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…
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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 challengi…
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 a…
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, street…
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…
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 coll…
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 matte…
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.…
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…
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…
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2017. 260 pages. Thom Satterlee’s translation, with facing-page originals, of the eminent Danish poet Per Aage Brandt is a great opportunity for the anglophone poetry…
Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr Press. 2017. 110 pages. Oxygen is a modest sampling of Julia Fiedorczuk’s poems—not quite a Selected Poems—that falls into three categories: “Lands a…
New York. New Directions. 2017. 224 pages. Ryszard Krynicki belongs to the extraordinary generation of Polish poets, known as the New Wave, who came of age in the late 1960s. Not to be confused with t…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2017. 64 pages. The sonnet carries more freight than any other form in the English tradition, which it entered early in the sixteenth century through Thomas Wyatt’…
Evanston, Illinois. Triquarterly Books / Northwestern University Press. 2017. 218 pages. City of Bones: A Testament is an impressive collection of poems, divided into four parts, which employ…
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Press 53. 2017. 63 pages. Lion Brothers, Leona Sevick’s first full-length poetry collection, is named for the textile factory where the poet’s Korean m…
New Delhi. Copper Coin. 2017. 166 pages. As a publication format, the “new and selected poems” allows a poet’s corpus to grow incrementally and retrospectively at the same time, with each new collecti…
Tucson. University of Arizona Press. 2017. 82 pages. The lacunae in literary and cultural studies of the Pacific is here mended and woven into the fabric of the basket in Marshallese daughter Kathy Je…
London. Enitharmon Press. 2017. 189 pages. Considering the breadth of poetry contained within, Writing the Real is a relatively brief but highly dense collection. For those interested in the…
New York. Liveright. 2017. 153 pages. The difficulty of translation increases with the complexity of the text. With poetry, there’s a great deal to be lost in translation. Simon Armitage’s new verse t…
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Wake Forest University Press. 2016 (©2015). 112 pages. Anyone raised in or near an indigenous culture will understand the ways in which language permeates the local sens…
Fayetteville, New York. Bitter Oleander Press. 2016. 117 pages. The Hunchbacks’ Bus marks the first published collection of Nora Iuga’s poetry in English, a reminder that too many prominent R…
New Delhi. Nirala. 2016. 81 pages. On what seemed like an ordinary day in 2015, a series of rumbles jostled the Nepali region, killing thousands and thrusting countless more into homelessness. An enco…
Buffalo, New York. White Pine Press. 2016. 94 pages. American readers owe their gratitude to White Pine Press and to translators YoungShil Ji and Daniel T. Parker for making BoSeon Shim’s fascinating…
Athens. Ypokeimeno Press. 2016. 62 pages. Jazra Grozny is the long-awaited first poetry collection in Greek of the controversial and charismatic Greek-Chechen poet Jazra Khaleed. For the last…