Winston-Salem, N.C. Wake Forest University Press. 2012. ISBN 9781930630604
This complex, evocative volume takes up the theme of haunting and return so central to Harry Clifton’s work, and does so mas…
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- Alamgir Hashmi, ed. Rafey Habib, Faruq Hassan, and David Matthews, tr. Whistler, British Columbia / Islamabad, Pakistan. Plainview. 2011. ISBN 9789699670008 Your Essence, Martyr may serve as…
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Wake Forest University Press. 2012. ISBN 9781930630598 Speech Lessons exhibits all the lyrical grace of John Montague’s previous volumes without ever slipping…
- New York. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307269683 Jack Gilbert’s Collected Poems may be one of the most important collections to appear this decade. Gilbert has an enduring mystique for his contempo…
- Tibor Bárány, ed. Budapest. Magvető. 2012. ISBN 9789631430233 Hungarian poetry is traditionally more engaged than private. Poems like Sándor Petőfi’s “National Song” ushered in the March revolution of…
- London. Salt. 2011. ISBN 9781844713462 From the mid-1990s, Andy Brown has emerged from the small-press scene to become an important voice in the British poetry revival. As director of Exeter Universit…
- Belgrade. Arhipelag. 2011. ISBN 9788652300143 Jelena Lengold’s sixth book, Bunar Teških Reči (A well of heavy words), published twenty years after her previous poetry collection (she has publ…
- Sinan Antoon, tr. New York. Archipelago. 2011. ISBN 9781935744016 Mahmoud Darwish, who died in 2008, threaded themes of death and loss throughout his poetry of hope, resistance, and empowerment. He an…
- Iain Galbraith, tr. London / New York. Hamish Hamilton / Random House. 2011 / 2012. ISBN 9780241144732 / 9781400068906 We know enough about translation to know that the poems of W. G. Sebald’s Acr…
- Rockford, Michigan. Presa. 2012. ISBN 9780983125136 A good many of Kerry Shawn Keys’s poems can be characterized, if not explained, by the lines “Everything’s open to derangement” and “There aren’t an…
- Geoffrey Brock, ed. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-0374105389 To edit an anthology of modern poetry in translation is no easy task: not only must individual poets and poems from…
- Norman, Oklahoma. Mezcalita. 2012. ISBN 9780983738305 Even if you own the four early books that make up the “selected” portions of Nathan Brown’s “New and Selected Poems,” I recommend this book for th…
- Robin Robertson, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2011. ISBN 9780374533533 When Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, almost all European critics had to…
- Denver. Counterpath. 2011. ISBN 978-1933996233 Our appreciation of poetry almost always takes place within a single language. Although poems written in one language can be translated into other langu…
- Duane Hada, ill. Norman, Oklahoma. Mongrel Empire. 2011. ISBN 9780983305262 Brothers Duane and Ken Hada have produced an unusual and unusually beautiful book, which traces the White River, from its or…
- 5 vols., 2 CDs. Donna Tamaki, Soraya Umewaka, and the author, trs. Konan City, Japan. Ishibe-higashi. 1999–2012. ISBN 9784944229765, 9784944229534, 9784944229710, 9784904625002, 9784904625019 Shizue…
- New York. Knopf. 2011. ISBN 978-0307595423 Although the range of material and features of style are essentially that of her earlier work—that is, not developmentally new—Jane Hirshfield’s latest book…
- Minneapolis, Minnesota. Coffee House. 2011. isbn 9781566892773 In the Shadow of Al-Andalus opens with a selection of epigraphs one might expect in a scholarly publication. Quotations by the m…
- New Delhi / London. Penguin / Hamish Hamilton. 2011. ISBN 9780670085415 / 9780241144916 “The hermit sits upon the ice. / The bluish light burns all around, / Immune to flame and sacrifice, / To breat…
- Brother Anthony of Taizé & Lee Hyung-Jin, trs. Ithaca, New York. East Asia Program, Cornell University. 2011. ISBN 9781933947501 In the preface to Walking on a Washing Line, translator B…
- Mari Kaljuste, ill. Tallinn, Estonia. Varrak. 2010. 102 pages. €11.25. isbn 978-9985-3-2091-4 Second only to the late Jaan Kross and alongside Mats Traat, the creator of a lengthy rural series, Ene M…
- Peggy Reid et al., tr. Carolyn Forché, intro. Rochester, New York. BOA. 2011. 103 pages. $16. isbn 978-1-934414-50-7 Remnants of Another Age is a bilingual Macedonian-English edition of sele…
- Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez et al., ed. Madison. University of Wisconsin Press. 2010. xxi + 337 pages. $26.95. isbn 978-0-299-23664-9 African Women Writing Resistance is a compelling and sa…
- Notre Dame, Indiana. University of Notre Dame Press. 2011. xiii + 55 pages. $15. isbn 978-0-268-04236-3 Imagine a market in a tropical city: bright sunshine, intense colors, rhythmic sounds of music…
- Mexico City. Ediciones Era: Dirección de Literatura / UNAM. 2010. 186 pages. $21.95. isbn 978-607-445-030-9 Juan Gelman (b. 1930, Buenos Aires), whom readers and critics have often accurately classif…