Poetry News

Books Received: March 2017

Originally Published: April 06, 2017

Alysse Aallyn, The Sacred Quiver (tredition)

Seth Abramson (editor), Charles Bernstein (editor), Tracie Morris (editor), Jesse Damiani (editor), BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan)

Dallas Athent, Maria Pavlovska (artist), THEIA MANIA (AntiSentiMental Society)

Jonathan Bate (editor), Paula Byrne (editor), Sophie Ratcliffe (editor), Andrew Schuman (editor), Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind (William Collins)

Grace Bauer, MEAN/TIME (University of New Mexico Press)

Jan Beatty, Jackknife: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Dan Bellm, Deep Well (Lavender Ink)

Aase Berg, Hackers (Black Ocean)

Jill Bialosky, Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir (Atria Books)

Shim Bo-Seon, Fifteen Seconds without Sorrow (Parlor Press)

Gary Boelhower, Naming Rites (Holy Cow! Press)

Roo Borson, Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar (McClelland & Stewart)

Julie Carr, Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta Press)

Alan Catlin, Walking Among Tombstones in the Fog (Presa Press)

Hannah Craig, This History That Just Happened (Parlor Press)

Alex Dimitrov, Together and By Ourselves (Copper Canyon Press)

Brandon Thomas Disabatino, 6 weeks of white castle /n rust (Emigre Publishing)

Jane Draycott, The Occupant (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Camille T. Dungy, Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan)

Alexandra Elle, Neon Soul: A Collection of Poetry and Prose (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

Martán Espada, Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (W. W. Norton & Company)

Mary D. Esselman (editor), Elizabeth Ash Velez (editor), How Did This Happen?: Poems for the Not So Young Anymore (Grand Central Publishing)

Jennifer Firestone, Gates & Fields (Belladonna*)

t'ai freedom ford, how to get over (Red Hen Press)

Stuart Friebert, Decanting: Selected & New Poems, 1967-2017 (Lost Horse Press)

Adam Giannelli, Tremulous Hinge (University Of Iowa Press)

Diane Gilliam, Dreadful Wind & Rain (Red Hen Press)

Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan (editor), Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats (Grove Press)

Louise Glück, American Originality: Essays on Poetry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Erdag Gã Knar, Nomadologies (Turtle Point Press)

Debora Greger, In Darwin's Room (Penguin Books)

Derek Gromadzki, Pilgrimage Suites (Parlor Press)

Arnold Jansen op de Haar, The Refrain of Other People's Lives (Holland Park Press)

Robert Hass, A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry (Ecco)

Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days: A New Bilingual Edition (Northwestern University Press)

David Hinton, The Wilds of Poetry: Adventures in Mind and Landscape (Shambhala)

Edward Hirsch, The Essential Poet's Glossary (Mariner Books)

Cynthia Hogue, In June the Labyrinth (Red Hen Press)

Jefferson Holdridge (editor), Brian Ó Conchubhair (editor), Post-Ireland? Essays on Contemporary Irish Poetry (Wake Forest University Press)

Wayne Holloway-Smith, Alarum (Bloodaxe Books)

Eric Howard, Taliban Beach Party (Turtle Point Press)

Angela de Hoyos, Selected Poems of Angela de Hoyos (Arte Publico Pr)

Christoph Irmscher, Max Eastman: A Life (Yale University Press)

Gabriel Jesiolowski, As Burning Leaves (Red Hen Press)

Aisha Sasha John, I have to live (McClelland & Stewart)

Lawrence Joseph, So Where Are We? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

X. J. Kennedy, That Swing: Poems, 2008-2016 (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Paul Killebrew, To Literally You (Canarium Books)

Quraysh Ali Lansana (editor), Georgia A. Popoff (editor), The Whiskey of our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent (Haymarket Books)

David Lehman, Poems in the Manner Of (Scribner)

Gary Lemons, The Weight of Light (Red Hen Press)

J. Michael Lennon, Donna Pedro Lennon, Norman Mailer Works and Days (Sligo Press)

Ken Letko, Bright Darkness (Flowstone Press)

Erica Loberg, Diamonds from the Rough (Chipmunka Publishing)

Amanda Lovelace, the princess saves herself in this one (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

Lachlan Mackinnon, Doves (Faber & Faber)

M. Mackintosh, Love Letters To The Lunar Surface (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)

Anthony Madrid, Try Never (Canarium Books)

Gerard Malanga, Whisper Sweet Nothings & Other Poems (Bottle of Smoke Press)

Douglas Manuel, Testify (Red Hen Press)

Fred Marchant, Said Not Said (Graywolf Press)

Paul Mariani, The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens (Simon & Schuster)

Adrian Matejka, Map to the Stars (Penguin Books)

Matt Holman, The Tenth Muse

Shane McCrae, In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan)

Marion McCready, Madame Ecosse (Eyewear Publishing)

Karyna McGlynn, Hothouse (Sarabande Books)

Metzger, The Spirit Papers (University of Massachusetts Press)

Geraldine Monk, They Who Saw the Deep (Parlor Press)

Tomas Q. Morin, Patient Zero (Copper Canyon Press)

Erín Moure, Shannon Maguire (editor), Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure (Wesleyan)

Daniel Myers, Bulls Bard Volume I: The Final Chapter (Myers Publishing)

Michael O'Brien, To the River (Flood Editions)

Richard Osmond, Useful Verses (Pan Macmillan)

Elise Paschen, The Nightlife (Red Hen Press)

Vera Pavlova, Album for the Young (and Old) (Knopf)

Nicholas Pesquès, Overyellow: The Poem as Installation Art (Parlor Press)

Sasha Pimentel, For Want of Water: and other poems (Beacon Press)

Frank Praeger, SIGHS AND STRAY GUSTS AND OTHER OCCASIONAL POEMS (Dead Man Publishing, LLC)

Joseph Di Prisco, Sightlines from the Cheap Seats (Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book)

Ethel Rackin, Go On (Parlor Press)

Dan Rasmussen Jr., Wholesale Blood (XLIBRIS)

Nina Riggs, The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying (Simon & Schuster)

Roseanne Ritzema, Poetry Matters: A Collection of Essays (Presa Press)

Juliet Rodeman, The Voice of That Singing (Tupelo Press)

Isabel Rogers, Don't Ask (Eyewear Publishing)

Pattiann Rogers, Quickening Fields (Penguin Books)

Aaron Rosen, Daubs for Needy Space: Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press)

Mary Ruefle, On Imagination (Sarabande Books)

Carol Rumens, Perhaps Bag (Sheep Meadow)

Ruth Irupe Sanabria, Beasts Behave in Foreign Land (Red Hen Press)

Lauren Marie Schmidt, Filthy Labors (Curbstone Books)

Natalie Shapero, Hard Child (Copper Canyon Press)

Suzannah Showler, Thing Is (McClelland & Stewart)

Charles Simic, Scribbled in the Dark (Ecco)

Gerald Stern, Death Watch: A View from the Tenth Decade (Trinity University Press)

Gerald Stern, Galaxy Love (W. W. Norton & Company)

Wade Stevenson, The Absence Of The Loved (BlazeVOX [books])

Nancy Takacs, The Worrier (University of Massachusetts Press)

Nathaniel Tarn, Gondwana (New Directions)

Readers of The New York Times, New York City Haiku (Universe)

William Trowbridge, Vanishing Point (Red Hen Press)

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Water & Salt (Red Hen Press)

Virgil, The Aeneid (University Of Chicago Press)

Jasmine Dreame Wagner, On a Clear Day (Ahsahta Press)

Anne Waldman, Vincent Katz, Fantastic Caryatids (BlazeVOX [books])

Phoebe Wang, Admission Requirements (McClelland & Stewart)

Timothy Daniel Welch, Odd Bloom Seen from Space (University Of Iowa Press)

Walt Whitman, Jeffrey Yang (editor), The Sea Is a Continual Miracle: Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman (UPNE)

Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Meadow Slasher (Black Ocean)

Michael Wood, On Empson (Princeton University Press)

Robert Wrigley, Box (Penguin Books)

Adam Zagajewski, Slight Exaggeration: An Essay (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Matthew Zapruder, Why Poetry (Ecco)