Catherine Barnett: Central Park • The Humanities • In the Studio at End of Day
Michael Bazzett: The End
David Biespiel: Grandeur of the Unimportant (APR Books)
Books reviewed in this column
Marianne Boruch: Oh No
Leila Chatti: Tumor • Haemorrhoissa
Joanne Diaz: Paper Crowns • Excalibur • Luxury
Kimiko Hahn: She Sells Seashells • Regeneration
Ditta Baron Hoeber: reading • The Deaths
Jennifer L. Knox: Iowa Bird of Mouth: Keeping a 12-month crowdsourced poetry project in the air
Lynn Melnick: Too Jewish/shtetl kitsch • American Value Inn • The Only Jew at the Mock Jewish Wedding
Sharon Olds: The Enchantment • The New Knowing • An Hour • When My Fear That I Won't • Let the Night • Anal Aria
Khadijah Queen: Prairie Erasure • Anodyne/Plea • Reclusionary • The world says not to expect the world • Apace • Retreat • from Personae
Frank Sherlock: The Sea a Battered Dream
Maggie Smith: Junk Trees, • Ohio Cento • Planned Obsolescence • The Village Dogs
Gale Marie Thompson: Reading Ekstasis
Leah Umansky: Bernard/1
Mai Der Vang: Refugee, Walking Is the Most Human of All • The Shaman Asks About Yellow Rain • Notations to the Knower
Alexandrine Vo: Surrogate • Forgetting
Dara Wier: I Feel Sorry for You Someone Said To Me Over and Over Again: A Story in the Form of a Dialogue, A Dialogue in the Shape of a Poem • Violets, Doves, Girls, Bees and Hyacinths • I Hadn't Known Who I Am for I Don't Know How Long • Melodious Tolling Goes on in That Awful Pandemonium
Michael Bazzett: The End
David Biespiel: Grandeur of the Unimportant (APR Books)
Books reviewed in this column
Baker, David, Scavenger Loop. New York: W W Norton & Co, 2016. 112 pages, paper, $16.00. ISBN 978-0-393-35347-1. http://bookswwnortoncom/books/Scavenger-Loop (Reviewed by David Biespiel)
Faizullah, Tarfia, Registers of Illuminated Villages. Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2018. 112 pages, paper, $16,00. ISBN: 978-1-55597-800-6. https://graywolfpressorg/books/registers-illuminated-villages (Reviewed by David Biespiel)
Lee, Li-Young, The Undressing. New York: W W Norton & Co, 2018. 96 pages, cloth, $25.95. ISBN 978-0-393-06543-5. http://bookswwnortoncom/books/The-Undressing (Reviewed by David Biespiel)
Mlinko, Ange, Distant Mandate. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 112 pages, cloth, $23.00. ISBN: 978-0-37424-821-5. https://usmacmillancom/books/9780374248215 (Reviewed by David Biespiel)
St John, David, The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems. New York: Ecco, 2017. 192 pages, cloth, $25.99. ISBN: 978-0-062-64093-2. https://wwwharpercollinscom/9780062640932/the-last-troubadour (Reviewed by David Biespiel)
Justin Boening: What You Call a Thing • Care Package • Paradise When Almost Everyone Lived in Paradise • Monkey • The BoxMarianne Boruch: Oh No
Leila Chatti: Tumor • Haemorrhoissa
Joanne Diaz: Paper Crowns • Excalibur • Luxury
Kimiko Hahn: She Sells Seashells • Regeneration
Ditta Baron Hoeber: reading • The Deaths
Jennifer L. Knox: Iowa Bird of Mouth: Keeping a 12-month crowdsourced poetry project in the air
Lynn Melnick: Too Jewish/shtetl kitsch • American Value Inn • The Only Jew at the Mock Jewish Wedding
Sharon Olds: The Enchantment • The New Knowing • An Hour • When My Fear That I Won't • Let the Night • Anal Aria
Khadijah Queen: Prairie Erasure • Anodyne/Plea • Reclusionary • The world says not to expect the world • Apace • Retreat • from Personae
Frank Sherlock: The Sea a Battered Dream
Maggie Smith: Junk Trees, • Ohio Cento • Planned Obsolescence • The Village Dogs
Gale Marie Thompson: Reading Ekstasis
Leah Umansky: Bernard/1
Mai Der Vang: Refugee, Walking Is the Most Human of All • The Shaman Asks About Yellow Rain • Notations to the Knower
Alexandrine Vo: Surrogate • Forgetting
Dara Wier: I Feel Sorry for You Someone Said To Me Over and Over Again: A Story in the Form of a Dialogue, A Dialogue in the Shape of a Poem • Violets, Doves, Girls, Bees and Hyacinths • I Hadn't Known Who I Am for I Don't Know How Long • Melodious Tolling Goes on in That Awful Pandemonium