Garrison Keillor, editor Rita Dove, editor Good Poems, American Places The Penguin Anthology of Introduction by the editor Twentieth-Century American Poetry Third in Keillor’s series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that cel- Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate, introduces ebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation. Think of these poems as postcards readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Se- from the road, by poets who’ve gotten carried away by a particular place—a town in Kansas, a kitchen lecting from the canon of American poetry throughout the twentieth century, Dove I D PA
Presort Std window in Nantucket, a Manhattan street, a farm in western Minnesota. Featuring famous poets such
U .S. Postage has created an anthology that represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities—
Permit N o. 169 as Billy Collins, Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Snyder, and Mary
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Dove’s Luis de Góngora selection—and this book—will long stand as the definitive anthology of American The Solitudes poetry.”—Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University Newly Translated by Edith Grossman “Dove’s introduction is informative and insightful, offering an engaging discussion of trends in modern American poetry.”—Library Journal Introduction by Alberto Manguel Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text Penguin • Hardcover • 978-0-14-310643-2 • 688 pages • $40.00 Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as “the Prince of Darkness.” The Solitudes, his magnum opus, is an intoxicatingly lush novel-in-verse that follows the wanderings of a shipwrecked man who has been spurned by his lover. Poems by: “The Solitudes is the most refreshing poem of seventeenth-century European literature, and Góngora is the seventeenth century’s Picasso, a rebel fountain that makes new water out of old. Edith Grossman’s Edgar Lee Masters Charles Olson Galway Kinnell Robert Hass Andrew Hudgins translation is the river that carries this new water across centuries and continents, and that allows us to Edwin Arlington Elizabeth Bishop W. S. Merwin Lyn Hejinian Brigit Pegeen Kelly drink of Góngora’s genius.”—Joaquín Roses, University of Córdoba Robinson Robert Hayden James Wright B. H. Fairchild Paul Muldoon “Edith Grossman has accomplished the formidable literary labor of translating into elegant, contempo- James Weldon Johnson Muriel Rukeyser Donald Hall Haki Madhubuti Judith Ortiz Cofer rary English Góngora’s Soledades, the highest poetic achievement in the Spanish language.”—Roberto Paul Laurence Dunbar Delmore Schwartz Philip Levine William Matthews Penguin G rou p U SA Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street N Y 10014-3657 N ew York, Rita Dove González Echevarría, Yale University Robert Frost John Berryman Anne Sexton Sharon Olds Alice Fulton Amy Lowell “Few European poems are as sublime as The Solitudes, and Grossman illuminates this truth.”—Harold Bloom Randall Jarrell Adrienne Rich Henry Taylor Barbara Hamby Gertrude Stein Penguin Classics • Paperback • 176 Pages • 978-0-14-310672-2 • $17.00 • June 2012 Weldon Kees Gregory Corso Tess Gallagher Mark Jarman Alice Moore Dudley Randall Gary Snyder Michael Palmer Naomi Shihab Nye Dunbar-Nelson William Stafford Derek Walcott James Tate Alberto Ríos Carl Sandburg John Masefield Ruth Stone Miller Williams Norman Dubie Laurie Sheck Wallace Stevens Margaret Walker Etheridge Knight Carol Muske-Dukes Gary Soto Spunyarn Angelina Weld Grimké Gwendolyn Brooks Amiri Baraka Kay Ryan Susan Stewart William Carlos Robert Lowell Ted Berrigan Larry Levis Mark Doty Sea Poetry and Prose Williams Robert Duncan Audre Lorde Adrian C. Louis Harryette Mullen Sara Teasdale Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Philip W. Errington Lawrence Ferlinghetti Sonia Sanchez Thomas Lux Franz Wright Ezra Pound A new selection of works from one of England’s most captivating writers on seafaring and the sea. Based William Meredith Mark Strand Marilyn Nelson Lorna Dee Cervantes Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) on a recently rediscovered early manuscript, this collection of short stories, extracts from novels, autobi- Howard Nemerov Russell Edson Ron Silliman Sandra Cisneros Robinson Jeffers ographical sketches, and poems, including the well-known works “Sea-Fever” and “Cargoes,” illustrates Hayden Carruth Mary Oliver Ai Cornelius Eady Marianne Moore the hardship, romance, and adventure of seafaring. Richard Wilbur Charles Wright Yusef Komunyakaa Louise Erdrich T. S. 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In his introduction to this edition, David Hawkes provides an enlightening discussion of the Stanley Kunitz Robert Creeley James Welch Jorie Graham Joanna Klink poe Penguin G rou p U SA history of these poems and their context, styles, and themes. W. H. Auden James Merrill Billy Collins Marie Howe Brenda Shaughnessy Penguin Classics • Paperback • 352 pages • 978-0-14-044375-2 • $16.00 Theodore Roethke Frank O’Hara Toi Derricotte Joy Harjo Kevin Young John Ashbery Stephen Dobyns Garrett Hongo Terrance Hayes
www.penguin.com/academic . Poetry 2012 www.penguin.com/academic . Poetry 2012 Garrison Keillor, editor Rita Dove, editor Good Poems, American Places The Penguin Anthology of Introduction by the editor Twentieth-Century American Poetry Third in Keillor’s series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that cel- Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate, introduces ebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation. Think of these poems as postcards readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Se- from the road, by poets who’ve gotten carried away by a particular place—a town in Kansas, a kitchen lecting from the canon of American poetry throughout the twentieth century, Dove I D PA
Presort Std window in Nantucket, a Manhattan street, a farm in western Minnesota. Featuring famous poets such
U .S. Postage has created an anthology that represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities—
Permit N o. 169 as Billy Collins, Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Snyder, and Mary
Staten I sland, N Y from styles and voices to themes and cultures—while balancing important poems poetry Oliver, as well as brash unknowns, the verses in this exhilarating collection prove that the heart can be with significant periods of each poet. exalted anywhere in America. Penguin paperback • 512 pages • 978-0-14-312076-6 • $18.00 “Rita Dove’s Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry is intelligent, gener- Also available: Good Poems 978-0-14-200344-2, Good Poems for Hard Times 978-0-14-303767-5 ous, surprising, and altogether thrilling to read—literally, a heart-thumping collec- tion....Most other poetry anthologies give us schools, corners, clubs, and identities, but this one gives us something beyond representative that gets at the extraordinary accomplishment and range of multi-vocal American poetry in the century. Dove’s Luis de Góngora selection—and this book—will long stand as the definitive anthology of American The Solitudes poetry.”—Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University Newly Translated by Edith Grossman “Dove’s introduction is informative and insightful, offering an engaging discussion of trends in modern American poetry.”—Library Journal Introduction by Alberto Manguel Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text Penguin • Hardcover • 978-0-14-310643-2 • 688 pages • $40.00 Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as “the Prince of Darkness.” The Solitudes, his magnum opus, is an intoxicatingly lush novel-in-verse that follows the wanderings of a shipwrecked man who has been spurned by his lover. Poems by: “The Solitudes is the most refreshing poem of seventeenth-century European literature, and Góngora is the seventeenth century’s Picasso, a rebel fountain that makes new water out of old. Edith Grossman’s Edgar Lee Masters Charles Olson Galway Kinnell Robert Hass Andrew Hudgins translation is the river that carries this new water across centuries and continents, and that allows us to Edwin Arlington Elizabeth Bishop W. S. Merwin Lyn Hejinian Brigit Pegeen Kelly drink of Góngora’s genius.”—Joaquín Roses, University of Córdoba Robinson Robert Hayden James Wright B. H. Fairchild Paul Muldoon “Edith Grossman has accomplished the formidable literary labor of translating into elegant, contempo- James Weldon Johnson Muriel Rukeyser Donald Hall Haki Madhubuti Judith Ortiz Cofer rary English Góngora’s Soledades, the highest poetic achievement in the Spanish language.”—Roberto Paul Laurence Dunbar Delmore Schwartz Philip Levine William Matthews Penguin G rou p U SA Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street N Y 10014-3657 N ew York, Rita Dove González Echevarría, Yale University Robert Frost John Berryman Anne Sexton Sharon Olds Alice Fulton Amy Lowell “Few European poems are as sublime as The Solitudes, and Grossman illuminates this truth.”—Harold Bloom Randall Jarrell Adrienne Rich Henry Taylor Barbara Hamby Gertrude Stein Penguin Classics • Paperback • 176 Pages • 978-0-14-310672-2 • $17.00 • June 2012 Weldon Kees Gregory Corso Tess Gallagher Mark Jarman Alice Moore Dudley Randall Gary Snyder Michael Palmer Naomi Shihab Nye Dunbar-Nelson William Stafford Derek Walcott James Tate Alberto Ríos Carl Sandburg John Masefield Ruth Stone Miller Williams Norman Dubie Laurie Sheck Wallace Stevens Margaret Walker Etheridge Knight Carol Muske-Dukes Gary Soto Spunyarn Angelina Weld Grimké Gwendolyn Brooks Amiri Baraka Kay Ryan Susan Stewart William Carlos Robert Lowell Ted Berrigan Larry Levis Mark Doty Sea Poetry and Prose Williams Robert Duncan Audre Lorde Adrian C. Louis Harryette Mullen Sara Teasdale Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Philip W. Errington Lawrence Ferlinghetti Sonia Sanchez Thomas Lux Franz Wright Ezra Pound A new selection of works from one of England’s most captivating writers on seafaring and the sea. Based William Meredith Mark Strand Marilyn Nelson Lorna Dee Cervantes Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) on a recently rediscovered early manuscript, this collection of short stories, extracts from novels, autobi- Howard Nemerov Russell Edson Ron Silliman Sandra Cisneros Robinson Jeffers ographical sketches, and poems, including the well-known works “Sea-Fever” and “Cargoes,” illustrates Hayden Carruth Mary Oliver Ai Cornelius Eady Marianne Moore the hardship, romance, and adventure of seafaring. Richard Wilbur Charles Wright Yusef Komunyakaa Louise Erdrich T. S. Eliot Penguin Classics • Paperback • 400 pages • 978-0-14-119160-7 • $15.00 James Dickey Lucille Clifton Nathaniel Mackey David Mason Claude McKay Alan Dugan June Jordan Gregory Orr Marilyn Chin Archibald MacLeish Anthony Hecht Frederick Seidel Roberta Hill Whiteman Cathy Song Edna St. Vincent ry Qu Yuan and Other Poets Millay Richard Hugo C. K. Williams Albert Goldbarth Annie Finch new books of poetry from E.E. Cummings Denise Levertov Diane Wakoski Heather McHugh Li-Young Lee The Songs of the South Louis Simpson Michael S. Harper Leslie Marmon Silko Carl Phillips t Jean Toomer An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets Penguin Group USA Louise Bogan Carolyn Kizer Charles Simic Olga Broumas Nick Flynn 2012 Newly Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David Hawkes Melvin B. Tolson Kenneth Koch Paula Gunn Allen Victor Hernández Cruz Elizabeth Alexander Maxine Kumin Frank Bidart Jane Miller Reetika Vazirani Dating from the second century AD, this anthology is the second-oldest collection of Chinese poems in Hart Crane 2012 Gerald Stern Carl Dennis David St. John Sherman Alexie existence. The poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under Robert Francis A. R. Ammons seventeen titles and provide a fascinating glimpse into Chinese poetry’s ancient beginnings. The earliest Langston Hughes Stephen Dunn C. D. Wright Natasha Trethewey poems were composed in the fourth century BC, and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Countee Cullen Robert Bly Robert Pinsky Carolyn Forché A. E. Stallings new books of poetry from poetry of books new Qu Yuan. In his introduction to this edition, David Hawkes provides an enlightening discussion of the Stanley Kunitz Robert Creeley James Welch Jorie Graham Joanna Klink poe Penguin G rou p U SA history of these poems and their context, styles, and themes. W. H. Auden James Merrill Billy Collins Marie Howe Brenda Shaughnessy Penguin Classics • Paperback • 352 pages • 978-0-14-044375-2 • $16.00 Theodore Roethke Frank O’Hara Toi Derricotte Joy Harjo Kevin Young John Ashbery Stephen Dobyns Garrett Hongo Terrance Hayes
www.penguin.com/academic . Poetry 2012 www.penguin.com/academic . Poetry 2012 Garrison Keillor, editor Rita Dove, editor Good Poems, American Places The Penguin Anthology of Introduction by the editor Twentieth-Century American Poetry Third in Keillor’s series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that cel- Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate, introduces ebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation. Think of these poems as postcards readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Se- from the road, by poets who’ve gotten carried away by a particular place—a town in Kansas, a kitchen lecting from the canon of American poetry throughout the twentieth century, Dove I D PA
Presort Std window in Nantucket, a Manhattan street, a farm in western Minnesota. Featuring famous poets such
U .S. Postage has created an anthology that represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities—
Permit N o. 169 as Billy Collins, Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Snyder, and Mary
Staten I sland, N Y from styles and voices to themes and cultures—while balancing important poems poetry Oliver, as well as brash unknowns, the verses in this exhilarating collection prove that the heart can be with significant periods of each poet. exalted anywhere in America. Penguin paperback • 512 pages • 978-0-14-312076-6 • $18.00 “Rita Dove’s Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry is intelligent, gener- Also available: Good Poems 978-0-14-200344-2, Good Poems for Hard Times 978-0-14-303767-5 ous, surprising, and altogether thrilling to read—literally, a heart-thumping collec- tion....Most other poetry anthologies give us schools, corners, clubs, and identities, but this one gives us something beyond representative that gets at the extraordinary accomplishment and range of multi-vocal American poetry in the century. Dove’s Luis de Góngora selection—and this book—will long stand as the definitive anthology of American The Solitudes poetry.”—Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University Newly Translated by Edith Grossman “Dove’s introduction is informative and insightful, offering an engaging discussion of trends in modern American poetry.”—Library Journal Introduction by Alberto Manguel Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text Penguin • Hardcover • 978-0-14-310643-2 • 688 pages • $40.00 Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as “the Prince of Darkness.” The Solitudes, his magnum opus, is an intoxicatingly lush novel-in-verse that follows the wanderings of a shipwrecked man who has been spurned by his lover. Poems by: “The Solitudes is the most refreshing poem of seventeenth-century European literature, and Góngora is the seventeenth century’s Picasso, a rebel fountain that makes new water out of old. Edith Grossman’s Edgar Lee Masters Charles Olson Galway Kinnell Robert Hass Andrew Hudgins translation is the river that carries this new water across centuries and continents, and that allows us to Edwin Arlington Elizabeth Bishop W. S. Merwin Lyn Hejinian Brigit Pegeen Kelly drink of Góngora’s genius.”—Joaquín Roses, University of Córdoba Robinson Robert Hayden James Wright B. H. Fairchild Paul Muldoon “Edith Grossman has accomplished the formidable literary labor of translating into elegant, contempo- James Weldon Johnson Muriel Rukeyser Donald Hall Haki Madhubuti Judith Ortiz Cofer rary English Góngora’s Soledades, the highest poetic achievement in the Spanish language.”—Roberto Paul Laurence Dunbar Delmore Schwartz Philip Levine William Matthews Penguin G rou p U SA Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street N Y 10014-3657 N ew York, Rita Dove González Echevarría, Yale University Robert Frost John Berryman Anne Sexton Sharon Olds Alice Fulton Amy Lowell “Few European poems are as sublime as The Solitudes, and Grossman illuminates this truth.”—Harold Bloom Randall Jarrell Adrienne Rich Henry Taylor Barbara Hamby Gertrude Stein Penguin Classics • Paperback • 176 Pages • 978-0-14-310672-2 • $17.00 • June 2012 Weldon Kees Gregory Corso Tess Gallagher Mark Jarman Alice Moore Dudley Randall Gary Snyder Michael Palmer Naomi Shihab Nye Dunbar-Nelson William Stafford Derek Walcott James Tate Alberto Ríos Carl Sandburg John Masefield Ruth Stone Miller Williams Norman Dubie Laurie Sheck Wallace Stevens Margaret Walker Etheridge Knight Carol Muske-Dukes Gary Soto Spunyarn Angelina Weld Grimké Gwendolyn Brooks Amiri Baraka Kay Ryan Susan Stewart William Carlos Robert Lowell Ted Berrigan Larry Levis Mark Doty Sea Poetry and Prose Williams Robert Duncan Audre Lorde Adrian C. Louis Harryette Mullen Sara Teasdale Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Philip W. Errington Lawrence Ferlinghetti Sonia Sanchez Thomas Lux Franz Wright Ezra Pound A new selection of works from one of England’s most captivating writers on seafaring and the sea. Based William Meredith Mark Strand Marilyn Nelson Lorna Dee Cervantes Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) on a recently rediscovered early manuscript, this collection of short stories, extracts from novels, autobi- Howard Nemerov Russell Edson Ron Silliman Sandra Cisneros Robinson Jeffers ographical sketches, and poems, including the well-known works “Sea-Fever” and “Cargoes,” illustrates Hayden Carruth Mary Oliver Ai Cornelius Eady Marianne Moore the hardship, romance, and adventure of seafaring. Richard Wilbur Charles Wright Yusef Komunyakaa Louise Erdrich T. S. Eliot Penguin Classics • Paperback • 400 pages • 978-0-14-119160-7 • $15.00 James Dickey Lucille Clifton Nathaniel Mackey David Mason Claude McKay Alan Dugan June Jordan Gregory Orr Marilyn Chin Archibald MacLeish Anthony Hecht Frederick Seidel Roberta Hill Whiteman Cathy Song Edna St. Vincent ry Qu Yuan and Other Poets Millay Richard Hugo C. K. Williams Albert Goldbarth Annie Finch new books of poetry from E.E. Cummings Denise Levertov Diane Wakoski Heather McHugh Li-Young Lee The Songs of the South Louis Simpson Michael S. Harper Leslie Marmon Silko Carl Phillips t Jean Toomer An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets Penguin Group USA Louise Bogan Carolyn Kizer Charles Simic Olga Broumas Nick Flynn 2012 Newly Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David Hawkes Melvin B. Tolson Kenneth Koch Paula Gunn Allen Victor Hernández Cruz Elizabeth Alexander Maxine Kumin Frank Bidart Jane Miller Reetika Vazirani Dating from the second century AD, this anthology is the second-oldest collection of Chinese poems in Hart Crane 2012 Gerald Stern Carl Dennis David St. John Sherman Alexie existence. The poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under Robert Francis A. R. Ammons seventeen titles and provide a fascinating glimpse into Chinese poetry’s ancient beginnings. The earliest Langston Hughes Stephen Dunn C. D. Wright Natasha Trethewey poems were composed in the fourth century BC, and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Countee Cullen Robert Bly Robert Pinsky Carolyn Forché A. E. Stallings new books of poetry from poetry of books new Qu Yuan. In his introduction to this edition, David Hawkes provides an enlightening discussion of the Stanley Kunitz Robert Creeley James Welch Jorie Graham Joanna Klink poe Penguin G rou p U SA history of these poems and their context, styles, and themes. W. H. Auden James Merrill Billy Collins Marie Howe Brenda Shaughnessy Penguin Classics • Paperback • 352 pages • 978-0-14-044375-2 • $16.00 Theodore Roethke Frank O’Hara Toi Derricotte Joy Harjo Kevin Young John Ashbery Stephen Dobyns Garrett Hongo Terrance Hayes
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The debut collection of a poet whose savage, hilarious work has already received extraordinary notice. Paperbacks $5.00 . Hardcovers $10.00 The Apothecary’s Heir Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose previous collection, Sparrow, a haunting Equal parts hip-hop, John Berryman, and capitalism seeking death and not finding it, Robbins’s poems elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally are strange, wonderful, wild, and completely unlike anything else being written today. As allusive as the Title ISBN Fee Selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-Broido rich book of poems about how things double—by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems Cantos, as aggressive as a circular saw, this debut collection will offend none but the virtuous, and is Poet Julianne Buchsbaum has won acclaim for her “rich, lucid, alliterative lexicon, full of apt surprise” embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to certain to receive an enormous amount of attention. (Reginald Shepherd). Her new collection, The Apothecary’s Heir, depicts a damaged world in which the the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined—and the random intersection of the two. Lit by “These poems are viciously inventive. Faster than you can rhyme stegosaur/megastore, Robbins code- speaker is trying to make sense of human relationships in the aftermath of loss. A series of meditations loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment switches between the English Canon and Top Forty: Nirvana and Blake, The Clash and Yeats, creating a on landscapes of our postmodern world—a sickbed, a gas station, a bomb shelter, a rest stop along a and rescue. political and social commentary that will make the hair stand on your head.”—Ange Mlinko Course Name:______highway—these supple poems explore the frailty of human connectedness and anatomize desire in a Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-311964-7 • $18.00 “From the wild mixture of pop-culture and the English poetic tradition arises the voice—brave, direct, Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______world of pharmaceuticals and microchips. brilliant, arrogant, unforgettable voice—of a poet whom Catullus would recognize, whom Mayakovsky “There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction.”—Matthew Rohrer would welcome....Wild, brave, real verse.”—Ilya Kaminsky Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-312141-1 • $18.00 • June 2012 Penguin Poets • Paperback • 88 pages • 978-0-14-312035-3 • $18.00
William Stobb Course Name:______Lauren Berry Absentia Roger Fanning Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______The Lifting Dress The poems in Stobb’s second collection, Absentia, see the big picture—the sweep of history, the ongoing The Middle Ages Selected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance Hayes evolution of consciousness, evidence of geological time in the landscape. Humbled by scales beyond This new collection of poems from the Whiting award and National Poetry Series winner, Fanning’s Set in a feverish swamp town in Florida, The Lifting Dress enters the life of a teenage girl the day after comprehension, Stobb is nonetheless seduced and stricken by the present in its many manifestations. first in more than ten years, in part chronicles a period of time when he suffered a break with reality, Whether dealing with family, friends, or nature, the poems in Absentia, with their rich emotional palette she has been raped. She refuses to tell anyone what has happened, and moves silently toward adulthood and continues his investigations into the drudgeries, the disappointments, and the joy of our daily lives. Course Name:______and vivid, precise language, respond and transform, calling us to attend to the wide skies above and in a community that offers beauty but denies apology. Through lyric narratives, readers watch her shift “[Fanning is] an American original...whose poems are so pure, so piercing, so simple, so distilled that inside us. Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______between mirroring and rejecting the anxious swelter of her world, until she ultimately embraces it with reading him is like taking a drunk-with-language dive into a moonlit lake on a night you believe you will the same violent affection once tendered to her. “Parable, ghost story, lyric, experimental novel, contemplation of history and death while filling the kid- live forever!”—Thomas Lux Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-311965-4 • $16.00 die pool, all find thrillingly new formal play in the poems of William Stobb....The vitality of these poems, the necessity of their questioning, makes life feel deep and strange and satisfying.” “[Fanning] tunes us in to those minuscule instants of revelation that can keep life from being a long —Alison Hawthorne Deming zombie convention.”—Mary Karr Course Name:______Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-312018-6 • $18.00 Penguin Poets • Paperback • 112 pages • 978-0-14-312034-6 • $18.00 Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______Adam Foulds Eugene Gloria Robert Morgan Subtotal:______
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Loosely structured around an extinct Shaker Alice Notley Or: community in New York state and the surrounding landscape, the book expands to include Kirchwey’s Name:______Lighthead stories of aging, parenthood, romantic love, and even the domestic pleasures and dramas hidden within Fax requests with completed Culture of One credit card details to In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly a garden. Each poem is beautifully crafted; taken together, they make up a powerful volume. This is a School:______A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert. 212.366.2933 grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry witty, stylish, and moving collection from a major American poet. Department:______Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley’s adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens “Kirchwey shares the classicist’s vision of poetry as a living tradition that extends from antiquity to the All orders are subject to stock Street Address (required):______woman who resided in the dump outside Notley’s hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a present . . . and his poems in this issue are about violent love and transcendent longing, the great roman- availability at the time they are this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex—calligraphy, writings, series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presentation format. This innovative processed. Please wait to order tic themes.”—Langdon Hammer, The American Scholar ______paintings, collage—from materials left at the dump. 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The debut collection of a poet whose savage, hilarious work has already received extraordinary notice. Paperbacks $5.00 . Hardcovers $10.00 The Apothecary’s Heir Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose previous collection, Sparrow, a haunting Equal parts hip-hop, John Berryman, and capitalism seeking death and not finding it, Robbins’s poems elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally are strange, wonderful, wild, and completely unlike anything else being written today. As allusive as the Title ISBN Fee Selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-Broido rich book of poems about how things double—by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems Cantos, as aggressive as a circular saw, this debut collection will offend none but the virtuous, and is Poet Julianne Buchsbaum has won acclaim for her “rich, lucid, alliterative lexicon, full of apt surprise” embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to certain to receive an enormous amount of attention. (Reginald Shepherd). Her new collection, The Apothecary’s Heir, depicts a damaged world in which the the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined—and the random intersection of the two. Lit by “These poems are viciously inventive. Faster than you can rhyme stegosaur/megastore, Robbins code- speaker is trying to make sense of human relationships in the aftermath of loss. A series of meditations loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment switches between the English Canon and Top Forty: Nirvana and Blake, The Clash and Yeats, creating a on landscapes of our postmodern world—a sickbed, a gas station, a bomb shelter, a rest stop along a and rescue. political and social commentary that will make the hair stand on your head.”—Ange Mlinko Course Name:______highway—these supple poems explore the frailty of human connectedness and anatomize desire in a Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-311964-7 • $18.00 “From the wild mixture of pop-culture and the English poetic tradition arises the voice—brave, direct, Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______world of pharmaceuticals and microchips. brilliant, arrogant, unforgettable voice—of a poet whom Catullus would recognize, whom Mayakovsky “There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction.”—Matthew Rohrer would welcome....Wild, brave, real verse.”—Ilya Kaminsky Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-312141-1 • $18.00 • June 2012 Penguin Poets • Paperback • 88 pages • 978-0-14-312035-3 • $18.00
William Stobb Course Name:______Lauren Berry Absentia Roger Fanning Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______The Lifting Dress The poems in Stobb’s second collection, Absentia, see the big picture—the sweep of history, the ongoing The Middle Ages Selected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance Hayes evolution of consciousness, evidence of geological time in the landscape. Humbled by scales beyond This new collection of poems from the Whiting award and National Poetry Series winner, Fanning’s Set in a feverish swamp town in Florida, The Lifting Dress enters the life of a teenage girl the day after comprehension, Stobb is nonetheless seduced and stricken by the present in its many manifestations. first in more than ten years, in part chronicles a period of time when he suffered a break with reality, Whether dealing with family, friends, or nature, the poems in Absentia, with their rich emotional palette she has been raped. She refuses to tell anyone what has happened, and moves silently toward adulthood and continues his investigations into the drudgeries, the disappointments, and the joy of our daily lives. Course Name:______and vivid, precise language, respond and transform, calling us to attend to the wide skies above and in a community that offers beauty but denies apology. Through lyric narratives, readers watch her shift “[Fanning is] an American original...whose poems are so pure, so piercing, so simple, so distilled that inside us. Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______between mirroring and rejecting the anxious swelter of her world, until she ultimately embraces it with reading him is like taking a drunk-with-language dive into a moonlit lake on a night you believe you will the same violent affection once tendered to her. “Parable, ghost story, lyric, experimental novel, contemplation of history and death while filling the kid- live forever!”—Thomas Lux Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-311965-4 • $16.00 die pool, all find thrillingly new formal play in the poems of William Stobb....The vitality of these poems, the necessity of their questioning, makes life feel deep and strange and satisfying.” “[Fanning] tunes us in to those minuscule instants of revelation that can keep life from being a long —Alison Hawthorne Deming zombie convention.”—Mary Karr Course Name:______Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-312018-6 • $18.00 Penguin Poets • Paperback • 112 pages • 978-0-14-312034-6 • $18.00 Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______Adam Foulds Eugene Gloria Robert Morgan Subtotal:______
The Broken Word Terroir My Favorite Warlord Please indicate your form of payment below: *Sales Tax:______An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya, Robert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains that fea- A third collection from an award-winning poet whose “gift is breathtaking” (Naomi Shihab Nye). and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It Visa Master Card AmEx Discover Exp. Date:______Total Fee:______ture taut, forceful, often haunting imagery and carefully chiseled phrases. The poems in Terroir build on The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet’s sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria’s With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against his earlier work but reach out in several new directions, exploring memory, family narratives, the natural rich and captivating new collection. The title poem weaves together Japan’s sixteenth-century warlord Card No.:______British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya. Tom, a young man who has returned to his family’s farm, rapidly world of trees and forest animals, and the poetry of work. Readers of Morgan’s fiction will recognize Hideyoshi with a meditation about the poet’s father’s dementia; “Here on Earth” embraces post-racial Name:______* Appropriate state and local becomes caught up in the intensifying events of violence and brutality in a conflict Foulds illustrates as many places, themes, and voices, while fans of his poetry will see a fresh energy in poems drawing on America and the speaker’s own sense of displacement in the Midwest. In elegy and psalm, as well as an- sales tax must be included for both utterly contemporary and yet deeply burdened by the history of race and empire in this region. science and folklore, Native American history, and music. These elegantly written poems celebrate every- cient forms from Asia such as the haibun and pantoum, these elegant and passionate poems enact rage, Signature:______your order to be processed. thing from the bonds of friendship and community to the fleeting sparkle of a drop of rain, discovering civility, love, travel, and art as well as explore Gloria’s own fears of frailty and erasure. “A moving and pitiless depiction of the world as it is rather than as we might like it to be, and the terrible wonder in the local and familiar, the sacred in the everyday. Card Address (if different from shipping address):______things we do to defend our place in it.”—David Wheatley Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-312140-4 • $18.00 • June 2012 Paperbacks: $5.00 Penguin Poets • Paperback • 112 pages • 978-0-14-312019-3 • $18.00 ______Hardcovers: $10.00 “One of the best British writers to emerge in the past decade.”—Julian Barnes Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-311809-1 • $16.00 Telephone:______Send Completed Form To: Winner of the Costa (Whitbread) Poetry Award Karl Kirchwey PENGUIN GROUP (USA) Academic Marketing Dept. Mount Lebanon 375 Hudson Street Ship To: New York, NY 10014-3657 Terrance Hayes Mount Lebanon is a singular work from a mature talent. Loosely structured around an extinct Shaker Alice Notley Or: community in New York state and the surrounding landscape, the book expands to include Kirchwey’s Name:______Lighthead stories of aging, parenthood, romantic love, and even the domestic pleasures and dramas hidden within Fax requests with completed Culture of One credit card details to In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly a garden. Each poem is beautifully crafted; taken together, they make up a powerful volume. This is a School:______A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert. 212.366.2933 grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry witty, stylish, and moving collection from a major American poet. Department:______Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley’s adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens “Kirchwey shares the classicist’s vision of poetry as a living tradition that extends from antiquity to the All orders are subject to stock Street Address (required):______woman who resided in the dump outside Notley’s hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a present . . . and his poems in this issue are about violent love and transcendent longing, the great roman- availability at the time they are this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex—calligraphy, writings, series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presentation format. This innovative processed. Please wait to order tic themes.”—Langdon Hammer, The American Scholar ______paintings, collage—from materials left at the dump. The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems collection presents the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an our forthcoming titles until the “One of the very best poets of his generation.”—John Hollander available month. deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book. imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched. City:______State:______Zip:______Penguin Poets • Paperback • 112 pages • 978-0-14-311696-7 • $18.00 “The poems shimmer with intelligence, wit, and delicacy; and yet at times they resonate with the deepest Books will be sent to school “[Notley] has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and address only. Allow a minimum Winner of the National Book Award and most stirring of feelings.”—Anthony Hecht write what poetry can be.”—The Boston Review This order form is for books to be considered for course adoption only. of 10 business days for delivery. Also available: Wind in a Box 978-0-14-303686-9, Hip Logic 978-0-14-200139-4 Marion Wood Books • Hardcover • 112 pages • 978-0-399-15727-1 • $30.00 Penguin Poets • Paperback • 160 pages • 978-0-14-311893-0 • $18.00 All examination copy orders require a U.S. ship-to address. Questions? Comments? Contact us at: [email protected] No PO boxes please. www.penguin.com/academic . Poetry 2012 www.penguin.com/academic . Poetry 2012 www.penguin.com/academic . Poetry 2012 Carol Muske-Dukes Michael Robbins National Poetry Series Selections Examination Copy Order Form / Poetry 2012 Twin Cities Alien vs. Predator Julianne Buchsbaum A sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today’s finest living poets. The debut collection of a poet whose savage, hilarious work has already received extraordinary notice. Paperbacks $5.00 . Hardcovers $10.00 The Apothecary’s Heir Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose previous collection, Sparrow, a haunting Equal parts hip-hop, John Berryman, and capitalism seeking death and not finding it, Robbins’s poems elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally are strange, wonderful, wild, and completely unlike anything else being written today. As allusive as the Title ISBN Fee Selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-Broido rich book of poems about how things double—by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems Cantos, as aggressive as a circular saw, this debut collection will offend none but the virtuous, and is Poet Julianne Buchsbaum has won acclaim for her “rich, lucid, alliterative lexicon, full of apt surprise” embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to certain to receive an enormous amount of attention. (Reginald Shepherd). Her new collection, The Apothecary’s Heir, depicts a damaged world in which the the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined—and the random intersection of the two. Lit by “These poems are viciously inventive. Faster than you can rhyme stegosaur/megastore, Robbins code- speaker is trying to make sense of human relationships in the aftermath of loss. A series of meditations loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment switches between the English Canon and Top Forty: Nirvana and Blake, The Clash and Yeats, creating a on landscapes of our postmodern world—a sickbed, a gas station, a bomb shelter, a rest stop along a and rescue. political and social commentary that will make the hair stand on your head.”—Ange Mlinko Course Name:______highway—these supple poems explore the frailty of human connectedness and anatomize desire in a Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-311964-7 • $18.00 “From the wild mixture of pop-culture and the English poetic tradition arises the voice—brave, direct, Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______world of pharmaceuticals and microchips. brilliant, arrogant, unforgettable voice—of a poet whom Catullus would recognize, whom Mayakovsky “There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction.”—Matthew Rohrer would welcome....Wild, brave, real verse.”—Ilya Kaminsky Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-312141-1 • $18.00 • June 2012 Penguin Poets • Paperback • 88 pages • 978-0-14-312035-3 • $18.00
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The Broken Word Terroir My Favorite Warlord Please indicate your form of payment below: *Sales Tax:______An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya, Robert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains that fea- A third collection from an award-winning poet whose “gift is breathtaking” (Naomi Shihab Nye). and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It Visa Master Card AmEx Discover Exp. Date:______Total Fee:______ture taut, forceful, often haunting imagery and carefully chiseled phrases. The poems in Terroir build on The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet’s sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria’s With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against his earlier work but reach out in several new directions, exploring memory, family narratives, the natural rich and captivating new collection. 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