Joan Cusack Handler CavanKerry Press ($18) by James Naiden This collection of poems is an extended elegy to Joan Cusack Handler’s parents, who were immigrants

Swan Huntley Doubleday ($25.95) by Rebecca Clark Debut author Swan Huntley spins a spellbinding novel in We Could Be Beautiful, over three hundred pages that

Tomaž Šalamun Translated by Michael Thomas Taren Black Ocean ($18.95) by John Bradley When Tomaž Šalamun died on December 27, 2014, the poetry world lost

Gabriel Gudding Ahsahta Press ($18) by Garin Cycholl In The Middle Ground, Richard White explores the history of Great Lakes tribes in the seventeenth century

Sara Majka Graywolf Press ($16) by Montana Mosby Sara Majka’s debut novel, Cities I’ve Never Lived In, blurs the line between memory and fact in

Michael N. McGregor Fordham University Press ($34.95) by Linda Lappin   Visitors to the Greek island of Patmos in the 1990s might have noticed a lean,

by Stephen Burt Rachel Gold is the author of two terrific young adult novels with trans girl protagonists: Being Emily (2012), a Lambda Literary Award

Sue Klebold Crown Publishing ($28) by Jason Zencka The tension that animates Sue Klebold’s A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, could be

Geoffrey Hill Edited by Kenneth Haynes Oxford University Press ($39.95) by Adam Tavel Having spent much of 2014 savoring Geoffrey Hill’s colossal Broken Hierarchies: Poems

Edited by Gavin Parkinson Liverpool University Press by Laura Winton Gavin Parkinson is a man on a mission, and not just a mission to Mars.