Christian Hawkey Wave Books ($14) by Samuel Amadon Though one often reads a book of poetry in its entirety to pursue an understanding of it

Niels Hav translated by Patrick Friesen and P. K. Brask BookThug ($15) by Poul Houe Niels Hav (b. 1949) is an award-winning Danish poet, and We

Evie Shockley Carolina Wren Press ($15.95) by Nancy Kuhl In a half-red sea, Evie Shockley’s first full-length collection of poetry, the poet presents public and private

by Eric Lorberer The superhero epic may have reached its deconstructive apex with the 1986 publication of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s astonishing Watchmen, but its

edited by Melissa Chiu Charta / Asia Society ($70) by Carmen Tomfohrde Zhang Huan's performances and sculptures are not easily forgotten. Raw meat, blood, flies,

Brandon Stosuy, Domenika Szope, Stephan Urbaschek, Matthew Barney Sammlung Goetz ($50) by Sean Smuda The primacy of the body as object—its fluctuations, trainability, aberrations, procreation,

Danny Wilcox Frazier Duke University Press ($39.95) by Callie Clark-Wiren Danny Wilcox Frazier’s Driftless: Photographs from Iowa is the 2006 winner of Duke University’s Center for Documentary

Darby English The MIT Press ($30) by Christina Schmid Free to be you and free to be me—whether you look at children’s books or listen

Veronique Tanaka NBM/ComicsLit ($13.95) by Ken Chen Now, that surprising epoch, is an exciting time for the comics medium—but not for the reasons you think.

Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá Dark Horse Books ($17.95) by Rudi Dornemann Every story must deal with the problem of how to keep the reader