Laurent Binet Translated by Sam Taylor Farrar, Straus and Giroux ($26) by Christopher Urban Laurent Binet’s HHhH, a novelization of the assassination attempt of high-ranking Nazi

Louis Armand Equus Press ($8.50) by Benjamin Woodard Louis Armand’s Breakfast at Midnight crackles across the page like a cloaked drummer keeping time on a hi-hat cymbal

Lev Loseff translated by G. S. Smith ARC Publications (£10.99) by Amy Henry This bilingual collection of the poems of Lev Loseff begins with a

New and Selected Poems Charles North Turtle Point Press / Hanging Loose Press by Terence Diggory What It Is Like surveys four decades of work by one of

Matthew Thorburn CW Books ($18) by Warren D. Woessner With a title like Every Possible Blue, you might expect Matthew Thorburn’s second collection to be a

Marjorie Welish Coffee House Press ($16) by Terence Diggory “Nature is a temple where living pillars / Sometimes allow confused words to arise.” These lines,

Bill Luoma Kenning Editions ($14.95) by Lightsey Darst Reading Bill Luoma’s Some Math is like facing a linguistic hurricane. Take these lines, for example: I’m calling the

John Rybicki Lookout Books ($16.95) by Steve Dudas John Rybicki’s latest book of poems, When All the World is Old, is an emotional sequel to his

Kazuaki Tanahashi Shambhala ($17.95) by Justin Wadland Children flocked around Ryokan when he came on his begging rounds through the village near his home. To

Jessy Randall Red Hen Press ($17.95) by CL Bledsoe Jessy Randall’s new collection begins with “Metaphors,” a clever piece that bucks preconceptions: “A duck is