Poetry News

Books Received: February 2017

Originally Published: March 06, 2017

Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi, Monsoon Reflexions

Ama Ata Aidoo, Helen Yitah (editor), After the Ceremonies: New and Selected Poems (University of Nebraska Press)

Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess Solo (Blink)

Simon Armitage, The Unaccompanied (Faber)

Rebecca Aronson, Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom (Orison Books)

Attar, The Conference of the Birds (W. W. Norton & Company)

Susan Barba, Fair Sun (David R Godine)

Christian Barter, Bye-Bye Land (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Samiya Bashir, Field Theories (Nightboat)

Zeina Hashem Beck, Louder Than Hearts (Bauhan)

Thomas Bernhard, Collected Poems (Seagull Books)

Anselm Berrigan (editor), What is Poetry? (Just kidding, I know you know): Interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter (1983 - 2009) (Wave Books)

Reyna Biddy, I Love My Love (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

Star Black, Thomas Lux, Timothy Liu, Michael Waters, Stephen Dobyns, More, Steven Huff Knowing Knott: Essays on an American Poet (Tiger Bark Press)

Yves Bonnefoy, Poetry and Photography (Seagull Books)

Yves Bonnefoy, Together Still (Seagull Books)

Russell Brickey, Understanding Sharon Olds (University of South Carolina Press)

Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books)

Fleda Brown, The Woods Are On Fire: New and Selected Poems (University of Nebraska Press)

Tina Carlson, Ground, Wind, This Body (University of New Mexico Press)

Julie Carr, Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta Press)

Trevor H. Castle, Selected Moments In Verse as Published Between 1965-1971

Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Obinna Chilekezi, Half a Yellow Sun & Other Poems

Obinna Chilekezi, My Son Chikeziri Died Too & Other Poems

Obinna Chilekezi, Rejection and Other Poems

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

Kevin Craft, Vagrants & Accidentals (University of Washington Press)

Patrick Culliton, Sam's Teeth (Subito Press)

DAC, Spoke

Matthew De Lacey Davidson, Please Don't Forget Me: Poems and a Play in Verse (First Edition Design Publishing)

Matthew De Lacey Davidson, What Souls Might Bear (First Edition Design Publishing)

Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, Pam Uschuk, Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear (Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts)

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

Karen Van Dyck, Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry (NYRB Poets)

Safia Elhillo, The January Children (University of Nebraska Press)

Jawdat Fakhreddine, Lighthouse for the Drowning (BOA Editions Ltd.)

Mathew Fink, Be Still and Know (Balboa Press)

Gerald Fleming, One (Hanging Loose Press)

Alice B. Fogel, A Doubtful House (Bauhan)

t'ai freedom ford, how to get over (Red Hen Press)

Philip Freeman, Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet (W. W. Norton & Company)

Dana Gioia, 99 Poems: New & Selected (Graywolf Press)

Tirzah Goldenberg, Aleph (Verge Books)

Jorie Graham, Fast (Ecco)

Mariela Griffor, Declassified (Eyewear Publishing)

Luke Hankins, The Work of Creation: Selected Prose (Wipf and Stock)

Richard Milazzo, George Hildrew (artist), Storyville: Poems 2010 (Tsukuda Island Press / Edgewise Press)

H. L. Hix, Rain Inscription (Etruscan Press)

Cynthia Hogue, In June the Labyrinth (Red Hen Press)

Anthony Holden (editor), Ben Holden (editor), Poems That Make Grown Women Cry (Simon & Schuster)

Marie Howe, Magdalene (W. W. Norton & Company)

Anthony Howell, From Inside (The High Window)

Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Beating the Graves (University of Nebraska Press)

Paolo Javier, The Feeling Is Actual (Marsh Hawk Press)

Rodney Jones, Village Prodigies (Mariner Books)

Andrew Joron, The Absolute Letter (Flood Editions)

Kirsten Kaschock, Confessional Sci-Fi: A Primer (Subito Press)

John Kinsella, Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems (Picador)

Ibn Khalawayh, (translated by David Larsen), Names of the Lion (Wave Books)

Rosamond King, Rock|Salt|Stone (Nightboat)

L.S. Klatt, The Wilderness After Which (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions)

Bill Knott, Thomas Lux (editor), I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960-2014 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Lisa C. Krueger, Run Away to the Yard (Red Hen Press)

Sonnet L'Abbé, Anima Canadensis (Junction Books)

Julie LeMay, The Echo of Ice Letting Go (University of Alaska Press)

Jane Lewty, In One Form (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)

Gaga Lomidze (editor), Six Georgian Poets (ARC Publications)

Robert Lowell, Katie Peterson (editor), New Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Jay Macpherson, The Essential Jay Macpherson (Porcupine's Quill)

Airea D. Matthews, Simulacra (Yale University Press)

Gary McDowell, Caesura: Essays (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions)

Kathleen McGookey, Heart in a Jar (White Pine Press)

Maureen N. McLane, Some Say (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Hassan Melehy, A Modest Apocalypse (Eyewear Publishing)

Christopher Merrill, Self-Portrait with Dogwood (Trinity University Press)

Michael Miller, Asking the Names (Ashland Poetry Press)

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

Euphrates moss, Telos and Other Psychograps

Joel Oppenheimer, Dennis Maloney (editor), Lessons: Selected Poems (White Pine Press)

Alicia Ostriker, Waiting for the Light (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Professor Stephen Page, A Ranch Bordering the Salty River (Finishing Line Press)

Peter Parker , Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Elise Paschen, The Nightlife (Red Hen Press)

Julie Paul, The Rules of the Kingdom (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Louis Phillips, The Domain of Small Mercies (Pleasure Boat Studio)

Vivian R. Pollak, Our Emily Dickinsons: American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference (University of Pennsylvania Press)

Dean Rader, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon Press)

Bharatchandra Ray, In Praise of Annada, Volume 1 (Harvard University Press)

Bohuslav Reynek, The Well at Morning: Selected Poems, 1925–1971 (Karolinum Press, Charles University)

Martha Rhodes, The Thin Wall (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Erin Rodoni, Body, in Good Light (Sixteen Rivers Press)

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

Matthew Rohrer, The Others (Wave Books)

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

Sue Scalf, Liz Reed (editor), Autumnal Heart: The Collected Poems of Sue Scalf (Premium Press America)

Lynne Sharon Schwartz, No Way Out but Through (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Jerald Simon, The "As If" Principle (Music Motivation®)

Judith Skillman, Kafka's Shadow (Deerbrook Editions)

Lisa Russ Spaar, Orexia (Persea)

Kim Stafford, The Flavor of Unity: Post-Election Poems

Jared Stanley, Ears (Nightboat)

Mary Szybist (editor), Best New Poets 2016: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers (University of Virginia Press)

Kendra Tanacea, A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees (Lost Horse Press)

Keith Taylor, The Bird-while (Wayne State University Press)

Craig Morgan Teicher, The Trembling Answers (BOA Editions Ltd.)

William Trowbridge, Vanishing Point (Red Hen Press)

Mai Der Vang, Afterland (Graywolf Press)

Ken Waldman, Trump Sonnets: Volume 1 (The Ridgeway Press)

Rosmarie Waldrop, Keith Waldrop, Well Well Reality (Litmus Press)

James Perrin Warren, Placing John Haines (University of Alaska Press)

Gillian Wegener, This Sweet Haphazard (Sixteen Rivers Press)

Bhikshuni Weisbrot (editor), Darrel Alejandro Holnes (editor), Elizabeth Lara (editor) Happiness, The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry (United Nations SRC Society of Writers)

Walt Whitman, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography; A Story of New York at the Present Time in which the Reader Will Find Some Familiar Characters (University Of Iowa Press)

Professor David Wojahn, For the Scribe (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Wendy Xu, Phrasis (Fence Books)

Mark Yakich, The Dangerous Book of Poetry for Planes (Eyewear Publishing)

Felicia Zamora, Of Form & Gather (University of Notre Dame Press)

Cynthia Zarin, Orbit (Knopf)