Arte Público Press
Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Sept., $10.95) by Javier O. Huerta explores dislocation, loss and love from the perspective of a first-generation Mexican-American immigrant.
Boa Editions
Peeping Tom's Cabin (Sept.; $17, cloth $22) by X.J. Kennedy offers the first light verse collection from the noted poet.
Calyx Books
Far Beyond Triage (Oct., $14.95) by Sarah Lantz. This debut collection of spiritual poetry explores the longings of the soul.
Cinco Puntos Press
The Resurrection of Bert Ringold (Oct., $13.95) by Harvey Goldner collects verse from a Sunday cab driver in Seattle.
Copper Canyon Press
Letters to Yesenin (Nov., $12) by Jim Harrison follows a month of poetic correspondence between an American poet considering suicide and a Russian poet who did it.
Dalkey Archive
Contemporary Russian Poetry (Jan.; $14.95, cloth $34.95), edited by Evgeny Bunimovich, collects works by 44 Russian poets born after 1945.
Dufour Editions
This Is How You Disappear: A Book of Elegies (Jan., $27.95) by Jeremy Reed bears witness to the dead and missing friends who influenced the author's life.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse (Sept., $15), selected and with an introduction by Ted Hughes, revisits Shakespeare's verse, sonnets and songs.
I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems (Oct., $16) by Pablo Neruda, edited by Ilan Stavans. Some of the works selected have previously been unavailable in English.
Harvard Univ. Press
The Canon: The Original One Hundred and Fifty-four Poems (Sept., $24.95) by C.P. Cavafy contains the original Greek with a new English translation by Stratis Haviaris.
Holy Cow! Press
(dist. by Consortium)
One-Breasted Woman (Sept., $15.95) by Susan Deborah King illuminates the author's diagnosis, treatment and survival of breast cancer.
Marsh Hawk Press
The Light Sang as It Left Your Eyes (Sept., $24.95) by Eileen R. Tabios combines poetry and biography.
Northwestern Univ. Press
Quickly Changing River: Poems (Feb., $14.95) by Meena Alexander evokes the power and frailty of being alive.
W.W. Norton
Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition (Nov., $24.95), trans. by Seamus Heaney, features more than 100 full-page illustrations.
Persea Books
Stroke (Feb., $14) by Sidney Wade portrays humanity's foibles, particularly those of a certain dubiously elected president.
Sarabande Books
Epistles (Oct., $13.95) by Mark Jarman evokes the style of Paul's Letters to the Corinthians in these modern prose poems. Author tour.
Tia ChuCha Press
(dist. by Northwestern Univ. Press)
American Jesus: Poems (Oct., $13.95) by Richard Vargas explores the high and low points in a Chicano man's existence.
Tupelo Press
Dismal Rock (Oct., $16.95) by Davis McCombs ranges from tobacco farming to Dante, fishing to Bob Marley.
Spill (Sept., $16.95) by Michael Chitwood follows a pilgrim's path from childhood to adulthood.
Univ. of Arkansas Press
Outlaw Style: Poems (Nov., $16) by R.T. Smith delves into the traditions of Southern music and the story of John Wilkes Booth.
Univ. of Georgia Press
Bouquet of Hungers (Oct., $17.95) by Kyle Dargan examines an American stifled by dogmas and inept social categories.
Univ. of Pittsburgh Press
After the Fall: Poems Old and New (Oct., $14) by Edward Field collects verses that blend thoughtfulness and playfulness.
Univ. of Virginia Press
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers (Nov., $11.95), edited by Natasha Tretheway, gathers works from poets who have not yet published a full-length book.
Wave Books
(dist. by Consortium)
No Real Light (Sept., $14) by Joe Wenderoth collects new work from a subversive cultural critic.
West End Press
(dist. by Univ. of New Mexico Press)
Indian Trains (Nov., $11.95) by Erika T. Wurth celebrates a new tribe: unsung mixed blood Indians of modern America.
