Publishers Weekly Poetry Reviews

HappyNational Poetry Month!  Here’s what we got:

Having Been An Accomplice by Laura Cronk (Persea)

Desolation: Souvenir by Paul Hoover (Omnidawn)

The Hartford Book by Samuel Amadon (Cleveland)

The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin edited by Archie Burnett (FSG)

Aerial by Bin Ramke (Omnidawn)

Western Practice by Stephen Motika (Alice James)

Bright Brave Phenomena by Amanda Nadelberg (Coffee House)

New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint)

Love, An Index by Rebecca Lindenberg (McSweeney’s)

Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral (Yale)

Alien Vs. Predator by Michael Robbins (Penguin)

Even So: New and Selected Poems by Gary Young (White Pine)

It’s our annual poetry issue, with a feature on poetry and e-books, a ‘Why I Write’ essay by Maureen N. McLane, profiles of four poets and 13 reviews!

Fitting Poetry to the screen: How Copper Canyon Press is working to solve poetry’s e-book problems.

Poetry Profiled 2012: Mini-profiles of Amanda Nadelberg, Eduardo C. Corral, Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Rebecca Lindenberg.

Why I Write…Maureen N. McLane

And 13 reviews:

True Faith by Ira Sadoff (BOA)

After Urgency by Rusty Morrison (Tupelo)

That Said: New and Selected Poems by Jane Shore (HMH)

Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World by Adam Clay (Milkweed)

Madame X by Darcie Dennigan (Canarium)

Exit, Civilian by Idra Novey (Georgia)

Fjords, Vol. 1 by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean)

Still: Of the Earth as the Ark Which Does Not Move by Matthew Cooperman (Counterpath)

After the Point of No Return by David Wagoner (Copper Canyon)

This Morning by Michael Ryan (HMH)

The Collected Writings by Joe Brainard (Library of America)

Left-Handed by Jonathan Galassi (Knopf)

On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Perillo (Copper Canyon)

This month, twelve new reviews and a Q&A.  We’re warming up toward April, so the books are flooding in.

The Ground by Rowan Ricardo Phillips (FSG)

Engine Empire by Cathy Park Hong (Norton)

Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background by Wayne Koestenbaum (Turtle Point)

Snowflake/ Different Days by Eileen Myles (Wave)

June Fourth Elegies by Liu Xiaobo, trans. from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang (Graywolf)

A Q&A with Xiaobo translator and poet Jeffrey Yang

Rumored Animals by Quinn Latimer (Dream Horse)

Meat Heart by Melissa Broder (Publishing Genius)

Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert (Knopf)

My Love Is A Dead Arctic Explorer by Paige Ackerson-Kiely (Ahsahta)

Animal Eye by Paisley Rekdal (Pitt)

What Is Amazing by Heather Christle (Wesleyan)

Chinoiserie by Karen Rigby (Ahsahta)

It’s announcements time at PW, meaning we’ve got listings of and essays about the books to watch out for this spring.  Click here for the poetry listings (subscriber only for 3 weeks, then free for all).

We ring in the new year with 12 new reviews of 2012 books to look out for, including titles by Hayden Carruth, Eric Baus, Ragan Good and Montale, among others.

Last Poems by Hayden Carruth (Copper Canyon)

Death of a Ventriloquist by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc (Univ. of North Texas)

Harm by Hillary Gravendyk (Omnidawn)

Our Lady of the Ruins by Traci Brimhall (Norton)

Home Burial by Michael McGriff (Copper Canyon)

The Atlantic House by Regan Good (Harry Tankoos)

The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale, trans. by William Arrowsmith, edited by Rosanna Warren (Norton)

Almost Invisible by Mark Strand (Knopf)

The Water Books by Judith Vollmer (Autumn House)

What It Is Like: New and Selected Poems by Charles North (Hanging Loose/ Turtle Point)

Poet in Andalucia by Nathalie Handal (Pitt)

Scared Text by Eric Baus (CLP)

Again, I’m a little late in posting these, but here they are. 

One Sleeps the Other Doesn’t by Jacqueline Waters (Ugly Duckling)

Slot by Jill Magi (Ugly Duckling)

White Papers by Martha Collins (Pitt)

Fast Animal by Tim Seibles (Estruscan)

The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990–2010 by James Tate (Ecco)

The Book of A Thousand Eyes by Lyn Hijinian (Omnidawn)

I’m a little late posting these, but here they are: reviews of upcoming books by D.A. Powell, Tomas Transtromer, Brian Henry, Albert Goldbarth and others.

Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys by D.A. Powell (Graywolf)

The Deleted World by Tomas Transtromer, trans. by Robin Robertson (FSG)

Nitro Nights by W.S. Di Piero (Copper Canyon)

Exhibit of Forking Paths by James Grinwis (Coffee House)

Doppelganger by Brian Henry (Talisman)

Sherwood Forest by Camille Roy (Futurepoem)

Everyday People by Albert Goldbarth (Graywolf)

Citizen by Aaron Shurin (City Lights)

The Beds by Martha Rhodes (Autumn House)

Dear Editor by Amy Newman (Persea)

Check out our top 5 poetry books of 2011 and our fancy Best Books Web app.

12 new reviews this month, including books by Nathaniel Mackey, Tina Chang, Aracelis Girmay and more.

Nod House by Nathaniel Mackey (New Directions)

Lines of Inquiry by H.L. Hix (Estruscan)

The Blue Tower by Tomaz Salamun (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay (BOA)

Of Gods & Strangers by Tina Chang (Four Way)

Bad Daughter by Sarah Gorham (Four Way)

Gospel Night by Michael Waters (BOA)

The Other Poems by Paul Legault (Fence)

Song of Ureason by Jim Harrison (Copper Canyon)

The Hands of Strangers by Janice N. Harrington (BOA)

New and Selected Poems 1957-2011 by Robert Sward (Red Hen)

Boneshepherds by Patrick Rosal (Persea)