Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Press 53. 2015. 91 pages.It is easy to like Hedy Habra’s poetry. She has proven herself a versatile poet and has a distinguished body of poetry to her credit. After Habr…
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Rochester, New York. BOA Editions. 2015. 108 pages.Slovenian poet Aleš Debeljak’s new bilingual volume, Smugglers, contains five cycles and four nonrhymed quatrains. Each of the individual po…
Gurgaon, India. Hachette India. 2015. 70 pages.Meena Alexander is among the most visible of South Asian American poets writing in the US. She is prolific, having to her credit seven books of poetry, a…
Clare You & Richard Silberg, tr. Buffalo, New York. White Pine Press. 2014. ISBN 9781935210603Moon Chung-hee’s short lines are incendiary, bright with images of life as a wife and poet within phal…
Patty Crane, tr. Louisville, Kentucky. Sarabande Books. 2015. ISBN 9781941411216Sometimes a new piece of shared cultural heritage seems to click into place; the appearance of Bright Scythe—se…
Budapest. Libri. 2014. ISBN 9789633103814János Térey, one of the most significant Hungarian poets of the middle generation, has written a number of books in which he reinvents epic poetry, using…
Rugby, England. Nine Arches Press. 2015. ISBN 9780993120114Any discussion of differences between American and British poetry begins and ends with the fact that we hardly ever read each other. Why…
Fady Joudah, tr. Portland, Oregon. Tavern Books. 2014. ISBN 9781935635406Petra is a beautiful hand-sewn chapbook whose text is set in handsome Garamond typeface printed on archival-quality pa…
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374535612Farrar, Straus and Giroux has published Seamus Heaney’s Selected Poems in two volumes, the first including poems from 1966…
County Clare, Ireland. Salmon Poetry / Dufour Editions. 2015. isbn 9781910669082The little town in which I teach has sustained a Thursday-night open-mic poetry event for the last twenty-one years, and…
Helen McPhail, tr. Dol de Bretagne, France. Éditions d’écarts. 2014. ISBN 9782919121175Born in 1934 in Dagenham near London, Keith Barnes painted at age eight and wrote his first score at age twe…
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) compris…
Brother Anthony of Taizé & Lee Sang-Wha, tr. Hexham, Northumberland. Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions. 2015. ISBN 9781780372426Imagine: a young man is forced into compulsory labor while the c…
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Coffee House Press (Consortium, distr.). 2014. ISBN 9781566893756 Beginning with her first collection, Dog Road Woman, Allison Hedge Coke announced herself a…
New York. Rain Mountain Press. 2014. ISBN 9780989705141Philip Dacey, in his fourteenth poetry collection, includes poems published in over forty journals or anthologies. Sixty poems are divided i…
Berkeley, California. Counterpoint. 2013. ISBN 9781619024366This Day is a collection of poems written by Wendell Berry on Sunday walks in the woods and grounds of his farm, spanning (per…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374227012Intensity, eye-searing intensity, characterizes this book from first to last page. The poems are divided into three parts, titled respectiv…
Buffalo, New York. White Pine Press. 2014. ISBN 9781935210627The 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 seco…
Brother Anthony & Yoo Hui-sok, tr. Copenhagen / Los Angeles. Green Integer. 2014. ISBN 9781557134226This hefty pocketbook, Patterns, spans and selects from Lee Si-young’s t…
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 imm…
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 j…
New York. Knopf. 2015. ISBN 9780385351072Jane Hirshfield’s new poems emerge as fiercely strong yet tender, drawing on supple intuition and clarifying intelligence to evoke the richness of her authenti…
Kim Stafford, ed. Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2014. ISBN 9781555976644This book ought to be called “One Hundred Quintessential Poems.” Any reader previously unfamiliar with William Staf…
Gurgaon, Haryana. Penguin Books India. 2014. ISBN 9780143420842Arvind 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 9781937679378Poet Michael Krüger feels with unmistakable conviction that one purpose in life…