Microreview: Shira Dentz, black seeds on a white dish

Poems that challenge the reader to some speedy catch-me-if-you-can linguistic play.

Microreview: Sabra Loomis, House Held Together by Winds

Poems told by a little girl who exposes her dominating relatives.

Microreview: Cole Swenson, The Glass Age

Poems that sit alongside Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze.

Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah

With Frederick Seidel, some readers will recoil. Others will be seduced by a voice that finds its power in accumulated detail.

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