Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

Eidetic

  • Harriet Zinnes

The Bedbug Variations

  • Spencer Short

from Mr. Bondo’s Unshared Life

  • James Cervantes

Half the Half-Nocturnes

  • Brenda Hillman

the noise of time

  • David Antin

The Task

  • Paul Hoover

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Happy World

What Lyn Hejinian's poetry tells us about chance, fortune, and pleasure.

  • Marjorie Perloff

Review: Purgatorio

Translated by W. S. Merwin.

  • Brett Foster

The Ethical Poetic

Review: Utopic and Civilian Histories.

  • Tod Marshall

Contemporary American Poetry

Review: Regions of Unlikeness and Poetic Culture. 

  • Andrew Osborn

Microreviews: February/March 2001

Eight new collections of poetry. 

Poet’s Sampler: Orides Fontela

Introduced by Brenda Hillman

  • Orides Fontela

A Guidebook to When Things Were Better

  • John Gallaher

A Guidebook to The Afterlife

  • John Gallaher

Because

  • Mark Irwin

Caliban’s Orchestra

  • Joshua Corey

Closer

  • Deborah W. Pattillo

Vale

  • Deborah W. Pattillo

Love Song and Magnificat (O Short Prince)

  • Patricia Goedicke

Mortally Wounded Creatures

Review: The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz. 

  • Stephanie Burt

Language at the End of its Tether

Review: Waldner and Wise.

  • Cole Swensen

Vaudevillians of the Void

Review: Wenderoth and Friedlander. 

  • Max Winter

Poet’s Sampler: Kate Lilley

Introduced by John Tranter

  • Kate Lilley

Break Me to Prove I Am Unbroken

  • Sophie Cabot Black
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