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View this email on a browser Forward to a friend August 2017 Featured Fall Books   Our partners, sponsors, and advertisers present some of their poetry titles for fall 2017...

Akashic Books November 2017 This bilingual (English and Spanish) collection by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias—the 2017 winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, presented by the National Poetry Series—offers a loving and sly portrait of Miami and the immigrant experience. Alice James Books October 2017 Chang's poems narrate grief and loss, intertwining them with hope for a fresh start amidst new beginnings. They investigate how private experiences like motherhood and sorrow necessitate a deeper engagement with public life and history. Andrews McMeel Publishing November 2017 Inspired by the life of Saint Simeon Stylites, a fourth-century Syrian Monk who lived atop a small pillar for many years, Vertigo is a modern epic poem that encourages introspection, empowerment, and self-love. Arktoi Books August 2017 Judy Grahn's dramatic nine-part poems address some of the most important and challenging issues of our times—turning them upside down, shaking them up, and spinning them around to find the heart of it all. Atria Books/37 Ink November 2017 Poet and novelist Ntozake Shange draws from her experience as a feminist black woman in America to craft a moving collection of more than sixty original and selected bilingual poems about pain, beauty, and color. Birds LLC November 2017 Erasing Bram Stoker's Dracula down to its psychoanalytic minimalia, Chase Berggrun's R E D unearths narratives of gender transition and uncanny political and metaphysical transitions entailed by the metamorphosis of individual into chorus. BkMk Press October 2017 Powerful reflections of American wars in Vietnam and elsewhere coincide with the peace of the Kansas prairie in this debut collection by an M.D. and veteran battalion surgeon. Bloof Books May 2017 CRAWLSPACE's 36 pieces build on the foundation of the experimental sonnet. The collection deepens and extends the metaphor from Nikki Wallschlaeger's debut, Houses, while opening up more intimate and sometimes darker intellectual territory. BOA Editions, Ltd. October 2017 With intelligence and imagination, these evocative prose poems by Charles Rafferty show us what is possible when we jettison accepted devices of thought for methods that are stranger and much truer. Coffee House Press November 2017 Passages in life that have felt forbidden, overwritten, underwritten, silenced are given voice in Darst's precise, rich, confessional poems. Copper Canyon Press September 2017 Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Zamora's poetry debut humanizes the polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing as it travels complex physical and emotional terrain. Farrar, Straus & Giroux August 2017 Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, this collection spans Frank Bidart's career in poetry, from his poems inhabiting the mind of tortured genius Vaclav Nijinski to those more reflective of his own life. Farrar, Straus & Giroux June 2017 Throughout her life Marianne Moore arranged and rearranged a large majority of her existing poetry. This new collection allows readers to experience the untamed force of these dazzling poems as she first envisioned them. Fence Books October 2017 These eighty sonnets, a sustained response to the suicide of Benjamin's college friend in protest of WWI, were entrusted to Georges Bataille as Benjamin fled the Third Reich. This bilingual edition features context and commentary. Fence Books October 2017 Kith describes postcolonialist relation from the painful psychohistorical perspective of a hybrid, in multiple exiles. Victor reaps the pain, reams the pain, and approaches the material from striated vantages, using discrete methodologies of extraction. Four Way Books September 2017 Intellectually alert and emotionally honest, Maggie Anderson negotiates the perceptions and self-deceptions we live with and, through both humor and surprise, finds a way to bear them in this poetic letter to the lost. Four Way Books September 2017 A harrowing collection focusing on how human connection can both transcend devastation and complicate our individual sense of existence. We witness loss while also following the self's ongoing navigation of an ever-changing world. Four Way Books September 2017 Written through the point of view of children (or adults trying to remember being children), the poems of this collection remind us that there are powers and wisdoms held in childhood yet lost in adulthood. Four Way Books September 2017 These lyric poems come from a voice of authority where the terrain is at once palpable yet mysterious. We find ourselves tottering between sorrow at time's passing and discovering how to face the future. Four Way Books September 2017 Guerra looks at how we create meaning in our life from the mundane. The collection evokes the loneliness of not living up to our life story and the transcendence when our expectations align. Four Way Books October 2017 Moon's astonishing follow-up to award-nominated She Has a Name brings us solemn villanelle and freewheeling rhyme, sculpted minimalism and sprawling lines. These poems range between human striving and suffering, ultimately imbued with a tenacious hope. Graywolf Press October 2017 Advice from the Lights asks us who we are and how we become ourselves. With poetic sequences that combine Callimachus and Taylor Swift, Burt explores trans culture, identity, and nostalgia, with kaleidoscopic range. Hanging Loose Press August 2017 "Tony Towle is one of the New York School's best-kept secrets." —John Ashbery "Meditative, erudite, stunning with ease and quirky sanity..." —Anne Waldman "Towle's poems are beautiful...alive with intelligence, urbanity..." —Ron Padgett HarperCollins Children's Books September 2017 The star of Silverstein's New York Times bestselling poetry book is back in a collection of never-before-published poems and drawings featuring Runny and other woodland characters who speak their own topsy-turvy language. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt September 2017 "Both lyrical and merciless—Wicker's mind hums in overdrive, but with the calm and clarity of a marksman. You have to read these poems." —Tim Seibles, author of One Turn Around the Sun Milkweed Editions September 2017 Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limón, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia. Northwestern University Press June 2017 TechnoRage is the sixth collection by award-winning poet William Olsen. The thirty-one free-ranging poems in TechnoRage explore nature and technology, and humankind's relationship to it. Omnidawn April 2017 "This book is a must-have for anyone who wants to understand both the roots of contemporary poetics and those aspects of the art of poetry that will never go out of date." —Annie Finch Penguin Books September 2017 From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the heart, life, and the inner self. Bone. Visceral. Close to. Stark. Penguin Books October 2017 In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, turns her eye from the grace of the natural world to the even more mysterious landscape of the human heart. Princeton University Press October 2017 Award-winning poet Myronn Hardy explores the divergences between the natural world and technology, asking what progress means when it destroys the places that sustain us. Princeton University Press October 2017 An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, The Unstill Ones takes readers into a timeless, shadow-filled world where new poems sound ancient, and ancient poems sound new. Sarabande Books December 2017 These poems are spells—to exorcise or celebrate memory, to mourn the dead, and to find comfort in our bodies. They burst with wit and startling diction, pushing audaciously against the limits of syntax. The Song Cave November 2017 In his debut collection, Riddles, Etc., Geoffrey Hilsabeck proves himself adept at paradox and posing riddles, a poet who reaches toward the largeness of the cosmos in order to bring its essence closer to us. The Song Cave October 2017 In her debut collection, Fort Not, Emily Skillings creates an "atmosphere for encounter," akin to searching for meaning through lip-reading. The mysteries here embrace a natural, physical music. According to John Ashbery, "a savagely brilliant debut." The Song Cave September 2017 Lionel Ziprin (1924–2009), Jewish mystic, poet, and artist, influenced artists from Thelonious Monk to Bob Dylan. This book of nearly 300 profound verses, limericks, and esoteric rhymes is his first major work to be published. Ugly Duckling Presse August 2017 The serial prose poems in I Remember Nightfall explore memory, familial relationships, erotic desire, and war, using the recurring setting of a garden as a stage for the ongoing encounter of nature and the supernatural. University of Iowa Press November 2017 A mangled, tattered guide to transcendence through art, Twemlow reckons with fatherhood, the violence of nostalgia, poetry, and the commodity world of visual art in an age when such a thing seems nearly impossible. University of Pittsburgh Press November 2017 Let's All Die Happy explores apostasy—what happens when beliefs and institutions that promised fulfillment leave us empty. Darkly humorous, it examines a patriarchal culture where women are defined through their relationships to others. Wake Forest University Press September 2017 In Longley's eleventh collection, two exacting wildernesses productively overlap. He explores familiar Irish landscapes as well as vignettes from the Western Scottish Highlands. Angel Hill will delight this great poet's many admirers. Wave Books October 2017 In this startling new collection, Dara Wier provides a raw and fluid exploration of grief. With clarity and immediacy, she shows us the unraveling and reconstruction of her world and consciousness after a significant loss.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038. Unsubscribe here.