Thomas Kinsella, Collected Poems: 1956–2001, Wake Forest Kei Miller, Kingdom of Empty Bellies, Jamaican poet published in the United States: Hannah Nijinsky and John Most, Persephone (AQP Collective) Alice Notley, Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005 (Wesleyan University Press) Mary Oliver, Thirst (Beacon Press) Carl Phillips, Riding Westward, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux George Quasha, Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance, foreword Carter Ratcliff (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley) [sculpture & poetry/preverbs] Ishmael Reed, New and Collected Poems, 1964–2006, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" Lisa Robertson, The Men: A Lyric Book (BookThug) Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, compiled by David Wagoner from "277 spiral notebooks of poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, journal entries, random phrases, bits of dialog, commentary, and fugitive miscellany", Copper Canyon Press, (posthumous) Miltos Sachtouris, Poems (1945–1971), bilingual edition, Greek with English translation by Karen Emmerich (Archipelago Books), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry Julie Sheehan, Orient Point: Poems, (W.W. Norton & Co.) Patricia Smith, Teahouse of the Almighty: Poems, selected by Ed Sanders (Coffee House Press, 2006) W.D. Snodgrass, Not For Specialists, New and Selected Poems, (BOA Editions, Ltd.), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Mark Strand, Man and Camel (Alfred A. Knopf) by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States Rosmarie Waldrop, Splitting Image (Zasterle), Curves to the Apple (New Directions) Alicia E. Vasquez, 1719 Union St. (Wasteland Press) Eliot Weinberger, Muhammed, (Verso, W.W. Norton & Co.) Dara Wier, Remnants of Hannah, Wave Books C.K. Williams, Collected Poems George Witte, The Apparitioners, Three Rail Press Charles Wright, Scar Tissue, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Franz Wright, God's Silence (Alfred A. Knopf) Robert Wrigley, Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems, Penguin Louis Zukofsky, Selected Poems, American Poets Project of the Library of America, distributed by Penguin Putnam; posthumous Jesse Lee Kercheval, Film History As Train Wreck Anthologies in the United States Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, editors, American Religious Poems: An Anthology, Library of America Michael Hofmann, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer, editors, Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems, 76 poems, each selected by a poet who was