The New Yorker recently devoted the entire back page to a single poem, "The Clerk’s Tale," by Spencer Reece. This debut author’s first collection had been selected by Poet Laureate Louise Glück from among 850 submissions to win the 2003 Bakeless Prize of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. The fifty poems in The Clerk’s Tale are exquisitely restrained, shot though with a longing for permanence, from the quasi-monastic life of two salesmen at Brooks Brothers to the poignant lingering light of a Miami dusk to the weight of geography on an empty Minnesota farm.

At eighty-six, Ruth Stone is considered "Mother Poet" to many contemporary writers. In this, her eighth volume, she continues her long practice of piercing directly to life's poetic truth. She writes with a crackling intelligence, interrogating history from the vantage point of an aging and impoverished woman. Wise, sardonic, crafty, and misleadingly simple, Stone loves heavy themes but loathes heavy poems.

A glittering new collection, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, from "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War" (The Times Literary Supplement) Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border, Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, a hunted hare, William Tell, William Butler Yeats, Sitting Bull, Ted Hughes, an otter, a fox, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Joscelyne, an unearthed pit pony, a loaf of bread, an outhouse, a killdeer, Oscar Wilde, or a flock of redknots.

The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by “the greatest poet of the twentieth century—in any language” (Gabriel García Márquez). Here the finest translations of nearly six hundred poems by Neruda are collected and join specially commissioned new translations that attest to Neruda’s still-resounding presence in American letters.

The long-awaited new volume of poetry by Mary Oliver, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The volume includes poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to marvel.