Poem-a-Day - 2024 Featured Fall Books

The Alcestis Machine: Poems 
by Carolyn Oliver
Acre Books
October 2024, Paperback $17

In Greek mythology, Alcestis descends to the mysterious kingdom of death in her beloved’s place. In The Alcestis Machine, Carolyn Oliver’s second poetry collection, loss and queer desire echo across the multiverse.

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.

Field Guide for Accidents
By Albert Abonado
Beacon Press
October 2024, Paperback & eBook $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).

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.

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.

PUTINOIKA
by Giannina Braschi
FlowerSong Press
September 2024, Paperback & eBook $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

A History of Echoes
by Rod Carlos Rodriguez
Gival Press
September 2024, Paperback, $18; e-Book, $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

We the Gathered Heat 
edited by Franny Choi, Bao Phi, Noʻu Revilla, and Terisa Siagatonu
Haymarket Books
September 2024, Hardcover $55, Paperback $19.95, eBook $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.

Amnesia Poetica
by Colette Lee Höser
January 2023 (Self-published), 
Paperback $14.20, eBook $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.

The Girl Who Became a Rabbit
by Emilie Menzel
Hub City
September 2024, Paperback & eBook $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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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