Death Mask

On Louise Glück’s Faithful and Virtuous Night.

Review: Practical Water

By Brenda Hillman.

Lord, Hear My Voice

Bin Ramke has a dedicated readership, but it is not a particularly large one. His work is probably too strange, too difficult, and too huddled around a particular vision of the self and the world to appeal to a broad audience.

The Red Cipher

Microreview: Jon Woodward, Rain

Poems that begin with the unexceptional and arrive at something transcendent.

Microreview: Christine Garren, The Piercing

Unflinchingly severe poems.

Fault Lines

Ben Lerner’s Angle of Yaw and Sarah Manguso’s Siste Viator.

The Prince of Rivers

Microreview: Lidija Dimkovska, Do Not Awaken Them with Hammers

Swaggering and prosey poems that take on the sorrows of love.

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