A memoir in poems, Mary Warren Foulk’s The Show Must Go On centers on the topics of sibling loss and queer identity, including queer parenting. It pays tribute to the author older brother, Stephen, who died quite tragically.

Reclaiming the Nectar and the Hum is an instruction manual on surviving complicated, unhappy mothers. It is a mother’s guide to loss, an inquiry into generational mysteries, and a song cycle of transformation.

Looking back, the myriad events of a life seem woven of a single cloth, and likewise, each poem in this astonishing new collection is linked in some way to the others-revealing a meaningful overall pattern.

When I Was a King takes readers through the worst that life can give a person and show that, on the other side, a bright light is shining.

Treefall with Bird Song explores the natural world around the poet’s home in Mississippi and delves into memories of the rural landscapes of Iowa where he was raised, Flanders, and other places he has traveled.

Here is an unflinching masterwork of unpicking the familial ties, the “white lies,” we live with and how we forge ourselves separate from them.

Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani’s translated poems are selected for their breadth of representation, their influence in the Arab world, and their poetic prowess.

The poems in this collection deconstruct and reconstitute the story of Isaac and Abraham, textually and metaphorically, as a means of stitching together meaning after violence and loss.

Part elegy, part pastoral, part ode to beloved and beleaguered set-asides, Hills Full of Holes journeys in widening understandings of injuries to body and land, and their possible recoveries.

There is no strong split between the natural world and the human world. Perhaps we endanger ourselves when we insist on such a split.