Eirik Lodén, tr. Stavanger, Norway. Wigestrand. 2012. ISBN 9788281401150
Partly a poetic biography of Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802–87), partly the portrait of an epoch, An Elastic State of Mind r…
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- New York. New York Quarterly Books. 2013. ISBN 9781935520719 In reading Benjamin Myers’s second collection of poetry, one is struck with how frequently “neighbors” and “neighborhood” occur, sometimes…
- Han Dong. A Phone Call from Dalian. Nicky Harman et al., ed. Brookline, Massachusetts / Hong Kong. Zephyr / Chinese University Press of Hong Kong. 2012. ISBN 9780983297017 Ouyang Jianghe.…
- George Economou with Stavros Deligiorgis, tr. Bristol, United Kingdom. Shearsman. 2013. ISBN 9781848612662 When Plato compared Greeks to frogs around a pond, he probably could not have envisioned the…
- Megan Volpert, ed. Alexander, Arkansas. Sibling Rivalry. 2013. ISBN 9781937420420 Had Plato been privy to This Assignment Is So Gay, he might have changed his proclamation that would banish…
- George McWhirter, tr. Francisco Toledo, ill. San Francisco. City Lights. 2012. ISBN 9780872865648 With its side-by-side bilingual presentation, accompanied by Francisco Toledo’s bold, whimsical, and…
- Jeffrey Yang, ed. New York. New Directions. 2013. ISBN 9780811220323 It is not without reason that Hemingway symbolized death in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” as a hyena who “slipped lightly along the ed…
- Karen Emmerich & Edmund Keeley, tr. Brooklyn, New York. Archipelago. 2013. ISBN 9781935744580 Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990) was one of the most respected twentieth-century Greek poets, “whose writing…
- Tessa Ransford. Don’t Mention This to Anyone: Poems and Prose Fragments of Life in the Punjab. Jila Peacock, ill. Edinburgh. Luath. 2012. ISBN 9781908373182 Tessa Ransford & Iyad Hayatleh…
- William Pitt Root, tr. San Antonio, Texas. Wings Press. 2013. ISBN 9780916727871 The powerful Odas elementales (1954; Eng. Elemental Odes, 1990) by Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda (1904–…
- Ljubica Arsovska & Peggy Reid, tr. Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon. 2012. ISBN 9781556593758 The latest selection of poetry in English of the prominent Macedonian poet Lidija Dimkovska (b…
- Emily Grosholz, tr. Farhad Ostovani, ill. Lanham, Maryland. Bucknell University Press / Rowman & Littlefield. 2012. ISBN 9781611484588 This outwardly slight, paperbound volume opens to reveal an u…
- Middletown, Connecticut. Wesleyan University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780819573575 There is a kind of fragmentation in contemporary poetry that fails to convince, that seems to have been born only in fragme…
- Piotr Florczyk, tr. Los Angeles, California. Calypso. 2013. ISBN 9780983099994 Although Jarosław Mikołajewski’s poetry debuted in Poland in the 1990s, he has eluded American readers until now. In…
- Minneapolis, Minn. Graywolf. 2013. ISBN 9781555976378 Like a man who takes clocks apart for the sheer joy of showing us the marvelous ways in which they work, James Longenbach displays a great talent…
- Sudeep Sen, ed. New Delhi. HarperCollins India. 2012. ISBN 9789350290415 With the exception of Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (2010), which focuses on…
- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Ecco. 2012. ISBN 9780374126087 Emerging from a reading of this accomplished collected works is like having run a rigorous marathon. While in shorter individual…
- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-0374293321 Despite his many accomplishments, including a Pulitzer and a National Book Award, C. K. Williams begins this book humbly, avowing in “W…
- Jonathan Stalling, tr. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 2012. ISBN 9780806142418 A contemporary of Bei Dao, Mang Ke, and Duo Duo, Shi Zhi (b. 1948) was read and recited by thousands of younger-ge…
- André Naffis-Sahely, tr. Brooklyn, New York. Island Position. 2012. ISBN 9780984845316 It is unfortunate that Moroccan poet and novelist Abdellatif Laâbi is not better known in the English-speak-ing…
- Mumbai. Almost Island. 2012. ISBN 9788192129501 Signs of a new, forthcoming collection by Adil Jussawalla, one of India’s finest English-language poets, had been in the air for some time. A small but…
- Tineke Steenmeijer & Jelle Krol, ed. Ljouwert, Netherlands. Friese Pers. 2011. ISBN 9789033009556 Douwe Annes Tamminga (1909–2002) was the most significant Frisian poet of his generation. His leg…
- New York. Penguin. 2012. ISBN 978-1594204777 If all the poems in A Thousand Mornings were as remarkable and well made as “Hum, Hum,” which mines childhood pain in a powerful way, it would be…
- Belgrade. Konras. 2011. ISBN 9788675520559 Enes Halilović (b. Novi Pazar, 1977) started the prominent literary journal Sent and published three books of poems prior to Pesme iz Bolesti i…
- Montréal. Editions de l’Hexagone. 2012. ISBN 9782896480067 A modern-day troubadour, Hélène Dorion stands outside linear, dualistic thinking in order to examine the existential and physical states of t…