Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2022. 146 pages.
RECENTLY I FOUND myself way high up in the hills of Berkeley—at the outermost lip of Tilden Park, when the blue-gray dusk turned all…
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Fayetteville. University of Arkansas Press. 2022. 124 pages. ON THE OPENING PAGE of her newest collection, Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse, Iranian-born poet Sholeh W… -
Philadelphia. Paul Dry Books. 2022. 69 pages. A little over halfway through Boris Dralyuk’s new collection of poems, in one of its many sonnets, the reader meets a beguiling but familiar image:… -
Makhanda, South Africa. Deep South. 2021. 67 pages. Dimakatso Sedite’s marvelous debut, Yellow Shade, opens with the poem “Middle-town,” a meditation on the speaker’s origins in a town… -
Trenton, New Jersey. Africa World Press. 2021. 69 pages. IN I Come from a Country, Tijan M. Sallah brings to the façade a deep sense of purpose and a richness of heart… -
Denver. Wisdom Body Collective. 2021. 78 pages. WISDOM BODY COLLECTIVE has released an anthology of thirty-three poems and letters addressing themes Diane di Prima outlined half a ce… -
Sydney. Giramondo. 2022. 96 pages. BEFORE OPENING THIS book, I kept picturing Leonardo DiCaprio fending off a lunging set of teeth and claws, alone in a North American forest. W… -
Cardigan, Wales. Parthian. 2022. 308 pages. TEMPO: Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry is an excellent bilingual survey of current Italian poetry’s diversity… -
Cambridge, UK. Pippa Rann Books & Media. 2021. 176 pages. SUDEEP SEN IS a prolific poet, translator, and editor of influential anthologies. His newest work, Anthropocene… -
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… -
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…
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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…