MARINER BOOKS • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 85 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. A Mariner Original collecting beloved writings of our new poet laureate Donald Hall EAGLE POND • A collection of Poet Laureate Donald Hall’s beloved writings on Eagle Pond Farm, available for the first time in paperback ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-83934-6 • $14.95 his original paperback brings together for the first time all of ISBN-10: 0-618-83934-8 TDonald Hall’s writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home Eagle Pond in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy APRIL • Essays/Poetry and then lived with his wife Jane Kenyon until her death. It includes 320 pages • 6 x 9 • A the entire, previously published Seasons at Eagle Pond and Here at b/w line drawings Eagle Pond; the poem “Daylilies on the Hill” from The Painted Bed; and several uncollected essays. • National Poetry Month sponsorship and promotion kits • National advertising 86 MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. writings of our new poet laureate “Donald Hall is one of America’s most distinctive and respected literary figures. For more than fifty years, he has written beautiful poetry on a wide variety of subjects that are often distinctly American and conveyed with passion.” —Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, announcing the appointment of Donald Hall to be the nation’s fourteenth poet laureate © STEPHEN RATINER DONALD HALL is the fourteenth poet laureate of the United States and the author of more than two dozen books of poems and prose, including White Apples and the ALSO AVAILABLE Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946–2006. His work has garnered many honors, among them the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry for The One Day; the Lenore Marshall Award for The Happy Man; the Robert Frost Silver Medal from the Poetry Society of America for Old and New Poems; and the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in recognition of his lifetime accomplish- ments. His poetry collection Without, which was written for Jane Kenyon during White Apples and The Painted Bed and after her illness, received the L. L. (978-0-618-34075-0) $14.00 PA the Taste of Stone Winship/PEN New England Award and was (978-0-618-53721-1) $30.00 CL The Museum of Clear Ideas a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Without (978-0-395-68085-8 ) $14.00 PA Prize. A member of the American Academy (978-0-395-95765-3) $14.00 PA of Arts and Letters, Hall continues to inhabit Old and New Poems the New Hampshire farmhouse where he The Best Day the Worst Day (978-0-899-19954-2 ) $16.95 PA and Jane Kenyon lived together. (978-0-618-77362-6) $13.95 PA Willow Temple (978-0-618-44661-2) $13.00 PA MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 87 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. A Mariner Original Matt Donovan VELLUM Poems • An award-winning collection, with an introduction by Mark Doty • “Matt Donovan’s startling debut is a fiercely intelligent meditation on the ambiguity of human making . It’s a rare find, in a first book, such a coherent, articulated vision, but this remarkably accomplished poet brings us face to face with the bond between creation and destruction, and the darkly alluring fusion of beauty and ruthlessness at the core of art—even, of course, Donovan’s own.”—Mark Doty ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-82212-6 • $11.95 ellum, the exquisite debut collection from Matt Donovan, meditates ISBN-10: 0-618-82212-7 V on beauty, art, and the violence that is sometimes inherent in both. Vellum Here, he juxtaposes religious iconography with stories from history, biog- APRIL • Poetry raphy, and personal narrative. In the poignant “Saint Catherine in an O,” 80 pages • 6 x 9 • A a knife bears unlikely duality—an object stirring with danger and grace. “A man plays slide guitar / with his pocketknife, accompanying the words of his songs—/ one about light, the Lord moving on water . / how AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE blood, he knows, will make him whole.” In other poems, he reflects upon Santa Fe, New Mexico master artists, who captured similar themes in their art though in different mediums. Brimming with poems that are quietly powerful, Vellum marks the arrival of a commanding new voice. • National Poetry Month sponsorship and promotion kits • Advertising in poetry journals MATT DONOVAN is the winner of the 2006 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for • Advance reading copies poetry, selected by Mark Doty and awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Donovan is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at the College of Santa Fe. He was educated at Vassar College, Lancaster University in England, the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, and New York University’s MFA program, where he was a New York Times fellow. He lives in Santa Fe with his wife and son. 88 MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. John Eisenberg THE GREAT MATCH RACE When North Met South in America’s First Sports Spectacle • “A heart-stopping account of a race that surely must rank as one of the most thrilling on record.”—New York Times • “A lead-pipe cinch, mortal lock, lay-your-money-down sure thing of a book.”—Baltimore Sun • “Riveting.”—Chicago Tribune ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87211-4 • $14.95 page-turning mix of history, horse racing, and pure entertainment, ISBN-10: 0-618-87211-6 AThe Great Match Race is a captivating account of America’s first The Great Match Race sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North against South in three APRIL • Sports/History grueling heats. On a bright afternoon in May 1823, an unprecedented 272 pages • 6 x 9 • Q sixty thousand people showed up to watch two horses run the equivalent Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-55612-5 of nine Kentucky Derbys in the space of a few hours. Eclipse was a majestic champion representing the North’s evolving industrial machine, and Henry was an equine arriviste embodying southern perceptions of superiority. Their thrilling match race would come to represent a • Racetrack promotion watershed moment in American history, crystallizing the differences • National advertising, including the that so fundamentally divided North and South. Saratoga Special, the Daily Racing Form, Renowned sports writer John Eisenberg captures all the pulse- and Civil War periodicals pounding drama and behind-the-scenes tension in an engrossing tale that, in the eyes of many reviewers, carries on the tradition of Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit. JOHN EISENBERG is a sports columnist for the Baltimore Sun and the author of many acclaimed books, including, most recently, Native Dancer: Hero of a Golden Age. In 2003 his commentary helped anchor a broadcast that earned an Eclipse Award, the highest honor given for coverage of horse racing. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 89 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. A Mariner Original Peter Matthiessen, editor COURAGE FOR THE EARTH Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson • A centennial appreciation—for environmentally critical times—of Rachel Carson’s brave life and transformative writing, from renowned authors, activists, and scientists achel Carson’s lyrical, popular books about the sea, including her best-selling The Sea Around Us, “set a standard for nature writing for ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87276-3 • $14.95 R all time to come” (Roger Caras). By the late 1950s, Carson was the most ISBN-10: 0-618-87276-0 Courage for the Earth respected science writer in America. APRIL • Nature She completed Silent Spring (1962) against formidable personal 224 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history. In Silent Spring, Carson asserted that “the right of the citizen to be secure in his own home against the intrusion of poisons applied by other persons” must surely be a basic human right. She was • Major media tying in to Rachel Carson the first to challenge the moral vacuity of a government that refused to take centennial and Earth Day responsibility for or to acknowledge evidence of environmental damage. • Advance reading copies • Posters and easelbacks In this volume, today’s foremost scientists and writers give compelling evi- dence that Carson’s transformative insights—her courage for the earth— are giving a new generation of activists the inspiration they need to move consumers, industry, and government. Contributors include: John Elder, Al Gore, John Hay, Freeman House, Linda Lear, Robert Michael Pyle, Janisse Ray, Sandra Steingraber, Terry Tempest Williams, E. O. Wilson PETER MATTHIESSEN’s many books include The Snow Leopard and At Play in the Fields of the Lord. He lives in Sagaponack, New York. 90 MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Celebrate Rachel Carson's Centenary with New and Classic Mariner Books Rachel Carson SILENT SPRING • The classic that launched the environmental movement • Newly rejacketed for the Rachel Carson centenary, May 27, 2007 • Introduction by Linda Lear • Afterword by Edward O. Wilson irst published in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large Faudience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.