Fady Joudah, tr. Portland, Oregon. Tavern Books. 2014. ISBN 9781935635406
Petra is a beautiful hand-sewn chapbook whose text is set in handsome Garamond typeface printed on archival-quality p…
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- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374535612 Farrar, Straus and Giroux has published Seamus Heaney’s Selected Poems in two volumes, the first including poems from 1966 to 1…
- County Clare, Ireland. Salmon Poetry / Dufour Editions. 2015. isbn 9781910669082 The little town in which I teach has sustained a Thursday-night open-mic poetry event for the last twenty-one years, an…
- Helen McPhail, tr. Dol de Bretagne, France. Éditions d’écarts. 2014. ISBN 9782919121175 Born in 1934 in Dagenham near London, Keith Barnes painted at age eight and wrote his first score at age twelve.…
- Tartu, Estonia. Ilmamaa. 2014. ISBN 9789985774908 Jüri Talvet’s latest, 375-page collection of poetry, Eesti eleegia ja teisi luuletusi 1981–2012 (Estonian elegy and other poems) comprises a…
- Brother Anthony of Taizé & Lee Sang-Wha, tr. Hexham, Northumberland. Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions. 2015. ISBN 9781780372426 Imagine: a young man is forced into compulsory labor while the civil…
- Minneapolis, Minnesota. Coffee House Press (Consortium, distr.). 2014. ISBN 9781566893756 Beginning with her first collection, Dog Road Woman, Allison Hedge Coke announced herself as a poet…
- New York. Rain Mountain Press. 2014. ISBN 9780989705141 Philip Dacey, in his fourteenth poetry collection, includes poems published in over forty journals or anthologies. Sixty poems are divided into…
- Berkeley, California. Counterpoint. 2013. ISBN 9781619024366 This Day is a collection of poems written by Wendell Berry on Sunday walks in the woods and grounds of his farm, spanning (perhaps…
- New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374227012 Intensity, eye-searing intensity, characterizes this book from first to last page. The poems are divided into three parts, titled respecti…
- Buffalo, New York. White Pine Press. 2014. ISBN 9781935210627 The poet who follows in the footsteps of the late Philip Levine, Tim Skeen, is the winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize for his sec…
- Brother Anthony & Yoo Hui-sok, tr. Copenhagen / Los Angeles. Green Integer. 2014. ISBN 9781557134226 This hefty pocketbook, Patterns, spans and selects from Lee Si-young’s ten previous co…
- Fiona Sze-Lorrain, tr. Brookline, Massachusetts / Hong Kong. Zephyr Press & The Chinese University Press. 2014. ISBN 9781938890017 Lan Lan’s poetry in Chinese is as distinct and immediately recog…
- New Delhi. Authorspress. 2014. ISBN 9788172737597 Where Have the Dead Gone? And Other Poems contains sixty-seven thought-provoking poems by the seasoned poet Shiv K. Kumar. This poetic journ…
- New York. Knopf. 2015. ISBN 9780385351072 Jane Hirshfield’s new poems emerge as fiercely strong yet tender, drawing on supple intuition and clarifying intelligence to evoke the richness of her authent…
- Kim Stafford, ed. Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2014. ISBN 9781555976644 This book ought to be called “One Hundred Quintessential Poems.” Any reader previously unfamiliar with William Stafford…
- Gurgaon, Haryana. Penguin Books India. 2014. ISBN 9780143420842 Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s last poetry collection, before the one under review, was published almost twenty years ago. In the meantime, a…
- Stanley Moss, ed. Karen Leeder & Richard Dove, tr. Rhinebeck, New York. Sheep Meadow Press. 2014. ISBN 9781937679378 Poet Michael Krüger feels with unmistakable conviction that one purpose in life…
- New Delhi. Authorspress. 2014. ISBN 9788172739201 C. L. Khatri’s third poetry collection, Two-Minute Silence, contains thirty-four poems and fifty-five haiku aimed at awakening humanity’s con…
- Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2013. ISBN 9781556594045 Tom Hennen’s newest book is a new-and-collected volume, including poems from 1974 to the present, showing that Hennen has been…
- New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374152017 It is not unusual that a poet entering her eighth decade should be preoccupied with the subject of mortality, but what is surprising in L…
- Kareem James Abu-Zeid, tr. New York. New York Review Books. 2014. ISBN 9781590177303 Najwan Darwish is a young Palestinian poet, born in Jerusalem in 1978. He is no relation to the great Palestinian p…
- Beaumont, Texas. Lamar University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780991107483 Whether in free verse or in her formal poems, Carol Smallwood presents a reflective tone for the greater part of this intriguing new…
- Rachel Tzvia Back, tr. & intro. Pittsburgh. Hebrew Union College Press / University of Pittsburgh Press. 2014. ISBN 9780878202553 There is reason to celebrate the publication of this scholarly und…
A Prayer in a Wolf’s Mouth: Poems 2013–2014 and Like Branches to Wind: Poems 2008 by Richard Milazzo
A Prayer in a Wolf’s Mouth: Poems 2013–2014. Turin. Lower Canal Books. 2014. ISBN 9788890538544 Like Branches to Wind: Poems 2008. Turin. Lower Cana…