BEACON PRESS
Why I Wake Early: New Poems (Apr., $14) by Mary Oliver is a follow-up collection to her NBA-winning New and Selected Poems, Volume One.
BOA EDITIONS
American Children (May, $14.95) by Jim Simmerman presents an elegy in verse. Advertising. Author publicity.
Postcards from the Interior (June, $14.95) by Wyn Cooper balances prose poems, free verse and formal verse. Advertising. Author publicity.
CITY LIGHTS
Island of My Hunger: Cuban Poetry Today (Aug., $15.95), edited by Francisco Moran, introduces a new generation of poets exploring themes of identity and exile. Advertising.
COFFEE HOUSE PRESS
Off-Season City Pipe (Apr., $14) by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke returns to her indigenous working-class background amid urban poverty. Advertising. Author tour.
COPPER CANYON PRESS
Palace of Pearls (Apr., $15) by Jane Miller weaves together contemporary concerns with Greek, Roman and Judaic mythologies.
Hard Night (May, $14) by Christian Wiman is a second collection by the new editor of Poetry magazine.
DUFOUR EDITIONS
The Men Around Her Bed (Apr., $19.95) by Alan Brownjohn assesses the impact of momentous events on day-to-day life.
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Selected Poems (Apr., $13) by James Wright, edited by Robert Bly and Anne Wright. Wright (1927—1980) used his lyrical voice to evoke sympathy for society's alienated and outcast figures.
FITHIAN PRESS
A View from the Heart (Mar., $14) by Séamus P. O'Cuinn ranges through sports, exercise, rites of passage and Ireland.
GRAYWOLF PRESS
Budget Travel Through Space and Time (Mar., $14) by Albert Goldbarth is a new collection from the two-time NBA winner. Advertising.
The Quick of It (Apr., $14) by Eamon Grennan surveys the natural world, family and the Irish landscape. Advertising.
HANGING LOOSE PRESS
Another Attempt at Rescue (May; $14, cloth $24) by M.L. Smoker. This first collection by a Native American has garnered praise from Sherman Alexie and Jim Harrison.
Prime-Time Apparitions (May; $14, cloth $24) by R. Zamora Linmark is a debut collection by a humorous, gay Filipino poet.
LOUISIANA STATE UNIV. PRESS
Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965—2005 (Apr.; $26.95, cloth $49.95) by Brendan Galvin. Eighteen new works join with lyric pieces from the past 40 years. Advertising.
MANIC D PRESS
Eavesdrop Soup (Apr., $13.95) by Matt Cook. A blue-collar Midwestern sensibility combines quirky humor with social commentary as a subtext. Advertising. Author tour.
MARSH HAWK PRESS
Skinny Eighth Avenue (Apr., $15) by Stephen Paul Miller addresses ongoing effects of the Holocaust, secular Judaism, children and academia.
Somehow (Apr., $15) by Burt Kimmelman focuses on natural settings, fatherhood and art to capture daily life's luminous moments.
MILKWEED EDITIONS
Furia (May, $14.95) by Orlando Ricardo Menes draws on his Peruvian, Cuban and Chinese heritage, plus a southern Florida childhood.
NEW DIRECTIONS
In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems (Apr., $16.95) by Thomas Merton, edited by Lynn R. Szabo, is double the size of Merton's earlier Selected Poems.
The War Works Hard (Apr., $13.95) by Dunya Mikhail gathers revolutionary poetry by an exiled Iraqi woman.
OTHER PRESS
The Return of the Blue Cat (Apr., $19) by F.D. Reeve includes a CD of the author reading his poems to the sounds of jazz.
PERSEA BOOKS
Open Field: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Poets (Apr., $18.95), edited by Sina Queyras, features work by Anne Carson, Michael Ondaatje and 23 others.
SCRIBNER
When a Woman Loves a Man (Apr., $16) by David Lehman assembles innovative and accessible poems.
SHAMBHALA
Almost Paradise: New and Selected Poems and Translations (Mar., $15.95) by Sam Hamill represents the full breadth of Hamill's work as writer and translator.
SOFT SKULL PRESS
Look Slimmer Instantly! (Mar., $13.95) by Jerome Sala. The slam poetry pioneer critiques the commercialism and shallowness of American media and culture.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV. PRESS
American Flamingo (Mar., $13.95) by Greg Pape shares an array of larger themes with John James Audubon, presented through intimate depictions of creatures and their habitats.
SPINNER PUBLICATIONS
The Man Who Lived Among the Cannibals: Poems in the Voice of Herman Melville (June, $10) by Laurie Robertson-Lorant adopts Melville's perspective about life aboard a whaling ship and among natives in the Marqueses Islands.
TOBY PRESS
Lea Goldberg, Selected Poetry & Drama (May, $14.95) by Lea Goldberg. Goldberg (1911—1970) was a seminal writer in the early days of Hebrew literature, now available in this new translation by Rachel Tzvia Back.
TUPELO PRESS
Duties of the Spirit (Apr., $16.95) by Patricia Fargnoli finds dignity and grace in growing old in a difficult world.
Everyone Coming Toward You (May, $16.95) by David Petruzelli. These poems are what the guy sitting on the next bar stool might say if he had a poet's gift for language.
UNIV. OF ARKANSAS PRESS
Standing Around the Heart: Poems (Mar., $16) by Gary Fincke has both a conversational tone and lyrical intensity.
UNIV. OF GEORGIA PRESS
A Love Story Beginning in Spanish (Apr., $16.95) by Judith Ortiz Cofer is a collection by the Latina author.
UNIV. OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Good Morning and Good Night (Apr., $19.95) by David Wagoner, a man whose career has spanned more than 50 years.
American Ghost Roses (Apr., $16.95) by Kevin Stein is his first book since being named poet laureate of Illinois.
UNIV. OF IOWA PRESS
Ledger (Apr., $14) by Susan Wheeler. An individual's crisis of spirituality and economy of resources is set against a culture obsessed with financial gain.
The Waiting (Apr., $14) by Megan Johnson follows a young person's encounter with grief.
UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Blood of Our Earth: Poetic History of the American Indian (June, $26.95) by Dan C. Jones and Rance Hood. A collaboration between Ponca poet Jones and Comanche artist Hood centers on Plains Indians.
UNIV. OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
Flying at Night: Poems 1965—1985 (Mar.; $14.95, cloth $24.95) by Ted Kooser is drawn from the U.S. poet laureate's earlier books, One World at a Time and Sure Signs.
UNIV. OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Family Preserve (Apr., $19.95) by Dabney Stuart engages the reader in the complex process of longing, mourning and preserving family ties.
UNIV. PRESS OF COLORADO
Whethering (Mar., $14.95) by Rusty Morrison is the winner of the 2004 Colorado Prize for Poetry.
NEIL WILSON (dist. by Interlink)
Robert Burns: The Lassies (Mar., $15) by George Scott Wilkie amasses songs and poems about the women in Burns's short life.
WOLFHOUND PRESS/MERLIN (dist. by Interlink)
Atoms of Delight: An Anthology of Scottish Haiku (Mar., $15), edited by Alec Finlay, contains work in English, Scots and Gaelic by more than 100 poets.
