Poetry & Graphic

Staff recommendations from our 2011 Summer Newsletter

All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Paperback)

By Charles Bernstein
$20.00
ISBN-13: 9780374532659
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 3/2011
Bernstein’s poetry gets you drunk with laughter, twists your mind like a top, makes you see the corners of your memories in a different shade of green. This is avant garde poetry for the everyman—academic, plumber, astronaut, and pop star. Bernstein plunders the vaults of history and language and, juggling its artifacts before our eyes, we are all the richer for it. —V.L.

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)

By Kay Ryan
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780802145215
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Published: Grove Press, 4/2011
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Ryan recently concluded a two-year term as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate and now her new book has won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry! The 200 poems in The Best of It offer a retrospective of her work, as well as a swath of never-before-published poems. “A much-needed introduction to the work of one of our best and most accessible poets. Sassy, smart, and deep as they are hilarious, Ryan’s poems are among the best.” —Publishers Weekly

Everything Is Its Own Reward: An All Over Coffee Collection (Hardcover)

By Paul Madonna
$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780872865150
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Published: City Lights Publishers, 5/2011
Paul Madonna’s series All Over Coffee is one of my favorite works of graphic narrative, and this new collection is all the more exciting for including works done abroad. Madonna has a gift for capturing the beauty of buildings and cityscapes while making them completely warm and human through his observations and storytelling. —Nici

Batwoman: Elegy (Paperback)

By Greg Rucka, Jh Williams Iii
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9781401231460
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: DC Comics, 6/2011
Kate Kane is a red-headed, ex-military crime-fighter who rose from the alleyway shadows during an absence of superheroes. The superheroes are back, but Batwoman refuses to go back in the closet—in all meanings of the phrase. Batwoman faces a psychotic Alice (not in Wonderland!) dealing in poisoned razor blades and criminal cults, while also battling Batman, her father, neglected ex-girlfriends, and her past. Batwoman is no sidekick, and her new series is not to be missed. —Jocelyn
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