Trip on these rhymes

The new year isn’t even here yet, but if you’re like us you’re probably planning those spring and summer vacations already. And who can go to the beach without a new book? LSU Press will release a diverse slate of titles in the first quarter of 2010, but here are two getaway-worthy poetry collections we are looking forward to the most. Visit lsu.edu/lsupress for more new books and release dates.

MARCH

Why the House Is Made of Ginger Bread

Baton Rougean Ava Leavell Haymon’s latest anthology again mines her timeless wit with heartrending recollections of family, friends and the delicate, sometimes beautiful, sometimes regrettable minutiae of our many relationships.

APRIL

Breach

The Great Deluge author Douglas Brinkley has called this new collection by Nicole Cooley “powerful and haunting.” A New Orleans native and Queens College professor, Cooley uses Breach to channel her reactions to Hurricane Katrina and its horrific aftermath.