New York Times Spotlights New, 'Noteworthy' Books From Eduardo C. Corral, Jill Bialosky, More

The New York Times's Book Review section assembles a compelling list of new poetry books worthy of readers' consideration, including a mention of Eduardo C. Corral's forthcoming second collection, Guillotine, which "nimbly bridges the personal and political, evoking themes of migration to ask what it means to be unwanted." More from that list:

THE CLEARING: Poems, by Allison Adair. (Milkweed, $22.) The poems in Adair’s debut draw on folklore and the animal world to assert feminist viewpoints and mortal terror in lush musical lines, as when “A fat speckled spider sharpens / in the shoe of someone you need.”

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ALBERTO CAEIRO, by Fernando Pessoa. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari. (New Directions, paper, $18.95.) Pessoa, the great Portuguese poet, invented many alter egos; this book collects the work he wrote as a humble shepherd.

ASYLUM, by Jill Bialosky. (Knopf, $27.) Haunted by her sister’s suicide and by political and environmental collapse, Bialosky finds refuge in nature and language, all the ways “the mind seeks / to keep itself from torture.”

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