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…
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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…
Paris. P.O.L. 2013. ISBN 9782818019733Jacques Jouet’s latest book of poetry responds in key ways to a work that appeared fifteen years ago, Navet, linge, œil-de-vieux (1998). The dimensions o…
Bucharest. Contemporary Literature Press. 2013. ISBN 9786068366647 The story of Ariadne’s thread leading Theseus out of the labyrinth is a useful metaphor for the strands that bring this book to…- Philadelphia. Calypso Editions. 2013. ISBN 9780988790308We are being buried alive under the huge number of poetry titles published not only each year but each month. Most of the books are by younger p…
Rochester, New York. BOA Editions. 2013. ISBN 9781938160189 The title of Fleda Brown’s new verse collection comes from Robert Creeley’s statement (included in the book as an epigraph) that “poetr…
Aleš Debeljak, intro. Michael Biggins et al., tr. Champaign, Illinois. Dalkey Archive. 2012. ISBN 9781564787835One key to Boris A. Novak’s poetic development over four decades can be found in the clos…- Novi Sad. Umetničko društvo Vujica Rešin Tucić. 2012 (rel. 2013). ISBN 9788689457001In his seventh collection of poems, Vode i Vetrovi (Waters and the winds), Serbian poet Nenad…
- Michael Bishop, tr. Bedford, Nova Scotia. VVV / William Blake & Co. 2013. ISBN 9782841032051Set in free form, Jean-Paul Michel’s idealistic and analytical poetry shows him struggling wit…
Michael Eskin, tr. New York. Upper West Side Philosophers. 2013. ISBN 9781935830078Durs Grünbein’s philosophical poetics in Mortal Diamond come to us in English from Upper West Side Phil…
Middletown, Connecticut. Wesleyan University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780819572691 When opening a book of poetry by Annie Finch, the first thing a reader will notice is that the poems are dense—dense i…
Ilmar Lehtpere, tr. Fayetteville, New York. Bitter Oleander. 2012. ISBN 9780978633585 Kristiina Ehin’s voluminous bilingual (the original Estonian and English translation) collection of one hundr…
Nacogdoches, Texas. Stephen F. Austin State University Press. 2013. ISBN 9781622880171 Like Wordsworth revisiting the Banks of the Wye, Christopher Buckley returns here to the California coast of…