Criticism

Unfinished Story

On Holocaust by Charles Reznikoff.

  • Kathryn Crim

Microreview: Liam Rector, The Executive Director of the Fallen World

The last collection before the poet's suicide. 

  • Robert Schnall

Out of Exile

Notes on Georgi Gospodinov and Bulgarian literature.

  • Dimiter Kenarov

A Fiendish Mood

The mid-century novels of "the other Elizabeth Taylor"

  • Neel Mukherjee

Modern Hell

Sidney Lumets's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

  • Alan A. Stone

Small Packages

Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Délie of Maurice Scève.

  • Jennifer Grotz

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Neither Settled Nor Easy

One Big Self: An Investigation by C.D. Wright.

  • Alan Gilbert

Microreview: Paisley Rekdal, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope

Brilliantly-made poems that are complicated, constantly in flux, and fragmented.

  • Victoria Chang

Microreview: Matthew Zapruder, The Pajamaist

Poems presented as objects of contemplation.

  • Kathleen Rooney

Microreview: Jaime Saenz, The Night

The Night redefines what it means to be illuminated by anatomizing the experience of being enveloped in darkness.

  • Aaron Belz

Something for Myself

Haruki Murakami’s strange world of hope.

  • Catalina Holguín

His Face in the Mirror

On the poetry of Zbigniew Herbert.

  • W. Martin

Enlivened Parties

Two new collections from Joanna Klink and Geoffrey G. O'Brien.

  • Reginald Shepherd

Microreview: Susan Briante, Pioneers in the Study of Motion

“Unstable love, detached love, underperforming love, neo-liberal love.”

  • Simon DeDeo

The City Visible

Chicago Poetry for the New Century

  • Fred Muratori

Microreview: Cole Swenson, The Glass Age

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

  • Celia Bland

Microreview: Christine Garren, The Piercing

Unflinchingly severe poems.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

Microreview: James Longenbach, Draft of a Letter

Poems that balance verbal paucity with connotative richness.

  • Jennifer Chang

Review: Radiant Lyre

: Essays on Lyric Poetry

  • Tess Taylor

Lastingness

How growing old shapes aesthetic vision.

  • Nicholas Delbanco

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.

  • Celia Bland

Fault Lines

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

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

Capital Truths

A review of Giles Goodland's new collection.

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Microreview: Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf

A collection of free sonnets.

  • Charlie Clark
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