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New books from Juan Felipe Herrera, Caroline Knox, Susie Timmons, and more.

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New poetry from Simone Muench, Cecily Parks, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Rick Barot, and Deborah Landau

New books from Anne Boyer, Ross Gay, Corina Copp, Noah Eli Gordon, Sandra Simonds

Carina del Valle Schorske
Giving rape survivors a voice.
Lisa K. Perdigao
Poems that begin with a bang.
Jennifer Kronovet
Poems that make a tiny insect the center of the world. 
Iris Cushing
Television as aphorism.
Virginia Konchan
Mouths, metaphor, and metonymy.
Tim Wood

Tim Wood reviews Book of Hours, by Kevin Young.

Christine Shan Shan Hou
Part poetry collection, part essay.
Anna Moschovakis
The poetry of a flâneuse.
Mia You
The tension between hype and substance. 
Benjamin Landry
Poems that hum beneath the ordinary.
Julie Kantor
Poetry and physical pain.
Daniel Tiffany
One of the most exciting and volatile poets of our time.
Katy Lederer
A poetic coming-of-age narrative.
Carol Moldaw
Collage poetics, scientific idiom, and exploration of the poem as essay.
Julian B. Gewirtz
A rowdy, erudite debut collection.
Tim Wood
Poems on personal and political insecurity.
Benjamin Landry
Part museum study, part lyric essay.
Tess Taylor
Leaning into silence.
Rebecca Liu
Adaptations that preserve Shakespeare’s wit and carpe diem vulgarity.
Gabrielle Flam
A collection that moves past the body versus mind duality.

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