Spring Hardcovers: Poetry

Beacon Press

Red Bird (Apr., $23) by Mary Oliver collects 61 new poems, including Oliver’s first cycle of love poems. Ad/promo.

Copper Canyon Press

What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems (May, $32) by Ruth Stone gathers half a century of work from the National Book Award–winning poet.

Ivan R. Dee

(dist. by NBN)

100 Essential Modern Poems by Women (Apr., $24.95), edited by Joseph Parisi and Kathleen Welton, presents works by 50 poets from the past 150 years.

Hanging Loose Press

Lobster with Ol’ Dirty Bastard (Apr.; $26, paper $16) by Michael Cirelli presents the first collection from the hip-hop poetry expert and head of Urban Word.

Harcourt

That Little Something (Apr., $23) by Charles Simic, current U.S. poet laureate, depicts New York City in the 1970s and a mind struggling with interior and exterior revolutions. Ad/promo.

MacMillan UK/Picador

(dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG)

Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past (Apr., $19.95), edited by Carol Ann Duffy, anthologizes today’s poets responding to poems that are meaningful to them.

New Directions

A Coney Island of the Mind (Apr., $22.95) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti presents the 50thanniversary edition of this milestone poem; includes CD.

Sourcebooks MediaFusion

The Poem I Turn to: Actors and Directors Present Poetry That Inspires Them (Apr., $24.95) by Jason Shinder gathers treasured poems; includes CD of Hollywood personalities reading their favorite poems.

Univ. of Nebraska Press

Valentines (Mar., $14.95) by Ted Kooser presents the former U.S. poet laureate's annual Valentine’s Day poems.

Univ. of Virginia Press

All That Mighty Heart: London Poems (Apr., $22.95), edited by Lisa Russ Spaar, includes poems written over the last 500 years.

Univ. Press of Kentucky

When Winter Come: The Ascension of York (Mar.; $25, paper $15) by Frank X. Walker reimagines Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the American West.