Fall 2024 Grownup Preview: Poetry

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Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes. Legacy Lit, Nov. 5 ($25, ISBN 978-1-5387-6891-4)

This assortment showcases the Harlem Renaissance poet’s writings from 1919 to 1929, together with poems printed within the NAACP journal The Disaster and a play he cowrote with W.E.B. DuBois.

Expensive Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, for and About One Mr. Komunyakaa

Edited by John Murillo and Nicole Sealey. Wesleyan Univ., Nov. 5 ($24.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-8195-0134-9)

That includes new works by Toi Derricotte, Carolyn Forché, Terrance Hayes, Main Jackson, and Sharon Olds, this anthology celebrates Komunyakaa’s legacy and his influence on the lives of poets across the globe.

Go Determine

Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan Univ., Aug. 6 ($27, ISBN 978-0-8195-0079-3)

Armantrout casts her consideration to the world’s sudden occurrences and strange species in poems that remember humanity’s relationship to phrases in a time of world disaster.

I Love Listening to Your Goals

Matthew Zapruder. Scribner, Sept. 24 ($26, ISBN 978-1-6680-5980-7)

Goals, aspirations, and disenchantments are on the middle of Zapruder’s ruminations on sleep, potential, and lots of elements of up to date life and tradition.

Pleasure in Service on Rue Tagore

Paul Muldoon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sept. 10 ($27, ISBN 978-0-374-61421-8)

Poems about Eire, loss, and historical past complement reflections on Commonplace Oil, Ukrainian pogroms, and fashionable warfare.

Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology

Edited by Rigoberto González. Library of America, Sept. 3 ($40, ISBN 978-1-59853-783-3)

Gathering works by greater than 180 poets—together with Sandra Cisneros, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Pedro Pietri—from the seventeenth century to the current day, this compendium celebrates the nice number of Latino poetry.

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Frank X Walker. Liveright, Oct. 1 ($26.99, ISBN 978-1-324-09493-7)

Walker contemplates the experiences of Black Civil Battle troopers—his personal ancestors amongst them—in poems that vary from the antebellum interval by way of Reconstruction.

Paper Boat: New and Chosen Poems: 1961–2023

Margaret Atwood. Knopf, Oct. 8 ($40, ISBN 978-0-593-80264-9)

Filled with myths, fauna, and the mundane, this profession retrospective highlights Atwood’s lasting affect and evolution as a author.

Reconstruction of the Poet: Uncollected Works of Zbigniew Herbert

Zbigniew Herbert, edited and trans. by Alissa Valles. Ecco, Aug. 13 ($30, ISBN 978-0-06-288319-3)

Spanning from 1950 to 1998, these beforehand untranslated poems and performs doc the prolific Polish writer’s reckonings with post-WWII Europe.

The Twenty-First

Jacob Eigen. American Poetry Overview, Sept. 17 ($16 commerce paper, ISBN 979-8-9875852-2-1)

Eigen debuts with a research of the character of time, illustrating its many aspects in prose poems and lyric meditations that draw on reminiscence, historical past, and the pure world.

Poetry longlist

Acre

The Alcestis Machine by Carolyn Oliver (Oct. 15, $17 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-946724-80-9). Drawing on the Greek fable of Alcestis (who descends to the dominion of loss of life rather than her beloved), Oliver’s second assortment explores loss and queer love.

Akashic

Kumi: New Technology African Poets: A Chapbook Field Set, edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani (Dec. 3, $36.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-63614-188-6). This 10-volume, limited-edition boxed set consists of the work of 9 African poets, amongst them Nurain Oládeji, Sarpong Osei Asamoah, and Claudia Owusu.

Amistad

Each The place Alien by Brad Walrond (Aug. 13, $17.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-06-337799-8). In poems that ponder how in the present day’s tradition was formed by the previous, Walrond explores Blackness, queerness, and want in portraits of Nineties and early 2000s New York Metropolis underground artwork actions, together with the brand new Black arts motion and Black Rock Coalition.

Andrews McMeel

Glass Hearts & Unstated Goodbyes: Poems of Therapeutic and Hope by Kayla McCullough (Aug. 6, $16.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-5248-9026-1) is a group celebrating love and the bonds that join all folks.

Autumn Home

E-book of Kin by Darius Atefat-Peckham (Oct. 25, $17.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-63768-096-4) attracts on the poet’s Iranian heritage for poems that reckon with id, loss, and tragedy, telling the story of a boy’s coming-of-age after a automotive accident that killed his mom and brother.

Backwaters

Expensive Wallace by Julie Choffel (Oct. 1, $16.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-4962-4006-4) addresses the poet Wallace Stevens in poems that reevaluate artwork, authority, and creativity as they contemplate the connections between modernism, motherhood, and writing.

Beacon

Area Information for Accidents by Albert Abonado (Oct. 22, $18 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-8070-2051-7) ruminates on loss of life, god, and the pure world in a group inspecting day by day life, intimacy, the ecosystem, transformation, and lineage.

Beehive

The Inferno: An Illuminated Version by Dante Alighieri, illus. by Sophy Hollington (Oct. 29, $100, ISBN 978-1-948886-37-6). Linocuts by British artist Hollington carry Dante’s story of revenge and struggling to life on this illustrated quantity.

Black Lawrence

Us from Nothing by Geoff Bouvier (Sept. 6, $20 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-62557-071-0). From the Huge Bang to the moon touchdown in 1969, Bouvier’s poems replicate on the historical past of humanity to search out solutions on its previous and future.

E-book*hug

Strolling and Stealing by Stephen Cain (Oct. 22, $18 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-77166-910-8) includes a triptych of serial poems on baseball and Toronto that deal with city life and tradition.

Carnegie-Mellon Univ.

These Absences Now Closest by Dzvinia Orlowsky (Oct. 29, $20 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-88748-704-0). The Ukrainian American poet bears witness to intergenerational trauma and historical past in poems that search to humanize such tragedies as the continued warfare in Ukraine.

CavanKerry

In Inheritance of Drowning by Dorsía Smith Silva (Nov. 5, $18 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-960327-07-9) tackles colonial and generational trauma within the aftermath of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, ruminating on the pure world and the marginalization of Puerto Ricans.

Central Avenue Poetry

From Sand to Stars by Shelby Leigh (Oct. 1, $16.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-77168-388-3). The third assortment from Leigh addresses themes of renewal, pleasure, and self-acceptance within the face of existential battle. 75,000-copy introduced first printing.

Metropolis Lights

Metropolis Fowl and Different Poems: Metropolis Lights Highlight Collection No. 24 by Patrick James Dunagan (Sept. 17, $15.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-87286-933-2). These poems about San Francisco problem the media narrative of a metropolis in decline, paying tribute to its joys. Dunagan weaves in allusions to artists, together with Joan Brown and Jay DeFeo, poets Invoice Berkson and Lew Welch, and native landmarks O’Farrell Avenue and St. Anne of the Sundown.

Copper Canyon

Blade by Blade by Danusha Laméris (Sept. 10, $17 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-55659-703-9). Ache, loss, and reflection are central to Laméris’s third e book, which evokes California’s pure landscapes because it charts a path again to happiness within the aftermath of tragedy.

Ecco

Tablets and Jacksonvilles by Jillian Weise (Sept. 17, $17.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-06-328855-3) explores incapacity, sexuality, and queerness in poems that adapt textual content and chat language, mixing and layering private tales with cultural statement and know-how.

Everyman’s Library

Chilly Mountain Poems by Hanshan, edited and trans. by Peter Harris (Nov. 12, $20, ISBN 978-1-101-90845-7). One of many earliest Zen Buddhist poets, Buddhist monk Hanshan (whose title means “chilly mountain”) wrote on timber, rocks, and partitions. Organized by theme, this version collects one of the best of his work.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Far District by Ishion Hutchinson (Nov. 12, $17 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-374-60482-0). Hutchinson writes about his childhood in Jamaica, confronting the West Indian wariness of European writing and fable. Weaving two cultures by way of reminiscence and imagining, these poems deal with artwork, music, and literature, and embrace each English and Jamaican patois.

4 Method

TRANZ by Spencer Williams (Sept. 15, $17.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-961897-16-8). The debut from Williams celebrates the bravery, resilience, and self-actualization of trans folks in a society that always endangers them.

Griffin

A Bit A lot by Lyndsay Rush (Sept. 17, $18 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-250-32346-0) spotlights emotions, confessions, and hard-won knowledge in humorous poems that replicate on the feminine expertise.

Harper Perennial

Right here to Keep: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora edited by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Janine Joseph, and Esther Lin (Sept. 3, $18.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-06-322434-6). This anthology of writing by at present and previously undocumented writers casts mild on their abilities, pushing towards stereotypes about this demographic within the U.S.

Haymarket

Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water by E. Hughes (Oct. 15, $17 commerce paper, ISBN 979-8-88890-260-8) questions the generational penalties of the migration of Black Southerners to Northern California by way of a private and historic lens.

Home of Anansi

Nice Silent Ballad by A.F. Moritz (Sept. 24, $19.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-4870-1296-0). In seven brief sections, the twenty second assortment from Moritz explores childhood, maturation, and the avant-garde nature of poetry.

Hub Metropolis

The Woman Who Turned a Rabbit by Emilie Menzel
(Sept. 10, $16 commerce paper, ISBN 979-8-88574-037-1) is a hybrid prose poetry debut that investigates the physique’s response to grief after trauma.

Iron Pen

Glory, Too by Nikki Grimes (Jan. 7, $21 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-64060-964-8) attracts on classes from sermons and scriptures in poems that deal with the realities of being a Black girl.

Alice James

The Holy & Damaged Bliss by Alicia Ostriker (Oct. 8, $24.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-949944-67-9). The seventeenth assortment from Ostriker is a postpandemic reflection on loss of life, that means, and collective experiences.

Laurence King

The E-book of Fowl Poems by Ana Sampson et al., illus. by Ryuto Miyake (Oct. 29, $21.99, ISBN 978-1-3996-2563-0). Gathering 60 poems by Percy Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Longfellow, and Keats, amongst others, this assortment celebrates the timeless inspiration birds have provided poets.

Knopf

Discover Me because the Creature I Am by Emily Jungmin Yoon (Oct. 22, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-80118-5). Yoon displays on household tales, humanity, the pure world, and language in poems that showcase the complexities of feeling.

Liveright

What Stays: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt, edited by Samantha Rose Hill, trans. by Genese Grill (Dec. 10, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-324-09052-6). Identified for her writings on totalitarianism, the human situation, and the banality of evil, German-Jewish political thinker Arendt additionally wrote 74 poems between 1923 and 1961, that are offered right here in chronological order.

Mandala

The Flame of Love: Rumi’s 100 Most Passionate Poems by Rumi, trans. by Muhammad Ali Mojaradi (Dec. 17, $22.99, ISBN 979-8-88762-106-7). Gathering 100 love poems by Rumi and complemented by illustrations, this assortment explores ardour and want, bringing beforehand untranslated works to a contemporary viewers.

MCD

The Way forward for Every thing by Aleksandar Hemon (Dec. 3, $27, ISBN 978-0-374-60640-4). With humor and candor, novelist Hemon’s debut assortment displays on warfare and America because it addresses a crumbling world, humanity’s connections, and the on a regular basis.

New Instructions

Mojave Ghost by Forrest Gander (Oct. 1, $15.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-8112-3795-6). The poet, who skilled as a geologist, traveled alongside many of the 800-mile San Andreas fault from Northern California towards his birthplace within the Mojave Desert. These poems catalog that bodily and psychic journey.

Norton

The Ghost Forest: New and Chosen Poems by Kimiko Hahn (Oct. 15, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-324-08606-2). Setting 43 new works alongside poems chosen from Hahn’s 10 earlier collections, this quantity highlights her formal vary and themes knowledgeable by her Japanese American heritage.

Omnidawn

Sur by David Koehn (Oct. 6, $19.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-63243-158-5). Interpersonal connections are central to this assortment’s investigation of wildness, nature, humanity, and that means.

Different Press

Wild by Ben Okri (Oct. 15, $21.99, ISBN 978-1-63542-292-4) research humanity’s magnificence and experiences in poems that allude to different writers and myths whereas recollecting Okri’s circle of relatives life, landscapes, and loves.

Random Home

Water, Water by Billy Collins (Nov. 19, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-73102-4) celebrates pleasure and the quotidian in 60 new poems that draw their inspiration from the on a regular basis and life’s mysteries.

Sarabande

E-book of Potions by Lauren Okay. Watel (Oct. 22, $17.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-956046-35-9). Watel’s prose poems replicate on center age, stereotypes, and societal norms and expectations for girls by way of fairy story, allegory, satire, and surreal imagery.

Scribner

Helen of Troy, 1993 by Maria Zoccola (Jan. 14, $18 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-6680-4633-3). Homeric Helen is a disgruntled housewife in Nineties Tennessee in Zoccola’s debut, a retelling of Homer’s fable and a personality research of one among its most intricate characters.

Seagull

Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy Al-Asheq, edited by Levi Thompson, trans. by Isis Nusair (Aug. 5, $15 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-80309-454-0). Syrian Palestinian poet Al-Asheq presents an autobiographical account of dwelling in wartime. Raised in a refugee camp in Damascus, he was imprisoned in 2011 throughout the Syrian revolution, launched, then imprisoned in Jordan.

Gentle Cranium

Unusual Seashore by Oluwaseun Olayiwola (Jan. 21, $16.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-59376-776-1). Rendered by way of a queer, Nigerian American lens, this debut confronts the concept of social
efficiency because it displays on themes of masculinity, intercourse, lineage, love, and loss of life.

Tin Home

Good Costume by Brittany Rogers (Oct. 15, $16.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-959030-83-6). The debut from Rogers explores themes of belonging and id in poems about Black Detroit, Black womanhood, and lineage.

Tupelo

The Opening Ritual by G.C. Waldrep (Nov. 1, $19.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-961209-14-5). The ultimate entry in Waldrep’s trilogy exploring power sickness offers with the physique, religion, spirituality, questions on therapeutic and wholeness, and the position of mercy.

Univ. of Chicago

The Nice Zoo: A Bilingual Version by Nicolás Guillén, trans. by Aaron Coleman (Oct. 7, $18 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-226-83479-5). Initially printed in Spanish in 1967, these works by Afro-Cuban poet Guillén are offered in a Spanish-English version that highlights his humor and imaginative vary.

Univ. of Nebraska

Leaked Footages by Abu Bakr Sadiq (Nov. 1, $17.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-1-4962-4013-2). Set in northern Nigeria and reflecting on loss of life, reminiscence, and grief, these Afrofuturist poems bear witness to technological development, terrorism, and the aftermath of warfare.

Univ. of Wisconsin

Cowboy Park by Eduardo Martínez-Leyva (Nov. 12, $17.95 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-299-35084-0) particulars a queer Latinx speaker’s expertise within the border city of El Paso, Tex., casting a brand new mild on cowboy iconography whereas exploring masculinity, sexuality, and border politics.

Wayne State Univ.

What Can the Matter Be? by Keith Taylor (Aug. 6, $17.99 commerce paper, ISBN 978-0-8143-5140-6) observes and ruminates on nature and humanity, the method of ageing and dying, and the position of place in shaping notion.

Wesleyan Univ.

Deed by Torrin A. Greathouse (Aug. 20, $26, ISBN 978-0-8195-0130-1). The second assortment from Greathouse displays on queer intercourse and want in candid and formally progressive poems.

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