Minneapolis. Milkweed Editions. 2018. 84 pages.Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance progresses through gradual inoculation. Bit by bit, the reader becomes accustomed to the irony and parad…
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Notre Dame, Indiana. University of Notre Dame Press. 2018. 92 pages.In Kevin Hart’s eighth book of poetry, he uses poetry to talk to the absent or, rather, the ambiguously present: his late father, Go…
New York. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2017. 591 pages.At nearly six hundred pages, this beautifully produced book is comprised of eleven sections of poetry (Galway Kinnell’s ten books and a section of…
Los Angeles. Phoneme Media. 2018. 68 pages.Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir has done the seemingly impossible: taken our contemporary capitalist culture, suffused with moralism as well as not-so-hidden preju…
New Delhi. Speaking Tiger. 2017. 272 pages.C. P. Surendran is, in many ways, a shadowy figure in Indian English poetry. He doesn’t dwell under the blazing lights of ill-deserved fame but in a dark spa…
New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 2017. 90 pages.An acclaimed poet fond of mixing childhood and ecology, myths and quantum science, D. Nurkse publishes here his eleventh volume of poetry. Resonating with sub…
Hexham, United Kingdom. Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions. 2017. 94 pages.The latest collection of poems from prizewinning British author Philip Gross, A Bright Acoustic, is a singularly atten…
Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2018. 112 pages.Even though we now have the scientific ability to understand the various regions of the world our ancestors came from, and even time frames of ancestral mi…
Storrs, Connecticut. World Poetry Books. 2017. 148 pages.Perhaps more than any other oral epic, The Odyssey is a story about retelling one’s own story. It, therefore, demands to be recast and…
Hexham, United Kingdom. Bloodaxe. 2017. 144 pages.Fresh from their magisterial translation of Ana Blandiana’s My Native Land A4 (Bloodaxe, 2010), translators Paul Scott Derrick and Viorica Pa…
London. Seagull Books. 2017. 133 pages.Yves Bonnefoy, undoubtedly one of the major French poets of the last six decades, passed away in 2016, and Ensemble Encore, or Together Still,…
New York. W. W. Norton. 2018. 96 pages.In his latest volume of poems, Li-Young Lee has managed to yoke together lyrical and testimonial voices (see WLT, Jan. 2018, 13–17). Indeed, its title,…
Los Angeles. Green Integer. 2017. 95 pages.Ah, Mouthless Things, published in Korean in 2003 and now translated for the first time into English, is a pocket-sized collection of poems that bes…
Kolkata. Hawakal. 2017. 62 pages.Poetry is a journey in quietude, and Kiriti Sengupta’s Solitary Stillness is no exception. Sengupta has traveled extensively, and his poetic exubera…
Kolkata, India. Hawakal. 2017. 76 pages.In an interview, Linda Ashok, a poet from India whose first collection of poetry, Whorelight, was recently published with a foreword by renowned poet G…
Rochester, New York. BOA Editions. 2017. 151 pages.Born in 1941 in Bologna, Bianca Tarozzi taught English and American literature at the University of Verona in Italy for many years and therefore was…
Northampton, Massachusetts. Interlink Books. 2017. 242 pages.Mahmoud Darwish’s last, posthumously published collection of poems (2009) contains some of the poet’s most accomplished and most challengin…
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2017. 255 pages.In the preface to Ghassan Zaqtan’s The Silence That Remains, translator Fady Joudah tells the reader: “To have memory and to ar…
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2017. 96 pages.In his Concerto Al-Quds, Adonis immortalizes Jerusalem through juxtaposing the city to its past and present rulers, wars, streets…
New York. Persea Books. 2017. 92 pages.Gabrielle Calvocoressi takes us to a world that is at once arresting and comforting, both familiar and strange in her latest book, Rocket Fantastic. I d…
Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr Press. 2017. 103 pages.Late Beauty exemplifies that, while he is fluent in both German and Hebrew, Tuvia Ruebner’s first language is indeed poetry. This colle…
Silver Spring, Maryland. Settlement House. 2017. 110 pages.It is a sad truth of our society that certain forms of language speak louder than others, such that certain voices remain inaudible no matter…
Tokyo. Tsukuda Island Press. 2017. 104 pages.Poems by Richard Milazzo and a folio of black-and-white photos by Fausto Ferri provide beautiful images and a ghostly nostalgia of a world falling apart. F…
Cliffs of Moher, Ireland. Salmon Poetry. 2017. 110 pages.Diann Blakely’s words are steeped in Anglican liturgy and the deep formalism and dense words of contemporary southern American poets. Each of h…
Stavanger, Norway. Wigestrand Forlag. 2017. 117 pages.A California-born poet, nonfiction essayist, translator, dramaturge, and teaching artist, Ren Powell is today at home on the west coast of Norway.…