Todd Boss
Pitch
“In Pitch, Boss re-creates the world as music—one thinks of Frost, of Kay Ryan—that undoes us even as it enchants us. What a pleasure this book: what a gift.” —Jim Moore
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Lucky Fish
“Nezhukumatathil’s fourth book is fascinated with the small mechanisms of being, whether natural, personal, or imagined. Everything from eating eels in the Ozark mountains to the history of red dye finds a rich life in her poems. […] Even as the poems jump from the Philippines to India to New York, they still take their time, stopping to notice that “there is no mystery on water/ greater than the absence of rust,” and to draw small but wonderful parallels: “I loved you dark & late. The crocus have found ways to push up & say this/ too.” —Publishers Weekly
Matt Bondurant
The Night Swimmer
“But when Bondurant explores what it is like to push yourself to the brink, whether with physical activity, drugs and alcohol, or lust, he captures an intensity of experience the reader won’t soon forget.” —BookPage
D. A. Powell
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
“No accessible poet of his generation is half as original, and no poet as original is this accessible.” —Stephen Burt, The New York Times Book Review