I don’t think it matters if its all about the content, but I would look at Emigre’s Dalliance Script as long as the poems aren’t too long. Its elegant and might provide an edge to the presentation.

Walbaum may be appropriate as it’s very serious. But I think Vendetta is an excellent choice.

Rodrigo Xavier Cavazos’ Eidetic Neo or Peter Fraterdeus’ Prospera

A little leftfield, a tad dark, conspicuously contemporary, and perfect for poetry.

You could misuse Eldorado Micro.

What genre of poetry?

A couple of weeks aog I proposed a poetry book layout using triplex italic, it looks very sharp with enough line spacing, however it was a short book and the poetry was of a very contemporary style.

Maybe it Storm’s Serapion would do the job.

Héctor

It’s hard so say what genre not knowing a great deal about poetry. From what I’ve read so far, it’s not gothic, or dark really, yet the poems are about death and stuff. It’s more like he’s writing about these things from a distance, honestly, but with a certain degree of animosity.

Eldorado Micro is a bit too much, but the roman is quit fine. I love the hand-crafted feel of it. And Prospera is worth trying out for sure. Does the Prospera family contain more glyphs than the website shows?

Vendetta seems like quite a good choice. But I’m also getting this feeling that you need two distinct voices: something coarse but well-proportioned like Vendetta; but also something clinical and austere, like a Didone, an old-fashioned one, somewhat archaic, maybe turn-of-the-century French. As G W Ovink said*, “Bodoni is an admirable letter for a death notice!” The trick though would be choose two fonts that both contrast and match.

* Actually, that’s a collage of two of his phrases.

hhp

I like Prospera. What about Remontoire? Or Jannon from Storm?

Thanks for everyone’s input. It’s been helpful, and reassuring.

ack! i hope i’m not to late, but another Storm suggestion (or 2):
what says “edge” better than Pentagramme
or if that a bit too edgy, tryPentagraf.

I second Walbaum. That would really fit the look, I think, it’s a fantastic typeface.

The typeface perfect for your book was just released last week: Freight.