Thursday's Three on Poetry

Today, Thursday's Three features a trio of poetry titles arriving on bookshelves this month and in June.

✭ Miss August (CavanKerry Press/University Press of New England, May 2, 2017) ~ Described as a novella of prose poems that relate the story of a transgender boy who comes of age in the early 1960s in a southern racist town, this new release by Nin Andrews is told in the voice of three characters. The issues Andrews addresses range from sexual identity to friendship and love.

UPNE Page for Miss August

✭  Debths (New Directions, June 27, 2017) ~ Susan Howe's new five-part series of poems ("Preface", "Titian Air Vent", "Tom Tit Tot", "Periscope", "Debths") is inspired by the art of Paul Thek (1933-1988), an American painter, sculptor, and installation artist; the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection, and early American writings.

Susan Howe Page at New Directions

✭ As Does New Hampshire and Other Poems (University Press of New England/Bauhan Publishing, May 2, 2017) ~ Written to celebrate the bicentennial of her home Nelson, New Hampshire, this collection by the renowned May Sarton (1912-1995) is a reissue that pays homage to the land, people, and changing seasons of the state.

UPNE Page for As Does New Hampshire