New York. Knopf. 2011. ISBN 978-0307595423Although 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 o…
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- Minneapolis, Minnesota. Coffee House. 2011. isbn 9781566892773In the Shadow of Al-Andalus opens with a selection of epigraphs one might expect in a scholarly publication. Quotations by the me…
- 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 breath…
- Brother Anthony of Taizé & Lee Hyung-Jin, trs. Ithaca, New York. East Asia Program, Cornell University. 2011. ISBN 9781933947501In the preface to Walking on a Washing Line, translator Bro…
- Mari Kaljuste, ill. Tallinn, Estonia. Varrak. 2010. 102 pages. €11.25. isbn 978-9985-3-2091-4Second only to the late Jaan Kross and alongside Mats Traat, the creator of a lengthy rural series, Ene Mih…
- Peggy Reid et al., tr. Carolyn Forché, intro. Rochester, New York. BOA. 2011. 103 pages. $16. isbn 978-1-934414-50-7Remnants of Another Age is a bilingual Macedonian-English edition of s…
- Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez et al., ed. Madison. University of Wisconsin Press. 2010. xxi + 337 pages. $26.95. isbn 978-0-299-23664-9African Women Writing Resistance is a compelling and…
- Notre Dame, Indiana. University of Notre Dame Press. 2011. xiii + 55 pages. $15. isbn 978-0-268-04236-3Imagine a market in a tropical city: bright sunshine, intense colors, rhythmic sounds of music an…
- Mexico City. Ediciones Era: Dirección de Literatura / UNAM. 2010. 186 pages. $21.95. isbn 978-607-445-030-9Juan Gelman (b. 1930, Buenos Aires), whom readers and critics have often accurately classifie…
- Andrew Zawacki, ed. New York. Persea. 2011. xiv + 178 pages. $20. isbn 978-0-89255-365-5Slovenian poet Aleš Debeljak (b. 1961) belongs to the group of prominent intellectuals and writers whose poetry—…
- Judith Wilkinson, tr. Manchester, UK. Carcanet. 2011. ISBN 9781847770837Toon Tellegen's Raptors is one of those books for which very little can really prepare you. Partly, we suppos…
- London. Enithar-mon (Dufour, distr.). 2011. ISBN 9781907587115Only a poet with a sense of time as expansive as Geoffrey Hill's would attempt an elegy for a man dead almost four hundred years, as Hill…
- Laura Healy, tr. New York. New Directions. 2011. ISBN 9780811219273Tres is not just a Robert Bolaño masterpiece, it's another Bolaño masterpiece. For an author who has been dead since 20…
- Wang Ping & Ron Padgett, tr. Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr. 2010. xvi + 151 pages. $15. ISBN 978-0-9815521-3-2Flash Cards is the first book-length collection of Yu Jian's poetry in Eng…
- Roseville, Michigan. Ridgeway. 2010. 91 pages. $15. ISBN 978-1-56439-133-7It is uncommon for a young poet to debut with an anthology of contemporary poets who are predominantly older and more establis…
- Biljana D. Obradović, tr. Lewiston, New York. Edwin Mellen. 2010. ix + 97 pages. $99.95. isbn 978-0-7734-1462-4In this bilingual edition of Vrata u Polju, awarded Serbia's Prosveta award in 1…
- Southern Barbarians. Sydney, Australia. Giramondo. 2011. 95 pages. Aus $24. ISBN 978-1-920882-58-7 The West: Australian Poems 1989–2009. Fremantle,…