RECENT AND RECOMMENDED BOOKS

The following list includes recent books of poetry or poetics recommended by Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Publishers are encouraged to send review copies of new poetry collections or volumes on poetics to the address below.  Reviewers interested in submitting a critical analysis of any of the following books for publication in Valparaiso Poetry Review are invited to e-mail their reviews to VPR@Valpo.Edu:

                                        Valparaiso Poetry Review
                                        Edward Byrne, Editor
                                        Department of English
                                        Valparaiso University
                                        Valparaiso, IN 46383

Abramson, Seth: Northerners, New Issues Press

Anderson, Chris: The Next Thing Always Belongs, Airlie Press

Azriel, Yakov: Swimming in Moses' Well, Time Being Books

Beasley, Sandra: I Was the Jukebox, W.W. Norton

Biddinger, Mary: Saint Monica, Black Lawrence Press

Boss, Todd: Pitch, W.W. Norton

Bottoms, David: We Almost Disappear, Copper Canyon Press

Buckley, Christopher: White Shirt, University of Tampa Press

Cantwell, Kevin (Ed.): Writing on Napkins at the Sunshine Club, Mercer University Press

Casey, Michael: Check Points, Adastra Press

Cefola, Ann: St. Agnes, Pink-Slipped, Kattywompus Press

Childress, Susanna: Entering the House of Awe, New Issues Press

Coleman, Wanda: The World Falls Away, University of Pittsburgh Press

Dove, Rita (Ed.): The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry, Penguin Books

Edwards, Lynnell: Covet, Red Hen Press

Estes, John: Kingdom Come, C & R Press

Fincke, Gary: Reviving the Dead, Time Being Books

Follett, C.B.: One Bird Falling, Time Being Books

Foster, Kate Hanson: Mid Drift, Loom Press

Frith, Laverne: Swimming in a Southern Reservoir, Finishing Line Press

Gander, Forrest: Core Samples from the World, New Directions

Guenette, Matthew: American Busboy, University of Akron Press

Hagen, Cecelia: Entering, Airlie Press

Hales, Corrinne Clegg: To Make It Right, Autumn House Press

Hoffman, Jeff: Journal of American Foreign Policy, New Issues Press

Hunley, Tom C.: The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse, McFarland & Co.

Hutton, Lizzie: She'd Waited Millennia, New Issues Press

Kasdorf, Julia Spicher: Poetry in America, University of Pittsburgh Press

Kimmelman, Burt: The Way We Live, Dos Madres Press

Kinsella, John: Jam Tree Gully, W.W. Norton

Knapp, Elizabeth: The Spite House, C & R Press

Krawiec, Richard: She Hands Me a Razor, Press 53

Lockward, Diane: Temptation by Water, Wind Publications

Mackey, Nathaniel: Nod House, New Directions

Makofske, Mary: Traction, Ashland Poetry Press

Martin, Charles: Signs & Wonders, Johns Hopkins University Press

Meyerhofer, Michael: Damnatio Memoriae, Brick Road Poetry Press

Morgan, Jeffrey: Crying Shame, BlazeVOX

Mossotti, Travis: About the Dead, Utah State University Press

O'Donnell, Angela Alaimo: Saint Sinatra and Other Poems, Word Press

O'Rourke, Meghan: Once, W.W. Norton

Orr, David: Beautiful and Pointless, Harper

Palmer, Michael: Thread, New Directions

Perrin, T.P.: Snarge, Wasteland Press

Poole, Scott: The Sliding Glass Door, Colonus Publishing

Randall, Jessy & Daniel M. Shapiro: Interruptions: Collaborative Poems, Pecan Grove Press

Rosenthal, Mira: The Local World, Kent State University Press

Schultz, Philip: My Dyslexia, W.W. Norton

Sedarat, Roger: Ghazal Games, Ohio University Press

Smith, Dave: Hawks on Wires, LSU Press

St. Oerke, Andrew: Never Seek to Tell Thy Love, GCEEF Publishers

Wiggerman, Scott: Presence, Pecan Grove Press

Wixon, Patricia: Airing the Sheets, Finishing Line Press

Wixon, Vincent: Blue Moon: Poems from Chinese Lines, Wordcraft of Oregon Chapbook