Helen McPhail, tr. Dol de Bretagne, France. Éditions d’écarts. 2014. ISBN 9782919121175Born in 1934 in Dagenham near London, Keith Barnes painted at age eight and wrote his first score at age twe…
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Tartu, Estonia. Ilmamaa. 2014. ISBN 9789985774908 Jüri Talvet’s latest, 375-page collection of poetry, Eesti eleegia ja teisi luuletusi 1981–2012 (Estonian elegy and other poems) compris…
Brother Anthony of Taizé & Lee Sang-Wha, tr. Hexham, Northumberland. Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions. 2015. ISBN 9781780372426Imagine: a young man is forced into compulsory labor while the c…
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Coffee House Press (Consortium, distr.). 2014. ISBN 9781566893756 Beginning with her first collection, Dog Road Woman, Allison Hedge Coke announced herself a…
New York. Rain Mountain Press. 2014. ISBN 9780989705141Philip Dacey, in his fourteenth poetry collection, includes poems published in over forty journals or anthologies. Sixty poems are divided i…
Berkeley, California. Counterpoint. 2013. ISBN 9781619024366This Day is a collection of poems written by Wendell Berry on Sunday walks in the woods and grounds of his farm, spanning (per…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374227012Intensity, eye-searing intensity, characterizes this book from first to last page. The poems are divided into three parts, titled respectiv…
Buffalo, New York. White Pine Press. 2014. ISBN 9781935210627The poet who follows in the footsteps of the late Philip Levine, Tim Skeen, is the winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize for his seco…
Brother Anthony & Yoo Hui-sok, tr. Copenhagen / Los Angeles. Green Integer. 2014. ISBN 9781557134226This hefty pocketbook, Patterns, spans and selects from Lee Si-young’s t…
Fiona Sze-Lorrain, tr. Brookline, Massachusetts / Hong Kong. Zephyr Press & The Chinese University Press. 2014. ISBN 9781938890017 Lan Lan’s poetry in Chinese is as distinct and imm…
New Delhi. Authorspress. 2014. ISBN 9788172737597 Where Have the Dead Gone? And Other Poems contains sixty-seven thought-provoking poems by the seasoned poet Shiv K. Kumar. This poetic j…
New York. Knopf. 2015. ISBN 9780385351072Jane Hirshfield’s new poems emerge as fiercely strong yet tender, drawing on supple intuition and clarifying intelligence to evoke the richness of her authenti…
Kim Stafford, ed. Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2014. ISBN 9781555976644This book ought to be called “One Hundred Quintessential Poems.” Any reader previously unfamiliar with William Staf…
Gurgaon, Haryana. Penguin Books India. 2014. ISBN 9780143420842Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s last poetry collection, before the one under review, was published almost twenty years ago. In the meantime, a…
Stanley Moss, ed. Karen Leeder & Richard Dove, tr. Rhinebeck, New York. Sheep Meadow Press. 2014. ISBN 9781937679378Poet Michael Krüger feels with unmistakable conviction that one purpose in life…
New Delhi. Authorspress. 2014. ISBN 9788172739201C. L. Khatri’s third poetry collection, Two-Minute Silence, contains thirty-four poems and fifty-five haiku aimed at awakening humanity’s…
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2013. ISBN 9781556594045Tom Hennen’s newest book is a new-and-collected volume, including poems from 1974 to the present, showing that Hennen has b…
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…
Kareem James Abu-Zeid, tr. New York. New York Review Books. 2014. ISBN 9781590177303Najwan Darwish is a young Palestinian poet, born in Jerusalem in 1978. He is no relation to the great Palestinian po…
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 intrig…
Rachel Tzvia Back, tr. & intro. Pittsburgh. Hebrew Union College Press / University of Pittsburgh Press. 2014. ISBN 9780878202553There is reason to celebrate the publication of this scholarly…
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 9788890538544Like Branches to Wind: Poems 2008. Turin. Lower Canal…
Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2014. ISBN 9781566893510From 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 9781908836700Occasionally brilliant lines and humorous passages are frequently mixed with truly perplexing, illegible…
Paul Scott Derrick & Viorica Pâtea, tr. Hexham, Northumberland. Bloodaxe (Dufour, distr.). 2014. ISBN 9781780371054Readers coming belatedly to the work of Ana Blandiana may be puzzled at the disco…