New York. Knopf. 2022. 286 pages.
AT THE CORE of A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems, is a double (external/internal) exile that causes the poet to periodica…
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New York. Penguin. 2022. 128 pages. TIME IS A MOTHER is Ocean Vuong’s second poetry collection and his first book since 2019, when the award-winning novel …
Manchester, UK. Carcanet Press. 2022. 152 pages. SECULAR ATHEISTS OR adherents to faiths other than Christianity who admire fine poetry should not avoid reading John F. Deane’s…
Sandpoint, Idaho. Lost Horse Press. 2021. 206 pages. UKRAINIAN POET Natalka Bilotserkivets had her first two collections of poems published in the 1970s, although she started wr…
Waratah, Australia. Puncher & Wattmann. 2021. 98 pages. FIFTEENERS IS THE latest stunning installment in this storied poet’s fearless oeuvre, and Jordie Albiston’s book of strang…
London. Seagull Books. 2021. 124 pages. ALAIN MABANCKOU, a native of the Congo and a longtime professor at UCLA, is one of the world’s leading francophone authors. I…
New York. New Directions. 2022. 121 pages. DURING HER SHORT lifetime, Forough Farrokhzad (1934–1967) risked everything to become one of Iran’s foremost feminist voices. Her poem “Sin…
New York. Farrar Straus and Giroux. 2021. 64 pages. LOUISE GLÜCK HAS been the recipient of nearly every award recognizing a poet’s craft. In November 2020 she was awarded the No…-
New York. Farrar Straus and Giroux. 2021. 64 pages. LOUISE GLÜCK HAS been the recipient of nearly every award recognizing a poet’s craft. In November 2020 she was awarded the No…
Boston. Beacon Press. 2021. 112 pages. THE POEMS OF Dear Specimen combine human and ecological grief into an elegy for all earthly life. W. J. Herbert’s poems cohere in…
Brooklyn. Ugly Duckling Presse. 2021. 153 pages. POLINA BARSKOVA, poet and professor, is the author of twelve books of poetry in Russian and two books of prose, with three books…
New Haven. Yale University Press. 2021. 255 pages. WHEN ASKED ABOUT her primary influences, María Baranda pointed to Lebanese poet Andrée Chedid for her “luminosity” and the textures…
New Orleans. Diálogos Books. 2021. 227 pages. WITH ALMOST NO subject matter being taboo in postmodern poetry, ironically the oldest subject of all is, for most contemporary poet…
New York. Archipelago Books. 2022. 96 pages. WITH DISTANT TRANSIT, her new poetry collection in English, Maja Haderlap returns to the questions that inform her prizewinning…
Tallahassee. Anhinga Press. 2021. 128 pages. CLEMONCE HEARD PRESENTS a timely yet timeless collection in Tragic City, consisting of poems that artfully push against a singul…
Grinnell, Iowa. Green Linden Press. 2021. 350 pages. ESSENTIAL VOICES: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora brings together 130 twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets…
Neviano, Italy. Musicaos Editore. 2021. 202 pages. IN THE BILINGUAL English/Italian edition of Alexander Shurbanov’s book of poems Dendrarium, originally written in Bul…
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Art & Letters. 2021. 154 pages. 14 INTERNATIONAL YOUNGER POETS, a volume edited by Russian American poet Philip Nikolayev, seeks to carve a spa…
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 2021. 96 pages. IF YOU WANT to understand what the poet Atsuro Riley is up to, start with the title of his second collection: Heard-Hoard…
Sonoma County, Calif. Staring Problem Press. 2020. 48 pages. My eyes goldened. / You are mirrored in the surface / of my internal organs. –Margarita Serafimova, “My ey…
Miami. Suburbano Ediciones. 2021. 108 pages. LANGUAGE OFTEN TAKES on cardinal importance for the displaced. Immigrants, exiles, and their children have historically found new ho…
Allahabad, India. Cyberwit. 2021. 84 pages. ROMANIAN ARTIST Constantin Severin’s latest volume of poetry is a gentle gift. Thematically, and in terms of the fineness of language here…
Clinton, Massachusetts. Textshop Editions. 2021. 68 pages. KRZYSZTOF SWICZYK (b. 1977), known for his love of performance arts and multiple media, reflects on the inadequacy of…
Phoenix. Cardboard House Press. 2021. 81 pages. MAYRA SANTOS-FEBRES’S Boat People sloshes against the categorizable and indexical violence of logistics and discipline,…
Georgetown, Kentucky. Finishing Line Press. 2020. 46 pages. LEEYA MEHTA’S remarkable recent verse collection charts one woman’s attempts to isolate and identify a sense of heritage,…