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Emily Pérez reviews Billie Swift's chapbook, Everything Here (Sibling Rivalry Press).

The Guardian reports that poet, writer, editor, critic Al Alvarez has died at the age of 90.

There is no language in this world in which I am not a stranger, entering in from the outside.

For Bookforum, Jennifer Krasinski reviews Ingeborg Bachmann's novel, Malina.

University of Arizona Poetry Center's blog, 1508, hosts Holly Mason's close reading of Oliver Baez Bendorf's Advantages of Being Evergreen, winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Book Poetry Competition.

The New York Times remembers poet Steve Dalachinsky, who passed away unexpectedly last week at the age of 72. 

Stefania Heim discusses her translation of Giorgio de Chirico's Geometry of Shadows (A Public Space Books, October), the first comprehensive and bilingual collection of de Chirico's Italian poetry.

We contain all sorts of life within us, and death, too, and sometimes we fail to contain it, as we fail to contain even ourselves.

In a new book review at the NYT, Elisa Gabbert observes the ways that Mary Ruefle's latest collection, Dunce (Wave, 2019), "confronts the extraordinary yet banal fact that all of us die."

For Artists' Book Reviews, a smart, unnamed reviewer takes a look at Understanding Molecular Typography, a line-blurring edition from Ugly Duckling Presse that purports to be written by H.F. Henderson and published in 1992,...