Poetry News

Books Received: April 2017

Originally Published: May 04, 2017

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

Flavio Almerighi, Storm Petrel (Xenos Books / Chelsea Editions)

Michael Anania, Continuous Showings (MadHat, Inc.)

Melih Cevdet Anday, Silent Stones: Selected Poems Of Melih Cevdet Anday (Talisman House, Publishers)

Vladimir Aristov, What We Saw From This Mountain (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Mary Jo Bang, A Doll for Throwing (Graywolf Press)

Susan Barba, Fair Sun (David R. Godine)

Charles Bardes, Diary of Our Fatal Illness (University Of Chicago Press)

Derek Beaulieu, TISH -- Another "Sense of Things" (The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)

Antonio Di Benedetto, Nest in the Bones: Stories by Antonio Benedetto (Archipelago)

Luciann Berrios, Thunder and Sunshine in One Body (Fly By Night Press, a subsidiary of a Gathering of the Tribes, Inc.)

Gregory Betts, In Search of Blew: An Eventual Index of Blewointment Magazine 1963-1977 (The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)

Star Black, Balefire (Painted Leaf Press)

Star Black, October for Idas (Painted Leaf Press)

Colette Bryce, Selected Poems (Pan Macmillan)

CAConrad, While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books)

David Caplan (editor), On Rhyme (Presses Universitaires de Liege)

Richard Chess, Love Nailed to the Doorpost (University of Tampa Press)

Joey Connolly, Long Pass (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Bei Dao, City Gate, Open Up (New Directions)

Razmik Davoyan, Requiem (Arc Publications)

Kwame Dawes, Matthew Shenoda, Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (Triquarterly)

Sasha Dugdale, The Blue Vein: MPT No. 3 2016 (Modern Poetry in Translation)

Camille T. Dungy, Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan)

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Graphic Novella (Xexoxial Editions)

Christos Mortzos, Marietta Economopoulou (translator), Enigmatic Scale

Elaine Feinstein, The Clinic, Memory: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Jennifer Firestone, Gates & Fields (Belladonna*)

G.L. Ford, Sans (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters (Columbia University Press)

Nikki Giovanni, A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter (William Morrow)

Jorie Graham, Fast (Ecco)

BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP, The Work-Shy (Wesleyan)

Duriel Harris, No Dictionary of a Living Tongue (Nightboat)

Mark Irwin, A Passion According to Green (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

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)

Gabriel Josipovici, The Teller and the Tale: Essays on Literature and Culture (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Courtney Kampa, Our Lady of Not Asking Why (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

August Kleinzahler, Before Dawn on Bluff Road / Hollyhocks in the Fog: Selected New Jersey Poems / Selected San Francisco Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

August Kleinzahler, Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose, 2000-2016 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

James Longenbach, Earthling (W. W. Norton & Company)

Paul Marion, Union River: Poems and Sketches (Bootstrap Press)

Jack Marshall, Fugitive, in Full View (Coffee House Press)

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Other Poems (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Julia McCarthy, All the Names Between (Brick Books)

Thomas McCarthy, Pandemonium (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

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

Nadine Sabra Meyer, Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

Mary di Michele, Bicycle Thieves (ECW Press)

Ange Mlinko, Distant Mandate (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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

George Murray, Quick: Aphorisms (ECW Press)

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

Michael Palma, FAITHFUL IN MY FASHION: Essays on the Translation of Poetry (Xenos Books / Chelsea Editions)

Kostas Papapostolou, Thule: The white isle (Kostas Papapostolou)

Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Bao Phi, Thousand Star Hotel (Coffee House Press)

Sarah Pinder, Common Place (Coach House Books)

Neil Powell, Was and Is: Collected Poems (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Richard Price, Moon for Sale (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Khadijah Queen, I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books)

Alice Quinn, The Best of Poetry in Motion: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years on Subways and Buses (W. W. Norton & Company)

John Crowe Ransom, Jason Peters (editor), Land!: The Case for an Agrarian Economy (University of Notre Dame Press)

Clea Roberts, Auguries (Brick Books)

Sherod Santos, Square Inch Hours (W. W. Norton & Company)

Marsie Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke, A Breathed Yes (The March Press)

Jamie Sharpe, Dazzle Ships (ECW Press)

Raena Shirali, Gilt (YesYes Books)

Cedar Sigo, Royals (Wave Books)

Jeffrey Skinner, Chance Divine (Oberlin)

John Taylor, The Dark Brightness (Xenos-Chelsea Editions)

Tomas Transtromer, The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems (Graywolf Press)

Noah Wareness, Real is the Word They Use to Contain Us (Biblioasis)

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

Marcus Wicker, Silencer (Mariner Books)

Dara Wier, In the Still of the Night (Wave Books)

Alex Wong, Poems Without Irony (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Claudia Zironi, EROS AND POLIS: of that time when I was God in my belly (Xenos Books / Chelsea Editions)