Tokyo. Tsukuda Island Press. 2017. 104 pages.
Poems by Richard Milazzo and a folio of black-and-white photos by Fausto Ferri provide beautiful images and a ghostly nostalgia of a world falling apart.…
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- Cliffs of Moher, Ireland. Salmon Poetry. 2017. 110 pages. Diann Blakely’s words are steeped in Anglican liturgy and the deep formalism and dense words of contemporary southern American poets. Each of…
- Stavanger, Norway. Wigestrand Forlag. 2017. 117 pages. A California-born poet, nonfiction essayist, translator, dramaturge, and teaching artist, Ren Powell is today at home on the west coast of Norway…
- Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2017. 260 pages. Thom Satterlee’s translation, with facing-page originals, of the eminent Danish poet Per Aage Brandt is a great opportunity for the anglophone poetry…
- Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr Press. 2017. 110 pages. Oxygen is a modest sampling of Julia Fiedorczuk’s poems—not quite a Selected Poems—that falls into three categories: “Lands a…
- New York. New Directions. 2017. 224 pages. Ryszard Krynicki belongs to the extraordinary generation of Polish poets, known as the New Wave, who came of age in the late 1960s. Not to be confused with t…
- New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2017. 64 pages. The sonnet carries more freight than any other form in the English tradition, which it entered early in the sixteenth century through Thomas Wyatt’…
- Evanston, Illinois. Triquarterly Books / Northwestern University Press. 2017. 218 pages. City of Bones: A Testament is an impressive collection of poems, divided into four parts, which employ…
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Press 53. 2017. 63 pages. Lion Brothers, Leona Sevick’s first full-length poetry collection, is named for the textile factory where the poet’s Korean m…
- New Delhi. Copper Coin. 2017. 166 pages. As a publication format, the “new and selected poems” allows a poet’s corpus to grow incrementally and retrospectively at the same time, with each new collecti…
- Tucson. University of Arizona Press. 2017. 82 pages. The lacunae in literary and cultural studies of the Pacific is here mended and woven into the fabric of the basket in Marshallese daughter Kathy Je…
- London. Enitharmon Press. 2017. 189 pages. Considering the breadth of poetry contained within, Writing the Real is a relatively brief but highly dense collection. For those interested in the…
- New York. Liveright. 2017. 153 pages. The difficulty of translation increases with the complexity of the text. With poetry, there’s a great deal to be lost in translation. Simon Armitage’s new verse t…
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Wake Forest University Press. 2016 (©2015). 112 pages. Anyone raised in or near an indigenous culture will understand the ways in which language permeates the local sens…
- Fayetteville, New York. Bitter Oleander Press. 2016. 117 pages. The Hunchbacks’ Bus marks the first published collection of Nora Iuga’s poetry in English, a reminder that too many prominent R…
- New Delhi. Nirala. 2016. 81 pages. On what seemed like an ordinary day in 2015, a series of rumbles jostled the Nepali region, killing thousands and thrusting countless more into homelessness. An enco…
- Buffalo, New York. White Pine Press. 2016. 94 pages. American readers owe their gratitude to White Pine Press and to translators YoungShil Ji and Daniel T. Parker for making BoSeon Shim’s fascinating…
- Athens. Ypokeimeno Press. 2016. 62 pages. Jazra Grozny is the long-awaited first poetry collection in Greek of the controversial and charismatic Greek-Chechen poet Jazra Khaleed. For the last…
- Los Angeles. Phoneme Media. 2016. 89 pages. Mohsen Emadi writes a poetry of borders and crossings (WLT, March 2015, 42–44). His poems lay bare a world dissected by boundaries both real and im…
- Norman, Oklahoma. Mongrel Empire Press. 2016. 80 pages. Each of us has a familiar universe that we hide from everyone else. Erika T. Wurth’s collection A Thousand Horses out to Sea is an invi…
- Carouge, Switzerland. Editions Zoé. 2016. 200 pages. Western Europe is usually credited with inventing expressionism and surrealism at the end of the nineteenth century, but both artistic movements ma…
- Lyttelton, New Zealand. Cold Hub Press. 2016. 173 pages. Blanca Castellón’s use of language in the collection Water for Days of Thirst is at times sparse and direct and occasionally disorient…
- Norman, Oklahoma. Mezcalita Press. 2016. 96 pages. Contemporary poetry can be formulaic: the vague flow of emotion Mary Kinzie calls the “Rhapsodic Fallacy,” the neoconfessional anecdote Donald Hall r…
- Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press. 2016. 111 pages. From shards of a “hand-me-down life,” “sufficiently tragic,” Safiya Sinclair conjures poetic magic, casting a spell whereby “cannibal masters th…
- Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press. 2016. 286 pages. América Invertida owes its name to the well-known 1943 drawing in which vanguard painter Joaquín Torres García turned the map of…