New Delhi. Authorspress. 2014. ISBN 9788172739201
C. L. Khatri’s third poetry collection, Two-Minute Silence, contains thirty-four poems and fifty-five haiku aimed at awakening humanity’s con…
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Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2013. ISBN 9781556594045 Tom Hennen’s newest book is a new-and-collected volume, including poems from 1974 to the present, showing that Hennen has been…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374152017 It is not unusual that a poet entering her eighth decade should be preoccupied with the subject of mortality, but what is surprising in L…
Kareem James Abu-Zeid, tr. New York. New York Review Books. 2014. ISBN 9781590177303 Najwan Darwish is a young Palestinian poet, born in Jerusalem in 1978. He is no relation to the great Palestinian p…
Beaumont, Texas. Lamar University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780991107483 Whether in free verse or in her formal poems, Carol Smallwood presents a reflective tone for the greater part of this intriguing new…
Rachel Tzvia Back, tr. & intro. Pittsburgh. Hebrew Union College Press / University of Pittsburgh Press. 2014. ISBN 9780878202553 There is reason to celebrate the publication of this scholarly und…
A Prayer in a Wolf’s Mouth: Poems 2013–2014 and Like Branches to Wind: Poems 2008 by Richard Milazzo
A Prayer in a Wolf’s Mouth: Poems 2013–2014. Turin. Lower Canal Books. 2014. ISBN 9788890538544 Like Branches to Wind: Poems 2008. Turin. Lower Cana…
Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2014. ISBN 9781566893510 From the beginning of her career, Linda Hogan’s often prayer-like poems evoke liminality, speaking from blurred boundaries of animal and human…
Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland. Salmon Poetry (Dufour, distr.). 2014. ISBN 9781908836700 Occasionally brilliant lines and humorous passages are frequently mixed with truly perplexing, illegibl…
Paul Scott Derrick & Viorica Pâtea, tr. Hexham, Northumberland. Bloodaxe (Dufour, distr.). 2014. ISBN 9781780371054 Readers coming belatedly to the work of Ana Blandiana may be puzzled at the disc…
Nacogdoches, Texas. Stephen F. Austin University Press. 2014. ISBN 9781622880416 Grace Bauer, in her newest collection (forty-nine poems in four numbered parts), anticipates old age, ill health, and…
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press. 2013. ISBN 9781555976354 What happens when the nonhuman confronts the human? Mary Szybist explores the possibilities by making the Annunciation scene between M…
Durham, North Carolina. Duke University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780822356493 / 56615 When we lose a great love, our first impulse is to find a way through the grief—and the rage within the grief. When th…
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Wake Forest University Press. 2013. ISBN 9781930630673 Conor O’Callaghan’s The Sun King is a rich volume that immediately stuns the reader with its seamless in…
Belgrade. Tanesi. 2013. ISBN 9788681567708 With 131 mostly prose poems in six named sections, we get a clear picture of the Serbian American poet Vasa Mihailović (now eighty-eight years of age), who…
Woodstock, New York. Mayapple Press. 2014. ISBN 9781936419357 Eleanor Lerman, a visionary American poet from New York, whispers her view of contemporary society instead of shouting or employing comp…
Clive Wilmer & George Gömöri, tr. Beeston, Nottingham. Shoestring Press. 2013. ISBN 9781907356834 Upon hearing that George Gömöri has lived in England since 1956, someone remarked that Gömöri was…
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374119027 The tenor of this newest book by Charles Wright is announced by the titles of its three sections: “Echoes,” “End Papers,” and “Apocrypha…
Jonathan Harrington, tr. Cullowhee, North Carolina. New Native Press. 2014. ISBN 9781883197317 Like his Isthmus Zapotec contemporaries Victor Terán and Irma Pineda, Yucatec Maya poet Feliciano Sánc…
Brian K. Hudson, ed. Norman, Oklahoma. Mongrel Empire Press. 2014. ISBN 9780985133788 The author’s note at the beginning of From the Extinct Volcano, a Bird of Paradise—a new collection of p…
Medbh McGuckian. The High Caul Cap. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Wake Forest University Press. 2013. ISBN 9781930630659 The poems in The High Caul Cap were written during the long…
Notre Dame, Indiana. University of Notre Dame Press. 2013. ISBN 9780268033897 It is said that poets are the most sensitive human beings, which may explain the looming cloud of suffering and chaos in…
New Delhi. Viking Penguin. 2014. ISBN 9780670086818 The title of Central Time is both an allusion to Ranjit Hoskote’s midlife output and to the obliquely central place of time in his work. Th…
Pécs. Pannonia Könyvek. 2014. ISBN 9789639893870 This charming little poetry book, Rózsalovaglás (Riding with roses), is George Gömöri’s latest production. Rarely does a slim book contain as…
Saliha Paker & Mel Kenne, ed. Greenfield, Massachusetts. Talisman House. 2014. ISBN 9781584980964 If you only acquire a single book of world poetry this year, try this one. In 2008 Gülten Akın wa…