Books recieved Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Consider the mail and how often you don't want what comes through it. Now consider that I received a bunch of great new books this week, many of them unexpected. Imagine my delight.

Simone Muench's Orange Crush is already on shelves: it features her fantastic suite of poems dealing with the iconography of the Orange Girl.

Dottie Lasky has a new book, Black Life, coming out from Wave Books. She can be added to my list of pals who have been published in The New Yorker ever since Paul Muldoon took over. Find the poem here.

Also from Wave we've got Geoffrey Nutter, who's Water's Leaves and Other Poems was one of my favorite books of the last decade. I say "decade" instead of, say, "last year or the year before" because it's been awhile. A happy thing that his new book, Christopher Sunset, is coming out in April, too. Here's something to tide you over until you run out a pick it up.