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IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY (Norton, '26)
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Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Poetry

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By Maya C. Popa 
| Publishers Weekly
Top 10 The Acrobat: Essential Poems Wisława Szymborska. Ecco, July 7 ($18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-349491-6) Showcasing works that deal with intellectual and existential questions, this collection also includes Szymborska’s 1996 Nobel lecture, “The Poet and the World.” America, a Love Story Camille T. Dungy. Wesleyan Univ., Mar.
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I Can Finally Tell You About My Next Book

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By Maya C. Popa 
| Poetry Today
Dear Friends, I’ve been quietly working on this book for four years, and I am thrilled to finally be able to share it with you. If You Love That Lady is my third book, and it’s an ode to every writer’s invention of love and the beloved. It’s also about the sometimes-wrong invention of this country, and how we quietly safeguard ourselves against it and stay human. In 2021, I came across a letter written by John Miller, a pastor, to Sally McDowell, ex-wife of the former governor of Baltimore.
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“The World Was All Before Them”

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By Maya C. Popa 
| The New Yorker
I wasn’t fooled by these walls of my body but loved them touched, like a seed that germinates in fire; shy slide of pressure, tally of cries. I am my first and oldest system, a figment of that first imagination set running, but I concede to your vision: that look you give me like nothing other than my throat will do. Your affair with my ankles is legion, an emperor thumbing his ostrich plumes, a moon drawn down with string to delay a debt.
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