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Two recent books, works of collage and fragmented biography, bring Czech masterworks to new readers.
Marcela Sulak
Alan Felsenhal’s striking debut collection, Lowly, achieves something like early modern surrealism.
Rob Crawford
Hackers, the Swedish poet Aase Berg's latest collection, depicts the feeling of late capitalism.
Marty Cain
Vievee Francis's sensuously lyrical poetry, written against a backdrop of ecopolitical crisis, is wild for survival.
Liz Bowen
New poetry from Andre Bradley, Barbara Claire Freeman, Maureen N. McLane, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and Amy King.
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Morgan Parker's intimate poems complicate the public discourse on black women.
Emilia Phillips
Remembering John Ashbery
Marjorie Perloff
We have lost a poet of exceptional sensitivity, sophistication, and grace.
Timothy Donnelly, BK Fischer, Stefania Heim
Mónica de la Torre’s new book, The Happy End / All Welcome, is expansive, inventive, and often hilarious.
Nathaniel Rosenthalis
The collected poems of Frank Bidart provide an incisive index of the latter half of the twentieth century.
Heather Treseler
On the poetry of Melissa Range.
Cat Fitzpatrick
Susan Howe's Debths is the culminating gesture of her remarkable career.
Stephen Collis
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