2024 Featured Fall Books
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FOREST OF NOISE by Mosab Abu Toha
Alfred A. Knopf, October 2024
Hardcover, $22
“A powerful, capacious, and profound” (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by award-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha.
PAPER BOAT by Margaret Atwood
Alfred A. Knopf, October 2024
Hardcover, $40
An extraordinary collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age, spanning six decades of work—from Atwood’s earliest beginnings to brand-new poems.
Book of Kin by Darius Atefat-Peckham
Autumn House Press, October 2024
Paperback, $17.95
Book of Kin, the debut poetry collection by Darius Atefat-Peckham and winner of the 2023 Autumn House Poetry Prize, reflects on the poet’s Iranian heritage while navigating profound loss and honoring the memories that endure.
Field Guide for Accidents by Albert Abonado
Beacon Press, October 2024
Paperback and e-Book, $18
A National Poetry Series winner selected and with a foreword by Mahogany L. Browne. “Albert Abonado’s poems open us up to feast and to wonder.” —Chen Chen, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton by Kazim Ali
BOA Editions, Ltd., September 2024
Paperback, $23; e-Book $9.99
This long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets. Black Buffalo Woman is a deep, comprehensive dive into Clifton’s work through the eyes of celebrated poet and scholar, Kazim Ali.
In Inheritance of Drowning by Dorsía Smith Silva
CavanKerry Press, November 2024
Paperback, $18
Inheritance of Drowning explores the devastating impact of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico and offers a piercing evaluation of various sites of oppression in the United States, especially the intersections of race and violence.
Self Portrait: Poems & Essays by Makenzie Campbell
Central Avenue Poetry, September 2024
Paperback, $16.99
Join Makenzie Campbell on an intimate odyssey through the emotions of love, growth, and self-discovery in her coming-of-age collection, where each verse is a brushstroke in the self-portrait of navigating the labyrinth of one’s twenties.
Small Ghost by Trista Mateer
Central Avenue Poetry, September 2024
Paperback, $19.99
Through verse, photography, and illustrations, Trista Mateer crafts a poetic refuge far away from loneliness, shame, and grief which serves as validation and sweet reassurance for anyone feeling adrift.
From Sand to Stars by Shelby Leigh
Central Avenue Poetry, October 2024
Paperback, $16.99
Ever feel like you’re running out of time? Feel lost thinking about the future? Bestselling poet Shelby Leigh provides a reminder that every day is a new day to find joy and self-acceptance.
PUTINOIKA by Giannina Braschi
FlowerSong Press, September 2024
Paperback and e-Book, $21
“If, as in Ezra Pound’s translation of Aristotle, the ‘swift perception of relations’ is truly the ‘hallmark of genius,’ it’s in the brightly lit halls of Braschi’s books where poetry is tested and stamped with such a mark.” —Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander
TRANZ by Spencer Williams
Four Way Books, September 2024
Paperback, $17.95
Equally riotous and vulnerable, Williams pens a love letter to transgender people and their audacity to exist in a world that constantly endangers them. A profoundly moving debut collection of witness and celebratory self-becoming.
A History of Echoes by Rod Carlos Rodriguez
Gival Press, September 2024
Paperbook $18, eBook $9.99
Winner of the Gival Poetry Award
A History of Echoes: Poems is a powerful and timeless invocation, a resounding document of memory, “a flashing heartbeat in twilight.” —Tim Z. Hernandez, author of Some of the Light
The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist by Tilsa Otta, translated from the Spanish by Farid Matuk
Graywolf Press, October 2024
Paperback, $18
A bilingual selection of tender, transgressive poems by Tilsa Otta, a Peruvian poet and multimedia artist.
We the Gathered Heat edited by Franny Choi, Bao Phi, Noʻu Revilla, and Terisa Siagatonu
Haymarket Books, September 2024
Hardcover, $55; Paperback, $19.95; e-Book, $9.99
A rich anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label “Asian American and Pacific Islander” (AAPI) in today’s world.
Ankle Deep in Pacific Water by E. Hughes
Haymarket Books, October 2024
Paperback, $17
This debut collection of lyric poems marries personal narrative with historical excavation to articulate the intricacies of Black familial love, life, and pain while interrogating the generational implications of the Great Migration to Northern California.
Amnesia Poetica by Colette Lee Höser
January 2023 (Self-published)
Paperback, $14.20; e-Book, $1
For Colette Lee Höser, who has lived an extraordinary life, only poetry can capture what is truly important. Written in simple language that is accessible to a wide audience, this book presents a selection of her poems and drawings.
book of provocations by mónica teresa ortiz
Host Publications, July 2024
Paperback, $20
In fragmented lyric and explosive song, book of provocations explores catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression and its undying cry for liberation.
The Girl Who Became a Rabbit by Emilie Menzel
Hub City, September 2024
Paperback and e-Book, $16
The Girl Who Became a Rabbit is a book-length lyric—a dark, ruminative poem that pushes the limits of the prose-poetic form to explore how the body carries and shapes grief and what it means to tell a story.
Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes edited by Danez Smith
Legacy Lit, November 2024
Hardcover, $25
From iconic Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921–1927 and curated by award-winning poet and National Book Award finalist Danez Smith.
Mojave Ghost by Forrest Gander
New Directions, October 2024
Paperback, $15.95
A novel-poem taking us to the Pulitzer-prize winning poet's birthplace in the Mojave Desert and his current northern California home, where tumultuous memories coalesce with the present.
Sonnets for a Missing Key by Percival Everett
Red Hen Press, August 2024
Paperback, $16.95
Percival Everett defies convention with every creative expression and brings his literary audacity back to his poetic roots with this, a mesmerizing feat of language that reinforces him as one of the great wordsmiths of the century.
Kokoro: Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived by Beth Kempton
Storey Publishing, October 2024
Hardcover, $25
The long-awaited follow-up to Wabi Sabi from best-selling author Beth Kempton. Kokoro offers an inspiring take on what it truly means to be happy, so that you can live each day with wonder and ease.
The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry by Maria Popova
Storey Publishing, October 2024
Hardcover, $25
In 15 short essays with accompanying poems on subjects ranging from the mystery of dark matter to the intelligence of octopuses, Maria Popova weaves luminous stories of searching and discovery.
Coachella Elegy by Christian Gullette
Trio House Press, July 2024
Paperback $18, Ebook $9.99
Winner of the 2023 Trio Award, Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy explores the queer promised lands and poolside utopias of the American West even as they are threatened by environmental destruction.
Dressing the Bear by Susan L. Leary
Trio House Press, July 2024
Paperback $18, EBook $9.99
Winner of the 2023 Louise Bogan Award, Susan L. Leary's Dressing the Bear is a collection of poems composed in the wake of her brother's passing that explores the themes of love, loss, grief, longing, and addiction.
House of Grace, House of Blood by Denise Low
University of Arizona Press, October 2024
Paperback, $17.95
An innovative collection that weaves images and documents from the 1782 massacre of pacifist Delawares in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, into poems that ask us to question how history is remembered—and who is forgotten from it.
We Live Here by Lois Beardslee
Wayne State University Press, August 2024
Paperback & EBook, $19.99
Illustrated poems by Anishinaabe author Lois Beardslee not only evoke a sense of spirit that transcends boundaries but also bear traditional knowledge, notions of the seasons, and conceptions of how the spirit is shaped by nature.
What Can the Matter Be? by Keith Taylor
Wayne State University Press, August 2024
Paperback & EBook, $17.99
Enduring poems that distill hope from despair, love from sorrow, and courage from ambivalence. In this spare and elegant collection, distinguished poet Keith Taylor demonstrates his finest power of observation, watching the natural and human world go by.
DEED by torrin a. greathouse
Wesleyan University Press, August 2024
Hardcover $26, Paperback $16.95, EBook $13.99
A lyrically and formally innovative exploration of desire and its cost, DEED both subverts and pays homage to the poetic canon, examining an artistic lineage that doesn’t always love transgender or disabled people back.
Dybbuk Americana by Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
Wesleyan University Press, September 2024
Hardcover $27, Paperback $16.95, EBook $13.99
“America, whose death / didn’t you come from?” Experimental and documentary, this hybrid text uses the dybbuk, a figure from Jewish folklore, as its central metaphor to draw out questions around Jewish identity in the United States.
Soon and Wholly by Idra Novey
Wesleyan University Press, September 2024
Hardcover $26, eBook $20.99
New poetry by the author of acclaimed 2023 novel Take What You Need faces the complexities of life on a swiftly heating earth, bringing a lyric intimacy to the extremes of our era.
Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy by Karla Kelsey
Winter Editions, November 2024
Paperback, $20
“In dazzling, devious prose, Kelsey has written a brilliant novel from inside and outside Mina Loy—a dictionary, a historical compendium, an elegant archival encounter—a book I will return to again and again.” —Danielle Dutton