Books Received: January 2017
Poets of the Bible: From Solomon's Song of Songs to John's Revelation (W. W. Norton & Company)
Seth Abramson, Charles Bernstein, Tracie Morris, Jesse Damiani (editors), BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan)
Nancy E. Albert, Your Rights When Stopped By Police: Supreme Court Decisions In Poetry And Prose (LegalEase Press)
José Felipe Alvergue, precis (Omnidawn)
Attar, The Conference of the Birds (W. W. Norton & Company)
Emily Berry, Stranger, Baby (Faber & Faber)
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Personal Science (Tupelo Press)
Guy Birchard, Hecatomb (Pressed Wafer)
D. M. Black, The Arrow Maker (Arc Publications)
Elihu Blotnick, A Slap on Three Cheeks: circus season (Firefall)
Willard Bohn, Surrealist Poetry: An Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic)
Bruce Bond, Sacrum (Four Way)
Yves Bonnefoy, Ursa Major (Seagull Books)
Molly McCully Brown, The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea)
Christopher Bursk, A Car Stops A Door Opens (Cavankerry)
Kimberly Burwick, Custody of the Eyes (Carnegie Mellon)
Michael Cadnum, This Early Dark: Micro-poetry and Ultra-flash fiction (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
Christopher Michael Carter, Gun Control for Polar Bears (Supposed Crimes, LLC)
Amerjit Chandan, Gareth Evans, Yasmin Gunaratnam, The Long White Thread of Words: Poems for John Berger (Dufour Editions)
Cortney Lamar Charleston, Telepathologies (Saturnalia)
Annie Christain, Tall as You Are Tall Between Them (C&r Press)
Andrea Cohen, Unfathoming (Four Way)
Peter Cole, Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Bei Dao, City Gate, Open Up (New Directions)
Denise Duhamel, Scald (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Rebecca Dunham, Cold Pastoral (Milkweed Editions)
Stephen Dunn, Whereas (W. W. Norton & Company)
Barbara Edelman, Dream of the Gone-From City (Carnegie Mellon)
Andrew Epstein, Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture (Oxford University Press)
Kathy Fagan, Sycamore (Milkweed Editions)
Alan Felsenthal, Lowly (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Elyse Fenton, Sweet Insurgent (Saturnalia)
John Fuller, Five Books (Sheep Meadow)
Adam Giannelli, Tremulous Hinge (University Of Iowa Press)
Rachel Glaser, Hairdo (The Song Cave)
BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP, The Work-Shy (Wesleyan)
Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton & Company)
Katie Hartsock, Bed of Impatiens (Able Muse Press)
Robert Hass, A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry (Ecco)
K. A. Hays, Windthrow (Carnegie Mellon)
Mary Hickman, Rayfish (Omnidawn)
Avner Holtzman, Hayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew (Yale University Press)
Rhiannon Hooson, The Other City (Seren)
Christopher Howell, Love's Last Number (Milkweed Editions)
John T. Irwin, The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Angela Jackson, A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks (Beacon Press)
David St. John, The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems (Ecco)
Donald Justice, David Koehn, Alan Soldofsky, Compendium: A Collection of Thoughts on Prosody (Omnidawn)
Joan Naviyuk Kane, Milk Black Carbon (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Suvir Kaul, Of Gardens and Graves: Kashmir, Poetry, Politics (Duke University Press Books)
Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
Christopher Kempf, Late in the Empire of Men (Four Way)
August Kleinzahler, Before Dawn on Bluff Road / Hollyhocks in the Fog: Selected New Jersey Poems / Selected San Francisco (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Tom Leveille, Down With the Ship (San Francisco Bay Press)
John Liles, Following The Dog Down (Omnidawn)
Joan Margarit, Love is a Place (Bloodaxe Books Ltd)
Adrian Matejka, Map to the Stars (Penguin Books)
Khaled Mattawa, How Long Have You Been With Us?: Essays on Poetry (University of Michigan Press)
Airea D. Matthews, Simulacra (Yale University Press)
Nathan McClain, Scale (Four Way)
Michael McFee, We Were Once Here (Carnegie Mellon)
rob mclennan, A perimeter (New Star Books)
Joseph Millar, Kingdom (Carnegie Mellon)
Cindy Hunter Morgan, Harborless (Wayne State University Press)
Howard Moss, Winters Come, Summers Gone: Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow)
Andrew Motion, Coming in to Land: Selected Poems 1975-2015 (Ecco)
Jenny Mueller, State Park (Elixir Press)
Kelli Anne Noftle, Adam Cannot Be Adam (Omnidawn)
Christina Olson, Terminal Human Velocity (Stillhouse Press)
David Orr, You, Too, Could Write a Poem (Penguin Books)
April Ossmann, Event Boundaries (Four Way)
Paul Van Ostaijen, Occupied City / Bezette Stad (Dufour Editions)
Eugene Ostashevsky, The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (NYRB Poets)
Ron Padgett, Motor Maids across the Contient (The Song Cave)
Linda Pastan, Insomnia (W. W. Norton & Company)
Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Brittany Perham, Double Portrait (W. W. Norton & Company)
Ester Naomi Perquin, The Hunger in Plain View:Selected Poems (White Pine Press)
Tommy Pico, Nature Poem (Tin House Books)
Alejandra Pizarnik, The Most Foreign Country (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Daniel Poppick, The Police (Omnidawn)
Malcolm Povey, Missing (Smokestack Books)
Christina Pugh, Perception (Four Way)
Alexis Rotella, Between Waves (RMP)
Jane Satterfield, Apocalypse Mix (Autumn House)
Andrew Seguin, The Room In Which I Work (Omnidawn)
Owen Sheers, Pink Mist (Nan A. Talese)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jack Donovan & Cian Duffy (editors), Selected Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics)
Eleni Sikelianos, Make Yourself Happy (Coffee House Press)
J D Smith, The Killing Tree (Finishing Line Press)
Layli Long Soldier, WHEREAS (Graywolf Press)
Peter Stark, On the River Misnomer (Ivory Books)
Robert Strong, Bright Advent (White Pine Press)
Cole Swensen Gave (Omnidawn)
George Szirtez, Mapping the Delta (Bloodaxe Books Ltd)
Allison Titus, The True Book of Animal Homes (Saturnalia)
Mónica de la Torre, The Happy End / All Welcome (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Peter Waldor, State of the Union (Kelsay Books)
Afaa Michael Weaver, Spirit Boxing (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Timothy Daniel Welch, Odd Bloom Seen from Space (University Of Iowa Press)
Allison Benis White, Please Bury Me in This (Four Way)
Jason Whitmarsh, The Histories (Carnegie Mellon)
Robert Wrigley, Box (Penguin Books)