PW Poetry Reviews: August 2011

Lucky 13 reviews this month, including new books by Meghan O’Rourke, Peter Gizzi and Henri Cole, plus the 2011 Best American Poetry and more.

Micrograms by Jorge Carera Andrade, trans. by Alejandro de Acosta and Joshua Beckman (Wave)

Once by Meghan O’Rourke (Norton)

The City, Our City by Wayne Miller (Milkweed)

Counter-Amores by Jennifer Clarvoe (Univ. of Chicago)

Touch by Henri Cole (FSG)

Threshold Songs by Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan)

Coming to That by Dorothea Tanning (Graywolf)

Traffic with Macbeth by Larissa Szporluk (Tupelo)

Spectacle & Pigsty by Kiwao Nomura, trans. from the Japanese by Kyoko Yoshida and Forrest Gander (Omnidawn)

The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover: Aphorisms by Mark Leidner (Sator)

Waifs and Strays by Micah Ballard (City Lights)

The Best American Poetry 2011 edited by Kevin Young and David Lehman (Scribner)

Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage (Knopf)