YOU’LL NEVER KNOW: A Graphic Memoir

Book One: A Good and Decent Man C. Tyler Fantagraphics ($24.99) by Ken Chen Refuting Paradise Lost, Virginia Woolf wrote: “The substance of Milton is all

UNKNOWN SOLDIER: Haunted House

Joshua Dysart and Alberto Ponticelli Vertigo/DC Comics ($9.99) by Spencer Dew In the final pages of this disquieting and enthralling book, journalist Momolu Sengendo confronts

ASTERIOS POLYP

David Mazzucchelli Pantheon Books ($29.95) by Britt Aamodt Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli's first graphic novel—a surprising fact considering the artist’s many years in the field.

RAPID EYE MOVEMENT

Peter Jaeger Reality Street Editions (£9.50) by Chris Pusateri To mention dreams in the age of postmodernism seems curiously anachronistic. As a means for creating

WORLD’S END

Pablo Neruda translated by William O’Daly Copper Canyon Press ($15) by John Bradley Oh, the lie that we lived became our daily bread. What we,

VERSED

Rae Armantrout Wesleyan University Press ($22.95) by Todd Pederson This is the age of hyperbole: fragments of pop culture quarrel for our attentions as conflicting

THANKSGIVING DAWN

John Graber Blue Begonia Press ($15) by Emilio DeGrazia John Graber has traveled a long road to his first collection,Thanksgiving Dawn. After taking his undergraduate

THE ALPS

Brandon Shimoda Flim Forum Press ($14) by Craig Santos Perez Brandon Shimoda’s The Alps begins with a single line on an otherwise blank page: “HOW will I

WARHORSES

Yusef Komunyakaa Farrar, Straus & Giroux ($14) by Miguel Murphy In Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, war is depicted as the fundamental drive of the human species,