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Mariana Marin, Paper Children (trans. From Romanian by Adam Sorkin)
Henry Parland, Ideals Clearance (trans. From Swedish by Johannews Goranssen)
Caroline Dubois, You Arte the Business (ttrans. From French by Cole Swensen)
Cyrus Console, Brief Under Water
Henry Weinfield, Without Mythologies: New and Selected Poems & Translations
Phyllis Wat, The Influence of Paintings Hung in Bedrooms
Ivan Blatny, The Drug of Art: Selected Poems (ytans from the Czech by several translators)
Andrew Joron, The Cry at Zero
Barbara Henning, My Autobiography
Kenneth Koch, Selected Poems, ed. Ron Padgett
Matt Hart, Who’s Who Vivid
Marc Nasdor, Sonnetailia
Robert Elstein, The Hollandaise
Ken Rumble, Key Bridge
Burt Kimmelman, There Are Words
Basil King, 77 Beasts
Richard Blevin, Castle Tubin
Caroline Imbriglio, Parts of the Mass
Jeanne Braham, The Light Within the Light
Christopher Arigo, In the Archives
Arthur Rimbaud, A Heason in Hell, trans. By Donald Revell
Brane Mozetic, ed., Six Slovenian Poets
Laynie Browne, Daily Sonnets
Brian Henry, The Stripping Point
Keith Flynn, The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz, and Memory
Guillevic, The Sea & Other Poems (bilingual French/English, trans by Patricia Terry)
Craig Watson, Secret Histories
Herschel Silverman, Krishna Poems
Jerome McGann, The Point Is To Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present
Michael O’Brien, Sleeping and Waking
Aram Saroyan, Complete Minimal Poems
Lisa Ann Sandell, Song of the Sparrow
David Jaffin, Sunstreams
Rochelle Ratner, Leads
Noah Eli Gordon, A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow
Elizabeth Reddin, The Hot Garmet of Love Is Insecure
P.H. Liotta, The Graveyard of Fallen Monuments
Albert Flynn DeSilver, Letters to Early Street
The Defiant Muse: Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present (bilingual with various translators)
Carter Ratcliff, Arrivederci, Modernismo
C.T. Funkhouser, Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archeology of Forms, 1959-1995
Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters
Elizabeth Bishop, Poems, Prose, and Letters (Library of America)
David Jaffin, Thought Colors
Morton Marcus, Pursuing the Dream Bone
Julie Carr, Equivocal
Clayton Eshleman, Archaic Design
Ulf Stolterfoht, Lingos I-IX (trans. From German by Rosmarie Waldrop)
Leslie Breeding, I’m Going Home
Quincy Troupe, The Architecture of Language
Hazel McClure, Nothing Moving
Jose Kozer, Stet (trans. From Hungarian by Mark Weiss)
John Moritz, Catfish Frenzy
Andre Spears, Fragments from Mu (A Seque
Nada Gordon, Folly
X. J. Kennedy, Peeping Tom’s Cabin
American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Tony Tost, Cemplex Sleep
Marjorie Deiter Keyishian, Slow Runner
Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease, eds., “Burning Interiors”: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics
Zhang Er, So Translating Rivers and Cities (trans. From Chinese by various translators)
David Bromwish, American Sonnets: An Anthology (Library of America)
Heather McHugh, ed., The Best American Poetry: 2007
Brian Kim Stefans, Kluge: A Meditation, and Other Works
Dan Machlin, Dear Body
Laynie Browne, The Scented Fox
Vincent Katz and Wayne Gonzales, Judge
David Maine, Monster 1959
Lola Ridge, Light in Hand: Selected Early Poems
Robert Murphy, Life in the Ordovician