New York. W. W. Norton. 2024. 144 pages.
In Li-Young Lee’s latest collection, The Invention of the Darling, the seminal poet grants us both familiarity and departure from his previous…
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West Caldwell, New Jersey. Terrapin Books. 2024. 94 pages. How wonderful to discover a collection of poems based on my native habitat! I feel I’ve walked Hayden Saunier’s paths, seen…
New York. World Poetry Books. 2024. 40 pages. Ibrahim Nasrallah’s recent chapbook collection of poems, translated from Arabic, explores erasure as both a poetic technique and lived ex…
Manchester, UK. Carcanet Press. 2024. 122 pages. In Oksana Maksymchuk’s Still City, war and everyday life collide, causing a dramatic shift in perspective about what matters and what…
Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press. 2024. 256 pages. Ilan Stavans’s selections from seven of Juan Gelman’s collections, originally published between 1982 and 2001, showcase G…
Frankfort, Kentucky. Broadstone Books. 2024. 88 pages. From the pun of the title and the triptych cover photograph, Tim Hunt’s Western Where challenges our nostalgia and the stories w…
Granada. Sonámbulos Ediciones. 2023. 176 pages. All poetry anthologies offer readers a panorama of a writer’s life work as well as a view of the different creative stages through whic…
London. Bloodaxe Books. 2024. 160 pages. The title of a poem or a poetry collection often sets up a stage for expectations. Shadow Reader, by Imtiaz Dharker, the recipient of the Quee…
Boston. Black Ocean. 2024. 95 pages. Originally published in Spanish in 2015, Valeria Meiller’s The Odd Month is a stunning volume of prose poetry constructed of a multilayered world…
Bloomington, Indiana. Slavica. 2023. 118 pages. Since his nomination for Poland’s Nike Award in 1997, poet Wojciech Wencel has seen acclaim, disappointment, and resurgence in his nat…
London. Faber & Faber. 2024. 208 pages. David Harsent’s new collection, Skin, is presented in ten sections with such titles as “Stones,” “Salt Moon,” “Hallways and Rooms,” “At the…
Grand Canyon, Arizona. Grand Canyon Conservancy. 2024. 59 pages. It is no secret that the modern world has given us incredible advances in technology and a thousand ways to connect, y…
New York. Sundial House. 2024. 152 pages. Aptly titled Music for Bamboo Strings, there is a melodic quality in this collection by Cuban American poet Carlos Pintado. Recipient of the…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2024. 72 pages. The poetry of Eliana Hernández-Pachón’s The Brush explores the limits of language to communicate horror, centering on one of the worst mas…
London. Seagull Books. 2023. 96 pages. Palestinian American poet and translator Fady Joudah describes Ghassan Zaqtan as “a lyricist with strong narrative impulse.” Such is certainly t…
London. Seagull Books. 2024. 140 pages. Samira Negrouche (b. 1980, Algiers) likes mathematics and art. Science balances the infinitesimal and the cosmos; it organizes, labels, and cou…
Pasadena, California. Red Hen Press. 2024. 96 pages. My Infinity is a volume that puts Didi Jackson’s talent on full display. This is only her second poetry volume (the first, Moon J…
Georgetown, Kentucky. Finishing Line Press. 2024. 104 pages. After reading Trespassing My Ancestral Lands, I’m reminded of the profound substance and lucid language of C. P. Cavafy’s…
Medford, Massachusetts. Arrowsmith Press. 2024. 158 pages. Nidia Hernández’s debut collection of poetry is a lyric sanctuary, an invitation to meditate on the natural world and what i…
Pittsburg, Kansas. Pittsburg State University. 2024. 48 pages. I first learned of E. D. Watson’s powerful work one dizzying day before writing this review. Prowling social media for s…
New York. World Poetry Books. 2023. 160 pages. Dimitra Kotoula’s The Slow Horizon That Breathes is a significant introduction to the contemporary Greek poet who, asid…
London. Jonathan Cape. 2024. 64 pages. A poet of both British and Ukrainian heritage, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight possesses the ability and insight to write poems about Russia’s bruta…
Dallas. Phoneme Media. 2024. 225 pages. Conceição Lima was born in 1961, in São Tomé, the largest island comprising the small western African nation of São Tomé and Príncipe. She stud…
Delhi. Hawakal. 2023. 119 pages. Chaitali Sengupta’s The Crossings focuses largely on the pity that war entails. It presents war as having an intersectional trajectory of destruction,…
Middletown, Connecticut. Wesleyan University Press. 2023. 74 pages. Fierce Elegy, by Peter Gizzi, is an impactful rumination of sixteen poems on the transformative capacity of myopic…