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Good Poems, American Places
poet ry
Rita Dove, editor
The Penguin Anthology of
Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Introduction by the editor
Third in Keillor’s series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that celebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation. Think of these poems as postcards
from the road, by poets who’ve gotten carried away by a particular place—a town in Kansas, a kitchen
window in Nantucket, a Manhattan street, a farm in western Minnesota. Featuring famous poets such
as Billy Collins, Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Snyder, and Mary
Oliver, as well as brash unknowns, the verses in this exhilarating collection prove that the heart can be
exalted anywhere in America.
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate, introduces
readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Selecting from the canon of American poetry throughout the twentieth century, Dove
has created an anthology that represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities—
from styles and voices to themes and cultures—while balancing important poems
with significant periods of each poet.
“Rita Dove’s Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry is intelligent, generous, surprising, and altogether thrilling to read—literally, a heart-thumping collection....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
selection—and this book—will long stand as the definitive anthology of American
poetry.”—Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University
Penguin paperback • 512 pages • 978-0-14-312076-6 • $18.00
Also available: Good Poems 978-0-14-200344-2, Good Poems for Hard Times 978-0-14-303767-5
Luis de Góngora
The Solitudes
Penguin Group USA
Academic Marketing Department
375 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014-3657
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.
“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
translation is the river that carries this new water across centuries and continents, and that allows us to
drink of Góngora’s genius.”—Joaquín Roses, University of Córdoba
“Edith Grossman has accomplished the formidable literary labor of translating into elegant, contemporary English Góngora’s Soledades, the highest poetic achievement in the Spanish language.”—Roberto
González Echevarría, Yale University
“Few European poems are as sublime as The Solitudes, and Grossman illuminates this truth.”—Harold Bloom
Penguin Classics • Paperback • 176 Pages • 978-0-14-310672-2 • $17.00 • June 2012
John Masefield
Spunyarn
Penguin Group USA
2 01 2
new books of poetry from
Sea Poetry and Prose
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Philip W. Errington
poet ry
“Dove’s introduction is informative and insightful, offering an engaging discussion of
trends in modern American poetry.”—Library Journal
Newly Translated by Edith Grossman
Introduction by Alberto Manguel
Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
A new selection of works from one of England’s most captivating writers on seafaring and the sea. Based
on a recently rediscovered early manuscript, this collection of short stories, extracts from novels, autobiographical sketches, and poems, including the well-known works “Sea-Fever” and “Cargoes,” illustrates
the hardship, romance, and adventure of seafaring.
Penguin Classics • Paperback • 400 pages • 978-0-14-119160-7 • $15.00
new books of poetry from
Penguin Group USA
2 012
Q u Y u a n and Other Poets
The Songs of the South
An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets
Newly Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David Hawkes
Dating from the second century AD, this anthology is the second-oldest collection of Chinese poems in
existence. The poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under
seventeen titles and provide a fascinating glimpse into Chinese poetry’s ancient beginnings. The earliest
poems were composed in the fourth century BC, and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to
Qu Yuan. In his introduction to this edition, David Hawkes provides an enlightening discussion of the
history of these poems and their context, styles, and themes.
Penguin Classics • Paperback • 352 pages • 978-0-14-044375-2 • $16.00
www.pen gu in .com/academic  Poetry 2012
P o e m s b y:
Edgar Lee Masters
Edwin Arlington
Robinson
James Weldon Johnson
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Robert Frost
Amy Lowell
Gertrude Stein
Alice Moore
Dunbar-Nelson
Carl Sandburg
Wallace Stevens
Angelina Weld Grimké
William Carlos
Williams
Sara Teasdale
Ezra Pound
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
Robinson Jeffers
Marianne Moore
T. S. Eliot
Claude McKay
Archibald MacLeish
Edna St. Vincent
Millay
E.E. Cummings
Jean Toomer
Louise Bogan
Melvin B. Tolson
Hart Crane
Robert Francis
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Stanley Kunitz
W. H. Auden
Theodore Roethke
Charles Olson
Elizabeth Bishop
Robert Hayden
Muriel Rukeyser
Delmore Schwartz
John Berryman
Randall Jarrell
Weldon Kees
Dudley Randall
William Stafford
Ruth Stone
Margaret Walker
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Lowell
Robert Duncan
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
William Meredith
Howard Nemerov
Hayden Carruth
Richard Wilbur
James Dickey
Alan Dugan
Anthony Hecht
Richard Hugo
Denise Levertov
Louis Simpson
Carolyn Kizer
Kenneth Koch
Maxine Kumin
Gerald Stern
A. R. Ammons
Robert Bly
Robert Creeley
James Merrill
Frank O’Hara
John Ashbery
Galway Kinnell
W. S. Merwin
James Wright
Donald Hall
Philip Levine
Anne Sexton
Adrienne Rich
Gregory Corso
Gary Snyder
Derek Walcott
Miller Williams
Etheridge Knight
Amiri Baraka
Ted Berrigan
Audre Lorde
Sonia Sanchez
Mark Strand
Russell Edson
Mary Oliver
Charles Wright
Lucille Clifton
June Jordan
Frederick Seidel
C. K. Williams
Diane Wakoski
Michael S. Harper
Charles Simic
Paula Gunn Allen
Frank Bidart
Carl Dennis
Stephen Dunn
Robert Pinsky
James Welch
Billy Collins
Toi Derricotte
Stephen Dobyns
Robert Hass
Lyn Hejinian
B. H. Fairchild
Haki Madhubuti
William Matthews
Sharon Olds
Henry Taylor
Tess Gallagher
Michael Palmer
James Tate
Norman Dubie
Carol Muske-Dukes
Kay Ryan
Larry Levis
Adrian C. Louis
Thomas Lux
Marilyn Nelson
Ron Silliman
Ai
Yusef Komunyakaa
Nathaniel Mackey
Gregory Orr
Roberta Hill Whiteman
Albert Goldbarth
Heather McHugh
Leslie Marmon Silko
Olga Broumas
Victor Hernández Cruz
Jane Miller
David St. John
C. D. Wright
Carolyn Forché
Jorie Graham
Marie Howe
Joy Harjo
Garrett Hongo
www.pen gu in .com/academic  Poetry 2012
Andrew Hudgins
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Paul Muldoon
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Rita Dove
Alice Fulton
Barbara Hamby
Mark Jarman
Naomi Shihab Nye
Alberto Ríos
Laurie Sheck
Gary Soto
Susan Stewart
Mark Doty
Harryette Mullen
Franz Wright
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Sandra Cisneros
Cornelius Eady
Louise Erdrich
David Mason
Marilyn Chin
Cathy Song
Annie Finch
Li-Young Lee
Carl Phillips
Nick Flynn
Elizabeth Alexander
Reetika Vazirani
Sherman Alexie
Natasha Trethewey
A. E. Stallings
Joanna Klink
Brenda Shaughnessy
Kevin Young
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Good Poems, American Places
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Rita Dove, editor
The Penguin Anthology of
Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Introduction by the editor
Third in Keillor’s series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that celebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation. Think of these poems as postcards
from the road, by poets who’ve gotten carried away by a particular place—a town in Kansas, a kitchen
window in Nantucket, a Manhattan street, a farm in western Minnesota. Featuring famous poets such
as Billy Collins, Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Snyder, and Mary
Oliver, as well as brash unknowns, the verses in this exhilarating collection prove that the heart can be
exalted anywhere in America.
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate, introduces
readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Selecting from the canon of American poetry throughout the twentieth century, Dove
has created an anthology that represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities—
from styles and voices to themes and cultures—while balancing important poems
with significant periods of each poet.
“Rita Dove’s Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry is intelligent, generous, surprising, and altogether thrilling to read—literally, a heart-thumping collection....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
selection—and this book—will long stand as the definitive anthology of American
poetry.”—Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University
Penguin paperback • 512 pages • 978-0-14-312076-6 • $18.00
Also available: Good Poems 978-0-14-200344-2, Good Poems for Hard Times 978-0-14-303767-5
Luis de Góngora
The Solitudes
Penguin Group USA
Academic Marketing Department
375 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014-3657
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.
“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
translation is the river that carries this new water across centuries and continents, and that allows us to
drink of Góngora’s genius.”—Joaquín Roses, University of Córdoba
“Edith Grossman has accomplished the formidable literary labor of translating into elegant, contemporary English Góngora’s Soledades, the highest poetic achievement in the Spanish language.”—Roberto
González Echevarría, Yale University
“Few European poems are as sublime as The Solitudes, and Grossman illuminates this truth.”—Harold Bloom
Penguin Classics • Paperback • 176 Pages • 978-0-14-310672-2 • $17.00 • June 2012
John Masefield
Spunyarn
Penguin Group USA
2 01 2
new books of poetry from
Sea Poetry and Prose
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Philip W. Errington
poet ry
“Dove’s introduction is informative and insightful, offering an engaging discussion of
trends in modern American poetry.”—Library Journal
Newly Translated by Edith Grossman
Introduction by Alberto Manguel
Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
A new selection of works from one of England’s most captivating writers on seafaring and the sea. Based
on a recently rediscovered early manuscript, this collection of short stories, extracts from novels, autobiographical sketches, and poems, including the well-known works “Sea-Fever” and “Cargoes,” illustrates
the hardship, romance, and adventure of seafaring.
Penguin Classics • Paperback • 400 pages • 978-0-14-119160-7 • $15.00
new books of poetry from
Penguin Group USA
2 012
Q u Y u a n and Other Poets
The Songs of the South
An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets
Newly Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David Hawkes
Dating from the second century AD, this anthology is the second-oldest collection of Chinese poems in
existence. The poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under
seventeen titles and provide a fascinating glimpse into Chinese poetry’s ancient beginnings. The earliest
poems were composed in the fourth century BC, and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to
Qu Yuan. In his introduction to this edition, David Hawkes provides an enlightening discussion of the
history of these poems and their context, styles, and themes.
Penguin Classics • Paperback • 352 pages • 978-0-14-044375-2 • $16.00
www.pen gu in .com/academic  Poetry 2012
P o e m s b y:
Edgar Lee Masters
Edwin Arlington
Robinson
James Weldon Johnson
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Robert Frost
Amy Lowell
Gertrude Stein
Alice Moore
Dunbar-Nelson
Carl Sandburg
Wallace Stevens
Angelina Weld Grimké
William Carlos
Williams
Sara Teasdale
Ezra Pound
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
Robinson Jeffers
Marianne Moore
T. S. Eliot
Claude McKay
Archibald MacLeish
Edna St. Vincent
Millay
E.E. Cummings
Jean Toomer
Louise Bogan
Melvin B. Tolson
Hart Crane
Robert Francis
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Stanley Kunitz
W. H. Auden
Theodore Roethke
Charles Olson
Elizabeth Bishop
Robert Hayden
Muriel Rukeyser
Delmore Schwartz
John Berryman
Randall Jarrell
Weldon Kees
Dudley Randall
William Stafford
Ruth Stone
Margaret Walker
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Lowell
Robert Duncan
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
William Meredith
Howard Nemerov
Hayden Carruth
Richard Wilbur
James Dickey
Alan Dugan
Anthony Hecht
Richard Hugo
Denise Levertov
Louis Simpson
Carolyn Kizer
Kenneth Koch
Maxine Kumin
Gerald Stern
A. R. Ammons
Robert Bly
Robert Creeley
James Merrill
Frank O’Hara
John Ashbery
Galway Kinnell
W. S. Merwin
James Wright
Donald Hall
Philip Levine
Anne Sexton
Adrienne Rich
Gregory Corso
Gary Snyder
Derek Walcott
Miller Williams
Etheridge Knight
Amiri Baraka
Ted Berrigan
Audre Lorde
Sonia Sanchez
Mark Strand
Russell Edson
Mary Oliver
Charles Wright
Lucille Clifton
June Jordan
Frederick Seidel
C. K. Williams
Diane Wakoski
Michael S. Harper
Charles Simic
Paula Gunn Allen
Frank Bidart
Carl Dennis
Stephen Dunn
Robert Pinsky
James Welch
Billy Collins
Toi Derricotte
Stephen Dobyns
Robert Hass
Lyn Hejinian
B. H. Fairchild
Haki Madhubuti
William Matthews
Sharon Olds
Henry Taylor
Tess Gallagher
Michael Palmer
James Tate
Norman Dubie
Carol Muske-Dukes
Kay Ryan
Larry Levis
Adrian C. Louis
Thomas Lux
Marilyn Nelson
Ron Silliman
Ai
Yusef Komunyakaa
Nathaniel Mackey
Gregory Orr
Roberta Hill Whiteman
Albert Goldbarth
Heather McHugh
Leslie Marmon Silko
Olga Broumas
Victor Hernández Cruz
Jane Miller
David St. John
C. D. Wright
Carolyn Forché
Jorie Graham
Marie Howe
Joy Harjo
Garrett Hongo
www.pen gu in .com/academic  Poetry 2012
Andrew Hudgins
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Paul Muldoon
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Rita Dove
Alice Fulton
Barbara Hamby
Mark Jarman
Naomi Shihab Nye
Alberto Ríos
Laurie Sheck
Gary Soto
Susan Stewart
Mark Doty
Harryette Mullen
Franz Wright
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Sandra Cisneros
Cornelius Eady
Louise Erdrich
David Mason
Marilyn Chin
Cathy Song
Annie Finch
Li-Young Lee
Carl Phillips
Nick Flynn
Elizabeth Alexander
Reetika Vazirani
Sherman Alexie
Natasha Trethewey
A. E. Stallings
Joanna Klink
Brenda Shaughnessy
Kevin Young
Terrance Hayes
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G a r r i s o n K e i l l o r , editor
Good Poems, American Places
poet ry
Rita Dove, editor
The Penguin Anthology of
Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Introduction by the editor
Third in Keillor’s series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that celebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation. Think of these poems as postcards
from the road, by poets who’ve gotten carried away by a particular place—a town in Kansas, a kitchen
window in Nantucket, a Manhattan street, a farm in western Minnesota. Featuring famous poets such
as Billy Collins, Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Snyder, and Mary
Oliver, as well as brash unknowns, the verses in this exhilarating collection prove that the heart can be
exalted anywhere in America.
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate, introduces
readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Selecting from the canon of American poetry throughout the twentieth century, Dove
has created an anthology that represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities—
from styles and voices to themes and cultures—while balancing important poems
with significant periods of each poet.
“Rita Dove’s Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry is intelligent, generous, surprising, and altogether thrilling to read—literally, a heart-thumping collection....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
selection—and this book—will long stand as the definitive anthology of American
poetry.”—Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University
Penguin paperback • 512 pages • 978-0-14-312076-6 • $18.00
Also available: Good Poems 978-0-14-200344-2, Good Poems for Hard Times 978-0-14-303767-5
Luis de Góngora
The Solitudes
Penguin Group USA
Academic Marketing Department
375 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014-3657
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.
“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
translation is the river that carries this new water across centuries and continents, and that allows us to
drink of Góngora’s genius.”—Joaquín Roses, University of Córdoba
“Edith Grossman has accomplished the formidable literary labor of translating into elegant, contemporary English Góngora’s Soledades, the highest poetic achievement in the Spanish language.”—Roberto
González Echevarría, Yale University
“Few European poems are as sublime as The Solitudes, and Grossman illuminates this truth.”—Harold Bloom
Penguin Classics • Paperback • 176 Pages • 978-0-14-310672-2 • $17.00 • June 2012
John Masefield
Spunyarn
Penguin Group USA
2 01 2
new books of poetry from
Sea Poetry and Prose
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Philip W. Errington
poet ry
“Dove’s introduction is informative and insightful, offering an engaging discussion of
trends in modern American poetry.”—Library Journal
Newly Translated by Edith Grossman
Introduction by Alberto Manguel
Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
A new selection of works from one of England’s most captivating writers on seafaring and the sea. Based
on a recently rediscovered early manuscript, this collection of short stories, extracts from novels, autobiographical sketches, and poems, including the well-known works “Sea-Fever” and “Cargoes,” illustrates
the hardship, romance, and adventure of seafaring.
Penguin Classics • Paperback • 400 pages • 978-0-14-119160-7 • $15.00
new books of poetry from
Penguin Group USA
2 012
Q u Y u a n and Other Poets
The Songs of the South
An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets
Newly Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David Hawkes
Dating from the second century AD, this anthology is the second-oldest collection of Chinese poems in
existence. The poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under
seventeen titles and provide a fascinating glimpse into Chinese poetry’s ancient beginnings. The earliest
poems were composed in the fourth century BC, and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to
Qu Yuan. In his introduction to this edition, David Hawkes provides an enlightening discussion of the
history of these poems and their context, styles, and themes.
Penguin Classics • Paperback • 352 pages • 978-0-14-044375-2 • $16.00
www.pen gu in .com/academic  Poetry 2012
P o e m s b y:
Edgar Lee Masters
Edwin Arlington
Robinson
James Weldon Johnson
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Robert Frost
Amy Lowell
Gertrude Stein
Alice Moore
Dunbar-Nelson
Carl Sandburg
Wallace Stevens
Angelina Weld Grimké
William Carlos
Williams
Sara Teasdale
Ezra Pound
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
Robinson Jeffers
Marianne Moore
T. S. Eliot
Claude McKay
Archibald MacLeish
Edna St. Vincent
Millay
E.E. Cummings
Jean Toomer
Louise Bogan
Melvin B. Tolson
Hart Crane
Robert Francis
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Stanley Kunitz
W. H. Auden
Theodore Roethke
Charles Olson
Elizabeth Bishop
Robert Hayden
Muriel Rukeyser
Delmore Schwartz
John Berryman
Randall Jarrell
Weldon Kees
Dudley Randall
William Stafford
Ruth Stone
Margaret Walker
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Lowell
Robert Duncan
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
William Meredith
Howard Nemerov
Hayden Carruth
Richard Wilbur
James Dickey
Alan Dugan
Anthony Hecht
Richard Hugo
Denise Levertov
Louis Simpson
Carolyn Kizer
Kenneth Koch
Maxine Kumin
Gerald Stern
A. R. Ammons
Robert Bly
Robert Creeley
James Merrill
Frank O’Hara
John Ashbery
Galway Kinnell
W. S. Merwin
James Wright
Donald Hall
Philip Levine
Anne Sexton
Adrienne Rich
Gregory Corso
Gary Snyder
Derek Walcott
Miller Williams
Etheridge Knight
Amiri Baraka
Ted Berrigan
Audre Lorde
Sonia Sanchez
Mark Strand
Russell Edson
Mary Oliver
Charles Wright
Lucille Clifton
June Jordan
Frederick Seidel
C. K. Williams
Diane Wakoski
Michael S. Harper
Charles Simic
Paula Gunn Allen
Frank Bidart
Carl Dennis
Stephen Dunn
Robert Pinsky
James Welch
Billy Collins
Toi Derricotte
Stephen Dobyns
Robert Hass
Lyn Hejinian
B. H. Fairchild
Haki Madhubuti
William Matthews
Sharon Olds
Henry Taylor
Tess Gallagher
Michael Palmer
James Tate
Norman Dubie
Carol Muske-Dukes
Kay Ryan
Larry Levis
Adrian C. Louis
Thomas Lux
Marilyn Nelson
Ron Silliman
Ai
Yusef Komunyakaa
Nathaniel Mackey
Gregory Orr
Roberta Hill Whiteman
Albert Goldbarth
Heather McHugh
Leslie Marmon Silko
Olga Broumas
Victor Hernández Cruz
Jane Miller
David St. John
C. D. Wright
Carolyn Forché
Jorie Graham
Marie Howe
Joy Harjo
Garrett Hongo
www.pen gu in .com/academic  Poetry 2012
Andrew Hudgins
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Paul Muldoon
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Rita Dove
Alice Fulton
Barbara Hamby
Mark Jarman
Naomi Shihab Nye
Alberto Ríos
Laurie Sheck
Gary Soto
Susan Stewart
Mark Doty
Harryette Mullen
Franz Wright
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Sandra Cisneros
Cornelius Eady
Louise Erdrich
David Mason
Marilyn Chin
Cathy Song
Annie Finch
Li-Young Lee
Carl Phillips
Nick Flynn
Elizabeth Alexander
Reetika Vazirani
Sherman Alexie
Natasha Trethewey
A. E. Stallings
Joanna Klink
Brenda Shaughnessy
Kevin Young
Terrance Hayes
National Poetry Series Selections
Julianne Buchsbaum
The Apothecary’s Heir
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-Broido
Poet Julianne Buchsbaum has won acclaim for her “rich, lucid, alliterative lexicon, full of apt surprise”
(Reginald Shepherd). Her new collection, The Apothecary’s Heir, depicts a damaged world in which the
speaker is trying to make sense of human relationships in the aftermath of loss. A series of meditations
on landscapes of our postmodern world—a sickbed, a gas station, a bomb shelter, a rest stop along a
highway—these supple poems explore the frailty of human connectedness and anatomize desire in a
world of pharmaceuticals and microchips.
Carol Muske-Dukes
Twin Cities
Michael Robbins
Alien vs. Predator
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.
Equal parts hip-hop, John Berryman, and capitalism seeking death and not finding it, Robbins’s poems
are strange, wonderful, wild, and completely unlike anything else being written today. As allusive as the
Cantos, as aggressive as a circular saw, this debut collection will offend none but the virtuous, and is
certain to receive an enormous amount of attention.
Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose previous collection, Sparrow, a haunting
elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally
rich book of poems about how things double—by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems
embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to
the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined—and the random intersection of the two. Lit by
loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment
and rescue.
“These poems are viciously inventive. Faster than you can rhyme stegosaur/megastore, Robbins codeswitches between the English Canon and Top Forty: Nirvana and Blake, The Clash and Yeats, creating a
political and social commentary that will make the hair stand on your head.”—Ange Mlinko
“There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction.”—Matthew Rohrer
“From the wild mixture of pop-culture and the English poetic tradition arises the voice—brave, direct,
brilliant, arrogant, unforgettable voice—of a poet whom Catullus would recognize, whom Mayakovsky
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
Lauren Berry
The Lifting Dress
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance Hayes
Set in a feverish swamp town in Florida, The Lifting Dress enters the life of a teenage girl the day after
she has been raped. She refuses to tell anyone what has happened, and moves silently toward adulthood
in a community that offers beauty but denies apology. Through lyric narratives, readers watch her shift
between mirroring and rejecting the anxious swelter of her world, until she ultimately embraces it with
the same violent affection once tendered to her.
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-311965-4 • $16.00
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-311964-7 • $18.00
William Stobb
Absentia
The poems in Stobb’s second collection, Absentia, see the big picture—the sweep of history, the ongoing
evolution of consciousness, evidence of geological time in the landscape. Humbled by scales beyond
comprehension, Stobb is nonetheless seduced and stricken by the present in its many manifestations.
Whether dealing with family, friends, or nature, the poems in Absentia, with their rich emotional palette
and vivid, precise language, respond and transform, calling us to attend to the wide skies above and
inside us.
“Parable, ghost story, lyric, experimental novel, contemplation of history and death while filling the kiddie 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.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-312018-6 • $18.00
Roger Fanning
The Middle Ages
This new collection of poems from the Whiting award and National Poetry Series winner, Fanning’s
first in more than ten years, in part chronicles a period of time when he suffered a break with reality,
and continues his investigations into the drudgeries, the disappointments, and the joy of our daily lives.
“[Fanning is] an American original...whose poems are so pure, so piercing, so simple, so distilled that
reading him is like taking a drunk-with-language dive into a moonlit lake on a night you believe you will
live forever!”—Thomas Lux
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Adam Foulds
The Broken Word
An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya,
and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It
With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against
British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya. Tom, a young man who has returned to his family’s farm, rapidly
becomes caught up in the intensifying events of violence and brutality in a conflict Foulds illustrates as
both utterly contemporary and yet deeply burdened by the history of race and empire in this region.
“A moving and pitiless depiction of the world as it is rather than as we might like it to be, and the terrible
things we do to defend our place in it.”—David Wheatley
“One of the best British writers to emerge in the past decade.”—Julian Barnes
Robert Morgan
Terroir
Robert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains that feature taut, forceful, often haunting imagery and carefully chiseled phrases. The poems in Terroir build on
his earlier work but reach out in several new directions, exploring memory, family narratives, the natural
world of trees and forest animals, and the poetry of work. Readers of Morgan’s fiction will recognize
many places, themes, and voices, while fans of his poetry will see a fresh energy in poems drawing on
science and folklore, Native American history, and music. These elegantly written poems celebrate everything from the bonds of friendship and community to the fleeting sparkle of a drop of rain, discovering
wonder in the local and familiar, the sacred in the everyday.
Winner of the Costa (Whitbread) Poetry Award
A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.
Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley’s adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a
woman who resided in the dump outside Notley’s hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In
this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex—calligraphy, writings,
paintings, collage—from materials left at the dump. The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems
deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book.
“[Notley] has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and
write what poetry can be.”—The Boston Review
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A third collection from an award-winning poet whose “gift is breathtaking” (Naomi Shihab Nye).
The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet’s sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria’s
rich and captivating new collection. The title poem weaves together Japan’s sixteenth-century warlord
Hideyoshi with a meditation about the poet’s father’s dementia; “Here on Earth” embraces post-racial
America and the speaker’s own sense of displacement in the Midwest. In elegy and psalm, as well as ancient forms from Asia such as the haibun and pantoum, these elegant and passionate poems enact rage,
civility, love, travel, and art as well as explore Gloria’s own fears of frailty and erasure.
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-312140-4 • $18.00 • June 2012
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Alice Notley
Culture of One
Eugene Gloria
My Favorite Warlord
T e r r a n c e H ay e s
Lighthead
In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly
grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry
that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens
appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a
series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta­tion format. This innovative
collection presents the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an
imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 112 pages • 978-0-14-311696-7 • $18.00
Winner of the National Book Award
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stories of aging, parenthood, romantic love, and even the domestic pleasures and dramas hidden within
a garden. Each poem is beautifully crafted; taken together, they make up a powerful volume. This is a
witty, stylish, and moving collection from a major American poet.
“Kirchwey shares the classicist’s vision of poetry as a living tradition that extends from antiquity to the
present . . . and his poems in this issue are about violent love and transcendent longing, the great romantic themes.”—Langdon Hammer, The American Scholar
“One of the very best poets of his generation.”—John Hollander
“The poems shimmer with intelligence, wit, and delicacy; and yet at times they resonate with the deepest
and most stirring of feelings.”—Anthony Hecht
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National Poetry Series Selections
Julianne Buchsbaum
The Apothecary’s Heir
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-Broido
Poet Julianne Buchsbaum has won acclaim for her “rich, lucid, alliterative lexicon, full of apt surprise”
(Reginald Shepherd). Her new collection, The Apothecary’s Heir, depicts a damaged world in which the
speaker is trying to make sense of human relationships in the aftermath of loss. A series of meditations
on landscapes of our postmodern world—a sickbed, a gas station, a bomb shelter, a rest stop along a
highway—these supple poems explore the frailty of human connectedness and anatomize desire in a
world of pharmaceuticals and microchips.
Carol Muske-Dukes
Twin Cities
Michael Robbins
Alien vs. Predator
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.
Equal parts hip-hop, John Berryman, and capitalism seeking death and not finding it, Robbins’s poems
are strange, wonderful, wild, and completely unlike anything else being written today. As allusive as the
Cantos, as aggressive as a circular saw, this debut collection will offend none but the virtuous, and is
certain to receive an enormous amount of attention.
Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose previous collection, Sparrow, a haunting
elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally
rich book of poems about how things double—by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems
embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to
the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined—and the random intersection of the two. Lit by
loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment
and rescue.
“These poems are viciously inventive. Faster than you can rhyme stegosaur/megastore, Robbins codeswitches between the English Canon and Top Forty: Nirvana and Blake, The Clash and Yeats, creating a
political and social commentary that will make the hair stand on your head.”—Ange Mlinko
“There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction.”—Matthew Rohrer
“From the wild mixture of pop-culture and the English poetic tradition arises the voice—brave, direct,
brilliant, arrogant, unforgettable voice—of a poet whom Catullus would recognize, whom Mayakovsky
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
Lauren Berry
The Lifting Dress
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance Hayes
Set in a feverish swamp town in Florida, The Lifting Dress enters the life of a teenage girl the day after
she has been raped. She refuses to tell anyone what has happened, and moves silently toward adulthood
in a community that offers beauty but denies apology. Through lyric narratives, readers watch her shift
between mirroring and rejecting the anxious swelter of her world, until she ultimately embraces it with
the same violent affection once tendered to her.
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-311965-4 • $16.00
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-311964-7 • $18.00
William Stobb
Absentia
The poems in Stobb’s second collection, Absentia, see the big picture—the sweep of history, the ongoing
evolution of consciousness, evidence of geological time in the landscape. Humbled by scales beyond
comprehension, Stobb is nonetheless seduced and stricken by the present in its many manifestations.
Whether dealing with family, friends, or nature, the poems in Absentia, with their rich emotional palette
and vivid, precise language, respond and transform, calling us to attend to the wide skies above and
inside us.
“Parable, ghost story, lyric, experimental novel, contemplation of history and death while filling the kiddie 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.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-312018-6 • $18.00
Roger Fanning
The Middle Ages
This new collection of poems from the Whiting award and National Poetry Series winner, Fanning’s
first in more than ten years, in part chronicles a period of time when he suffered a break with reality,
and continues his investigations into the drudgeries, the disappointments, and the joy of our daily lives.
“[Fanning is] an American original...whose poems are so pure, so piercing, so simple, so distilled that
reading him is like taking a drunk-with-language dive into a moonlit lake on a night you believe you will
live forever!”—Thomas Lux
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“[Fanning] tunes us in to those minuscule instants of revelation that can keep life from being a long
zombie convention.”—Mary Karr
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 112 pages • 978-0-14-312034-6 • $18.00
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Adam Foulds
The Broken Word
An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya,
and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It
With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against
British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya. Tom, a young man who has returned to his family’s farm, rapidly
becomes caught up in the intensifying events of violence and brutality in a conflict Foulds illustrates as
both utterly contemporary and yet deeply burdened by the history of race and empire in this region.
“A moving and pitiless depiction of the world as it is rather than as we might like it to be, and the terrible
things we do to defend our place in it.”—David Wheatley
“One of the best British writers to emerge in the past decade.”—Julian Barnes
Robert Morgan
Terroir
Robert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains that feature taut, forceful, often haunting imagery and carefully chiseled phrases. The poems in Terroir build on
his earlier work but reach out in several new directions, exploring memory, family narratives, the natural
world of trees and forest animals, and the poetry of work. Readers of Morgan’s fiction will recognize
many places, themes, and voices, while fans of his poetry will see a fresh energy in poems drawing on
science and folklore, Native American history, and music. These elegantly written poems celebrate everything from the bonds of friendship and community to the fleeting sparkle of a drop of rain, discovering
wonder in the local and familiar, the sacred in the everyday.
Winner of the Costa (Whitbread) Poetry Award
A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.
Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley’s adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a
woman who resided in the dump outside Notley’s hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In
this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex—calligraphy, writings,
paintings, collage—from materials left at the dump. The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems
deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book.
“[Notley] has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and
write what poetry can be.”—The Boston Review
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 160 pages • 978-0-14-311893-0 • $18.00
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A third collection from an award-winning poet whose “gift is breathtaking” (Naomi Shihab Nye).
The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet’s sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria’s
rich and captivating new collection. The title poem weaves together Japan’s sixteenth-century warlord
Hideyoshi with a meditation about the poet’s father’s dementia; “Here on Earth” embraces post-racial
America and the speaker’s own sense of displacement in the Midwest. In elegy and psalm, as well as ancient forms from Asia such as the haibun and pantoum, these elegant and passionate poems enact rage,
civility, love, travel, and art as well as explore Gloria’s own fears of frailty and erasure.
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-312140-4 • $18.00 • June 2012
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 112 pages • 978-0-14-312019-3 • $18.00
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-311809-1 • $16.00
Alice Notley
Culture of One
Eugene Gloria
My Favorite Warlord
T e r r a n c e H ay e s
Lighthead
In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly
grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry
that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens
appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a
series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta­tion format. This innovative
collection presents the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an
imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 112 pages • 978-0-14-311696-7 • $18.00
Winner of the National Book Award
Also available: Wind in a Box 978-0-14-303686-9, Hip Logic 978-0-14-200139-4
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Mount Lebanon is a singular work from a mature talent. Loosely structured around an extinct Shaker
community in New York state and the surrounding landscape, the book expands to include Kirchwey’s
stories of aging, parenthood, romantic love, and even the domestic pleasures and dramas hidden within
a garden. Each poem is beautifully crafted; taken together, they make up a powerful volume. This is a
witty, stylish, and moving collection from a major American poet.
“Kirchwey shares the classicist’s vision of poetry as a living tradition that extends from antiquity to the
present . . . and his poems in this issue are about violent love and transcendent longing, the great romantic themes.”—Langdon Hammer, The American Scholar
“One of the very best poets of his generation.”—John Hollander
“The poems shimmer with intelligence, wit, and delicacy; and yet at times they resonate with the deepest
and most stirring of feelings.”—Anthony Hecht
Marion Wood Books • Hardcover • 112 pages • 978-0-399-15727-1 • $30.00
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National Poetry Series Selections
Julianne Buchsbaum
The Apothecary’s Heir
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-Broido
Poet Julianne Buchsbaum has won acclaim for her “rich, lucid, alliterative lexicon, full of apt surprise”
(Reginald Shepherd). Her new collection, The Apothecary’s Heir, depicts a damaged world in which the
speaker is trying to make sense of human relationships in the aftermath of loss. A series of meditations
on landscapes of our postmodern world—a sickbed, a gas station, a bomb shelter, a rest stop along a
highway—these supple poems explore the frailty of human connectedness and anatomize desire in a
world of pharmaceuticals and microchips.
Carol Muske-Dukes
Twin Cities
Michael Robbins
Alien vs. Predator
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.
Equal parts hip-hop, John Berryman, and capitalism seeking death and not finding it, Robbins’s poems
are strange, wonderful, wild, and completely unlike anything else being written today. As allusive as the
Cantos, as aggressive as a circular saw, this debut collection will offend none but the virtuous, and is
certain to receive an enormous amount of attention.
Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose previous collection, Sparrow, a haunting
elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally
rich book of poems about how things double—by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems
embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to
the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined—and the random intersection of the two. Lit by
loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment
and rescue.
“These poems are viciously inventive. Faster than you can rhyme stegosaur/megastore, Robbins codeswitches between the English Canon and Top Forty: Nirvana and Blake, The Clash and Yeats, creating a
political and social commentary that will make the hair stand on your head.”—Ange Mlinko
“There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction.”—Matthew Rohrer
“From the wild mixture of pop-culture and the English poetic tradition arises the voice—brave, direct,
brilliant, arrogant, unforgettable voice—of a poet whom Catullus would recognize, whom Mayakovsky
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
Lauren Berry
The Lifting Dress
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance Hayes
Set in a feverish swamp town in Florida, The Lifting Dress enters the life of a teenage girl the day after
she has been raped. She refuses to tell anyone what has happened, and moves silently toward adulthood
in a community that offers beauty but denies apology. Through lyric narratives, readers watch her shift
between mirroring and rejecting the anxious swelter of her world, until she ultimately embraces it with
the same violent affection once tendered to her.
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-311965-4 • $16.00
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-311964-7 • $18.00
William Stobb
Absentia
The poems in Stobb’s second collection, Absentia, see the big picture—the sweep of history, the ongoing
evolution of consciousness, evidence of geological time in the landscape. Humbled by scales beyond
comprehension, Stobb is nonetheless seduced and stricken by the present in its many manifestations.
Whether dealing with family, friends, or nature, the poems in Absentia, with their rich emotional palette
and vivid, precise language, respond and transform, calling us to attend to the wide skies above and
inside us.
“Parable, ghost story, lyric, experimental novel, contemplation of history and death while filling the kiddie 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.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-312018-6 • $18.00
Roger Fanning
The Middle Ages
This new collection of poems from the Whiting award and National Poetry Series winner, Fanning’s
first in more than ten years, in part chronicles a period of time when he suffered a break with reality,
and continues his investigations into the drudgeries, the disappointments, and the joy of our daily lives.
“[Fanning is] an American original...whose poems are so pure, so piercing, so simple, so distilled that
reading him is like taking a drunk-with-language dive into a moonlit lake on a night you believe you will
live forever!”—Thomas Lux
Examination Copy Order Form / Poetry 2012
Paperbacks $5.00  Hardcovers $10.00
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“[Fanning] tunes us in to those minuscule instants of revelation that can keep life from being a long
zombie convention.”—Mary Karr
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 112 pages • 978-0-14-312034-6 • $18.00
Course Name:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Term:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Anticipated Enrollment:_____________________________________
Adam Foulds
The Broken Word
An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya,
and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It
With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against
British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya. Tom, a young man who has returned to his family’s farm, rapidly
becomes caught up in the intensifying events of violence and brutality in a conflict Foulds illustrates as
both utterly contemporary and yet deeply burdened by the history of race and empire in this region.
“A moving and pitiless depiction of the world as it is rather than as we might like it to be, and the terrible
things we do to defend our place in it.”—David Wheatley
“One of the best British writers to emerge in the past decade.”—Julian Barnes
Robert Morgan
Terroir
Robert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains that feature taut, forceful, often haunting imagery and carefully chiseled phrases. The poems in Terroir build on
his earlier work but reach out in several new directions, exploring memory, family narratives, the natural
world of trees and forest animals, and the poetry of work. Readers of Morgan’s fiction will recognize
many places, themes, and voices, while fans of his poetry will see a fresh energy in poems drawing on
science and folklore, Native American history, and music. These elegantly written poems celebrate everything from the bonds of friendship and community to the fleeting sparkle of a drop of rain, discovering
wonder in the local and familiar, the sacred in the everyday.
Winner of the Costa (Whitbread) Poetry Award
A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.
Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley’s adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a
woman who resided in the dump outside Notley’s hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In
this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex—calligraphy, writings,
paintings, collage—from materials left at the dump. The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems
deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book.
“[Notley] has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and
write what poetry can be.”—The Boston Review
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A third collection from an award-winning poet whose “gift is breathtaking” (Naomi Shihab Nye).
The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet’s sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria’s
rich and captivating new collection. The title poem weaves together Japan’s sixteenth-century warlord
Hideyoshi with a meditation about the poet’s father’s dementia; “Here on Earth” embraces post-racial
America and the speaker’s own sense of displacement in the Midwest. In elegy and psalm, as well as ancient forms from Asia such as the haibun and pantoum, these elegant and passionate poems enact rage,
civility, love, travel, and art as well as explore Gloria’s own fears of frailty and erasure.
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-312140-4 • $18.00 • June 2012
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Alice Notley
Culture of One
Eugene Gloria
My Favorite Warlord
T e r r a n c e H ay e s
Lighthead
In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly
grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry
that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens
appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a
series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta­tion format. This innovative
collection presents the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an
imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 112 pages • 978-0-14-311696-7 • $18.00
Winner of the National Book Award
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stories of aging, parenthood, romantic love, and even the domestic pleasures and dramas hidden within
a garden. Each poem is beautifully crafted; taken together, they make up a powerful volume. This is a
witty, stylish, and moving collection from a major American poet.
“Kirchwey shares the classicist’s vision of poetry as a living tradition that extends from antiquity to the
present . . . and his poems in this issue are about violent love and transcendent longing, the great romantic themes.”—Langdon Hammer, The American Scholar
“One of the very best poets of his generation.”—John Hollander
“The poems shimmer with intelligence, wit, and delicacy; and yet at times they resonate with the deepest
and most stirring of feelings.”—Anthony Hecht
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National Poetry Series Selections
Julianne Buchsbaum
The Apothecary’s Heir
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-Broido
Poet Julianne Buchsbaum has won acclaim for her “rich, lucid, alliterative lexicon, full of apt surprise”
(Reginald Shepherd). Her new collection, The Apothecary’s Heir, depicts a damaged world in which the
speaker is trying to make sense of human relationships in the aftermath of loss. A series of meditations
on landscapes of our postmodern world—a sickbed, a gas station, a bomb shelter, a rest stop along a
highway—these supple poems explore the frailty of human connectedness and anatomize desire in a
world of pharmaceuticals and microchips.
Carol Muske-Dukes
Twin Cities
Michael Robbins
Alien vs. Predator
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.
Equal parts hip-hop, John Berryman, and capitalism seeking death and not finding it, Robbins’s poems
are strange, wonderful, wild, and completely unlike anything else being written today. As allusive as the
Cantos, as aggressive as a circular saw, this debut collection will offend none but the virtuous, and is
certain to receive an enormous amount of attention.
Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose previous collection, Sparrow, a haunting
elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally
rich book of poems about how things double—by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems
embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and move on to
the parallel histories of a life lived and a life imagined—and the random intersection of the two. Lit by
loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment
and rescue.
“These poems are viciously inventive. Faster than you can rhyme stegosaur/megastore, Robbins codeswitches between the English Canon and Top Forty: Nirvana and Blake, The Clash and Yeats, creating a
political and social commentary that will make the hair stand on your head.”—Ange Mlinko
“There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction.”—Matthew Rohrer
“From the wild mixture of pop-culture and the English poetic tradition arises the voice—brave, direct,
brilliant, arrogant, unforgettable voice—of a poet whom Catullus would recognize, whom Mayakovsky
would welcome....Wild, brave, real verse.”—Ilya Kaminsky
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-312141-1 • $18.00 • June 2012
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Lauren Berry
The Lifting Dress
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance Hayes
Set in a feverish swamp town in Florida, The Lifting Dress enters the life of a teenage girl the day after
she has been raped. She refuses to tell anyone what has happened, and moves silently toward adulthood
in a community that offers beauty but denies apology. Through lyric narratives, readers watch her shift
between mirroring and rejecting the anxious swelter of her world, until she ultimately embraces it with
the same violent affection once tendered to her.
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-311965-4 • $16.00
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William Stobb
Absentia
The poems in Stobb’s second collection, Absentia, see the big picture—the sweep of history, the ongoing
evolution of consciousness, evidence of geological time in the landscape. Humbled by scales beyond
comprehension, Stobb is nonetheless seduced and stricken by the present in its many manifestations.
Whether dealing with family, friends, or nature, the poems in Absentia, with their rich emotional palette
and vivid, precise language, respond and transform, calling us to attend to the wide skies above and
inside us.
“Parable, ghost story, lyric, experimental novel, contemplation of history and death while filling the kiddie 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.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-312018-6 • $18.00
Roger Fanning
The Middle Ages
This new collection of poems from the Whiting award and National Poetry Series winner, Fanning’s
first in more than ten years, in part chronicles a period of time when he suffered a break with reality,
and continues his investigations into the drudgeries, the disappointments, and the joy of our daily lives.
“[Fanning is] an American original...whose poems are so pure, so piercing, so simple, so distilled that
reading him is like taking a drunk-with-language dive into a moonlit lake on a night you believe you will
live forever!”—Thomas Lux
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“[Fanning] tunes us in to those minuscule instants of revelation that can keep life from being a long
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Adam Foulds
The Broken Word
An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya,
and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It
With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against
British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya. Tom, a young man who has returned to his family’s farm, rapidly
becomes caught up in the intensifying events of violence and brutality in a conflict Foulds illustrates as
both utterly contemporary and yet deeply burdened by the history of race and empire in this region.
“A moving and pitiless depiction of the world as it is rather than as we might like it to be, and the terrible
things we do to defend our place in it.”—David Wheatley
“One of the best British writers to emerge in the past decade.”—Julian Barnes
Robert Morgan
Terroir
Robert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains that feature taut, forceful, often haunting imagery and carefully chiseled phrases. The poems in Terroir build on
his earlier work but reach out in several new directions, exploring memory, family narratives, the natural
world of trees and forest animals, and the poetry of work. Readers of Morgan’s fiction will recognize
many places, themes, and voices, while fans of his poetry will see a fresh energy in poems drawing on
science and folklore, Native American history, and music. These elegantly written poems celebrate everything from the bonds of friendship and community to the fleeting sparkle of a drop of rain, discovering
wonder in the local and familiar, the sacred in the everyday.
Winner of the Costa (Whitbread) Poetry Award
A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.
Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley’s adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a
woman who resided in the dump outside Notley’s hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In
this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex—calligraphy, writings,
paintings, collage—from materials left at the dump. The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems
deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book.
“[Notley] has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and
write what poetry can be.”—The Boston Review
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 160 pages • 978-0-14-311893-0 • $18.00
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A third collection from an award-winning poet whose “gift is breathtaking” (Naomi Shihab Nye).
The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet’s sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria’s
rich and captivating new collection. The title poem weaves together Japan’s sixteenth-century warlord
Hideyoshi with a meditation about the poet’s father’s dementia; “Here on Earth” embraces post-racial
America and the speaker’s own sense of displacement in the Midwest. In elegy and psalm, as well as ancient forms from Asia such as the haibun and pantoum, these elegant and passionate poems enact rage,
civility, love, travel, and art as well as explore Gloria’s own fears of frailty and erasure.
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 96 pages • 978-0-14-312140-4 • $18.00 • June 2012
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 112 pages • 978-0-14-312019-3 • $18.00
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 80 pages • 978-0-14-311809-1 • $16.00
Alice Notley
Culture of One
Eugene Gloria
My Favorite Warlord
T e r r a n c e H ay e s
Lighthead
In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly
grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry
that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens
appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a
series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta­tion format. This innovative
collection presents the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an
imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.
Penguin Poets • Paperback • 112 pages • 978-0-14-311696-7 • $18.00
Winner of the National Book Award
Also available: Wind in a Box 978-0-14-303686-9, Hip Logic 978-0-14-200139-4
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Mount Lebanon is a singular work from a mature talent. Loosely structured around an extinct Shaker
community in New York state and the surrounding landscape, the book expands to include Kirchwey’s
stories of aging, parenthood, romantic love, and even the domestic pleasures and dramas hidden within
a garden. Each poem is beautifully crafted; taken together, they make up a powerful volume. This is a
witty, stylish, and moving collection from a major American poet.
“Kirchwey shares the classicist’s vision of poetry as a living tradition that extends from antiquity to the
present . . . and his poems in this issue are about violent love and transcendent longing, the great romantic themes.”—Langdon Hammer, The American Scholar
“One of the very best poets of his generation.”—John Hollander
“The poems shimmer with intelligence, wit, and delicacy; and yet at times they resonate with the deepest
and most stirring of feelings.”—Anthony Hecht
Marion Wood Books • Hardcover • 112 pages • 978-0-399-15727-1 • $30.00
www.pen gu in .com/academic  Poetry 2012
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