Poetry News

Books Received: May 2016

Originally Published: June 07, 2016

BooksReceivedMay

Gillian Clarke, Selected Poems (Picador)

Craig Raine, My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry (Atlantic Books)

Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani, Douglas Kearney (editors), BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan)

Millicent Borges Accardi, Only More So (Salmon Poetry)

Kim Addonizio, Mortal Trash: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Todos somos Whitman / We Are All Whitman (Arte Público Press)

Kingsley Amis, Collected Poems: 1944-1979 (NYRB Poets)

Ari Banias, Anybody: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

Phillip Barron, What Comes from a Thing (Fourteen Hills Press)

Alex Beam, The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship (Pantheon)

Daniel Benjamin, Claire Marie Stancek (editors), Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Tuumba Press / Giramondo)

Bill Berkson, Invisible Oligarchs (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Jay Besemer, Chelate (Brooklyn Arts Press)

Donald Britton, Reginald Shepherd, Philip Clark (editors), In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton (Nightboat)

Melissa Broder, Last Sext (Tin House Books)

Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue (Salmon Poetry)

Hannah Crawforth, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (editors), On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration (Bloomsbury)

Mangalesh Dabral, This Number Does Not Exist (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Matthew Dickman & Michael Dickman, Brother (Faber & Faber)

Tina Kogane, French Love Poems (New Directions)

Stephen Dobyns, The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Rita Dove, Collected Poems: 1974-2004 (W. W. Norton & Company)

Anais Duplan, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press)

Clayton Eshleman, A Sulfur Anthology (Wesleyan)

Anna Swirszczynska, Piotr Florczyk (translator), Building the Barricade (Tavern Books)

Ted Greenwald, Miles Champion (editor), The Age of Reasons: Uncollected Poems 1969-1982 (Wesleyan)

Ted Greenwald, Common Sense (Wesleyan)

Eamon Brennan, There Now: Poems (Graywolf Press)

Pablo Neruda, Mariela Griffor (translator), Canto General: Song of the Americas (Tupelo Press)

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke University Press Books)

George Haecker, Meanderings Too (Infusionmedia)

Janice N. Harrington, Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Samuel Hazo, They Rule the World (Syracuse University Press)

Bob Hicok, Sex & Love & (Copper Canyon Press)

Richard Hines, No Way But Gentlenesse: A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life (Bloomsbury USA)

Anselm Hollo, The Tortoise of History (Coffee House Press)

Fanny Howe, The Needle's Eye: Passing through Youth (Graywolf Press)

Neville L. Johnson, What Took You So Long: Poems for People in Love (Cool Titles)

Donika Kelly, Bestiary: Poems (Graywolf Press)

Judith Kitchen, What Persists: Selected Essays on Poetry from The Georgia Review, 1988-2014 (University of Georgia Press)

Ron Koertge, Vampire Planet (Red Hen Press)

Corinne Lee, Plenty (Penguin Books)

Ben Lerner, The Hatred of Poetry (FSG Originals)

Janice A Lowe, Leaving Cle: poems of nomadic dispersal (Miami University Press)

Marjorie Maddox, True, False, None of the Above (Cascade Books)

Davis McCombs, lore (University of Utah Press)

Maureen N. McLane, Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Bryce Milligan, Take to the Highway: Arabesques for Travelers (West End Press)

Christos Mortzos, Concealed Echoes

Emmanuel Moses, Preludes and Fugues (Oberlin College Press)

Thylias Moss, Wannabe Hoochie Mama Gallery of Realities' Red Dress Code: New & Selected Poems (Persea Books)

Pablo Neruda, Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda (Copper Canyon Press)

Alice Notley, Certain Magical Acts (Penguin Books)

Kathryn Nuernberger, The End of Pink (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Makuck Peter, Mandatory Evacuation (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Diane Luby Lane and the Get Lit Players, Get Lit Rising (Beyond Words)

Dana Prescott, Feathers from the Angel's Wing: Poems Inspired by the Paintings of Piero della Francesca (Persea)

Jana Prikryl, The After Party: Poems (Tim Duggan Books)

Sina Queyras, Erin Wunker (editor) Barking & Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)

Jean-Michel Rabate, The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns (Bloomsbury Academic)

Monty Reid, Meditatio Placentae (Brick Books)

Adrienne Rich, A Change of World: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

Adrienne Rich, Collected Poems: 1950-2012 (W. W. Norton & Company)

Robert D. Richardson, Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald (Bloomsbury USA)

Jennifer Richter, No Acute Distress (Southern Illinois University Press)

Denise Riley, Say Something Back (Pan Macmillan)

Mary Ruefle, My Private Property (Wave Books)

Waly Salomao, Algaravias: Echo Chamber (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Michael Schmidt, Stories of My Life (Sheep Meadow)

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

Ramsey Scott, The Narco-Imaginary: Essays Under the Influence (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Caleb Seeling, Serenity and Severity (Western Press Books)

Selma Sharif, Look: Poems (Graywolf Press)

Brenda Shaughnessy, So Much Synth (Copper Canyon Press)

Sue Sinclair, Heaven's Thieves (Brick Books)

Nikki Skillman, The Lyric in the Age of the Brain (Harvard University Press)

Knots Skujenieks, Seed in Snow (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Joseph Stanton, Things Seen (Brick Road Poetry Press, Inc.)

Todd Swift, Kelly Davio (editors), The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016 (Eyewear Publishing)

Jeanie Thompson, The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller (University Alabama Press)

Gerald Vizor, Treaty Shirts: October 2034A Familiar Treatise on the White Earth Nation (Wesleyan)

Liz Waldner, Her Faithfulness (Miami University Press)

Cody Walker, The Self-Styled No-Child (Waywiser Press)

Peter Whitfield, Mapping Shakespeare's World (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford)

Kenny Williams, Blood Hyphen (Oberlin College Press)

J. D. Winter, Two Loves I Have: A New Reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Sussex Academic Press)

Larry Woiwode, Land of Sunlit Ice (University of North Dakota Press)