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Mark Doty says of Brent Calderwood''s debut collection of poetry, The God of Longing: The man who speaks in Brent Calderwood''s poems longs for the affective, erotic and soulful bond between two men that we''d like love to be, yet he also understands that love occupies a fault zone, a territory of fracture and slippages. That''s the rocky landscape of this book, but struggle is also a source of education, and Calderwood''s poetic voice is increasingly tempered, not lacking hope but perhaps no longer believing in the easy magic love might once have seemed. Here an adult gay man looks at the stuff of a life with both tenderness and a clear, steady gaze.

You could be sitting on a good one, a two-to-eight word answer that says exactly how important Guthrie''s Contemplative Man is. Something concise. Something direct. Something that proves a summary actually can say something true about something else. You think, damn, this sounds smug, and you think maybe these poems are, too. This is the part where you buy the book and see for yourself.

In From the Belly, Virginia Bell opens the doors to a gallery of poetic meditations - on the tenderness of childhood and motherhood, the primal pleasures of food and sex, and the joyful aches of family and memory. The poems are by turns ekphrastic and self-consciously confessional, taking inspiration from the art of everyday things.

From the indie press that brings you the Library Journal-honored Assaracus comes Lady Business: A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry. Lady Business features a substantial set of poems from each of twelve lesbian poets: Sally Bellerose, Brit Blalock, Cassandra Christenson, Marty Correia, Teresa De La Cruz, Julie R. Enszer, Gina R. Evers, Andy Izenson, Ronna Magy, Mary Meriam, Maureen Seaton, and Jan Steckel. Lady Business features cover art by Bil Donovan. Proudly published by Sibling Rivalry Press.

Matthew Hittinger's Skin Shift assembles a metamorphosis taxonomy in poems that spider spin, that nimbus twirl into Wonder Woman and leap with the Aboriginal kangaroo woman, that escape from a sub-trunk with Houdini and seduce like the Amazon's pink river dolphin man. Traditional forms morph into experimental narratives, lyrics and dramatic monologues that present an invitation to slip inside the skins of others and to experience the mythologies that resonate in modern times.Says Mary Biddinger, author of Saint Monica and Prairie Fever, "Matthew Hittinger's poems have all the cool of an exquisitely-chiseled statue, but the blood that charges through their veins is pure hot glory."