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…
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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,… -
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… -
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…