New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Ecco. 2012. ISBN 9780374126087Emerging from a reading of this accomplished collected works is like having run a rigorous marathon. While in shorter individual c…
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- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-0374293321Despite his many accomplishments, including a Pulitzer and a National Book Award, C. K. Williams begins this book humbly, avowing in “Wh…
- Jonathan Stalling, tr. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 2012. ISBN 9780806142418A contemporary of Bei Dao, Mang Ke, and Duo Duo, Shi Zhi (b. 1948) was read and recited by thousands of younger-gen…
- 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-…
- Mumbai. Almost Island. 2012. ISBN 9788192129501Signs 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 s…
- 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…
- New York. Penguin. 2012. ISBN 978-1594204777If 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 a…
- Belgrade. Konras. 2011. ISBN 9788675520559Enes Halilović (b. Novi Pazar, 1977) started the prominent literary journal Sent and published three books of poems prior to Pesme iz Bolesti i Z…
- Montréal. Editions de l’Hexagone. 2012. ISBN 9782896480067A modern-day troubadour, Hélène Dorion stands outside linear, dualistic thinking in order to examine the existential and physical states…
- 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…
- Alamgir Hashmi, ed. Rafey Habib, Faruq Hassan, and David Matthews, tr. Whistler, British Columbia / Islamabad, Pakistan. Plainview. 2011. ISBN 9789699670008Your Essence, Martyr may serv…
- 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 slipp…
- 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 cont…
- Tibor Bárány, ed. Budapest. Magvető. 2012. ISBN 9789631430233Hungarian poetry is traditionally more engaged than private. Poems like Sándor Petőfi’s “National Song” ushered in the March revolution of…
- London. Salt. 2011. ISBN 9781844713462From 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 Unive…
- Belgrade. Arhipelag. 2011. ISBN 9788652300143Jelena Lengold’s sixth book, Bunar Teških Reči (A well of heavy words), published twenty years after her previous poetry collection (she has publi…
- Sinan Antoon, tr. New York. Archipelago. 2011. ISBN 9781935744016Mahmoud Darwish, who died in 2008, threaded themes of death and loss throughout his poetry of hope, resistance, and empowerment. He and…
- Iain Galbraith, tr. London / New York. Hamish Hamilton / Random House. 2011 / 2012. ISBN 9780241144732 / 9781400068906We know enough about translation to know that the poems of W. G. Sebald’s Acro…
- Rockford, Michigan. Presa. 2012. ISBN 9780983125136A 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 any…
- Geoffrey Brock, ed. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-0374105389To 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 9780983738305Even 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 the…
- Robin Robertson, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2011. ISBN 9780374533533When 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 l…
- Duane Hada, ill. Norman, Oklahoma. Mongrel Empire. 2011. ISBN 9780983305262Brothers Duane and Ken Hada have produced an unusual and unusually beautiful book, which traces the White River, from its ori…
- 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 S…