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)

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)

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)

Equivocal by Julie Carr
"Such intimate, ambitious, impeccable, evocative writing!" —Carol Snow

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)

Take What You Want by Henrietta Goodman
"These well-crafted poems are reminiscent of Anne Sexton's Transformations." (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)

The Pitch by Tom Thompson
"[Thompson’s] poems are not bound by the constraints of realism or logic but live in that zone above the trampoline's bounce...." (Library Journal)

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

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.

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)

Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems by Donald Revell
"It takes guts to write more poems about peace, war, God and children, but Revell's are so fresh, it's as if he's the first person ever to do it" (TIME Magazine). A stunning 240-page retrospective.

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.