Fall 2001 Hardcovers: Poetry

BLACKSTAFF
(dist. by Dufour Editions)
The Hip Flask: Short Poems from Ireland (Sept., $19.95), edited by Frank Ormsby, anthologizes more than 100 pieces by 59 modern poets, from Yeats to Muldoon.

BOA EDITIONS
Book of My Nights (Sept.; $21.95, paper $12.95) by Li-Young Lee is the poet's first collection in a decade.

COPPER CANYON PRESS
Doctor Jazz (Sept., $18) by Hayden Carruth depicts both terrible loss and great joy.

COUNTERPOINT
The Orchards of Syon ( Feb., $22) by Geoffrey Hill is the last in his trilogy, following Triumph of Love and Speech! Speech!

CROWN
The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way (Oct., $18) by Ethan Coen. The writer/producer of such films as Fargo, Barton Fink and Blood Simple presents poems that are provocative, revealing and often hilarious. Author publicity.

IVAN R. DEE
Early and Late: Selected Poems (Sept., $18.95) by Donald Petersen presents works by the first recipient of the New Criterion poetry prize.

ECCO
New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001 (Oct., $45) by Czeslaw Milosz offers translations from Polish by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for literature. 25,000 first printing. Ad/promo.

EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
Poems of the Sea (Oct.), edited by J.D. McClatchy, and Comic Poems (Nov., $12.50 each), edited by Peter Washington, are themed anthologies in the Pocket Poets series.

FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Conscious and Verbal (Oct., $23) by Les Murray contains 65 poems written by the poet after his emergence from a three-week coma in July 1996, when the Australian press pronounced him "conscious and verbal."

DAVID R. GODINE
Poets of the New Century (Oct.; $35, paper $19.95), edited by Roger Weingarten and Richard Higgerson. Biographical sketches accompany a minimum of three poems each, both new and previously published, by a new generation of American writers.

HARVILL PRESS
(dist. by FSG)
Cries of an Irish Caveman (Jan., $23) by Paul Durcan is a meditation on the demise of 20th-century romance by the 1990 winner of the Whitbread Award.

HYPERION
The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Oct., $21.95), selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy. Illustrated with photos of the Kennedy clan, the collection spans the centuries with words from Homer, Shakespeare, Frost and many more. 250,000 first printing. Ad/promo.

IDEALS
Poems to Comfort (Sept., $9.95), illus. by Glenda Puhek, gathers more than 30 poems from authors including Dickinson and Emerson, who offer encouragement during tough times.

NEW DIRECTIONS
New Collected Poems (Feb., $29.95) by George Oppen, edited by Michael Davidson, presents previously published and unpublished poems written by the Pulitzer Prize winner.

W.W. NORTON
Fox: Poems 1998-2000 (Oct., $21) by Adrienne Rich revisits signature themes, some touching upon interlocutions within and across gender. Advertising. Author publicity.

PERSEA BOOKS
Of Leaf and Flower: Stories and Poems for Gardeners (Oct., $21.95), edited by Charles Dean and Clyde Wachsberger, is an illustrated pairing of a dozen short stories with a dozen poems from writers as diverse as Saki and Kate Chopin.
Poems of Paul Celan (Jan.; $35, paper $18.95) is a bilingual edition of the German Holocaust poet, with 10 new poems and an essay.

PROMETHEUS BOOKS
Martin Gardner's Favorite Poetic Parodies (Oct., $25), edited by Martin Gardner, includes the originals along with their parodies.

PUTNAM/MARION WOOD BOOKS
The Seconds (Feb.; $24, paper $15) by Linda Bierds is her sixth volume of poetry exploring the themes of human frailty and the striving for immortality.

RANDOM HOUSE
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Sept., $21.95) by Billy Collins is the latest collection from the man who has described poetry as "a form of travel writing" and humor as "a door into the serious." Ad/promo. 9-city author tour.

SARABANDE BOOKS
Twice Removed (Oct.) by Ralph Angel and Feeding the Fire (Nov.; $20.95 each, paper $12.95 each) by Jeffrey Harrison are new collections. Ad/promo.

SOURCEBOOKS/MEDIA FUSION
Poetry Speaks (Oct., $49.95), edited by Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby, is an anthology ranging from Tennyson to Plath, accompanied by three audio CDs of poets reading their own works. 100,000 first printing.
The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas (Jan., $14.95). The poet's selected prose.

UNIV. OF WASHINGTON PRESS
From the Century's End: Poems 1990-1999 (Oct.; $25, paper $14.95) by John Haines is the first volume in the invitational Pacific Northwest Poetry series under the editorship of Linda Bierds.