Denver. Counterpath. 2011. ISBN 978-1933996233
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- Duane Hada, ill. Norman, Oklahoma. Mongrel Empire. 2011. ISBN 9780983305262 Brothers Duane and Ken Hada have produced an unusual and unusually beautiful book, which traces the White River, from its or…
- 5 vols., 2 CDs. Donna Tamaki, Soraya Umewaka, and the author, trs. Konan City, Japan. Ishibe-higashi. 1999–2012. ISBN 9784944229765, 9784944229534, 9784944229710, 9784904625002, 9784904625019 Shizue…
- New York. Knopf. 2011. ISBN 978-0307595423 Although the range of material and features of style are essentially that of her earlier work—that is, not developmentally new—Jane Hirshfield’s latest book…
- Minneapolis, Minnesota. Coffee House. 2011. isbn 9781566892773 In the Shadow of Al-Andalus opens with a selection of epigraphs one might expect in a scholarly publication. Quotations by the m…
- New Delhi / London. Penguin / Hamish Hamilton. 2011. ISBN 9780670085415 / 9780241144916 “The hermit sits upon the ice. / The bluish light burns all around, / Immune to flame and sacrifice, / To breat…
- Brother Anthony of Taizé & Lee Hyung-Jin, trs. Ithaca, New York. East Asia Program, Cornell University. 2011. ISBN 9781933947501 In the preface to Walking on a Washing Line, translator B…
- Mari Kaljuste, ill. Tallinn, Estonia. Varrak. 2010. 102 pages. €11.25. isbn 978-9985-3-2091-4 Second only to the late Jaan Kross and alongside Mats Traat, the creator of a lengthy rural series, Ene M…
- Peggy Reid et al., tr. Carolyn Forché, intro. Rochester, New York. BOA. 2011. 103 pages. $16. isbn 978-1-934414-50-7 Remnants of Another Age is a bilingual Macedonian-English edition of sele…
- Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez et al., ed. Madison. University of Wisconsin Press. 2010. xxi + 337 pages. $26.95. isbn 978-0-299-23664-9 African Women Writing Resistance is a compelling and sa…
- Notre Dame, Indiana. University of Notre Dame Press. 2011. xiii + 55 pages. $15. isbn 978-0-268-04236-3 Imagine a market in a tropical city: bright sunshine, intense colors, rhythmic sounds of music…
- Mexico City. Ediciones Era: Dirección de Literatura / UNAM. 2010. 186 pages. $21.95. isbn 978-607-445-030-9 Juan Gelman (b. 1930, Buenos Aires), whom readers and critics have often accurately classif…
- Andrew Zawacki, ed. New York. Persea. 2011. xiv + 178 pages. $20. isbn 978-0-89255-365-5 Slovenian poet Aleš Debeljak (b. 1961) belongs to the group of prominent intellectuals and writers whose poetr…
- Judith Wilkinson, tr. Manchester, UK. Carcanet. 2011. ISBN 9781847770837 Toon Tellegen's Raptors is one of those books for which very little can really prepare you. Partly, we suppose we alr…
- London. Enithar-mon (Dufour, distr.). 2011. ISBN 9781907587115 Only a poet with a sense of time as expansive as Geoffrey Hill's would attempt an elegy for a man dead almost four hundred years, as Hil…
- Laura Healy, tr. New York. New Directions. 2011. ISBN 9780811219273 Tres is not just a Robert Bolaño masterpiece, it's another Bolaño masterpiece. For an author who has been dead since 2003,…
- Wang Ping & Ron Padgett, tr. Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr. 2010. xvi + 151 pages. $15. ISBN 978-0-9815521-3-2 Flash Cards is the first book-length collection of Yu Jian's poetry in E…
- Roseville, Michigan. Ridgeway. 2010. 91 pages. $15. ISBN 978-1-56439-133-7 It is uncommon for a young poet to debut with an anthology of contemporary poets who are predominantly older and more establ…
- Biljana D. Obradović, tr. Lewiston, New York. Edwin Mellen. 2010. ix + 97 pages. $99.95. isbn 978-0-7734-1462-4 In this bilingual edition of Vrata u Polju, awarded Serbia's Prosveta award in…
- Southern Barbarians. Sydney, Australia. Giramondo. 2011. 95 pages. Aus $24. ISBN 978-1-920882-58-7 The West: Australian Poems 1989–2009. Fremantle,…