Microreview

Review: Planets on Tables

By Bonnie Costello.

  • Robert Archambeau

Review: The Cow

By Ariana Reines.

  • Emily Wolahan

Review: The Most of It

By Mary Ruefle.

  • Kathleen Rooney

Review: Dear Darkness

By Kevin Young.

  • Jason Tandon

Review: Sources

By Devin Johnston.

  • Jordan Davis

Review: The History of Anonymity

By Jennifer Chang.

  • Kristina Marie Darling

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Review: The Monster Loves his Labyrinth and That Little Something

Two new books by Charles Simic.

  • Nicholas Harp

Review: Bad Bad

By Chelsey Minnis.

  • Sasha Steensen

Review: Fall

By Amy Newman.

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder

Review: Brenda Is in the Room

By Craig Morgan Teicher.

  • Tara Neelakantappa Safronoff

Review: Tendril

By Bin Ramke.

  • Daniel Tiffany

Microreview: Stephen Burt, The Forms of Youth.

20th-Century Poetry and Adolescence.

  • Robert Archambeau

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

Microreview: Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf

A collection of free sonnets.

  • Charlie Clark

Microreview: Aaron Belz, The Bird Hoverer

Impressive, loopy poems.

  • Tony Trigilio

Microreview: Inger Christensen, it

A collection something like a 237-page logic puzzle.

  • Rebecca Porte

Microreview: Anna Rabinowitz, The Wanton Sublime

Poems that attempt to define and redefine the Virgin Mary.

  • Rob Schlegel

Microreview: Cole Swensen, The Book of a Hundred Hands

100 poems on the human hand, from its prehistory to its depiction in contemporary painting.

  • Rob Schlegel

Microreview: Tom Thompson, The Pitch

Selling is the mode in which this collection operates.

  • Samuel Amadon
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