Hardcover: Poetry
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 8/8/2005
ANDREWS MCMEEL
Reflections of a Peacemaker (Aug., $16.95) by Mattie Stepanek is the sixth installment in the author's Heartsong series. 150,000 first printing.
ATRIA
Eyes with Winged Thoughts: Poems and Photographs (Nov., $27.95) by Gordon Parks features 58 photos and 40 poems.
BEACON PRESS
New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (Oct., $24.95) by Mary Oliver follows the author's previous work, which won a National Book Award. 20,000 first printing.
COPPER CANYON PRESS
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Oct., $40) by June Jordan includes an introduction by Adrienne Rich.
IVAN R. DEE
100 Essential Modern Poems (Oct., $24.95), edited by Joseph Parisi, offers 100 poems written in English over the past century, selected by the former longtime editor of Poetrymagazine.
ECCO
Auguries of Innocence (Oct., $22.95) by Patti Smith. The famed rock 'n' roller offers new verses. Ad/promo.
EVERYMANS LIBRARY
Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Sept., $12.50), edited by John Hollander, draws on 300 years of poetry about ghosts and other supernatural phenomena.
FARRAR, STRAUS GIROUX
Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments (Feb., $25), edited by Alice Quinn, collects fragments from Elizabeth Bishop's notebooks.
GRAYWOLF PRESS
Collected Poems (Sept., $26) by Jane Kenyon is the first definitive volume of Kenyon's poetry.
MANOR HOUSE PUBLICATIONS
White Feather: A Journey to Peace (Sept., $21.95) by Suzanne Stutman collects poetry that expresses universal stories of trauma.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
In Memory of My Feelings (Oct., $65) by Frank O'Hara pairs O'Hara's poems with paintings by such artists as Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol.
RANDOM HOUSE
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (Oct., $22.95) by Billy Collins provides new poems from a former U.S. poet laureate.
RIO NUEVO PUBLISHERS
Voice of the Borderlands (Sept., $29.95) by Drum Hadley speaks of the heart and soul of the American West.
SARABANDE BOOKS
Lampblack & Ash (Nov., $20.95) by Simone Muench contains the work of the winner of the 2004 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.
SHERIDAN HOUSE
Sea Poems (Sept., $14.95), edited by Bob Crew, gathers poetry from both sides of the Atlantic.
VIKING
Good Poems for Hard Times (Sept., $25.95), edited by Garrison Keillor, selects poems from the editor's radio show, Writer's Almanac. Author tour.
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