Miami. Suburbano Ediciones. 2021. 108 pages.
LANGUAGE OFTEN TAKES on cardinal importance for the displaced. Immigrants, exiles, and their children have historically found new homes in…
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Allahabad, India. Cyberwit. 2021. 84 pages. ROMANIAN ARTIST Constantin Severin’s latest volume of poetry is a gentle gift. Thematically, and in terms of the fineness of language here,…
Clinton, Massachusetts. Textshop Editions. 2021. 68 pages. KRZYSZTOF SWICZYK (b. 1977), known for his love of performance arts and multiple media, reflects on the inadequacy of langua…
Phoenix. Cardboard House Press. 2021. 81 pages. MAYRA SANTOS-FEBRES’S Boat People sloshes against the categorizable and indexical violence of logistics and discipline, subsu…
Georgetown, Kentucky. Finishing Line Press. 2020. 46 pages. LEEYA MEHTA’S remarkable recent verse collection charts one woman’s attempts to isolate and identify a sense of heritage, a…
New Delhi. Bloomsbury India. 2020. 138 pages. INDIA AND LATIN AMERICA, two distant lands sitting tens of thousands of miles away from each other, share an unusual bond through Christo…
Sydney. Vagabond Press. 2020. 90 pages. IN A POST-TEXTUAL, epidemic-prone milieu swarming with algorithm and AI, the imagistic texts from these three emerging, prizewinning young Kore…
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2021. 560 pages. THIS COLLECTION IS a book I think you will want to live with, as I have been living with it for a few months now. Arth…
Somerville, Massachusetts. Červená Barva Press. 2020. 109 pages. EVERY ONCE IN a while, a poet finds a new way to body forth in verse their cultural reality. Lavinia and Her Daughters, which…
Phoenix. Cardboard House Press. 2020. 128 pages. WITH AGUSTÍN FERNÁNDEZ MALLO’S Pixel Flesh, translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington, Cardboard House Press brings to readers…
Nacogdoches, Texas. SFA University Press. 2021. 120 pages. IN THIS NEWEST COLLECTION, Christopher Buckley’s twenty-sixth,you might expect to see some evidence of decline, overwriting,…
Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2021. 80 pages. THE POETRY OF KAVEH AKBAR reminds you that the body is a temple and that the most astounding shit happens in temples. Pilgrim Bell…
Evanston, Illinois. TriQuarterly. 2021.184 pages. STRUCTURED IN THREE movements—Overture, Performance, Postlude—The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse is…
New York. W. W. Norton. 2021. 240 pages. LIVING NATIONS, LIVING WORDS is a project conceived of and curated by US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and sponsored by the Library of Cong…
Eugene, Oregon. Resource Publications. 2020. 188 pages. I SUPPOSE IN A BOOK REVIEW one should not be overtly polemical or even intrusive, supposing a reader’s viewpoint. Yet, in a tim…
Manchester, UK. Carcanet. 2020. 88 pages. THE OPENING POEMS of Bill Manhire’s new verse collection, Wow, suggest an ecological theme. The first poem, “Huia,” is about an exti…
Zagreb. Fraktura. 2020. 128 pages. EVELINA RUDAN (b. 1971) is an awarded and translated Croatian poet and scholar. She has published several poetry books, some of whi…
Brooklyn. The Operating System. 2019. 106 pages. BIZHAN ELAHI (1945–2010) was not a prominent voice in Iranian poetry during his own lifetime. His relative obscurity might explain why…
Columbia, South Carolina. Alliteratïon. 2020. 213 pages. “POETRY IS THAT WHICH is worth translating,” says Eliot Weinberger in 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, his 1987 treati…
Kolkata. Seagull Books. 2021. 200 pages. THROUGH NANCY NAOMI CARLSON’S translation of the French original, anglophone readers finally have access to Khal Torabully’s groundbreaking po…
Todmorden. Arc. 2020. 77 pages. THE VILLANELLE OCCUPIES an unstable canonical history. Jean Passerat’s “J’ay perdu ma Tourterelle” (written in 1574, published in 1606) is the only exa…
New York. Penguin Random House. 2020. 112 pages. SLIPPERINESS IN LANGUAGE, often invoked as a postmodern outcome of oppositional poetry, could mean, in some parts of the world, slippe…
Cincinatti. Hebrew Union College Press. 2020. 188 pages. THE POET TUVIA RUEBNER left this world just months before the arrival of a pandemic that has since shaken it. For a life shape…
New York. NYRB. 2021. 144 pages. IN NAJWAN DARWISH‘S unflinching new collection of poems, Exhausted on the Cross, we witness a poet in conflict with his calling, conversing w…
Buffalo, New York. White Pine Press. 2019. 120 pages. IN THE PREFACE to Liking in Silence, eminent Korean poet Kim Sa-in tells his readers that “[growing] up through an era o…