Criticism

Review: FAQ:

By Ben Doller.

  • Noah Eli Gordon

Microreview: Robert Creeley, On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay

The final say of a poet who always spoke at the edges of the sayable.

  • Zack Finch

Review: Micrographia

By Emily Wilson.

  • Katie Peterson

Wonder Land

In Lennon's novels, it is not magic that is cruel, but rather its illusory promise.

  • G.C. Waldrep

Review: The Incentive of the Maggot

By Ron Slate.

  • Susan Barba

Exchange Rate

Poetry in translation takes off.

  • Jordan Davis

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Big Talkers

Frederick Seidel’s and Bernadette Mayer’s poetic monologues.

  • Raymond McDaniel

Sound Barrier

Joe Wright’s The Soloist.

  • Alan A. Stone

Review: The Winter Sun

By Fanny Howe.

  • Amelia Klein

Review: Assorted Poems

By Susan Wheeler.

  • Michael Lindgren

Review: Corinna, A-Maying the Apocalypse

By Darcie Dennigan.

  • Raymond McDaniel

Review: The Scattered Papers of Penelope

By Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke.

  • Keith Taylor

Review: My Soviet Union

By Michael Dumanis.

  • Andy Frazee

Review: King of a Hundred Horsemen

By Marie Étienne.

  • Lindsay Turner

Review: Field Folly Snow

By Cecily Parks.

  • Cherry Pickman

Review: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time

By Marie Howe.

  • Tara Neelakantappa Safronoff

Review: The Age of Huts

By Ron Silliman.

  • Rob Schlegel

Review: Orpheus in the Bronx

By Reginald Shepherd.

  • Robert Schnall

Purple Gaze

In the City of Sylvia

  • Alan A. Stone

The New Thing

The object lessons of recent American poetry.

  • Stephanie Burt

The Fetch

Ciaran Carson's For All We Know.

  • Piotr Florczyk

Fateful Gates

The lives of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

  • Roger Boylan

The Collaborator

On the writings of V. S. Naipaul.

  • James Wallenstein

After Ariel

Celebrating the poetry of the women’s movement.

  • Honor Moore
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