Poetry News

Books Received December 2015

Originally Published: January 06, 2016

ReceivedBooksDec2015

Hassanal Abdullah, Under the Thin Layers of Light (Cross-Cultural Communications)

Derrick Austin, Trouble the Water (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Willis Barnstone, Mexico in My Heart (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Joe Bolton, Breckinridge County Suite (Tavern Books)

John Bradley, And Thereby Everything (Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers)

Tara Bray, Small Mothers of Fright: Poems (LSU Press)

Hannah Brooks-Motl, M (The Song Cave)

Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk, Irina Mashinski (editors), The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics)

Geoffrey Chaucer (translated by Nevill Coghill), The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)

Adam Clay, Stranger: Poems (Milkweed Editions)

Presley Cox, Alcoholprism: The Awful Trap of Addiction and How the Trap Might Be Sprung (Lulu Publishing Services)

W.H. Davies, Rory Waterman (editor), A W. H. Davies Reader (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Chaucer Cameron & Helen Dewbery (editors), Salt on the Wind: Poetry in Response to Ruth Stone (Elephantsfootprint)

Michael Dickman, Green Migraine (Copper Canyon Press)

Paul Dutton, Selected and with an introduction by Gary Barwin, Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)

Julie Emerson, Twenty Seven Stings (New Star Books)

Martín Espada, Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

B. H. Fairchild, The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

Aracelis Girmay, The Black Maria (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Sid Gold, Good with Oranges (Broadkill River Press)

Jennifer Grotz, Window Left Open: Poems (Graywolf Press)

Gabriel Gudding, Literature for Nonhumans (Ahsahta Press)

Raza Ali Hasan, Sorrows of the Warrior Class (Sheep Meadow)

Lyn Hejinian, The Unfollowing (Omnidawn)

Brian Henry, Static & Snow (Black Ocean)

Susan Howe, The Birth-mark: Essays (New Directions)

Susan Howe, The Quarry: Essays (New Directions)

Angela Hume, Middle Time (Omnidawn)

David Jaffin, Shadowing Images (Shearsman)

Clive James, Sentenced to Life: Poems (Liveright)

Hanyong Jeong, How to Make a Mink Coat (Xlibris)

Marci Rae Johnson, Basic Disaster Supplies Kit (Steel Toe Books)

Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns (editors), Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W. W. Norton & Company)

Josef Kaplan, Poem Without Suffering (Wonder)

Philip C. Kolin, Emmett Till in Different States: Poems (Third World Press)

Chana Kronfeld, The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (Stanford University Press)

Phillis Levin, Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin Books)

Grevel Lindop, Luna Park (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Stéphane Mallarmé (translated by Blake Bronson-Bartlett & Robert Fernandez), Azure: Poems and Selections from the "Livre" (Wesleyan)

Anna George Meek, The Genome Rhapsodies (Ashland Poetry Press)

Rod Mengham, Chance of a Storm (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Sharon Mesmer, Greetings from My Girlie Leisure Place (Bloof Books)

Wayne Miller, Post-: Poems (Milkweed Editions)

Rodger Moody, History (sight / for / sight books)

Marilyn Nelson, American Ace (Dial Books)

Hannah Faith Notess, The Multitude (Southern Indiana Review Press)

Micheal O'Siadhail, One Crimson Thread (Bloodaxe Books Ltd.)

Chus Pato, Flesh of Leviathan (Omnidawn)

Hyam Plutzik, Letter From a Young Poet (Books & Books Press)

Selected by the Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion (Abrams Books)

Ezra Pound (translated by Massimo Bacigalupo), Posthumous Cantos (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Khadijah Queen, Non-sequitur (Litmus Press)

Camille Rankine, Incorrect Merciful Impulses (Copper Canyon Press)

Ron Rash, Poems: New and Selected (Ecco)

Katrina Roberts, Because You Asked: A Book of Answers on the Art and Craft of the Writing Life (Lost Horse Press)

Tomaz Salamun, Justice (Black Ocean)

Zach Savich, The Orchard Green and Every Color (Omnidawn)

Robyn Schiff, A Woman of Property (Penguin Books)

Christian Schlegel, Honest James (The Song Cave)

Delmore Schwartz, Craig Morgan Teicher (editor), Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (New Directions)

Paul Schwartz, It Goes Without Saying: Selected Poems (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)

Luci N. Shaw, Thumbprint in the Clay: Divine Marks of Beauty, Order and Grace (IVP Books)

John Smelcer, Indian Giver (Leapfrog Press)

Meredith Stricker, Our Animal (Omnidawn)

Sergej Timofejev, Artur Punte, Semyon Khanin, and Vladimir Svetlov, Kevin Platt (editor), Hit Parade: The Orbita Group (Ugly Ducking Presse)

Brian Swann, St. Francis and the Flies (Autumn House Press)

Brian Teare, The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven (Ahsahta Press)

Randolph Thomas, The Deepest Rooms (Silverfish Review Press)

Mike Tyler, Black Night, Black Knight (The Art Cannot Be Damaged)

Anca Vlasopolos, Cartographies of Scale (and Wing) (Avignon Press)

Keith Waldrop, Selected Poems (Omnidawn)

Connie Wanek, Rival Gardens: New and Selected Poems (University of Nebraska Press)

Noah Warren, The Destroyer in the Glass (Yale University Press)

Michael Waters, Celestial Joyride (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Jennifer Willoughby, Beautiful Zero: Poems (Milkweed Editions)

Mark Yakich, Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (Bloomsbury Academic)

Matvei Yankelevich, Some Worlds For Dr. Vogt (Black Square Editions)

Dean Young, Shock by Shock (Copper Canyon Press)