., $10.95) by Douglas Pagels brims with tender thoughts.
BOA EDITIONS
You and Yours (Sept.; $15.50, cloth $22.95) by Naomi Shibab Nye envisions a range of locales, from Texas communities to the war-torn Mideast.
BUNIM BANNIGAN
Withdrawal Symptoms: Light Verse for All Weights (Oct., $35) by William Walden. The erstwhile private secretary to the New Yorker's Harold Ross collects a half-century of his own incisive verses.
COPPER CANYON PRESS
Quipu (Sept., $15) by Arthur Sze uses quipu, the Incan device using knotted cords to convey messages, as these poems' central metaphor.
DUKE UNIV. PRESS
Selected Poems (Sept., $18.95) by James Applewhite. The first anthology of the poet's work offers verses written from 1975 to the present.
FARRAR, STRAUS GIROUX
Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboo: Poems 1973—1993 (Sept., $14) by Lawrence Joseph combines the first three books of the author's poetry.
Selected Poems: Robert Lowell (Dec., $14) includes more than 200 works gathered from Lowell's oeuvre.
FORDHAM UNIV. PRESS
This Minute (Oct.; $17.95, cloth $39.95) by Jean Gallagher. These poems convey a metaphysical meaning as well as a bodily intimacy.
GRAYWOLF PRESS
American Sublime (Oct., $14) by Elizabeth Alexander is the latest collection from the author of The Black Interior.
GROVE PRESS
The Niagara River: Poems (Oct., $13) by Kay Ryan. The winner of the 2004 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize offers her latest collection.
KNOPF
Breath (Jan., $15) by Philip Levine. The Pulitzer Prize— and National Book Award—winner celebrates love, life and the human spirit.
MARSH HAWK PRESS
I Take Thee, English, for My Beloved (Sept., $15) by Eileen R. Tabios combines four collections that meld the forms of poem, memoir, art, monograph, play, novel and questionnaire.
NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS
Jejuri (Sept., $12.95) by Arun Kolatkar. Published for the first time outside India, this novel in verse documents a modern pilgrimage to a Hindu shrine.
PENN STATE UNIV. PRESS
Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Oct., $24.95), edited by Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple, presents verses on heritage, pride, work and hope.
SARABANDE BOOKS
Legitimate Dangers: American Poetry of the New Century (Jan., $16.95), edited by Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin. The 85 American poets represented here were all born after 1960.
TEXAS REVIEW PRESS
Dark Orchard (Sept., $12.95) by William Wright. Winner of the first Texas Review Breakthrough Poetry Prize, Wright explores the impact of family and childhood on creativity and art.
UNIV. OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Adonis Garage (Sept., $14.95) by Rynn Williams bears witness to the meaning of survival.
UNIV. OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
Night Mowing (Oct., $14) by Chard deNiord. These poems find their influence in the natural and the erotic.
UNIV. OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Collected Poems with Notes Toward the Memoirs (Dec.; $24.95, cloth $65) by Djuna Barnes, selected and edited by Phillip Herring and Osías Stutman, compiles many of Barnes's late unpublished works.
