New York Times Brings New, Noteworthy Poetry to the Fore

Casting a wide net from the Ancient Greeks to Billy Collins, the New York Times briefly notes a few new, cool collections of poetry to hit the scene. The roundup begins with Marge Piercy's latest poetry collection, ON THE WAY OUT, TURN OFF THE LIGHT: Poems (Knopf), which, the Times writes, "feels like a memoiristic summing up, with reflections on her Detroit childhood and young love giving way to religion and politics, 'being old at the end of the world.'" Picking up from there: 

WHALE DAY: And Other Poems, by Billy Collins. (Random House, $26.) The former poet laureate applies a characteristically light touch in his latest collection, even in poems that contemplate death and mortality: his aging dog’s snout “white as a marshmallow,” his career spent “yodeling away in the dark.”

Read about the rest at the New York Times.