New Delhi. Bloomsbury India. 2020. 138 pages.
INDIA AND LATIN AMERICA, two distant lands sitting tens of thousands of miles away from each other, share an unusual bond through Christ…
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Sydney. Vagabond Press. 2020. 90 pages. IN A POST-TEXTUAL, epidemic-prone milieu swarming with algorithm and AI, the imagistic texts from these three emerging, prizewinning young Kor…
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2021. 560 pages. THIS COLLECTION IS a book I think you will want to live with, as I have been living with it for a few months now. Art…
Somerville, Massachusetts. Červená Barva Press. 2020. 109 pages. EVERY ONCE IN a while, a poet finds a new way to body forth in verse their cultural reality. Lavinia and Her Daughters,…
Phoenix. Cardboard House Press. 2020. 128 pages. WITH AGUSTÍN FERNÁNDEZ MALLO’S Pixel Flesh, translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington, Cardboard House Press brings to r…
Nacogdoches, Texas. SFA University Press. 2021. 120 pages. IN THIS NEWEST COLLECTION, Christopher Buckley’s twenty-sixth, you might expect to see some evidence of decline, overwritin…
Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2021. 80 pages. THE POETRY OF KAVEH AKBAR reminds you that the body is a temple and that the most astounding shit happens in temples. Pilgrim Bell…
Evanston, Illinois. TriQuarterly. 2021.184 pages. STRUCTURED IN THREE movements—Overture, Performance, Postlude—The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse is…
New York. W. W. Norton. 2021. 240 pages. LIVING NATIONS, LIVING WORDS is a project conceived of and curated by US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and sponsored by the Library of Con…
Eugene, Oregon. Resource Publications. 2020. 188 pages. I SUPPOSE IN A BOOK REVIEW one should not be overtly polemical or even intrusive, supposing a reader’s viewpoint. Yet, in a ti…
Manchester, UK. Carcanet. 2020. 88 pages. THE OPENING POEMS of Bill Manhire’s new verse collection, Wow, suggest an ecological theme. The first poem, “Huia,” is about an ext…
Zagreb. Fraktura. 2020. 128 pages. EVELINA RUDAN (b. 1971) is an awarded and translated Croatian poet and scholar. She has published several poetry books, some of wh…
Brooklyn. The Operating System. 2019. 106 pages. BIZHAN ELAHI (1945–2010) was not a prominent voice in Iranian poetry during his own lifetime. His relative obscurity might explain wh…
Columbia, South Carolina. Alliteratïon. 2020. 213 pages. “POETRY IS THAT WHICH is worth translating,” says Eliot Weinberger in 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, his 1987…
Kolkata. Seagull Books. 2021. 200 pages. THROUGH NANCY NAOMI CARLSON’S translation of the French original, anglophone readers finally have access to Khal Torabully’s groundbreaking p…
Todmorden. Arc. 2020. 77 pages. THE VILLANELLE OCCUPIES an unstable canonical history. Jean Passerat’s “J’ay perdu ma Tourterelle” (written in 1574, published in 1606) is the only ex…
New York. Penguin Random House. 2020. 112 pages. SLIPPERINESS IN LANGUAGE, often invoked as a postmodern outcome of oppositional poetry, could mean, in some parts of the world, slipp…
Cincinatti. Hebrew Union College Press. 2020. 188 pages. THE POET TUVIA RUEBNER left this world just months before the arrival of a pandemic that has since shaken it. For a life…
New York. NYRB. 2021. 144 pages. IN NAJWAN DARWISH‘S unflinching new collection of poems, Exhausted on the Cross, we witness a poet in conflict with his calling, conversing…
Buffalo, New York. White Pine Press. 2019. 120 pages. IN THE PREFACE to Liking in Silence, eminent Korean poet Kim Sa-in tells his readers that “[growing] up through an era…
New York. Black Spruce Press. 2020. 80 pages. BLACK ICE IS A forceful confrontation with the elements, with the fates, with the self-deceptive possibilities of all human lif…
Selected Poems, 1968–1996 New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. 174 pages. Less Than One New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020 (©1986). 501 pages. On Grief and Rea…
Szczecin, Poland. Forma. 2020. 64 pages. CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ CALLED Anna Frajlich’s poems cantilenas; Stanisław Gliwa said, “You use the keyboard of Polish language so elegantly and with…
Montreal. Metonymy Press. 2020. 104 pages. AS THE FIRST POETRY collection by a self-identifying queer/trans Mauritian artist, ZOM-FAM is a milestone in Mauritian literature.…
New York. Archipelago Books. 2020. 204 pages. THE ITALIAN WORD allegria does not have a true equivalent in English, which makes Allegria a sensible choice for the t…