Poetry

Browse our essays and reviews on poetry.

The Deposition

  • Carl Phillips

In Memoriam Richard and Yael

  • Gilbert Sorrentino

Countdown to Pearl String of Planets

  • Tessa Rumsey

Weathers

  • Ben Doyle

Argentina

  • Laura Hartmark

The First Line of My Dissertation

  • Caroline Crumpacker

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Bouleversement

  • Jorie Graham

The Wound and the Dream

In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives alongside political disaster.

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad

Allusive and Ambiguous 

Christina Hume: Musca Domestica; Tessa Rumsey: Assembling the Shepherd

  • Catherine Daly

Reading Guillevic

Carnac and Living in Poetry. 

  • James Sallis

Review: The Tablets

By Armand Schwerner. 

  • Andrew Zawacki

Microreviews: October/November 2000

Thirteen new collections of poetry. 

Review: Enola Gay

By Mark Levine. 

  • Stephanie Burt

Reading Rilke

Reflections on the Problems of Translation. 

  • Nicole Krauss

Review: Wrong

By Reginald Shepherd. 

  • Brian Henry

Review: Men in the Off Hours

By Anne Carson. 

  • John D’Agata

Microreviews: Summer 2000

Eight new poetry collections. 

Poet’s Sampler: Bradley Paul

Introduced by John Yau

  • Bradley Paul

Poem to Line My Casket with, Ramona

  • Joshua Bell

Poems of Depth

  • Mónica de la Torre

Echo Near the End

  • Bill Knott

Poem That Wants to Be Ash

  • Bill Knott

(L)ID

  • Bill Knott

American Gestures

  • Paul Hoover
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