Criticism

Microreview: César Vallejo, The Complete Poetry

The iconic Peruvian poet.

  • Tanya Larkin

Microreview: Jessica Fisher, Frail-Craft

A book about seeking, though for just what is never wholly clear.

  • Amelia Klein

Justify the Enemy

Becoming human in South Africa.

  • Zakes Mda

Badlands

The Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men Miramax Films (2007)

  • Alan A. Stone

This Ecstatic Nation

Learning from Emily Dickinson after 9/11

  • Maureen N. McLane

Ghosts

Susan Howe's Souls of the Labadie Tract

  • Andrew Zawacki

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The Writing Cure

Don Share's Squandermania

  • Erin Belieu

Microreview: Ange Mlinko, Starred Wire

A collection that reveals a bizzaro America.

  • Travis Nichols

Microreview: Jon Woodward, Rain

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

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

Microreview: Laynie Browne, Daily Sonnets

151 sonnets about motherhood.

  • Cecily Parks

Microreview: Peter Conners, Of Whiskey and Winter

Prose poems with affection for the unbeautiful. 

  • Nicholas Harp

Microreview: Benjamin Friedlander, The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes

Bringing together Friedlander’s unpublished works.

  • Aaron McCollough

The Cure

David Cronenberg’s new film, A Dangerous Method.

  • Alan A. Stone

The Monarch of All

The fantasy world of John Cowper Powys.

  • Roger Boylan

For Love and Money

A review of A Free Life, by Ha Jin.

  • Mythili G. Rao

No Redemption

Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood Paramount Vantage (2007)

  • Alan A. Stone

The Speed of Life

Lilies Without by Laura Kasischke.

  • Stephanie Burt

Seeing Voices

On Hannah Weiner’s Open House.

  • Joyelle McSweeney

The Truth of Things

Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005 by Robert Hass.

  • Katie Peterson

Microreview: Rachel Wetzsteon, Sakura Park

As much an ode to the city as it is a documentation of love and loss.

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder

Microreview: Standing in Line for the Beast, Pain Fantasy

Two collections from Jason Bredle.

  • Charlie Clark

Microreview: Brian Kim Stefans, Kluge

Poems that read like a handbook for the future avant-garde.

  • Noah Eli Gordon

Microreview: Susan Hutton, On the Vanishing of Large Creatures

This debut collection focuses on the fundamental question of history: What part of now will be remembered later?

  • Matthew Thorburn

Microreview: Paul Guest, Exit Interview

Poems that temper violence with Whitmanesque generosity.

  • Chris Tonelli
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