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Vivid Partitions is a lyric study of the illusions that separate us from our true selves. It begins with poems that contemplate a lost time of greater intensity and purpose. This meditative phase is broken by an erotic awakening, no less radical for being mingled with a sense of violated solitude. As love grows, so does the competing sense, which attempts to break through the surface of love's illusions, which become still more vivid and posse...

We have poetry-words with wings, " Wang Ping declares in The River Within. Ping's "words with wings" render the vitality of natural forces through corporeal experience. Her love poems extol life forms as varied as elephants, cephalopods, and the virus. Ancient, sentient memory is excavated to tie us to Earth, to be mindful of Earth's pulse and our heartbeats. At the center of this sublime collection is the stunning extended poem "How a Droplet...

You've lost everything, my enemy said. No, I answered, I still have you, Jeff Friedman writes in his inspired new collection of prose poems and micros, Ashes in Paradise. His fabulist inventions, biblical retellings, lyrical improvisations, and contemporary mini tales brilliantly depict the deep sorrows and absurd tragedies of these dark times. In Ashes in Paradise, a monster who looks like everyone else says to a monster hunter, "If you belie...

From the melancholy, pandemic-inflected New Poems ("Can meaning take its storied place on suddenly vacant shores?") to the vatic lyricism of To Be Read in the Dark ("the smiling assassin / isn't a dream / what is embodied / asks us to listen"), to the meditations on gifts and giving in Among the Names ("among men / who find in the taking / the gift they seek / (use = accumulation"), this gorgeous and overdue volume amply demonstrates the amazi...

Indran Amirthanayagam is a true global poet, and this book in Kreyòl ayisyen (Haitian Creole) is his most important thus far. Here, an outside observer, living in the land as a cultural attaché, gives the language and culture of Haiti the ultimate respect-poems that bring the joys and pain, love, mysteries and history of the everyday life of the people into Poetry's orbit. Amirthanayagam is a poet like no other (he also writes in Spanish, Fren...

In And Yet It Moves, the poet is an archeologist of mourning rediscovering that assaults on science and reason are not new phenomenon. Gallagher follows Petrarch who spawns a new lyric in part inspired by lost texts, and who motivates 'book hunters' of the Renaissance to search for the buried as well. The world changed when Poggio Bracciolini discovered Lucretius' On the Nature of Things in a Benedictine library. Lucretius' poem is a meditatio...

In Filthy Creation, Dylan makes sense of her world through art. Her house is a graveyard of inspiring auto parts her mechanic father has dragged home, her family's ongoing Frankenstein diorama, and Dylan's own mishmash of assemblage projects that she sets on fire whenever they don't meet her standards. Dylan and Shay fall in artsy, gothy, queer love even as Dylan is figuring out that her dead dad-whose ghost has been visiting her even though s...

In his 19th book of verse, the New Romantic sonnets of Jeffrey Cyphers Wright are accompanied here by his beguiling artworks. His rhino horns and coral reef trombones, his vast vats of sperm-whale sperm and flame-thrower UFOs will grab you by your anathemas and never let go.

Choreomania explores how trauma binds us, even as it tears us apart, how loss deepens a sense of aloneness, the depths of which remain stubbornly haunted by legacy, language, gratitude and debt. History's outbreaks of collective dancing in times of plague bespeak not merely a world weariness and manic refusal, but also an energized longing to connect, even as we journey inward, to open there some lost gate. No empathy without an imagination, n...

Self-confessed 'wise guy of the prose poem' and also its unofficial laureate, Peter Johnson is one of America's foremost practitioners and critics of prose poetry. The publication of his While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems provides an important opportunity to reflect on the reputation of a master of the form, who, according to poet and critic Chard deNiord, 'almost singlehandedly revived the currency of the prose poem du...

Some Flowers is an original in the earliest and now most necessary sense of that word. In these poems, Hunter imagines the actual earth and weathers of language back to their origins in first substances and first light--their Edens, if you will. And quite wonderfully, this imagination succeeds in vivid company, the canons of the art chime in, the shimmer of love inspires. And yet all of Some Flowers is accomplished in the most effortless and w...

In After Pre¿vert, the best poems from Pre¿vert's landmark post-World- War-II collection Paroles come alive in Barbarese's snappy twenty-first-century American English. Like a good translator, Barbarese manages to convey the spirit of Prévert and his stark vision of the human condition, and like a good poet, Barbarese makes the poems new for our times. -Geoffrey Brock, editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry

Joshua Corey's brilliant and disturbing, sometimes "futuristic" Hannah and the Master reminds us with every word and trope that we are living, as he puts it, in the "night of human forgetting." Radiating out from the decades-long complex and confounding relationship between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, Corey creates a multi-layered and agonized series of reminders including everything from youthful love to the Nazis to the dark dimensio...

Philip Belcher's first full-length collection of poems reveals a poet probing memory and art-their jumble of fact and imagination-to explore the challenges of living with full awareness of decline, of acknowledging failure to meet one's own expectations, and of accepting the inevitability of limitation. Influenced by a long line of southern poets, including R.T. Smith, Claudia Emerson, Rodney Jones, and Steve Scafidi-poets whose poems stretch ...

What a beguiling, intriguing, and evocative book is Sara Marron's Call Me Spes. It entails a Virgilian journey undertaken by its disembodied narrator, an iOS device who gradually becomes aware of the nature of its User's needs and increasingly cognizant of our ubiquitous human longing for connection. Simultaneously, this elusive narrator overhears a diverse chorus of plaintive voices, and thereby struggles to expand its understanding of people...

Ralph Culver's is a poetry of great precision, almost delicacy, and of subtle power, deployed in poems that dwell in the ordinary and bring with them a sense of the extraordinary..., what lives between his lines is the shadow that haunts us all. In A Passable Man, he interrogates a life in five parts:"I could not keep from turning / to check, mid-step, / the footprints strung behind / in the climbing snow" (from "Prelude"). This is a life shad...

Much more than the story of Mark Pawlak's apprenticeship to a major poet (Denise Levertov), My Deniversity is a brilliant and delightful introduction to what it means to commit one's self to Poetry, capital P. Guided by Levertov, aspiring physicist Mark Pawlak turned himself into an important American poet and co-editor of Hanging Loose, one of the country's longest lived and most influential literary presses. Open-hearted, witty, and genuinel...

Brian Swann's previous collection, Dogs on the Roof (MadHat Press, 2016), was praised by Jackson Lears for being "venturesome, witty, delightedly understated and frequently compelling, " while Andrei Codrescu, calling it "an elegant suit of a variety of threads, " placed it on his "A-list of the blooming philosophical hybrids of the last decade." The San Antonio Express-News said that it was "a fascinating miscellany ... replete with brilliant...

Plume anthology volume three, featuring new original work by Kim Addonizio, Rae Armantrout, Billy Collins, Cynthia Cruz, Forrest Gander, Kimiko Hahn, Tony Hoagland, T. R. Hummer, Laura Kasischke, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux, Hank Lazer, Alicia Ostriker, Linda Pastan, Robert Pinsky, David Rivard, Ron Slate, Arthur Sze, Chase Twichell, G.C. Waldrep, Afaa Michael Weaver, C.D. Wright, and many more.

Born into a wealthy Boston banking family, the nephew of J. P. Morgan, Harry Crosby was the very embodiment of flaming youth in the Roaring Twenties. A recipient of the Croix de Guerre for heroism in the American Ambulance Corps in World War One, he sustained trauma that fueled his extravagant and restlessly experimental expatriate lifestyle with his wife Caresse in Paris, before taking his life and that of his mistress in a notorious double s...