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…
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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…
Notre Dame, Indiana. University of Notre Dame Press. 2013. ISBN 9780268033897It 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 9780670086818The 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. Thi…
Pécs. Pannonia Könyvek. 2014. ISBN 9789639893870This charming little poetry book, Rózsalovaglás (Riding with roses), is George Gömöri’s latest production. Rarely does a slim book contain…
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 Akı…
Piotr Gwiazda, tr. Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr Press. 2013. ISBN 9781938890000So-called immigrant literature remains a popular read, even though the stories have become more and more predictable…
New York. Penguin. 2013. ISBN 9780143123880Pattiann Rogers’s poems in Holy Heathen Rhapsody inspire a feeling of transcendence in using language to create a riotous sense of abandon and a joy…
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon. 2013. ISBN 9781556594090This collection of W. S. Merwin’s translations is a deeply worthy book, beautifully produced, and meant to last as a physical object a…
Belgrade. LOM. 2013. ISBN 9788679580740Zvonko Karanović says that his eighth book, Kavezi (Cages), a surreal prose poetry collection that has just won the prestigious Biljana Jovanović a…
Toronto. McClelland & Stewart. 2013. ISBN 9780771035906At their best, Lorna Goodison’s poems observe the unsavory in history and society even as they guide us firmly toward sources of re…
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon. 2012. ISBN 9781556594083Dan Gerber’s eighth book of poetry is concerned mainly with relationships, memories, and a desire for continuance—important, but…
San Antonio, Texas. Wings Press (IPG, distr.). 2013. ISBN 9781609403102In Sueño: New Poems, Lorna Dee Cervantes invokes the song of storytelling, both in a literal lyrical sense and also…
Gini Alhadeff, ed. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2013. ISBN 9780374217440 My Poems Won’t Change the World opens with poetry almost haiku-like in its concision and simp…
Sholeh Wolpé, ed. Fayetteville. University of Arkansas Press. 2013. ISBN 9781557286291This collection transforms the motto e pluribus unum into verse. Iranian American poet Sholeh Wolpé broug…- Kraljevo, Serbia. Narodna Biblioteka Stefan Provovenčani. 2013. ISBN 9788681355374Danica Vukićević, a Serbian poet from Belgrade, offers us feminist social criticism in an often-fragmented free-verse…