Slamming Open the Door by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
"Written with skill in tight, spare lines without sentimentality or melodrama, Bonanno launches readers through the experience, one that evokes a universal terror... A stunning first book."
—Library Journal

Winter Tenor by Kevin Goodan
"We readers are lucky when we encounter a voice that speaks as if it were speaking to each of us alone, an impossible and therefore necessary illusion, a miracle of multiple visions, essential in a commonplace way only what's divine can determine—this describes Winter Tenor's quintessential and most valuable presence. I love reading this book."
—Dara Wier

Rough Cradle by Betsy Sholl
"Solid, moving and thoughtful, this eighth collection from the Maine poet laureate...represents patience, affection and generous attention to whoever she loves and to what she hears and sees."
—Publishers Weekly

Shelter by Carey Salerno
"...Salerno unfolds a story that we cannot stop reading—though...the bare truth on the page hurts... This first collection takes courage to read, but you can bet it took more courage to write, and we should be glad Salerno did it."
—Library Journal

Begin Anywhere by Frank Giampietro
"The lines in these wise, funny, often startlingly sad poems nudge and jostle each other coltishly, and no wonder: they are the foals of Head and Heart, two mighty steeds to draw the reader’s chariot out of the well-trodden way and straight to poetry’s palace of gold, its realm of the blesséd." —David Kirby

The Next Country by Idra Novey
"Novey strikes a fine balance between hints and allusions to political history and generalized or allegorical locales, not proper nouns or place names but 'leaping wells to the underworld'. . ." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

King Baby by Lia Purpura
"Purpura's charming [third collection]...captures both the fierce love and the flighty weirdness of life with a baby, opting always for the symbolic and the surprising over the literal record..." (Publishers Weekly)

The Usable Field by Jane Mead
"Jane Mead penetrates grief with alacrity and burning self-scrutiny. This work enters the world like wild rain and lightning, an inheritance from Celan's and Tsvetaeva's stuttered lyricism. Those who can brave the revolutions in her music will choose life because of its difficulty." —Jane Miller

Door to a Noisy Room by Peter Waldor
"...familial, humane, and loyal to the good people and the simple delights of this world." (Publishers Weekly)

The Temple Gate Called Beautiful by David Kirby
". . .a rarified world, one rendered through the eyes of a keen intelligence." (Library Journal)

A Thief of Strings by Donald Revell
"No poet so innovative now is more accessible, and no poet half so accessible in recent years has made the language so new." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

The World in Place of Itself by Bill Rasmovicz
"This passionate debut from New York City–based Rasmovicz places him on an unfamiliar border, between the haunted generalities of Franz Wright and the hunted, bomb-damaged villages of Charles Simic." (Publishers Weekly)

The Glass Age by Cole Swensen
"Swensen's recent thematic book-length sequences...combine scholarly meticulousness with a postmodern flair for dislocation, cementing Swensen's reputation as an important experimental writer." (Publishers Weekly)

Beloved Idea by Ann Killough
"Her world cannot be contained within narrow margins; her sentences sprawl across the lines and pages like our own messy beloved geographies, the country we call home." (Library Journal)

Ruin by Cynthia Cruz
“Cruz writes about illness, death, destitution and addiction with confident authority and disquieting relish.” (The New York Times Book Review)

The Case Against Happiness by Jean-Paul Pecqueur
"...a promising poet with a generosity of spirit and the knowledge that 'joy is not impossible.'" (Publishers Weekly)

Forth A Raven by Christina Davis
These ethereal poems, curious and necessary, remind us of all that we risk when we venture forth.

Here, Bullet by Brian Turner
"Several hundred books have now been published on the Iraq War...but none have felt necessary until now....With Brian Turner's Here, Bullet, we have the first war poetry since Yusef Komunyaaka's Dien Cai Dau that matters." (Rain Taxi)

Gloryland by Anne Marie Macari
"...sumptuously visceral..." (Publishers Weekly). Anne Marie Macari’s breath-taking second collection finds unapologetic revelation in the female body.

The Far Mosque by Kazim Ali
“Painterly minimalism, open-field technique and Near Eastern traditions together give Ali a neatly varied verbal palette for his smart, quietly attractive poems….a poet to watch.” (Publishers Weekly)

Landscapes I & II by Lesle Lewis
In Lewis' whimsical landscapes, surreal meets New England bucolic, meaning is arrived at cumulatively, and the animated and the “real” converse.

Polar by Dobby Gibson
"...Gibson's land teems with a language so alive and so imaginative that one cannot help but read on with wonder and rapture" (Bloomsbury Review).

In the Ghost-House Acquainted by Kevin Goodan
Goodan’s mesmerizing first collection wells out of a deeply lived rural life, with all its beauty and brutality. Winner of the 2005 L.L.Winship/PEN New England Award.

Matadora by Sarah Gambito
"Matadora introduces us to a fearless new talent, whose voice is sure to be a significant and sexy siren call" (Mid-American Review).

Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced by Catherine Barnett
The family response to the sudden deaths of the speaker’s two young nieces is at the center of Catherine Barnett’s first collection. Winner of the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award.

The Devotion Field by Claudia Keelan
This lively fourth collection should please Keelan’s fans and earn her new ones.

Goest by Cole Swensen
Esteemed poet Cole Swensen’s ninth collection is haunted by history, discovery, and the color white.

Night of a Thousand Blossoms by Frank X. Gaspar
In his fourth collection, Gaspar's unique narrative idiom—lush, songful, insistent—firmly establishes him as a distinct, important voice.

Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
by Matthea Harvey
"intensely visual....Mournfully comic and syntactically inventive..." —The New Yorker

The Art of the Lathe by B.H. Fairchild
1998 National Book Award Finalist · 1999 William Carlos Williams Award · 1999 PEN Center West Poetry Award · 1999 Natalie Ornish Poetry Award · 1999 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award · 1999 California Book Award

From Room to Room by Jane Kenyon
The acclaimed author's first book, still in print after 25 years, apprehends the mystery beneath everyday circumstances and objects.

The River at Wolf by Jean Valentine
"Reach of spirit, alloy of shock, concern and grace; scope where few look for it; heroic guesses extending poetry out where it must both float and support—why we need and why I love Jean Valentine's poetry." —Sandra McPherson

The Moon Reflected Fire by Doug Anderson
Inspired by the author's service in the Vietnam War, these wrenching poems scrutinize war and its malignant effects.

Tamsen Donner: A Woman's Journey by Ruth Whitman
Transforming historical fact into poetic insight, Whitman recreates the journal that pioneer Tamsen Donner lost on her nightmarish journey to California in 1846.