Among the releases, Mira Rosenthal’s translation of Malgorzata Lebda’s collection Mer de Glace opens with the poem “Trigger Points,” exploring themes of movement against loss and the interplay of light and shadow.
Penguin Poets publishes Patricia Lockwood’s new collection Agate Head / Stone Soup, while Norton releases Jana Prikryl’s The Channel, longlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
Mark Kyungsoo Bias’s debut Minor Destructions (Gaudy Boy) confronts personal and familial loss through striking images of glass skulls and mirrors, weaving narratives of adoption and the revelation of his father’s involvement in sex trafficking.
Jacob Saenz adds a substantial chapbook, Love Hound (Next Page Press), and Mark Anthony Cayanan’s Miracle Fever (Northwestern University Press) offers a speculative chronicle of a Philippine town’s turbulent twentieth‑century history.
Abigail Chabitnoy’s Love Like a Body Carried to Shore (Wesleyan University Press) blends ecological concern with lyrical song, while Jay Gao’s expansive poem The Dead One The Unconscious One (Nightboat Books) stretches over 100 pages in a landscape‑oriented format, interweaving nature, surveillance and translation motifs.
Major Jackson’s edited anthology A Bowl of Goodness: Nourishing Poems with a Side of Soup (Storey) returns to food‑themed poetry, echoing earlier collections such as Kevin Young’s The Hungry Ear.