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…
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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…
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, il…
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 betwe…
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…
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 seamles…
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 a…
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 emplo…
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…
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374119027The tenor of this newest book by Charles Wright is announced by the titles of its three sections: “Echoes,” “End Papers,” and “Apocr…
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 Felici…
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 collec…
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…