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Mosie Romney’s “Jazz and Color” (2023).

Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected PoemsBy Major Jackson

“Rhythm? Where is“Parker’s horn?“In any event, we flaunt“The stuff of old

“& modern hipness“As if it were a claim“Ticket.”

Opening with more than three dozen new poems, Major Jackson’s latest collection also compiles five of his previous books: “Leaving Saturn” (2002), “Hoops” (2006), “Holding Company” (2010), “Roll Deep” (2015) and “The Absurd Man” (2020). “Crossing Over,” excerpted above, was written in homage to a performance by the jazz musician Sun Ra (1914-93) and his Arkestra at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, in 1970. Published by W.W. Norton, Sept. 5.

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Romney’s “The Promise Cave” (2023).

The Vaster WildsA novel by Lauren Groff

“By the time she could not see very far ahead, she had found nothing to cover her, and she had begun to worry.

“And this was when she saw a little black space carved out of the rock wall of a ridge that rose to the height of a roof’s peak into the sky beside her. She came close and the dark mouth of the cave exhaled a strange and musty warmth that drew her near.”