Andrew Zawacki, ed. New York. Persea. 2011. xiv + 178 pages. $20. isbn 978-0-89255-365-5Slovenian poet Aleš Debeljak (b. 1961) belongs to the group of prominent intellectuals and writers whose poetry—…
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- Judith Wilkinson, tr. Manchester, UK. Carcanet. 2011. ISBN 9781847770837Toon Tellegen's Raptors is one of those books for which very little can really prepare you. Partly, we suppos…
- London. Enithar-mon (Dufour, distr.). 2011. ISBN 9781907587115Only a poet with a sense of time as expansive as Geoffrey Hill's would attempt an elegy for a man dead almost four hundred years, as Hill…
- Laura Healy, tr. New York. New Directions. 2011. ISBN 9780811219273Tres is not just a Robert Bolaño masterpiece, it's another Bolaño masterpiece. For an author who has been dead since 20…
- Wang Ping & Ron Padgett, tr. Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr. 2010. xvi + 151 pages. $15. ISBN 978-0-9815521-3-2Flash Cards is the first book-length collection of Yu Jian's poetry in Eng…
- Roseville, Michigan. Ridgeway. 2010. 91 pages. $15. ISBN 978-1-56439-133-7It is uncommon for a young poet to debut with an anthology of contemporary poets who are predominantly older and more establis…
- Biljana D. Obradović, tr. Lewiston, New York. Edwin Mellen. 2010. ix + 97 pages. $99.95. isbn 978-0-7734-1462-4In this bilingual edition of Vrata u Polju, awarded Serbia's Prosveta award in 1…
- Southern Barbarians. Sydney, Australia. Giramondo. 2011. 95 pages. Aus $24. ISBN 978-1-920882-58-7 The West: Australian Poems 1989–2009. Fremantle,…