Poetry News

Books Received: April 2016

Originally Published: May 05, 2016

Karen Leona Anderson, Receipt: Poems (Milkweed Editions)

Cristian Luca Andrulli, Forti preludi (Edb Edizioni)

Cristian Luca Andrulli, Rosso deserto (Albatros)

Daniel Ari, One Way to Ask: Poems by Daniel Ari (Norfolk Press)

Renée Ashley, The View from the Body (Black Lawrence Press)

Bill Berkson, Invisible Oligarchs (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Michelle Boisseau, Among the Gorgons (University of Tampa Press)

Eleanor Chai, Standing Water: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Geneva Chao, one of us is wave one of us is shore (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions)

Sharon Chmielarz, The Widow's House: Poems (Brighthorse Books)

Martha Collins, Admit One: An American Scrapbook (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Kenneth Cox, The Art of Language: Selected Essays (Flood Editions)

Nicelle Davis, The Walled Wife (Red Hen Press)

Barry Dempster, Disturbing the Buddha (Brick Books)

Matt Donovan, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press)

Piotr Florczyk, East & West (Lost Horse Press)

Josh Fomon, Though We Bled Meticulously (Black Ocean)

Alyson Foster, Heart Attack Watch (Bloomsbury USA)

Carol Frith, Early Echoes (FutureCycle Press)

Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman (editors), The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms: Third Edition (Princeton University Press)

Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman (editors), The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries (Princeton University Press)

Kimberly Grey, The Opposite of Light: Poems (Persea)

E. Tracy Grinnell, Hell Figures (Nightboat)

Helen Hajnoczky, Magyarázni (Coach House Books)

Mary Stewart Hammond, Entering History: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

Faleeha Hassan, We grow up at the speed of war (lulu.com)

Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Christine Heppermann, Ask Me How I Got Here (Greenwillow Books)

Jean Hollander, And They Shall Wear Purple: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow)

Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Brenda Iijima, Remembering Animals (Nightboat)

Ruth Ellen Kocher, Third Voice: Poems (Tupelo Press)

Lacluster, Nothing Works, Everyone Labors (NIC Publishing)

Hiram Larew, Utmost (I. Giraffe Press)

Corinne Lee, Plenty (Penguin Books)

Paul Legault, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2 (Fence Books)

Theodore Leinwand, The Great William: Writers Reading Shakespeare (University Of Chicago Press)

Gail Carson Levine, Transient (Nightshade Press)

Dulce Maria Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems (Archipelago)

Alice Lyons, The Breadbasket of Europe (Veer Books)

John Matthias, Six Short Plays (BlazeVOX [books])

Sharon McCartney, Metanoia (Biblioasis)

Sandra Meek, An Ecology of Elsewhere: Poems (Persea)

Joe Milazzo, The Habiliments (Apostrophe Books)

Jennifer Militello, A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments (Tupelo Press, Inc.)

John Most, What Thoughts (Authorspress)

Alice Notley, Certain Magical Acts (Penguin Books)

Peter O'Leary, The Sampo (The Cultural Society)

Sylvia Ocampo-Wiechmann, Forest Help the Country (Forest Help the Country)

Sylvia Ocampo-Wiechmann, The Hippy Hippy Shake (Forest Help the Country)

Sylvia Ocampo-Wiechmann, Mon Cherie Amour (Forest Help the Country)

Sylvia Ocampo-Wiechmann, Nwanda (Forest Help the Country)

Sylvia Ocampo-Wiechmann, Te Amo Mis Bambini (I Love My Children) (Forest Help the Country)

Alexandra Oliver, Let the Empire Down (Biblioasis)

H. Leivick and Others, Yiddish Poetry In Translation (Finishing Line Press)

Mark Pawlak, Reconnaissance (Hanging Loose Press)

Marjorie Perloff, Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire (University of Chicago Press)

Julien Poirier, Out of Print: City Lights Spotlight No. 14 (City Lights Publishers)

Marie Ponsot, Collected Poems (Knopf)

Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers: A Novel (Graywolf Press)

Clementine von Radics, For Teenage Girls With Wild Ambitions and Trembling Hearts (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

Melissa Range, Scriptorium: Poems (Beacon Press)

John Reibetanz, Where We Live (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Patrick Rosal, Brooklyn Antediluvian: Poems (Persea)

Joe Rosenblatt, The Bird in the Stillness (Porcupine's Quill)

Sarah Sadie, We are traveling through dark at tremendous speeds. (Lit Fest Press / Festival of Language)

Kelly Schirmann, Popular Music (Black Ocean)

Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Call Her by Her Name: Poems (Triquarterly)

Dean Steadman, Apres Satie: For Two and Four Hands (Brick Books)

Gerald Stern, Divine Nothingness: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

Stacy Szymaszek, Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals (Fence Books)

Kate Tempest, The Bricks that Built the Houses (Bloomsbury USA)

Rodrigo Toscano, Explosion Rocks Springfield (Fence Books)

Daniel Cross Turner, William Wright (editors), Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry (University of South Carolina Press)

Dr Deveriya Unmesh, Thus Spake Apocalypse: A mini epic on evolutionary metaphysics

Manuel Vilas, Pablo Rodríguez Balbotín & William F. Blair (translators), Great Vilas (Song Bridge Press)

Anne Waldman, Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet To Be Born (Coffee House Press)

Liz Waldner, Little House, Big House (Noemi Press)

Rosmarie Waldrop, Gap Gardening: Selected Poems (New Directions)

Margo Wheaton, The Unlit Path Behind the House (McGill-Queen's University Press)