Poetry News

Books Received: May 2017

Originally Published: June 05, 2017

Clive James, Injury Time (Picador)

Hollie McNish, Plum (Picador)

Willis Barnsstone (translator), Poets of the Bible: From Solomon's Song of Songs to John's Revelation (W. W. Norton & Company)

Carl Adamshick, Receipt (Lost Horse Press)

Jorge Argueta, En Carne Propia / Flesh Wounds: Memoria Poética /A Poetic Memoir (Arte Publico Pr)

Atirannej, them poems: 75 poems of love and longing (Independently published)

Sarah Bartlett, Sometimes We Walk With Our Nails Out (Subito Press)

Michael Bazzett, Our Lands Are Not So Different (Horsethief Books)

Bruce Beasley, All Soul Parts Returned (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Jasper Bernes, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford University Press)

Linda Besner, Feel Happier in Nine Seconds (Coach House Books)

Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Marianne Boruch, The Little Death of Self: Nine Essays toward Poetry (University of Michigan Press)

Todd Boss, Tough Luck (W. W. Norton & Company)

David Brazil, Holy Ghost (City Lights Publishers)

William Brewer, I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions)

Shawn Broden, Cest Le Vie

Shawn Broden, Wolf Rock

Stephen Burt, Advice from the Lights (Graywolf Press)

Kate Cayley, Other Houses (Brick Books)

Lucia Cherciu, Train Ride to Bucharest (Sheep Meadow)

Brian Clements (editor), Alexandra Teague (editor), & Dean Rader (editor) , Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (Beacon Press)

Peter Cole, Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Martha Collins, Kevin Prufer (editor), Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries (Graywolf Press)

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DéLana R. A. Dameron, Weary Kingdom (University of South Carolina Press)

Rishi Dastidar, Ticker-Tape (Nine Arches Press)

Jean Dibble, John Matthias, Robert Archambeau, Revolutions - A Collaboration (Dos Madres Press)

Stuart Dischell, Children with Enemies (University Of Chicago Press)

Wendy Donawa, Thin Air of the Knowable (Brick Books)

Maram al-Masri, Theo Dorgan (translator), Liberty Walks Naked (Southword Editions)

Camille T. Dungy, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (W. W. Norton & Company)

Stephen Edgar, Transparencies (Black Pepper)

Editors Drew Gardner (editor), Nada Gordon (editor), Sharon Mesmer (editor), K. Silem Mohammad (editor), Gary Sullivan (editor), Flarf: An Anthology of Flarf (Edge Books)

Larry Eigner, Curtis Faville (editor), Robert B. Grenier (editor), Calligraphy Typewriters: The Selected Poems of Larry Eigner (University Alabama Press)

Tongo Eisen-Martin, Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets No. 61 (City Lights Publishers)

Ángel Escobar, Kristin Dykstra (translator), Breach of Trust/Abuso de confianza (University Alabama Press)

Martina Evans, The Windows of Graceland (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Antonio Facchiano, The Transparent Soul (Matian Press)

Georgia Faust, Too Big to Fail (Metatron)

Juan Carlos Flores, Kristin Dykstra (translator) The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales) (University Alabama Press)

Matthew Francis, The Mabinogi (Faber & Faber)

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

Benjamin Gantcher, Snow Farmer (CW Books)

Robert Gibb, Among Ruins (University of Notre Dame Press)

Albert Goldbarth, The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale (Lost Horse Press)

Judy Grahn, Hanging On Our Own Bones (Arktoi Books)

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

Head, Neck & Body, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Joal Hetherington, On the Edge of No Answer: Prose Poems (Bauhan)

Harmony Holiday, Hollywood Forever (Fence Books)

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

Angela Jackson, A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks (Beacon Press)

Michael W. Jackson, Success Is Within You (BalboaPress)

David Jaffin, Moon Flowers (Shearsman Books)

Abhay K. (editor), Capitals: A Poetry Anthology (Bloomsbury Publishing)

Arthur Stanley Katz, From the Embers Rising (XLIBRIS)

Vincent Katz (editor), Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology (Dia Art Foundation)

Christoph Keller (editor), Jan Heller Levi (editor), We're On: A June Jordan Reader (Alice James Books)

Luke Kennard (editor), The Best New British And Irish Poets 2017 (Eyewear Publishing)

Sean Kennedy, Into the Fire (XLIBRIS)

Christine Kitano, Sky Country (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Ryszard Krynicki, Magnetic Point: Selected Poems (New Directions)

Gary Copeland Lilley, The Bushman's Medicine Show (Lost Horse Press)

Nancy Chen Long, Light Into Bodies (University of Tampa Press)

Luis M. Iruela, Tiempo Diamante

Amit Majmudar, Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now (Knopf)

Randall Mann, Proprietary (Persea)

Dawn Lundy Martin, Good Stock Strange Blood (Coffee House Press)

Sebastian Matthews, Beginner's Guide to a Head-On Collision (Red Hen Press)

Marianne Moore, Heather Cass White (editor), New Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Marcelo Morales, The World as Presence/El mundo como ser (University Alabama Press)

Henry Morgenthau III, A Sunday in Purgatory (Passager Books)

Mariko Nagai, 2x6 (Les Figues Press)

Mariko Nagai, Iraddiated Cities (Les Figues Press)

Daljit Nagra, British Museum (Faber & Faber)

Sawako Nakayasu (editor), Lisa Samuels (editor), A TransPacific Poetics (Litmus Press)

Ulrike Narwani, Collecting Silence (Ronsdale Press)

Meghan O'Rourke, Sun in Days (W. W. Norton & Company)

Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Penguin Press)

Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa, Rummage (Little A)

Tim Otto, Le Fauve En Moi

Alfredo de Palchi, John Taylor (translator), Nihil (Xenos Books / Chelsea Editions)

C. D. Payne, The Unpleasant Poet (Aivia Press)

Cassie Pruyn, Lena (Texas Tech University Press)

Charles Rafferty, The Smoke of Horses (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Shane Rhodes, Dead White Men (Coach House Books)

Pamela Robertson-Pearce (editor), Neil Astley (editor), In Person: World Poets Vol 2 Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Georges Rodenbach, Selected Poems (Arc Publications)

Karin Roffman, The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Pattiann Rogers, Quickening Fields (Penguin Books)

G.B. Ryan, Who you Need to Start a Riot (Elkhound Publications)

Erika L. Sánchez, Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf Press)

Ellen Sander, Hawthorne: A House in Bolinas (Finishing Line Press)

Elizabeth Scanlon, Lonesome Gnosis (Horsethief Books)

Lloyd Schwartz, Little Kisses (University Of Chicago Press)

Nicole Sealey, Ordinary Beast (Ecco)

Russell Sebring, Secrets of the Cell (Blurb, Inc.)

Russell Sebring, Vellum: The Lost Poems of Slavery and Reconstruction (Blurb, Inc.)

Carl Seelig, Walks with Walser (New Directions)

Charles Simic, Scribbled in the Dark (Ecco)

Maggie Smith, Good Bones (Tupelo Press)

Gary Soto, Meatballs for the People: Proverbs to Chew On (Red Hen Press)

Essy Stone, What it Done to Us (Lost Horse Press)

Hayk Svajian, Visions (MATIAN PRESS)

Bianca Tarozzi, The Living Theatre (BOA Editions Ltd.)

David Watts, Having and Keeping (Brick Road Poetry Press, Inc.)

Estelle Watts, Say What?: A Collection of Poems (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)

Rebecca Watts, The Met Office Advises Caution (Carcanet Press Ltd.)

Landeg White, Traveller's Palm (Kondwani Publications)

Marcus Wicker, Silencer (Mariner Books)

William Spence Alexander, Vincent Ferrini's Greatest Hits (Fisheye Records)

Chrissy Williams, Bear (Bloodaxe Books Ltd.)

Catherine Woodard, Opening the Mouth of the Dead (lone goose press)