G a r r i s o n K e i l l o r , edi torGood Poems, American PlacesIntroduction by the editorThird in Keillor’s series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that cel-ebrate 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.Penguin PaPerback • 512 Pages • 978-0-14-312076-6 • $18.00Also available: Good Poems 978-0-14-200344-2, Good Poems for Hard Times 978-0-14-303767-5

l u i s d e G ó n G o r aThe solitudesNewly Translated by Edith GrossmanIntroduction by Alberto ManguelDual-language eDiTion wiTh Parallel TexTLuis 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, contempo-rary 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 BloomPenguin classics • PaPerback • 176 Pages • 978-0-14-310672-2 • $17.00 • June 2012

J o h n M a s e f i e l dspunyarnsea Poetry and ProseEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Philip W. ErringtonA 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, autobi-ographical 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

Q u Y u a n and other PoetsThe songs of the southan anthology of ancient chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and other PoetsNewly Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David HawkesDating 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

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r i t a d o v e , e d i t o rThe Penguin anthology of Twentieth-century american PoetryRita 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. Se-lecting 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, gener-ous, surprising, and altogether thrilling to read—literally, a heart-thumping collec-tion....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

“Dove’s introduction is informative and insightful, offering an engaging discussion of trends in modern American poetry.”—Library JournalPenguin • harDcover • 978-0-14-310643-2 • 688 Pages • $40.00

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Edgar Lee MastersEdwin Arlington

RobinsonJames Weldon JohnsonPaul Laurence DunbarRobert FrostAmy LowellGertrude SteinAlice Moore

Dunbar-NelsonCarl SandburgWallace StevensAngelina Weld GrimkéWilliam Carlos

WilliamsSara TeasdaleEzra PoundHilda Doolittle (H.D.)Robinson JeffersMarianne MooreT. S. EliotClaude McKayArchibald MacLeishEdna St. Vincent

MillayE.E. CummingsJean ToomerLouise BoganMelvin B. TolsonHart CraneRobert FrancisLangston HughesCountee CullenStanley KunitzW. H. AudenTheodore Roethke

Charles OlsonElizabeth BishopRobert HaydenMuriel RukeyserDelmore SchwartzJohn BerrymanRandall JarrellWeldon KeesDudley RandallWilliam StaffordRuth StoneMargaret WalkerGwendolyn BrooksRobert LowellRobert DuncanLawrence FerlinghettiWilliam MeredithHoward NemerovHayden CarruthRichard WilburJames DickeyAlan DuganAnthony HechtRichard HugoDenise LevertovLouis Simpson Carolyn Kizer Kenneth KochMaxine Kumin Gerald Stern A. R. AmmonsRobert Bly Robert CreeleyJames MerrillFrank O’HaraJohn Ashbery

Galway KinnellW. S. Merwin James WrightDonald HallPhilip LevineAnne SextonAdrienne RichGregory CorsoGary SnyderDerek WalcottMiller WilliamsEtheridge KnightAmiri BarakaTed BerriganAudre LordeSonia SanchezMark StrandRussell EdsonMary OliverCharles WrightLucille CliftonJune JordanFrederick SeidelC. K. WilliamsDiane WakoskiMichael S. HarperCharles SimicPaula Gunn AllenFrank BidartCarl DennisStephen DunnRobert PinskyJames WelchBilly CollinsToi DerricotteStephen Dobyns

Robert HassLyn HejinianB. H. FairchildHaki MadhubutiWilliam MatthewsSharon OldsHenry TaylorTess GallagherMichael PalmerJames TateNorman DubieCarol Muske-DukesKay RyanLarry LevisAdrian C. LouisThomas LuxMarilyn NelsonRon SillimanAiYusef KomunyakaaNathaniel MackeyGregory OrrRoberta Hill WhitemanAlbert GoldbarthHeather McHughLeslie Marmon SilkoOlga Broumas Victor Hernández CruzJane MillerDavid St. JohnC. D. WrightCarolyn ForchéJorie GrahamMarie HoweJoy HarjoGarrett Hongo

Andrew HudginsBrigit Pegeen KellyPaul MuldoonJudith Ortiz CoferRita DoveAlice FultonBarbara HambyMark JarmanNaomi Shihab NyeAlberto RíosLaurie SheckGary SotoSusan StewartMark DotyHarryette MullenFranz WrightLorna Dee CervantesSandra CisnerosCornelius EadyLouise ErdrichDavid MasonMarilyn ChinCathy SongAnnie FinchLi-Young LeeCarl PhillipsNick FlynnElizabeth AlexanderReetika VaziraniSherman AlexieNatasha TretheweyA. E. StallingsJoanna KlinkBrenda ShaughnessyKevin YoungTerrance Hayes

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G a r r i s o n K e i l l o r , edi torGood Poems, American PlacesIntroduction by the editorThird in Keillor’s series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that cel-ebrate 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.Penguin PaPerback • 512 Pages • 978-0-14-312076-6 • $18.00Also available: Good Poems 978-0-14-200344-2, Good Poems for Hard Times 978-0-14-303767-5

l u i s d e G ó n G o r aThe solitudesNewly Translated by Edith GrossmanIntroduction by Alberto ManguelDual-language eDiTion wiTh Parallel TexTLuis 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, contempo-rary 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 BloomPenguin classics • PaPerback • 176 Pages • 978-0-14-310672-2 • $17.00 • June 2012

J o h n M a s e f i e l dspunyarnsea Poetry and ProseEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Philip W. ErringtonA 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, autobi-ographical 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

Q u Y u a n and other PoetsThe songs of the southan anthology of ancient chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and other PoetsNewly Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David HawkesDating 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

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r i t a d o v e , e d i t o rThe Penguin anthology of Twentieth-century american PoetryRita 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. Se-lecting 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, gener-ous, surprising, and altogether thrilling to read—literally, a heart-thumping collec-tion....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

“Dove’s introduction is informative and insightful, offering an engaging discussion of trends in modern American poetry.”—Library JournalPenguin • harDcover • 978-0-14-310643-2 • 688 Pages • $40.00

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Edgar Lee MastersEdwin Arlington

RobinsonJames Weldon JohnsonPaul Laurence DunbarRobert FrostAmy LowellGertrude SteinAlice Moore

Dunbar-NelsonCarl SandburgWallace StevensAngelina Weld GrimkéWilliam Carlos

WilliamsSara TeasdaleEzra PoundHilda Doolittle (H.D.)Robinson JeffersMarianne MooreT. S. EliotClaude McKayArchibald MacLeishEdna St. Vincent

MillayE.E. CummingsJean ToomerLouise BoganMelvin B. TolsonHart CraneRobert FrancisLangston HughesCountee CullenStanley KunitzW. H. AudenTheodore Roethke

Charles OlsonElizabeth BishopRobert HaydenMuriel RukeyserDelmore SchwartzJohn BerrymanRandall JarrellWeldon KeesDudley RandallWilliam StaffordRuth StoneMargaret WalkerGwendolyn BrooksRobert LowellRobert DuncanLawrence FerlinghettiWilliam MeredithHoward NemerovHayden CarruthRichard WilburJames DickeyAlan DuganAnthony HechtRichard HugoDenise LevertovLouis Simpson Carolyn Kizer Kenneth KochMaxine Kumin Gerald Stern A. R. AmmonsRobert Bly Robert CreeleyJames MerrillFrank O’HaraJohn Ashbery

Galway KinnellW. S. Merwin James WrightDonald HallPhilip LevineAnne SextonAdrienne RichGregory CorsoGary SnyderDerek WalcottMiller WilliamsEtheridge KnightAmiri BarakaTed BerriganAudre LordeSonia SanchezMark StrandRussell EdsonMary OliverCharles WrightLucille CliftonJune JordanFrederick SeidelC. K. WilliamsDiane WakoskiMichael S. HarperCharles SimicPaula Gunn AllenFrank BidartCarl DennisStephen DunnRobert PinskyJames WelchBilly CollinsToi DerricotteStephen Dobyns

Robert HassLyn HejinianB. H. FairchildHaki MadhubutiWilliam MatthewsSharon OldsHenry TaylorTess GallagherMichael PalmerJames TateNorman DubieCarol Muske-DukesKay RyanLarry LevisAdrian C. LouisThomas LuxMarilyn NelsonRon SillimanAiYusef KomunyakaaNathaniel MackeyGregory OrrRoberta Hill WhitemanAlbert GoldbarthHeather McHughLeslie Marmon SilkoOlga Broumas Victor Hernández CruzJane MillerDavid St. JohnC. D. WrightCarolyn ForchéJorie GrahamMarie HoweJoy HarjoGarrett Hongo

Andrew HudginsBrigit Pegeen KellyPaul MuldoonJudith Ortiz CoferRita DoveAlice FultonBarbara HambyMark JarmanNaomi Shihab NyeAlberto RíosLaurie SheckGary SotoSusan StewartMark DotyHarryette MullenFranz WrightLorna Dee CervantesSandra CisnerosCornelius EadyLouise ErdrichDavid MasonMarilyn ChinCathy SongAnnie FinchLi-Young LeeCarl PhillipsNick FlynnElizabeth AlexanderReetika VaziraniSherman AlexieNatasha TretheweyA. E. StallingsJoanna KlinkBrenda ShaughnessyKevin YoungTerrance Hayes

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G a r r i s o n K e i l l o r , edi torGood Poems, American PlacesIntroduction by the editorThird in Keillor’s series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that cel-ebrate 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.Penguin PaPerback • 512 Pages • 978-0-14-312076-6 • $18.00Also available: Good Poems 978-0-14-200344-2, Good Poems for Hard Times 978-0-14-303767-5

l u i s d e G ó n G o r aThe solitudesNewly Translated by Edith GrossmanIntroduction by Alberto ManguelDual-language eDiTion wiTh Parallel TexTLuis 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, contempo-rary 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 BloomPenguin classics • PaPerback • 176 Pages • 978-0-14-310672-2 • $17.00 • June 2012

J o h n M a s e f i e l dspunyarnsea Poetry and ProseEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Philip W. ErringtonA 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, autobi-ographical 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

Q u Y u a n and other PoetsThe songs of the southan anthology of ancient chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and other PoetsNewly Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David HawkesDating 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

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r i t a d o v e , e d i t o rThe Penguin anthology of Twentieth-century american PoetryRita 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. Se-lecting 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, gener-ous, surprising, and altogether thrilling to read—literally, a heart-thumping collec-tion....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

“Dove’s introduction is informative and insightful, offering an engaging discussion of trends in modern American poetry.”—Library JournalPenguin • harDcover • 978-0-14-310643-2 • 688 Pages • $40.00

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Edgar Lee MastersEdwin Arlington

RobinsonJames Weldon JohnsonPaul Laurence DunbarRobert FrostAmy LowellGertrude SteinAlice Moore

Dunbar-NelsonCarl SandburgWallace StevensAngelina Weld GrimkéWilliam Carlos

WilliamsSara TeasdaleEzra PoundHilda Doolittle (H.D.)Robinson JeffersMarianne MooreT. S. EliotClaude McKayArchibald MacLeishEdna St. Vincent

MillayE.E. CummingsJean ToomerLouise BoganMelvin B. TolsonHart CraneRobert FrancisLangston HughesCountee CullenStanley KunitzW. H. AudenTheodore Roethke

Charles OlsonElizabeth BishopRobert HaydenMuriel RukeyserDelmore SchwartzJohn BerrymanRandall JarrellWeldon KeesDudley RandallWilliam StaffordRuth StoneMargaret WalkerGwendolyn BrooksRobert LowellRobert DuncanLawrence FerlinghettiWilliam MeredithHoward NemerovHayden CarruthRichard WilburJames DickeyAlan DuganAnthony HechtRichard HugoDenise LevertovLouis Simpson Carolyn Kizer Kenneth KochMaxine Kumin Gerald Stern A. R. AmmonsRobert Bly Robert CreeleyJames MerrillFrank O’HaraJohn Ashbery

Galway KinnellW. S. Merwin James WrightDonald HallPhilip LevineAnne SextonAdrienne RichGregory CorsoGary SnyderDerek WalcottMiller WilliamsEtheridge KnightAmiri BarakaTed BerriganAudre LordeSonia SanchezMark StrandRussell EdsonMary OliverCharles WrightLucille CliftonJune JordanFrederick SeidelC. K. WilliamsDiane WakoskiMichael S. HarperCharles SimicPaula Gunn AllenFrank BidartCarl DennisStephen DunnRobert PinskyJames WelchBilly CollinsToi DerricotteStephen Dobyns

Robert HassLyn HejinianB. H. FairchildHaki MadhubutiWilliam MatthewsSharon OldsHenry TaylorTess GallagherMichael PalmerJames TateNorman DubieCarol Muske-DukesKay RyanLarry LevisAdrian C. LouisThomas LuxMarilyn NelsonRon SillimanAiYusef KomunyakaaNathaniel MackeyGregory OrrRoberta Hill WhitemanAlbert GoldbarthHeather McHughLeslie Marmon SilkoOlga Broumas Victor Hernández CruzJane MillerDavid St. JohnC. D. WrightCarolyn ForchéJorie GrahamMarie HoweJoy HarjoGarrett Hongo

Andrew HudginsBrigit Pegeen KellyPaul MuldoonJudith Ortiz CoferRita DoveAlice FultonBarbara HambyMark JarmanNaomi Shihab NyeAlberto RíosLaurie SheckGary SotoSusan StewartMark DotyHarryette MullenFranz WrightLorna Dee CervantesSandra CisnerosCornelius EadyLouise ErdrichDavid MasonMarilyn ChinCathy SongAnnie FinchLi-Young LeeCarl PhillipsNick FlynnElizabeth AlexanderReetika VaziraniSherman AlexieNatasha TretheweyA. E. StallingsJoanna KlinkBrenda ShaughnessyKevin YoungTerrance Hayes

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National Poetry Series Selections

J u l i a n n e b u c h s b a u MThe apothecary’s heirSelected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-BroidoPoet 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.

“There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction.”—Matthew RohrerPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 80 Pages • 978-0-14-312141-1 • $18.00 • June 2012

l a u r e n b e r r YThe lifting DressSelected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance HayesSet 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

a d a M f o u l d sThe broken wordan 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 BarnesPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 80 Pages • 978-0-14-311809-1 • $16.00Winner of the Costa (Whitbread) Poetry Award

a l i c e n o t l e Yculture of oneA 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 ReviewPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 160 Pages • 978-0-14-311893-0 • $18.00

c a r o l M u s K e - d u K e sTwin citiesA sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today’s finest living poets.

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.Penguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 96 Pages • 978-0-14-311964-7 • $18.00

w i l l i a M s t o b babsentiaThe 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 kid-die 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 DemingPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 96 Pages • 978-0-14-312018-6 • $18.00

r o b e r t M o r G a nTerroirRobert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains that fea-ture 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 every-thing 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.Penguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 112 Pages • 978-0-14-312019-3 • $18.00

t e r r a n c e h a Y e slightheadIn 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 presenta tion 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 • $18.00Winner of the National Book AwardAlso available: Wind in a Box 978-0-14-303686-9, Hip Logic 978-0-14-200139-4

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M i c h a e l r o b b i n salien vs. PredatorThe 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.

“These poems are viciously inventive. Faster than you can rhyme stegosaur/megastore, Robbins code-switches 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

“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 KaminskyPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 88 Pages • 978-0-14-312035-3 • $18.00

r o G e r f a n n i n GThe Middle agesThis 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

“[Fanning] tunes us in to those minuscule instants of revelation that can keep life from being a long zombie convention.”—Mary KarrPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 112 Pages • 978-0-14-312034-6 • $18.00

e u G e n e G l o r i aMy Favorite warlordA 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 an-cient 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

K a r l K i r c h w e YMount lebanonMount 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 roman-tic 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 HechtMarion wooD books • harDcover • 112 Pages • 978-0-399-15727-1 • $30.00

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National Poetry Series Selections

J u l i a n n e b u c h s b a u MThe apothecary’s heirSelected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-BroidoPoet 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.

“There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction.”—Matthew RohrerPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 80 Pages • 978-0-14-312141-1 • $18.00 • June 2012

l a u r e n b e r r YThe lifting DressSelected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance HayesSet 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

a d a M f o u l d sThe broken wordan 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 BarnesPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 80 Pages • 978-0-14-311809-1 • $16.00Winner of the Costa (Whitbread) Poetry Award

a l i c e n o t l e Yculture of oneA 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 ReviewPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 160 Pages • 978-0-14-311893-0 • $18.00

c a r o l M u s K e - d u K e sTwin citiesA sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today’s finest living poets.

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.Penguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 96 Pages • 978-0-14-311964-7 • $18.00

w i l l i a M s t o b babsentiaThe 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 kid-die 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 DemingPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 96 Pages • 978-0-14-312018-6 • $18.00

r o b e r t M o r G a nTerroirRobert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains that fea-ture 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 every-thing 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.Penguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 112 Pages • 978-0-14-312019-3 • $18.00

t e r r a n c e h a Y e slightheadIn 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 presenta tion 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 • $18.00Winner of the National Book AwardAlso available: Wind in a Box 978-0-14-303686-9, Hip Logic 978-0-14-200139-4

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M i c h a e l r o b b i n salien vs. PredatorThe 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.

“These poems are viciously inventive. Faster than you can rhyme stegosaur/megastore, Robbins code-switches 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

“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 KaminskyPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 88 Pages • 978-0-14-312035-3 • $18.00

r o G e r f a n n i n GThe Middle agesThis 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

“[Fanning] tunes us in to those minuscule instants of revelation that can keep life from being a long zombie convention.”—Mary KarrPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 112 Pages • 978-0-14-312034-6 • $18.00

e u G e n e G l o r i aMy Favorite warlordA 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 an-cient 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

K a r l K i r c h w e YMount lebanonMount 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 roman-tic 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 HechtMarion wooD books • harDcover • 112 Pages • 978-0-399-15727-1 • $30.00

www.PenGuin.coM/acadeMic PoetrY 2012

National Poetry Series Selections

J u l i a n n e b u c h s b a u MThe apothecary’s heirSelected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-BroidoPoet 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.

“There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction.”—Matthew RohrerPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 80 Pages • 978-0-14-312141-1 • $18.00 • June 2012

l a u r e n b e r r YThe lifting DressSelected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance HayesSet 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

a d a M f o u l d sThe broken wordan 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 BarnesPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 80 Pages • 978-0-14-311809-1 • $16.00Winner of the Costa (Whitbread) Poetry Award

a l i c e n o t l e Yculture of oneA 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 ReviewPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 160 Pages • 978-0-14-311893-0 • $18.00

c a r o l M u s K e - d u K e sTwin citiesA sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today’s finest living poets.

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.Penguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 96 Pages • 978-0-14-311964-7 • $18.00

w i l l i a M s t o b babsentiaThe 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 kid-die 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 DemingPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 96 Pages • 978-0-14-312018-6 • $18.00

r o b e r t M o r G a nTerroirRobert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains that fea-ture 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 every-thing 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.Penguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 112 Pages • 978-0-14-312019-3 • $18.00

t e r r a n c e h a Y e slightheadIn 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 presenta tion 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 • $18.00Winner of the National Book AwardAlso available: Wind in a Box 978-0-14-303686-9, Hip Logic 978-0-14-200139-4

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M i c h a e l r o b b i n salien vs. PredatorThe 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.

“These poems are viciously inventive. Faster than you can rhyme stegosaur/megastore, Robbins code-switches 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

“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 KaminskyPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 88 Pages • 978-0-14-312035-3 • $18.00

r o G e r f a n n i n GThe Middle agesThis 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

“[Fanning] tunes us in to those minuscule instants of revelation that can keep life from being a long zombie convention.”—Mary KarrPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 112 Pages • 978-0-14-312034-6 • $18.00

e u G e n e G l o r i aMy Favorite warlordA 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 an-cient 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

K a r l K i r c h w e YMount lebanonMount 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 roman-tic 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 HechtMarion wooD books • harDcover • 112 Pages • 978-0-399-15727-1 • $30.00

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National Poetry Series Selections

J u l i a n n e b u c h s b a u MThe apothecary’s heirSelected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-BroidoPoet 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.

“There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction.”—Matthew RohrerPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 80 Pages • 978-0-14-312141-1 • $18.00 • June 2012

l a u r e n b e r r YThe lifting DressSelected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance HayesSet 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

a d a M f o u l d sThe broken wordan 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 BarnesPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 80 Pages • 978-0-14-311809-1 • $16.00Winner of the Costa (Whitbread) Poetry Award

a l i c e n o t l e Yculture of oneA 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 ReviewPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 160 Pages • 978-0-14-311893-0 • $18.00

c a r o l M u s K e - d u K e sTwin citiesA sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today’s finest living poets.

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.Penguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 96 Pages • 978-0-14-311964-7 • $18.00

w i l l i a M s t o b babsentiaThe 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 kid-die 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 DemingPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 96 Pages • 978-0-14-312018-6 • $18.00

r o b e r t M o r G a nTerroirRobert Morgan has won acclaim for sonorous poems rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains that fea-ture 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 every-thing 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.Penguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 112 Pages • 978-0-14-312019-3 • $18.00

t e r r a n c e h a Y e slightheadIn 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 presenta tion 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 • $18.00Winner of the National Book AwardAlso available: Wind in a Box 978-0-14-303686-9, Hip Logic 978-0-14-200139-4

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M i c h a e l r o b b i n salien vs. PredatorThe 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.

“These poems are viciously inventive. Faster than you can rhyme stegosaur/megastore, Robbins code-switches 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

“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 KaminskyPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 88 Pages • 978-0-14-312035-3 • $18.00

r o G e r f a n n i n GThe Middle agesThis 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

“[Fanning] tunes us in to those minuscule instants of revelation that can keep life from being a long zombie convention.”—Mary KarrPenguin PoeTs • PaPerback • 112 Pages • 978-0-14-312034-6 • $18.00

e u G e n e G l o r i aMy Favorite warlordA 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 an-cient 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

K a r l K i r c h w e YMount lebanonMount 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 roman-tic 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 HechtMarion wooD books • harDcover • 112 Pages • 978-0-399-15727-1 • $30.00