Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Wake Forest University Press. 2013. ISBN 9781930630673
Conor O’Callaghan’s The Sun King is a rich volume that immediately stuns the reader with its seamless in…
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Belgrade. Tanesi. 2013. ISBN 9788681567708 With 131 mostly prose poems in six named sections, we get a clear picture of the Serbian American poet Vasa Mihailović (now eighty-eight years of age), who…
Woodstock, New York. Mayapple Press. 2014. ISBN 9781936419357 Eleanor Lerman, a visionary American poet from New York, whispers her view of contemporary society instead of shouting or employing comp…
Clive Wilmer & George Gömöri, tr. Beeston, Nottingham. Shoestring Press. 2013. ISBN 9781907356834 Upon hearing that George Gömöri has lived in England since 1956, someone remarked that Gömöri was…
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374119027 The tenor of this newest book by Charles Wright is announced by the titles of its three sections: “Echoes,” “End Papers,” and “Apocrypha…
Jonathan Harrington, tr. Cullowhee, North Carolina. New Native Press. 2014. ISBN 9781883197317 Like his Isthmus Zapotec contemporaries Victor Terán and Irma Pineda, Yucatec Maya poet Feliciano Sánc…
Brian K. Hudson, ed. Norman, Oklahoma. Mongrel Empire Press. 2014. ISBN 9780985133788 The author’s note at the beginning of From the Extinct Volcano, a Bird of Paradise—a new collection of p…
Medbh McGuckian. The High Caul Cap. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Wake Forest University Press. 2013. ISBN 9781930630659 The poems in The High Caul Cap were written during the long…
Notre Dame, Indiana. University of Notre Dame Press. 2013. ISBN 9780268033897 It is said that poets are the most sensitive human beings, which may explain the looming cloud of suffering and chaos in…
New Delhi. Viking Penguin. 2014. ISBN 9780670086818 The title of Central Time is both an allusion to Ranjit Hoskote’s midlife output and to the obliquely central place of time in his work. Th…
Pécs. Pannonia Könyvek. 2014. ISBN 9789639893870 This charming little poetry book, Rózsalovaglás (Riding with roses), is George Gömöri’s latest production. Rarely does a slim book contain as…
Saliha Paker & Mel Kenne, ed. Greenfield, Massachusetts. Talisman House. 2014. ISBN 9781584980964 If you only acquire a single book of world poetry this year, try this one. In 2008 Gülten Akın wa…
Piotr Gwiazda, tr. Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr Press. 2013. ISBN 9781938890000 So-called immigrant literature remains a popular read, even though the stories have become more and more predictable…
New York. Penguin. 2013. ISBN 9780143123880 Pattiann Rogers’s poems in Holy Heathen Rhapsody inspire a feeling of transcendence in using language to create a riotous sense of abandon and a jo…
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon. 2013. ISBN 9781556594090 This collection of W. S. Merwin’s translations is a deeply worthy book, beautifully produced, and meant to last as a physical object…
Belgrade. LOM. 2013. ISBN 9788679580740 Zvonko Karanović says that his eighth book, Kavezi (Cages), a surreal prose poetry collection that has just won the prestigious Biljana Jovanović award…
Toronto. McClelland & Stewart. 2013. ISBN 9780771035906 At their best, Lorna Goodison’s poems observe the unsavory in history and society even as they guide us firmly toward sources of redemption.…
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon. 2012. ISBN 9781556594083 Dan Gerber’s eighth book of poetry is concerned mainly with relationships, memories, and a desire for continuance—important, but comm…
San Antonio, Texas. Wings Press (IPG, distr.). 2013. ISBN 9781609403102 In Sueño: New Poems, Lorna Dee Cervantes invokes the song of storytelling, both in a literal lyrical sense and also thr…
Gini Alhadeff, ed. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2013. ISBN 9780374217440 My Poems Won’t Change the World opens with poetry almost haiku-like in its concision and simplicity, provin…
Sholeh Wolpé, ed. Fayetteville. University of Arkansas Press. 2013. ISBN 9781557286291 This collection transforms the motto e pluribus unum into verse. Iranian American poet Sholeh Wolpé brou…- Kraljevo, Serbia. Narodna Biblioteka Stefan Provovenčani. 2013. ISBN 9788681355374 Danica Vukićević, a Serbian poet from Belgrade, offers us feminist social criticism in an often-fragmented free-verse…
Paris. P.O.L. 2013. ISBN 9782818019733 Jacques Jouet’s latest book of poetry responds in key ways to a work that appeared fifteen years ago, Navet, linge, œil-de-vieux (1998). The dimensions…
Bucharest. Contemporary Literature Press. 2013. ISBN 9786068366647 The story of Ariadne’s thread leading Theseus out of the labyrinth is a useful metaphor for the strands that bring this book to the…- Philadelphia. Calypso Editions. 2013. ISBN 9780988790308 We are being buried alive under the huge number of poetry titles published not only each year but each month. Most of the books are by younger…