Karen Emmerich & Edmund Keeley, tr. Brooklyn, New York. Archipelago. 2013. ISBN 9781935744580
Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990) was one of the most respected twentieth-century Greek poets, “whose writing…
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- Tessa Ransford. Don’t Mention This to Anyone: Poems and Prose Fragments of Life in the Punjab. Jila Peacock, ill. Edinburgh. Luath. 2012. ISBN 9781908373182 Tessa Ransford & Iyad Hayatleh…
- William Pitt Root, tr. San Antonio, Texas. Wings Press. 2013. ISBN 9780916727871 The powerful Odas elementales (1954; Eng. Elemental Odes, 1990) by Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda (1904–…
- Ljubica Arsovska & Peggy Reid, tr. Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon. 2012. ISBN 9781556593758 The latest selection of poetry in English of the prominent Macedonian poet Lidija Dimkovska (b…
- Emily Grosholz, tr. Farhad Ostovani, ill. Lanham, Maryland. Bucknell University Press / Rowman & Littlefield. 2012. ISBN 9781611484588 This outwardly slight, paperbound volume opens to reveal an u…
- Middletown, Connecticut. Wesleyan University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780819573575 There is a kind of fragmentation in contemporary poetry that fails to convince, that seems to have been born only in fragme…
- Piotr Florczyk, tr. Los Angeles, California. Calypso. 2013. ISBN 9780983099994 Although Jarosław Mikołajewski’s poetry debuted in Poland in the 1990s, he has eluded American readers until now. In…
- Minneapolis, Minn. Graywolf. 2013. ISBN 9781555976378 Like a man who takes clocks apart for the sheer joy of showing us the marvelous ways in which they work, James Longenbach displays a great talent…
- Sudeep Sen, ed. New Delhi. HarperCollins India. 2012. ISBN 9789350290415 With the exception of Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (2010), which focuses on…
- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Ecco. 2012. ISBN 9780374126087 Emerging from a reading of this accomplished collected works is like having run a rigorous marathon. While in shorter individual…
- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-0374293321 Despite his many accomplishments, including a Pulitzer and a National Book Award, C. K. Williams begins this book humbly, avowing in “W…
- Jonathan Stalling, tr. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 2012. ISBN 9780806142418 A contemporary of Bei Dao, Mang Ke, and Duo Duo, Shi Zhi (b. 1948) was read and recited by thousands of younger-ge…
- 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-ing…
- Mumbai. Almost Island. 2012. ISBN 9788192129501 Signs 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…
- 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 leg…
- New York. Penguin. 2012. ISBN 978-1594204777 If 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…
- Belgrade. Konras. 2011. ISBN 9788675520559 Enes Halilović (b. Novi Pazar, 1977) started the prominent literary journal Sent and published three books of poems prior to Pesme iz Bolesti i…
- Montréal. Editions de l’Hexagone. 2012. ISBN 9782896480067 A modern-day troubadour, Hélène Dorion stands outside linear, dualistic thinking in order to examine the existential and physical states of t…
- 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…
- 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…