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* Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life. By Michael Nott. June 2024. 720p. Farrar, $45 (9780374279202); e-book (9780374721374). 811. Nott, an editor of The Letters of Thom Gunn (2022), skillfully [...]

* The Stuff of Hollywood. By Niki Herd. Aug. 2024. 112p. illus. Copper Canyon, paper, $22 (9781556596964). 811. The Stuff of Hollywood moves like a reel of film, 24 frames [...]

* Christopher Isherwood Inside Out. By Katherine Bucknell. Aug. 2024. 848p. Farrar, $40 (9780374119362); e-book (9781429951982). 810. Bucknell edited four volumes of Isherwood's diaries as well as a collection of […]

* What Comes Back. By Javier Penalosa M. Tr. by Robin Myers. Apr. 2024. 160p. Copper Canyon, paper, $18 (9781556596841). 861. Mexican poet and screenwriter Penalosa M.'s bilingual collection is [...]

* With My Back to the World. By Victoria Chang. Apr. 2024. 112p. illus. Farrar, $26 (9780374611132); e-book (9780374611149). 811. A minimalist mode grids Chang's seventh collection as her animated [...]

* The Way That Leads among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos. By Angela Garcia. Apr. 2024. 272p. Farrar, $29 (9780374605780); e-book (9780374605797). 360. In this [...]

* The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. By Adam Shatz. Jan. 2024. 464p. illus. Farrar, $32 (9780374176426); e-book (9780374720001). 305.896. Shatz's thoroughly researched biography of Frantz Fanon, [...]

World within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music. By Jeff Tweedy. Nov. 2023. 240p. Dutton, $26 (9780593472521); e-book (9780593472538). 780. Following the generosity [...]

* August Wilson. By Patti Hartigan. Aug. 2023.592p. Simon & Schuster, $32.50 (9781501180668). 812.54. 'Blood's memory' is what playwright August Wilson identified as his ancestral inspiration. The dramatic language of [...]

The Letters of Thom Gunn. By Thom Gunn. Ed. by August Kleinzahler and others. May 2022.8oop. illus. Farrar, $45 (9780374605698). 821.914. Thom Gunn was an English poet who came to [...]

Wind, Trees. By John Freeman. Oct 2022.96p. Copper Canyon, paper, $16.99 (9781556596483). 811. Following his urbane ruminations in his last collection, The Park (2020), Freeman's observations about humanity's impacts on [...]

* The Search for the Genuine. By Jim Harrison. Sept. 2022.336p. Grove, $28 (9780802157218); e-book, $28 (9780802157232). 814. Harrison (1937-2016) was a larger-than-life force during his prolific career, creating 18 [...]

By Fernando Valverde. Tr. by Carolyn Forche. Oct. 2021. 176p. Copper Canyon, paper, $18 (9781556596223). 861. In Valverde's previous collection, The Insistence of Harm (2019), a specter of violence seemed [...]

* Smoking the Bible. By Chris Abani. May 2022. 80p. Copper Canyon, paper, $17 (9781556596285). 808.81. Abani's radiant seventh poetry collection emanates grit and beauty, while the senses are called [...]

Private Notebooks: 1914-1916. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. Tr. by Marjorie Perloff. Apr. 2022. 240p. Norton/Liveright, $24.95 (9781324090809). 192. In this first complete English translation of Wittgenstein's three surviving wartime notebooks, Perloff [...]

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography. By Tenzin Geyche Tethong. Dec. 2020.352p. illus. Interlink, $35 (9781623718770). 294.3. This gorgeous biography-in-photographs is a more than welcome addition to [...]

Naked. By Abiodun Oyewole. Nov. 2020.186p. Univ. of Chicago/2Leaf, paper, $16.99 (97817346181051.811. Founding member of the seminal spokenword initiative the Last Poets, thought by many critics to be the first [...]

Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward. By James Howard Kunstler. Mar. 2020. 320p. [...]

Improvisation without Accompaniment. By Matt Morton. Apr. 2020. 84p. BOA, paper, $17 (9781942683957); $9.99 (9781942683964). 811. In the vibrant forward to Morton's first collection, poet Patricia Smith writes, 'Lines that [...]

* Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time. By Teju Cole. Oct. 2021. 288p. illus. Univ. of Chicago, $22.50 (97802266413551. 700.1. Novelist, essayist, and photographer Cole (Blind Spot, 2017) is [...]

* Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems. By Louise Gluck. Oct. 2021.64p. Farrar, $25 (9780374604103). 811.54. In her first new collection since being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in [...]

* Complete Poems. By Jim Harrison. Ed. by Joseph Bednarik. Oct. 2021. 944p. Copper Canyon, $40 (9781556595936). 811. Five years after Harrison's death, this robust volume is a testament to [...]

The Year of Blue Water. By Yanyi. Mar. 2019. 96p. Yale, paper, $20 (9780300242645). 811. In his foreword to Yanyi's debut collection, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets [...]

Mothers over Nangarhar. By Pamela Hart. Jan. 2019. 80p. Sarabande, paper, $15.95 (9781946448262); e-book (97819464482791.811.In her debut poetry collection, Hart brings a new, salient voice to the home front in [...]

Dialogues with Rising Tides. By Kelli Russell Agodon. Apr. 2021. 96p. Copper Canyon, paper, $16 (9781556596155). 811. Seattle-area poet Agodon's finely crafted poems gleam like prisms, so clear is her [...]

Popular Longing. By Natalie Shapero. Feb. 2021. 80p. Copper Canyon, paper, $17 (9781556595882). 811. In her third book (following Hard Child, 2017), Shapero's shrewd pacing and curiosity sharpen one's attention. [...]

Selected. By Frederick Seidel. Dec. 2020. 288p. Farrar, $30 (9780374260811); e-book (9780374721978).811. In the third selected collection in Seidel's long career, following Poems, 1959--1979 and Poems, 1959-2009, readers are again [...]

How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back. By Jeff Tweedy. Oct. 2020.176p. Dutton, $23 (9780593183526); e-book, $23 (9780593183533). 782.42. 'I want [...]

Wonder & Wrath. By A. M. Juster. Oct. 2020.80p. Paul Dry, paper, $14.95 (97815898814951.811. Juster is a formalist poet with nine previous collections, including The Secret Language of Women (2002), [...]

Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World. By Dalai Lama and Franz Alt. Nov. 2020. 192p. Hanover Square, $19.99 (9781335218469); e book, $12.99 (9780369700322). 363.738. In their previous [...]

An Incomplete List of Names. By Michael Torres. Oct. 2020. 128p. Beacon, paper, $15 (9780807046746). 811. In his standout first collection Torres, a recipient of NEA and Bread Loaf fellowships, [...]

The Park. By John Freeman. May 2020. 96p. Copper Canyon, paper, $17 (9781556595950). 811. Freeman follows his climate-change-focused anthology, Tales of Two Planets (2020), with his second poetry collection, following [...]

Indigo. By Ellen Bass. Apr. 2020. 64p. Copper Canyon, paper, $18 (9781556595752). 811. Bass (Like a Beggar, 2014), recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and a Lambda Literary Award, presents a [...]

Palominos Near Tuba City: New & Selected Poems. By Denise Sweet. May 2018. 88p. Holy Cow!, paper, $16.95 (9780998601045). 811. Sweet's latest book contains new poems and selections from her [...]

* Summer Snow. By Robert Hass. Jan. 2020.192p. Ecco, $27.99 (9780062950024). 811. Former U.S. poet laureate and winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, Hass presents his first [...]

Pagan Virtues. By Stephen Dunn. Nov. 2019.112p. Norton, $26.95 (9781324002314). 811. Dunn is the author of 19 poetry collections and a Pulitzer Prize winner, and in his latest affecting poems, [...]

Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books That Changed David Bowie's Life. By John O'Connell. Nov. 2019. 320p. Gallery, $18 (9781982112547). 782.42166. O'Connell's diligently documented book on the literary influences on David [...]

* The Now. By Albert Goldbarth. Nov. 2019.104p. Univ. of Pittsburgh, paper, $17 (97808229659301.811. The only poet to receive two National Book Critics Circle awards and the author of more [...]

* Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright. By Charles Wright. Nov. 2019. 720p. Farrar, $50 (9780374251017). 811. Early in this exquisite assembly of selected poems from Wright's prodigious output, [...]

* Frolic and Detour. By Paul Muldoon. Nov. 2019.144p. Farrar, $25 (9780374158392); e-book, $11.99 (9780374721435). 821. A prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet with more than 30 books to his credit and [...]

Dusk & Dust. By Esteban Rodriguez. Sept. 2019. 76p. Hub City, paper, $16 (9781938235559); e-book (97819382355661.811. Rodriguez's debut poetry collection is like a cinematic series of experiences and emotions. The [...]

Dancing with Bees: A Journey Back to Nature. By Brigit Strawbridge Howard. Sept. 2019. 304p. Chelsea Green, $24.95 (9781603588485). 595.79. There are about 20,000 different bee species on our planet. [...]

No Matter. By Jana Prikryl. July 2019.112p. Crown/Tim Duggan, paper, $15 (9781984825117); e-book (9781984825124). 811. Echoing her dynamic debut collection, The After Party (2016), a book praised by John Ashbery [...]

* The Essential Poems. By Jim Harrison. Ed. by Joseph Bednarik. May 2019. 200p. Copper Canyon, paper, $18 (9781556595288). 811. Jim Harrison--poet, novelist, essayist, and culinary bon vivant--died at 78 [...]

* Library of Small Catastrophes. By Alison C. Rollins. Apr. 2019. Copper Canyon, paper, $16 (9781556595394). 811. In her debut, Rollins imagines an enlivening and enlightening library of life's calamities, [...]

* Build Yourself a Boat. By Camonghne Felix. Apr. 2019. 96p. Haymarket, paper, $16 (9781608466115).811. Felix's first poetry collection expresses a flourishing of intellect amid adverse complexities. Her control of [...]